Faculty:
Stanley K. Dea, M.D.

Objectives:

• Summarize risk factors for GERD in Chinese American patients (obesity).
• Describe 3 potential complications of GERD (eg eating and drinking problems, non- cardiac chest pain, sleep impairment).
• Describe current diagnostic approaches to GERD, including the use of Chinese language questionnaires.
• Summarize treatment approaches to GERD.

Faculty:
Shyun Jeng, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Loma Linda Medical Center

Peter H. Win, M.D.

Objectives:

• Review the prevalence, presentation and management of glaucoma in elderly Chinese patients.
• Review the risk factors, presentation and management of diabetic retinopathy.
• Review quality of care indicators for diabetes patients (retinal exam only).

Faculty:
Ping H. Wang, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, UCI School of Medicine

Henry R. Tseng, D.P.M.

Objectives:

• List risk factors for diabetes in elderly Chinese
• Educate patients and their families on the importance of culturally relevant dietary and lifestyle modifications for patients with diabetes.
• Describe how to follow patients with prediabetes, and diabetes.
• Review quality of care indicators for diabetes patients (foot examinations only).

Faculty:
Peng T. Fan, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine

Objectives:

• Recognize the impact of gout and its complications.
• Define the treatment challenges in managing patients with gout, including the different challenges physicians face when treating young versus elderly patients.
• Evaluate current therapeutic and new options and their benefits and limitations for managing patients with gout in order to narrow the practice gaps. 

Faculty:
Raymond K. Chang, M.D., F.A.B.H.P.

Objectives:

• Describe cultural barriers to hypertension medication adherence.
• Describe differences in rates of ACE-I cough between Chinese and non-Chinese populations.
• List complications of poorly controlled hypertension.