HAFP 2025 ANNUAL UPDATE

February 7-9, 2025
Doubletree Alana - Waikiki Beach

HAFP's annual CME event is back on Oahu at the Doubletree Alana in Waikiki! Below is the conference schedule:

FRIDAY 2/7
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
(Welcome Reception 5:30-7:00 PM)

SATURDAY 2/8
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

(*Foundation Gala 6:00-10:00 PM)

SUNDAY 2/9
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
(*Group KSA 1:00-4:00 PM)

* Separate registration and fee required

CONFERENCE AGENDA

Agenda planning is still in progress, but below is a sneak peek of the great lineup of CME topics included:

  • ADHD in Children
  • Migraine Management
  • Best Practices in Geriatrics
  • Common Complaints During Pregnancy
  • Podiatry in Primary Care
  • Coding Updates
  • Obesity Management
  • CO*RE Curriculum
  • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
  • Climate Change Health
  • Interstitial Lung Disease Dx and Management
  • ...and more!

Also on the schedule:

  • Hands-on OMT and POCUS workshops
  • Advocacy Workshop
  • Group KSA
  • Case presentations by residents, students, and members
  • HAFP Business Meeting

...and don't miss our Welcome Reception on Friday and Foundation Gala on Saturday (see below for Gala info)!

HAFP FOUNDATION GALA

Saturday, February 8, 2025
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Doubletree Alana - Waikiki Beach

Attending the Annual Update? We hope to see you at the HAFP Foundation's Annual fundraising event on Saturday evening to raise money for the Foundation's important programs. The Gala includes dinner, dancing, and an exciting live auction. As an Annual Update attendee, you receive a discounted ticket to the Gala. Please also consider sponsoring or donating an item for the silent and live auctions - click the link below for details!

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You can view the agendas of past Annual Meetings by clicking the tabs below.

Virtual Conference 
Saturday, February 19, 2022

Building Resiliency, Thriving Amid Adversity

0800 - 0845: Resident Oral Case Presentations 

  • Dr. Imasa, UHFMRP: DOAC-Induced Menorrhagia on a Premenopausal Woman with Atrial Flutter
  • Dr. Le, UHFMRP: Polymyositis: Why are all my markers negative
  • Dr. Yeung, UHFMRP: "My eyes are just getting old": A case of Hypertensive Brainstem Encephalopathy

0915 - 0945: Primary Care Integration in Substance Use Disorders

Thomas Quattlebaum, MD
Miki Kiyokawa, MD

Resident Poster Presentations [NEW CATEGORY]

  • Dr. Kobayashi, UHFMRP: Interest in and barriers to LARC provision in a family medicine residency program
  • Dr. Wing, HIFMRP: The Value of Vitals: A Quality Improvement Project on Standardizing the Application of Lifestyle Vital Signs

Medical Student Poster Presentations

  • Numerous, A.T. Still School of Osteopathic Medicine: Mini Docs: A Novel Online Course Delivery to Empower Student Advocates for SARS-Cov-2 Safety on Oahu
  • Melanie Teruya & Kassidy Kanja, UH JABSOM: Curriculum Assessment of the Medical Students for Mental Health Program
  • Jennifer Yokoyama, Nataliya Panova, and Keith Nishihara, UH JABSOM: Assessing Primary Care Interest and Resources for High School Students in Hawai'i's Neighbor Islands

1000 - 1100: Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for the Primary Care Physician

Ada Stewart, MD, FAAFP - AAFP Board Chair

1100 - 1130: An AAFP Update - a look at Family Medicine thru the Lens of a Pandemic

Ada Stewart, MD, FAAFP - AAFP Board Chair

1145 - 1300: HAFP Business Meeting

1310 - 1440: SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 update and challenges [1.5 CME]

Lee Buenconsejo-Lum, MD, FAAFP
Neal Palafox, MD, MPH
Sandra Chang, PhD

1500 - 1700: Workshop Option 1: Practical POCUS for the busy family physician [2 CME]

Jonathan McGahee, MD
Bradlee Sako, MD
Chelsea Tagawa-Walker, MD

1500 - 1700: Workshop Option 2: Wilderness Medicine

Nash Witten, MD

“Physically Distant, Socially Connected”

February 19 – 21, 2021

Zoom

Friday, February 19th

COVID-19 Across the Continuum: Prevention to Post-COVID Care

Dominic Chow, MD; Fritzie Igno, MD; Sandra Chang, PhD; and Lee Buenconsejo-Lum, MD, FAAFP

Headache

Jennifer Walker, MD, MPH, FAAFP

Wilderness Medicine in Your Office

Nash A.K. Witten, MD

PLENARY – Responding to COVID-19: A Local Board of Health Perspective

Jennifer Lo, MD

After Hours – Medical Student and Resident Presentations

Medical Student Poster Presentations

“Targeting Rule Implementation Decreases Concussions in High School Football: A National Concussion Surveillance Study”

1st Place Medical Student Poster Presentation

Kyle Obana, University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine

“Assessing the Influence of the H.O.M.E. Project on Medical Students’ Choices of Speciality”

2nd Place Medical Student Poster Presentation

Surbhi Bansil, University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine

Resident Research Presentations

“Vasectomy Promotion: Residency PI Project”

1st Place Resident Research Presentation

Madeline Richter, MD

Tripler Army Medical Center Family Medicine Residency, Honolulu, HI

“Excessive Daytime Sleepiness and Risk of Ten Year Incident Disability: The Kuakini Honolulu Heart Program”

2nd Place Resident Research Presentation

Alain Takane, MD

Hawaii Island Family Medicine Residency Program, Hilo, HI

Resident Case Presentations

“Gelastic Seizures: A Case of Uncontrollable Laughter”

TIE – 1st Place Resident Case Presentation

Nina Baker, MD

University of Hawaii Family Medicine Residency Program, Aiea, HI

“Euglycemic Diabetic Ketoacidosis”

TIE – 1st Place Resident Case Presentation

Andrea Heier, MD

Tripler Army Medical Center Family Medicine Residency, Honolulu, HI

Saturday, February 20, 2021

Updates in Eczema

Todd Bessinger, MD, PhD, MPH, FAAD

Family Medicine Certification: What’s New, What’s True, and What’s Ahead

Elizabeth G. (Libby) Baxley, MD

Do You See What I See? Ophthalmology Essentials For the Family Physician

Gary LeRoy, MD, FAAFP

HAFP Annual Business Meeting

Faculty Development Workshop: Teaching and Precepting Update 2021: 1) The Imposter Syndrome and 2) Effectively Completing Learner Evaluations. [2 CME]

Damon Lee, MD; and Keola Adams, MD

Sunday, February 21, 2021

Adolescent Eating Disorders (Can you see them in Adults, too?) The Signs and The Science

Pia Francisco-Natanauan, MD; Kristen Lindsey-Dudley RDN, LD, MPH; and Jean Adair-Leland, Ph.D.

Facing the Close-out Set: Elder Care in a COVID Pandemic

Cheynie Nakano, MD; Lauren Okamoto, MD; and Christina Bell, MD

Abnormal Cervical Cancer Screening–Adopting the most recent ASCCP Risk-Based Guidelines

Ann Chang, MD, MPH

Discussion of Fractures

Chelsea Walker-Tagawa, MD

Knowledge Self-Assessment Module: Diabetes

Keola Adams, MD; and Jill Omori, MD

“Our Voices, Our Vehicle; Making Our Voices Heard for Ourselves & Our Patients”

March 13 – 15, 2020

Hilton Waikiki Beach Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii

Due to the COVID-19 crisis conference attendees and speakers were encouraged to attend/present via Zoom. Participants who were present physically at the conference were spaced far apart in the venue and physical interactions were limited.

 

Friday, March 13th

 

0800: Resident Research/Case Presentation

 

Satisfaction of Military Medical Officers, Results from 2018 Omnibus

1st Place Resident Research Presentation

Kaoru Song, MD; Burrett, JP (2) , Nguyen, DR (3)

(1) Tripler Army Medical Center Family Medicine Residency, Honolulu, HI

(2) Department of Preventative Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD

(3) Department of Family Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD

 

Desiccated Thyroid Causing Ventricular Tachycardia

2nd Place Resident Case Presentation

Eric Hasenkamp, MD; Lu, Myro, DO

Tripler Army Medical Center Family Medicine Residency, Honolulu, HI

 

Accessory Renal Artery Stenosis and Secondary Hypertension

3rd Place Resident Case Presentation

Ariel Chung, MD PharmD; Patricia Millner, MD,

Tripler Army Medical Center Family Medicine Residency, Honolulu, HI

 

The Role of Dietary Discussion at Primary Care Visits

Jamila Benn, MD

 

Pediatric Obesity: Family-Based Prevention and Intervention in the Primary Care Office and Community

Malia Shimokawa, MD

 

COVID-19: How do we respond?

Seiji Yamada, MD, MPH

 

Plenary 1: The Samoa Experience: Utilizing your medical degree to advocate for those in need

Lt. Governor Josh Green, MD

 

Office Procedures

Chelsea Tagawa, MD, and Myro Lu, DO

 

Saturday, March 14th

 

Resident Research/Case Presentation

 

Surviving the Unsurvivable: A Potential Therapeutic Role for Tranexamic Acid for Intracranial Hemorrhage from Hypertensive Emergency

1st Place Resident Case Presentation

Warren Yamashita, MD, MPH (1), Khushbu Patel, MD (1), Mary Groda-Lewis, MD (1), Shawn Hernandez, Pre-Pharmacy Student (2)

(1) Hawaii Island Family Medicine Residency Program, Hilo, HI.

(2) University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo, HI

 

Is primary care splinting cost effective?

Byron Izuka, MD

 

Female Athlete Triad vs. RED-S

Vivian Kyono, MD

 

Plenary 2: Advancing Health Equity Through Family Medicine

John Cullen, MD, FAAFP

 

HAFP Business Meeting

HAFP Advocacy Award

Dina Shek, JD, and The Medical-Legal Partnership for Children in Hawaii

 

AAFP Degree of Fellow

Lee Buenzonsejo-Lum, MD, FAAFP

Michelle Mitchell, MD, FAAFP

 

Update of Management of Hypercholesterolemia

Jarred Prudencia, PharmD, BCACP, BC-ADM

 

Breakout Session 1: From Bear Attacks to Shark Bites

John Cullen, MD, FAAFP

 

Breakout Session 2: EKGs you don’t want to miss

Ricky Amii, MD

Sunday, March 15th

 

Helping our Patients with Chronic Opioid Use Disorder

Miki Kiyokawa, MD

 

Caring for the Post-Menopausal Female

Bruce Kessel, MD

 

Advocating for our Geriatric Patients

Lauren Okamoto, MD; Cheynie Nakano, MD; and Christina Bell, MD, PhD

Hawaii Update 2019

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“Framing our Future in Family Medicine”

February 8 – 10, 2019

Alohilani Resort, Honolulu, Hawaii

 

Friday, February 8th

 

Resident Research/Case Presentation

 

Aquagenic Wrinkling as a Sign of Cystic Fibrosis Carrier Status

2nd Place Resident Case Presentation

Aaron Jannings, MD

Tripler Army Medical Center Family Medicine Residency, Honolulu, HI

 

Lactobezoar: A Postoperative Bariatric Curveball

3rd Place Resident Case Presentation

Kaoru Song, MD

Tripler Army Medical Center Family Medicine Residency, Honolulu, HI

 

The Our Care, Our Choice Act and Responding to Inquiries About Medically Hastened Death

Daniel FIschberg, MD, PhD, FAAHPM, and Lee Buenconsejo-Lum, MD, FAAFP

 

Pain Management and Opioids: Balancing Risks and Benefits

Carol Havens, MD, FAAFP

 

STI Update / Vaginitis

Tim Duerler, MD

 

Breakout Sessions 1: Physician Health First

Kim Yu, MD, FAAFP

 

Breakout Sessions 2: Primary Care Ultrasound

Chelsea Tagawa, MD

 

Saturday, February 9th

 

Resident Research/Case Presentation

 

Improving Behavioral Health Screening and Treatment in a Rural Integrated Primary Care Clinic with Tablet Technologies: A Quasi-Experimental and Effectiveness Study

1st Place Resident Research Presentation

Warren Yamashita, MD, MPH

Hawaii Island Family Medicine Residency, Hilo, HI

 

Trumpet Eye

1st Place Resident Case Presentation

Nash Witten, MD

University of Hawaii Family Medicine Residency Program, Mililani, HI

 

Hawaii TB Update for Busy Clinicians: New Screening Rules, Better Screening Tests

Richard Brostrom, MD, MSPH

 

Cancer Prevention in the era of vaccination

Lee Buenconsejo-Lum, MD, FAAFP

 

Plenary: AAFP: Building for Tomorrow Today

Michael Munger, MD, FAAFP

 

HAFP Annual Meeting

 

HAFP Advocacy Award

Christina MB Wang, DNP, MPH, APRN-Rx, AGPCNP-C

 

AAFP Degree of Fellow

Sashi Braga, MD, FAAFP

Frank Morgan, MD, FAAFP

 

Diabetes Medications: Beyond Metformin and Glargine

Jarred Prudencio, PharmD, BCACP, BC-ADM

 

Breakout Session 1: Teaching in the outpatient setting

Damon Lee, MD; and Keola Adams, MD

 

Breakout Session 2: CMS 2019 Update: Making Sense of Alphabet Soup

Catherine Nelson, RN

 

Sunday, February 10th

 

Reproductive Health Care: Conversations for Family Physicians and Their Patients

Teresa Schiff, MD

 

In Vitro IgE Testing: When does it make sense?

Matt Lau, MD

 

The last chapter: why medical aid in dying may not apply to dementia patients and what you CAN do to help them in the end stage

Lauren Okamoto, MD; Cheynie Nakano, MD; and Christina Bell, MD, PhD