​​Future Meetings in 2025:             STAY TUNED FOR MORE INFORMATION!

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September 9th, 2025

December 9th, 2025

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Next Meeting:

> Date: May 13th, 2025 (Tuesday evening 6PM-8:30PM)

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> Topic: The family doctor's guide to supporting patients through perimenopause

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> Location: Orange County Medical Association (OCMA), 5000 Campus Drive, Newport Beach, CA

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> Speaker: Shannon Connolly, MD

 Associate Medical Director at Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties

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> Event Objectives:​ 

• Describe the hormonal changes that occur during perimenopause and their physiological effects

• Discuss the role of hormone testing

• Identify clinical management of common symptoms of perimenopause

• Address cultural, social, and emotional factors that may influence patient experience with perimenopause

• Demonstrate effective communication strategies for discussing perimenopause with patients

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There will be a 10 minute warm-up “CAFP Board of Directors“ update by our Orange County District Director, Jorge Galdamez, MD, prior to the presentation as well as an update from the rest of our Orange County Delegates regarding the AMAM Meeting!

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We will provide a delicious catered dinner - if you bring a guest for dinner, the guest fee will be $45 (can only pay with cash or check payable to OC-CAFP), and if you are not an Orange County Chapter member, your dinner fee will be $30.

 

We will also have an end-of-evening raffle for some awesome prizes for Physicians and Medical Students attendees after speaking to our guest vendors who will give you raffle tickets!

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Past Meeting:

> Date: February 11th, 2025 (Tuesday evening 6PM-8:30PM)

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> Topic: Medical Care for the Unhoused Population (Street Medicine) for Family Medicine Providers

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> Location: Orange County Medical Association (OCMA), 5000 Campus Drive, Newport Beach, CA

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> Speaker: Kun Chhai Meas, MD

Family Medicine, PCP at Korean Community Services, Orange County

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> Event Objectives:​ ​

• Be able to distinguish key concepts such as homelessness, acute vs. chronic homelessness, and tri-morbidity, and understand their relevance to patient care

• Differentiate between common models of care for individuals experiencing homelessness (street medicine, van medicine, and traditional clinic), including their principles (e.g., Housing First, Diversion, and Family Unification

• Acquire tools to adapt treatment plans that align with the unique challenges faced by unhoused patients

• Employ the HOUSEDBEDS mnemonic to guide a patient-centered approach to history-taking in a way that accounts for the patient’s lived experience.

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• We wanted to provide an opportunity for you to donate to Wound Walk. This organization tends to the wounds of our unsheltered in Orange County, California. Their Mission is the direct relief for those who need it most. They have a wound wagon, filled by items donated by people like you. Each person who calls outside home is different, but, of course— all deserve basic human care. What they do is deliver relief so that those in need might catch their breath for a moment and feel a connection – they won’t stop until some can recognize themselves in a mirror someday. At our next meeting, please bring the following items with you to drop off or donate directly to them via PayPal)

  • Clean blankets, clean jackets, or unworn socks to help people keep warm

  • Grocery store or restaurant gift cards to help feed people

  • Materials for wound care kits (gauze pads or gauze rolls, bandages especially larger ones, alcohol swabs, Bacitracin)​

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 Events and speakers are determined by our Board of Directors.

If you have any questions or concerns, please visit our “About Us” section to contact our OC - California Academy of Family Physicians representative via phone or email.

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