main stage program
Two days, seventeen sessions, zero filler.
Rapid-fire, evidence-based summaries from working clinicians on the topics that show up in your exam room every week.
Friday, October 16 – Saturday, October 17, 2026
Program at a glance
Friday
October 16, 2026
Time
Session
Speaker
Pre-conference Workshops
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Workshop #1: Wrist and Shoulder Injuries in Primary Care: If you don’t touch, you don’t find
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Workshop #2: Primary Care Cardiology Without the Cardiologist
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Workshop #3: Clinical Teaching 101: How to be an effective teacher
9:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Workshop #4 (Virtual): Artificial Intelligence and Clinical Practice: Work smarter not harder
Main Conference
12:00 – 1:00 PM
Registration & Refreshments
1:00 – 1:30 PM Evidence that Matters in 2026 Mike Kolber
Learning objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Identify recent evidence or health information updates which may influence primary care practice.
- Understand the principles of evidence-based medicine: including relative risk reduction, absolute risk reduction, patient-oriented outcomes and surrogate outcomes
- Be familiar with current key primary care projects which are nearly or recently finished that will likely change practice.
1:30 – 1:55 PM What’s New, What’s True, What’s Poo – Part 1 Michael Allan, Betsy Thomas
Learning objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Describe the key findings and clinical implications of recent research for novel interventions or diagnostic information relevant to family medicine.
- Identify the key findings and clinical implications for interventions or diagnostic information relevant to family medicine that was confirmed/proven in recent research.
- Recognize the key findings and clinical implications for interventions or diagnostic information relevant to family medicine from recent research that should be reconsidered.
1:55 – 2:15 PM From the Benches to the Trenches Andrew Simmonds
Learning objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Educate family physicians to help either refute or confirm patients’ or clinicians thoughts in medicine that come from often incomplete or biased reporting of valid scientific evidence (e.g. not misinformation)
- Provide practitioners some suggestions to help them set realistic expectations as to what they see in the media regarding science to changes in practice (ex. new cancer cure)
2:15 – 2:35 PM
Q&A — Lectures 2 & 3
2:35 – 3:00 PM Get it Straight; Keep it Straight: Keys to Successful Fracture Management Arun Sayal
Learning objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Understand the initial assessment and stabilization of common fractures in primary care setting.
- Identify common fractures that may not need casting: buckle, boxers, toddlers..
- Identify tips and pitfalls in injury or fracture follow up, including when to involve ortho: ex. scaphoid
3:00 – 3:30 PM Too Much Blood, Not Enough Value: Rational Laboratory Use for Primary Care Michelle Parker, Mathew Estey
Learning objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Appreciate the growth in clinical laboratory testing in Alberta and associated costs
- Discuss the evidence and key practice points for commonly over-ordered routine and specialized laboratory tests in primary care
- Understand how to stay updated on clinical laboratory changes
3:30 – 3:50 PM
Q&A — Lectures 4 & 5
3:50 – 4:10 PM
Break
4:10 – 4:35 PM A Pain in the Pelvis: Chronic Pelvic Pain and Endometriosis Drew Barreth
Learning objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Review common causes and presentations of chronic pelvic pain, including endometriosis.
- Discuss primary care options for diagnosis and medical management of endometriosis
- Discuss factors that could lead to OBGYN referral
4:35 – 5:00 PM Heart Break: Cardiology Evidence You Should Not Be Incorporating – Part 1 John Mandrola
Learning objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Understand the findings of 3–5 high-impact cardiology trials relevant to primary care, but that we should not be incorporating into practice (or stop doing)
- Describe the clinical implications of not following the findings of these trials for everyday management of patients
5:00 – 5:20 PM
Q&A — Lectures 6 & 7
5:20 – 5:35 PM Educational Review #1: PEIP 2026 Practice Pearls Mike Kolber
Learning objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Summarize the key messages and clinical recommendations presented during the day’s educational sessions.
- Identify practical changes or confirmations that can be incorporated into practice to improve patient care.
5:35 – 7:00 PM
Networking Reception
Saturday
October 17, 2026
Time
Session
Speaker
7:30 – 8:15 AM
Breakfast
8:15 – 8:30 AM Educational Review #2: PEIP 2026 Practice Pearls Mike Kolber
Learning objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Summarize the key messages and clinical recommendations presented during the day’s educational sessions.
- Identify practical changes or confirmations that can be incorporated into practice to improve patient care.
8:30 – 8:55 AM PEIP Oscars for Outstanding Pediatric Literature (POOPS) Michael Pierse
Learning objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Review recent pediatric studies that meaningfully change or confirm primary care practice
- Apply evidence from pediatric trials to common conditions seen by primary care
8:55 – 9:25 AM Take Your Best Shot(s): Adult Immunizations Update Samantha Moe, Mike Kolber
Learning objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Identify patients enrolled and key clinical outcomes for adult vaccines including RSV, influenza, zoster, HPV target population for vaccination.
- Understand current guideline recommendations for adult specific vaccines
9:25 – 9:45 AM
Q&A — Lectures 8 & 9
9:45 – 10:10 AM C You Later: Hepatitis C in Primary Care Jessica Kirkwood
Learning objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Discuss primary care screening for Hep C: who and how?
- Simplify treatment of Hep C in primary care – what is new, what is covered/cost, what still needs Infectious Diseases?
- Review follow up for tests of cure for HCV after treatment
10:10 – 10:35 AM Liver Let Die: Hype, Harm and Hard Evidence of Fatty Liver René Wittmer
Learning objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Review the best approach to diagnosis and prognosis (including related conditions) and ancillary testing of MAFLD/MASH
- Summarize the current evidence for management of MASLD: focusing on patient orientated outcomes
- Understand an evidence informed follow up for patients with MASLD
10:35 – 10:55 AM
Q&A — Lectures 10 & 11
10:55 – 11:15 AM
Refreshment Break
11:15 – 11:40 AM Heart Throb: Cardiology Evidence You Should Be Incorporating – Part 2 John Mandrola
Learning objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Understand the findings of high-impact cardiology trials that are relevant and actionable in primary care – including patient selection, intervention and benefits (and harms)
- Describe the clinical implications of these trials for everyday management (e.g., prevention, heart failure, stroke risk).
11:40 – 12:00 PM Recent PEER Research and the Path to Bigger Things: A Report from the Pragmatic Trials Collaborative Scott Garrison
Learning objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Summarize key findings from three recent primary care studies.
- Discuss the practical implications of these studies for everyday clinical decision-making in primary care.
- Identify opportunities for primary care clinicians to participate in larger pragmatic clinical trials through the Pragmatic Trials Collaborative and explain how local involvement supports the generation of high-quality, practice-changing evidence.
12:00 – 12:20 PM
Q&A — Lectures 12 & 13
12:20 – 1:20 PM
Lunch
1:20 – 1:50 PM Don’t Worry, Be Happy: An Uplifting Update on Depression Management Caitlin Finley, Danielle Perry
Learning objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Review recent evidence for choosing initial therapy for depression
- Review recent evidence for the approach to patients who fail the first agent (adjunct, combo, increase dose)
- Review the common adverse effects patients are likely to experience on most commonly used antidepressants and how to manage them
1:50 – 2:15 PM Iron Man: IV Iron for (Almost) Everything? Tony Nickonchuk
Learning objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Discuss who should be offered oral or IV iron.
- Review the evidence of treating iron deficiency without anemia
- Discuss options, efficacy and harms of different oral iron products and oral vs IV iron
2:15 – 2:35 PM
Q&A — Lectures 14 & 15
2:35 – 3:00 PM Spin Doctors: Mastering Vertigo in Primary Care Matthew McArthur
Learning objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Develop an organized differential diagnosis for patients presenting with acute dizziness or vertigo
- Recognize red flag clinical features that are worrisome for a dangerous central cause of acute dizziness or vertigo
- Confidently diagnose and treat BPPV using provocative testing and particle repositioning maneuvers.
3:00 – 3:25 PM What’s New, What’s True, What’s Poo – Part 2 Tina Korownyk, Adrienne Lindblad
Learning objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Describe the key findings and clinical implications of recent research for novel interventions or diagnostic information relevant to family medicine.
- Identify the key findings and clinical implications for interventions or diagnostic information relevant to family medicine that was confirmed/proven in recent research.
- Recognize the key findings and clinical implications for interventions or diagnostic information relevant to family medicine from recent research that should be reconsidered.
3:25 – 3:45 PM
Q&A — Lectures 16 & 17
3:45 – 4:00 PM Educational Review #3: PEIP 2026 Practice Pearls Mike Kolber
Learning objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Summarize the key messages and clinical recommendations presented during the day’s educational sessions.
- Identify practical changes or confirmations that can be incorporated into practice to improve patient care.
Particularly impactful were the discussions that questioned rigid adherence to guidelines, advocating instead for individualized, context-sensitive decision-making. It resonated with the realities of frontline practice.
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