NACE Journal Club #20

The NACE Journal Club with Dr. Neil Skolnik, provides review and analysis of recently published journal articles important to the practice of primary care medicine. In this episode Dr. Skolnik and guests review the following publications:

1. Effects of Combining Coronary Calcium Score With Treatment on Plaque
Progression in Familial Coronary Artery Disease A Randomized Clinical Trial JAMA 2025. Discussion by:
Guest:
Michael J. Blaha, MD, MPH
Professor of Cardiology and Epidemiology and presently serves as the
Director of Clinical Research for the Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the
Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
Director of the Cardiometabolic Clinic
Program Director for the Preventive Cardiology Fellowship.

2. Creatine monohydrate pilot in Alzheimer’s: Feasibility, brain creatine, and cognition. Alzheimer’s Dement. 2025. Discussion by:
Guest:
Michael Devano, DO 
Attending Family Physician 
Christiana Care Health System

3. Structured Exercise after Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Colon Cancer. The New England Journal of Medicine. Discussion by:
Guest:
Joseph Gonnella, MD 
Resident– Family Medicine
Residency Program, Jefferson Health – Abington

Medical Director and Host, Neil Skolnik, MD, is an academic family physician who sees patients and teaches residents and medical students as professor of Family and Community Medicine at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University and Associate Director, Family Medicine Residency Program at Abington Jefferson Health in Pennsylvania. Dr. Skolnik graduated from Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, and did his residency training at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA. 

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