Michael LeFevre – USPSTF Updates on Screening/Diagnosis of Hypertension
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Evidence-based guidelines across disciplines for outpatient preventive care will be discussed in this session.
Aims and Purposes
Describe the current USPSTF screening and preventative care Recommendations (A and B).
Find out what tests and screenings are indicated for specific health issues.
It’s important to be able to integrate suggestions into a participant’s existing routine.
Michael LeFevre, MD, MSPH, is the Medical Director for Population Health at MU Health Care and the Vice Chair of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Missouri in Columbia. As the Department of Family Medicine’s Medical Director, he is responsible for the administrative management of eight different family medicine, urgent care, and fast care offices serving a total of more than 150,000 patients per year. His practice spans the gamut of Family Medicine, from in-patient care to obstetrics (up until 2012), and he often instructs residents and medical students in both settings. From 2002 to 2012, he oversaw the adoption of the electronic medical record throughout the MU Health Care system in his role as the organization’s Chief Medical Information Officer. He spent more than a decade on the United States Preventive Services Task Force, including three years as co-vice chair and one year as chair, and most of his academic work has been in the fields of evidence-based medicine and clinical policy. Additionally, he participated in the Joint National Conference for the Evaluation and Management of Hypertension (JNC 8). In 2011, he was voted into the Institute of Medicine. At the University of Missouri, where he has taught since 1984, he earned a B.S.E.E., M.D., and M.S.P.H.
Dr. LeFevre admits that he has no relevant financial ties with any entity manufacturing, marketing, retailing or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients relating to the content of this presentation.
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