Amyloidosis Update
Recorded Live: April 30, 2025
Vaishali Sanchorawala, MD; Boston Medical Center, Hematologist, Director of Amyloidosis Center, Director of Stem Cell Transplantation Program; Professor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. Her work in the treatment of AL amyloidosis has been published in many peer-reviewed journals, which has resulted in the evolution of the standard of care for these patients.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Angioedema: Update on Diagnosis and Management
Recorded Live: June 18, 2025
David Gruenberg, MD; Immunologist, Lowell General Hospital,
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Breast Cancer Update: Screening Guidelines, Case Discussion, Surgical Approaches
Recorded Live May 7, 2025
Salvatore Nardello, DO; Surgical Breast Oncologist, Melrose Wakefield Hospital; TUSM Medical Education Lead- MWH; Melrose Wakefield Breast Health Center/Tufts Medical Center; Assistant Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine; Clinical Adjunct Associate Professor at Mass College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences
Christopher Homsy, MD; Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon and Surgical Oncologist at Tufts Medical Center Plastic Surgery; Associate Professor of Surgery, Tufts University School of Medicine
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Biomarker in Multiple Sclerosis
Recorded Live: 2/12/2025
Mustafa Al Gburi, MD; Neurologist and Neuroimmunologist. Tufts Medicine Lowell Neuroimmunology Clinic. He completed his Neuroimmunology and Multiple Sclerosis Fellowship at UMass Chan. Dr. Al Gburi has research interest in neuroimmunology lab and imaging biomarkers, as well as clinical interests in viral infections of the central nervous system.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Cancer Vaccines on the Horizon
Recorded Live: June 11, 2025
Catherine Wu, MD; Dana Farber Cancer Center, recently awarded the Sjöberg Prize for her pioneering research in the field of personalized vaccines to treat cancer. Chief, Division of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapies; Lavine Family Chair for Preventative Cancer Therapies Physician; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Chemotherapy Reactions: Is There a Role for Allergy Testing or Desensitization?
Recorded Live: September 18, 2024
David Gruenburg, MD; Lowell General Hospital. He is board certified in Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and in Internal Medicine. Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™;
(1) Maintenance of Certification Credit
Climate Change and Effect on Infectious Disease
Recorded Live: 3/26/2025
Michael Mahon, PhD; United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development. His studies have shown that infectious disease risk is modified by changes to climate change.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Climate Change and Effect on Infectious Disease
Recorded Live: March 26, 2025
Michael Mahon, MD; United States Environmental Protection Agency
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Combatting Antimicrobial Resistance
Recorded Live: October 23, 2024
Gabriela Andujar Vazquez, MD; Associate Director for the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at Tufts Medical Center; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™; (1) Maintenance of Certification Credit
Connection Between PFAS and Human Disease
Recorded Live: October 30, 2024
Phil Brown, PhD; The PFAS Project LAB; Co-Director; Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute; University Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Health Sciences at Northeastern University. He is on the National Advisory Environmental Health Science Council, which advises the director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™;
(1) Maintenance of Certification Credit
Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome and Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome
Recorded Live: October 2, 2024
Brad Kuo, MD; Massachusetts General Hospital Gastroenterologist; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Neuroenteric Research Laboratory: the research into gut motility physiology in health and disease, understanding the brain circuitry of gut sensations, and clinical trials; including Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™;
(1) Maintenance of Certification Credit
Diagnosis and Management of Short Bowel Syndrome
Recorded Live: June 4, 2025
Joel Mason, MD; Senior Scientist, Professor of Medicine; Professor of Nutrition, Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University School of Medicine. He studies the cellular pathways by which 1-carbon nutrients, obesity, and the colonic microbiome alter the risk of cancer formation, and his team develops strategies based on this knowledge for the purposes of cancer prevention.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Dietary Approaches to Chronic Disease Management
Recorded Live: 1/22/2025
Kumara Sidhartha, MD; Cape Cod Hospital; He is certified in Plant-Based Nutrition by e-Cornell University and T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies. His pursuit of nutritional knowledge led him to complete a Master of Public Health in Nutrition at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Effectiveness of Skin Biopsy to detect Parkinson’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases
Recorded Live: November 13, 2024
Christopher Gibbons, MD; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Joslin Diabetes Center Neuropathy Clinic. Director of Neurocutaneous Skin Biopsy Lab and currently Chair for the Autonomic Section of the American Academy of Neurology and President of the American Autonomic Society. Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™;
(1) Maintenance of Certification Credit
Fatty Liver
Recorded Live: 3/12/2025
Heidi Ahmed, MD; Gastroenterologist, Lowell General Hospital, Gastroenterology. She completed her Gastroenterology Fellowship at Boston University/Boston Medical Center. While at BMC, she received an NIH training grant to study non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. She leads the Integrated Gastroenterology Consults Liver Program.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Fear Based Disorders: (PTSD, Phobias, Panic Disorder)
Recorded Live: April 24, 2024
Kerry Ressler, MD; McLean Hospital; Chief, Division of Depression and Anxiety Disorders; James and Patricia Poitras Chair in Psychiatry; Director, Neurobiology of Fear Laboratory
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™;
(1) Maintenance of Certification Credit
Fecal Incontinence
Recorded Live: September 11, 2024
Nitin Aggarwal, MD; Lowell General Hospital; Gastroenterologist
Dr. Aggarwal leads his office and Lowell General Hospital with Fecal / Bowel Incontinence Program and performs Peripheral Nerve Evaluation (PNE). Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™;
(1) Maintenance of Certification Credit
Functional GI Disorders
Recorded Live: May 21, 2025
Jacqueline Chu, MD; Lowell General Hospital, Gastroenterologist; Clinical Assistant Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine. She joined Integrated Gastroenterology Consultants from Massachusetts General Hospital, where she completed her gastroenterology training. Dr. Chu was a research fellow at MIT in the Traverso Lab where she studied drug delivery in the gastrointestinal tract.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
HPV-related Anal Dysplasia and Anal Cancer Screening
Recorded Live: November 20, 2024
Jose Caro, MD; Tufts Medical Center; Tufts University School of Medicine’s Assistant Dean for Multicultural Affairs, Dr. Jane Murphy Gaughan Professorship, and Assistant Professor of Medicine. He will break down the stigma associated with anal cancer and present who’s at risk and how to prevent this rarely discussed disease.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™;
(1) Maintenance of Certification Credit
Inhalable Sensors Could Enable Early Lung Cancer Detection
Recorded Live: September 25, 2024
Sahil Patel, MD; Harvard Combined Pulmonary Critical Care Fellowship (MGH and BIDMC); Clinical Fellow at MIT Laboratory for Multiscale Regenerative Technologies. My research focuses on developing methods to improve early diagnosis of lung cancer utilizing nano-based techniques and next-generation sequencing.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™;
(1) Maintenance of Certification Credit
Ischemic Stroke/Transient Ischemic Attack
Recorded Live: May 15, 2024
Emiliya Melkumura, MD; Tufts Medical Center; Director, Stroke Consult Services; Associate Director of Neurology Residency; Assistant Professor of Neurology, Tufts University School of Medicine
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
(1) Maintenance of Certification Credit
Neuroimmunological Disease Overview
Recorded Live: October 16, 2024
Michael Levy, MD; Massachusetts General Hospital, Neuroimmunologist Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School; Research Director, Division of Neuroimmunology & Neuroinfectious Disease; Director, Neuroimmunology Clinic and Research Laboratory; He specializes in patients with rare neuroimmunological diseases
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™;
(1) Maintenance of Certification Credit
Overview of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 (GLP-1) Medications
Recorded Live: 1/15/2025
Ekta Tirthani, MD; Endocrinologist, Emory Health Care and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Emory School of Medicine; completed Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Fellowship at Tufts Medical Center.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Pancreatic Cysts
Recorded Live: March 27, 2024
Anne Marie Joyce, MD; Lowell General Hospital
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™;
(1) Maintenance of Certification Credit
Parkinson’s: What’s New
Recorded Live: February 14, 2024
Bryan Ho, MD; Tufts Medical Center, Neurologist; Director of Movement Disorders Program. Tufts University School of Medicine, Assistant Professor in Neurology
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
(1) Maintenance of Certification Credit
Pulmonary Effects of Vaping Cannabidiol
Recorded Live: December 11, 2024
Yasmin Thanavala, MD
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in 1985, as a Cancer Research Scientist in the Department of Immunology and she is currently Professor and Member in the same department. Recently found that vaping CBD can lead to more severe lung damage than vaping nicotine.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™;
(1) Maintenance of Certification Credit
Recognizing Autoimmune Toxicity with Immunotherapy
Recorded Live: April 2, 2025
Ross Merkin, MD; Medical Oncologist, Massachusetts General Hospital, Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, He studies complications of immune checkpoint inhibitors, immune-related adverse events (irAEs).
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Small Interfering RNA to Reduce Lipoprotein(a) in Cardiovascular Disease
Recorded Live: May 8, 2024
Michelle O’Donoghue, MD; Mass General Brigham; McGillycuddy-Logue Distinguished Chair in Cardiology; Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, Cardiovascular Medicine; Dr. O’Donoghue’s primary research focus is the design and conduct of multicenter clinical trials for patients with stable and unstable heart disease. Additional clinical research interests include the evaluation of novel antiplatelet and lipid therapies, established and novel biomarkers, the study of women and heart disease and the development of novel therapeutics in the management of acute coronary syndromes.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™;
(1) Maintenance of Certification Credit
Treating Tobacco Users: Best Practices, New Ideas and Current Controversies
Recorded Live: April 17, 2024
Nancy Rigotti, MD; Massachusetts General Hospital; Director, Tobacco Research and Treatment; Professor, Harvard Medical School
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™;
(1) Maintenance of Certification Credit
Update on Urticaria
Recorded Live: April 16, 2025
David Gruenberg, MD; Immunologist, Lowell General Hospital,
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Vascular Disease
Recorded Live: October 9, 2024
Allan Hoffman, MD; Lowell General Hospital, Interventional Radiologist; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine. His interests include Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Dialysis Access Management, Varicose Veins, Venous Disease, Vascular Ultrasound, Angiography, Arterial and Venous Angiography and Stentin
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™;
(1) Maintenance of Certification Credit
Venous Disease and Genicular Artery Embolization
Recorded Live: May 14, 2025
Allan Hoffman, MD; Lowell General Hospital, Vascular and Interventional Radiologist. Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine. His interests include Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Dialysis Access Management, Varicose Veins, Venous Disease, Vascular Ultrasound, Angiography, Arterial and Venous Angiography and Stenting
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
What's New in Sleep Medicine
Recorded Live: 1/29/2025
Rajesh Zacharias, MD; Pulmonologist; Associate Director, Critical Care, Melrose Wakefield Hospital; Assistant Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine. Previously, he was attending physician in Pulmonary and Critical Care at Eastern Maine Medical Center, where he served as the Medical Director for Respiratory therapy
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™