Physician Speaker Series
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The Physician Speaker Series is an educational CME series aimed at providing evidence-based, best practice updates to U Health and affiliate employees. Providers and administrators have the opportunity to learn every month in hour-long sessions through the Monthly Affiliate Call, held the first Wednesday of every month at noon, as well as one or two additional education events per month. See schedule below for upcoming events.
Participants are awarded 1.0 hour of ACCME Category CME credit at no cost for each 1.0 hour of live sessions attended. Full instructions for claiming CME are available in the CME Learner Information Packet.
MONTHLY AFFILIATE CALL
The Monthly Affiliate Call, led by Dr. Ted Kimball, serves as a forum to collaborate and address regional issues and challenges that affect health care in the Mountain West. All University of Utah Health partners are encouraged to participate in the call via Zoom. Topics change monthly to reflect trending issues and current needs.
Dr. Ted Kimball is a health care provider with 29 years of experience practicing at the University of Utah Hospital and VA Hospital in Salt Lake City. As the Medical Director of the Office of Network Development and Telehealth and TeleICU, Dr. Kimball has practiced alongside many providers in the region.
Upcoming Sessions
Date |
Topic |
Presenter(s) |
| February 4, 2026 Noon - 1 pm (MT) | Monthly Affiliate Call: Support During Trauma - Zoom Link | Natasha Thomas, LCSW CHAT Social Work Manager, Salt Lake City Fire Department |
| February 18, 2026 1 - 2 pm (MT) | Medical Management of Opioid Use Disorder: Treating Addiction with Buprenorphine or Naltrexone - Register on Zoom | Elizabeth Howell, MD, MS Professor of Psychiatry, University of Utah Health |
| February 26, 2026 Noon - 1 pm (MT) | Suicide Prevention: Ask, Listen, Refer - Register on Zoom | Rachael Jasperson, LCSW, PhD, MBA Zero Suicide Program Manager, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, University of Utah Health |
| March 3, 2026 Noon - 1 pm (MT) | Laparoscopic Abdominal Cerclage Procedures - Register on Zoom | Caleb Hopwood, MD Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Utah Health |
| March 4, 2026 Noon - 1 pm (MT) | Monthly Affiliate Call: What We've Learned from the Super Flu - Zoom Link | Edward Kimball, MD Chief Medical Officer of Office of Network Development and Telehealth, University of Utah Health |
| April 1, 2026 Noon - 1 pm (MT) | Monthly Affiliate Call: - Zoom Link | |
| April 8, 2026 Noon - 1 pm (MT) | Transfusion Medicine - Register on Zoom | Erica Swenson, DO Assistant Professor of Pathology, University of Utah Health |
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