Continuing Medical Education

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™

Addressing Inequities in Asthma Pediatric Patients
Recorded Live: March 7, 2024
Wanda Phipatanakul, MD; Boston Children’s Hospital; Attending Physician Division of Immunology; Director Research Center, S. Jean Emans, MD; Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Phipatanakul has built a deep network of community relationships, and she conducts both school- and home-based asthma studies in children and has had continuous NIH funding for 23 years. She leads the NIAID School Inner-City Asthma Intervention Study, the NHLBI Environment Assessment of Sleep in Youth.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™;
(1) Maintenance of Certification Credit Risk Management Study; Bias Credit

Implicit Racial/Ethnic Bias in Healthcare
Recorded Live: 1/8/2025
Ria Roberts, MD; Physician Leader, Center for Healthy Aging, Adult Medicine-Geriatric Clinic, Lowell Community Health Center; Co-Chair, Black Women in Medicine, Office of Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership, Harvard Medical School;  Massachusetts Medical Society’s Essex North District 2024 Clinician of the Year.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ Risk Management Study; Bias Credit

Delirium: Understanding Management and Long-Term Effects
Recorded Live: 2/26/2025
Cristina Montalvo, MD; Chief, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Emergency Services, Tufts Medical Center
Chief, Psychiatry, Lowell General Hospital
Division Chief, Consultation-Liaison and Psychiatric Emergency Services Psychiatrist; Assistant Professor, TUSM
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ Risk Management Study; Dementia

Early-life Events Could Predispose to Dementia
Recorded Live: 3/5/2025
Stephen Ginsberg, PhD; Center for Dementia, Research Scientist; Director of Ginsberg Laboratory; Professor of Psychiatry, and Neuroscience at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ Risk Management Study; Dementia
 

Intimate Partner Violence and Traumatic Brain Injury: An Invisible Public Health 
Recorded Live: June 5, 2024
Eve Valera, Ph.D. Psychiatry, Mass General Research Institute; Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Harvard Medical School; As a pioneer in the field of IPV-related brain injury, she regularly lectures internationally.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™   Risk Management Study, Domestic Violence Credit
(1) Maintenance of Certification Credit

Palliative Care for CHF Patients
Recorded Live: 2/5/2025
Virginia Doherty, NP; Lowell General Hospital; Palliative Care Unit. Clinical Instructor at Tufts University School of Medicine.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ Risk Management Study; End of Life Credit

Intersection of Opioid Use Disorder and Infectious Diseases
Recorded Live: March 19, 2025
Thomas Stopka, PhD; He is an Epidemiologist and Professor with the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ Risk Management Study; Pain Management Credit

Newly-Emerging Designer Drugs of Abuse
Recorded Live: 2/19/2025
Michael Baumann, PhD; Staff Scientist and Facility Head at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Intramural Research Program.  Unit Director; Designer Drug Research Unit; where the main goal is to collect, analyze and disseminate the most up-to-date information about the pharmacology and toxicology of newly-emerging designer drugs of abuse. 
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ Risk Management Study; Pain Credit

Substance Use Disorder in Pediatrics
January 4, 2024
Mariam Schizer, MD; Boston Children’s Hospital; Medical Director, Adolescent Substance Use and Addiction Program (ASAP); Instructor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ Risk Management Study, Pain Management Credit, (1) Maintenance of Certification Credit

Eating Disorders in Teens
Recorded Live: 1/9/2025
Melissa Freizinger, PhD; Boston Children’s Hospital; Associate Director, Eating Disorder Program Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Dr. Freizinger has presented national and local workshops and lectures on the topic of eating disorders.  She is published in the areas of eating disorders and bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

Neonatal Early Onset Sepsis: Progress and Pitfalls
Recorded Live:  May 1, 2025
Dustin Flannery, DO; Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and CHOP Newborn Care at Pennsylvania Hospital, Neonatologist; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine; Director of Pediatric Trainee Education, Pennsylvania Hospital Newborn Care. His research relates to risk of early-onset neonatal sepsis.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

Post-Acute Sequelae of Pediatric Covid
Recorded Live: 3/6/2025
Lael Yonker, MD; Massachusetts General Hospital; Pediatric Pulmonology & Sleep Medicine and Co-Director, Pulmonary Genetics Clinic; Clinician Investigator, Assistant Professor, Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine, Mass General Research Institute; Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

Substance Use Disorder in Pediatrics
January 4, 2024
Mariam Schizer, MD; Boston Children’s Hospital; Medical Director, Adolescent Substance Use and Addiction Program (ASAP); Instructor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ Risk Management Study, Pain Management Credit, (1) Maintenance of Certification Credit

The "Difficult" Patient
Recorded Live: November 6, 2024
Autumn Riester, MD; University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Associate Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy; Vice Chair for Education MBE/MSME Program Director; Director, Penn Program in Clinical Conflict Management. She has been a member of several international bioethics initiatives including projects in Tanzania, the EU, the UAE, Singapore, and Japan. She is author of over 100 publications in the areas of clinical ethics, clinical conflict management, LGBT bioethics, and medical ethics education.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™;
(1) Maintenance of Certification Credit
Risk Management Study

A Global Plastics Treaty to Protect Endocrine Health
Recorded Live: June 26, 2024
Leonardo Trasande, MD; NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Jim G. Hendrick, M.D. Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics Professor, Department of Population Health. He is perhaps best known for a series of studies published in Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology and the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism that document disease costs due to endocrine disrupting chemicals in the US.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™; Risk Management Study
(1) Maintenance of Certification Credit

Nutrition Security and Screening Tools
Recorded Live:  April 9, 2025
Parke Wilde, PhD; Tufts University School of Medicine; Professor, Friedman School and a leading authority on US food policy and economics of US federal nutrition assistance programs.  Previously, he worked for Community Nutrition Institute and for the USDA’s Economic Research Service. His research addresses food security and hunger management.  He is a member of the Institute of Medicine’s Food Forum and member of research committee advising Agree, a national food policy initiative.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ Risk Management Study

Overview of Stress Management and Resiliency Training
Recorded Live:  June 25, 2025
Geneve Allison, MD; Infectious Disease Physician at Tufts Medical Center; Associate Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine. She is a certified teacher of the “SMART Course” – Stress Management and Resiliency Training from Benson Henry Institute for Mind-Body Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and leads evidence-based small group stress management courses tailored to physicians at Tufts Medicine.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ Risk Management Study

Physicians’ Experiences With Mistreatment and Discrimination
Recorded Live: December 18, 2024
Colin West, MD; Mayo Clinic
Colin P. West, M.D., Ph.D., is a quantitative health sciences researcher whose work focuses primarily on physician well-being, evidence-based medicine and biostatistics, and medical education.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™;
(1) Maintenance of Certification Credit
Risk Management Study

Safe Handling of Medication
Recorded Live:  April 23, 2025
Christina Johnson, PharmD; Lowell General Hospital, Department of Pharmacy, Lowell General Hospital’s Program Director of the Pharmacy Resident Program.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ Risk Management Study

Work Place Violence
January 17, 2024
Tyler Michaud, Lowell General Hospital, Patient Safety Manager
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™; Risk Management Study, Pain Management Credit; (1) Maintenance of Certification Credit

This program is only for new physicians or if you have not completed your ONE TIME MANDATORY Program for licensure. REMINDER PRINT OFF YOUR CERTIFICATE AT THE END OF PROGRAM, MEDICAL EDUCATION OFFICE DOES NOT KEEP THESE FOR YOU AND THIS DOES NOT QUALIFY FOR CME CREDITS. 
51A Online Mandated Reporter Training

This program is only for new physicians or if you have not completed your ONE TIME MANDATORY Program for licensure.  The Lowell General Hospital Medical Education Committee is currently scheduling a Grand Rounds event to qualify for this mandatory credit.

Physicians renewing their Massachusetts License are required to attest (one time only) to their proficiency with EHRs.

You can fulfill this requirement (1) of (4) ways, the list is below:

1. Participation in a Meaningful Use program as an eligible professional.
2. Employment with, credentialed to provide patient care at, or in a contractual agreement with an eligible hospital or critical access hospital with a CMS Meaningful Use program.
3. Participation as either a Participant or an Authorized User in the Massachusetts Health Information Highway.
4. Completion of three hours of a Category 1 EHR-related CPD course that discusses, at a minimum, the core and menu objectives and the CQMs for Meaningful Use.

Majority of physicians fulfill this requirement with #2 in the list above. Lowell General Hospital participates with CMS Meaningful Use Program and if you have Active Privileges at Lowell General Hospital, you have fulfilled this requirement.