Date and Time of Activity
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
1:00 pm EDT/ 12 Noon pm CDT/ 11:00 am MDT/ 10:00 am PDT
Pharmacy professionals play a crucial role in identifying and managing adrenal health. Adrenal fatigue, often overlooked, exists on a continuum from normal function to complete adrenal failure, such as Addison’s disease. Many patients fall within this interval and suffer from symptoms that can be easily missed or misunderstood.
Activity Description:
In this webinar, we will review simple but important signs of adrenal insufficiency and explore the major hormones involved, including adrenaline, hydrocortisone, and progesterone. Our goal is to provide practical tools to help you identify and manage patients with adrenal dysfunction, strengthening the patient-practitioner relationship and improving long-term outcomes.
At the completion of this activity, the participant will be able to:
- Identify three common signs of adrenal insufficiency.
- Discuss the role of progesterone and other adrenal hormones in maintaining balance.
- Define adrenaline dominance and its impact on adrenal health.
The American College of Apothecaries (ACA) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. ACA has accredited this knowledge-based program for 1.0 contact hour (0.1 CEUs) of continuing education credit for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.
Speaker:
Carol Petersen, RPh, CNP, FACA, is an accomplished compounding pharmacist with decades of experience helping patients improve their quality of life through bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy and is a Certified Nutritional Practitioner. Her passion to optimize health and commitment to compounding is evident in her involvement with organizations including the International College of Integrated Medicine and the American College of Apothecaries, the Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M), American Pharmacists Association and the Alliance for Pharmacy Compounding. Carol was the founder and first chair for the Compounding Special Interest Group with the American Pharmacists Association. Carol chairs the Integrated Medicine Consortium, an umbrella group for complementary medicine organizations, and cohosts a radio program “Take Charge of your Health” in the greater New York area. In addition to serving on the Medical Advisory Boards for the Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research (CeMCOR.ca) and the Institute for Bioidentical Medicine (IOBIM.org), Carol writes and edits for A4M’s website www.worldhealth.net and is a coproducer of “Immortality Now” podcasts and serves forum.worldhealth.net as an executive editor. Her website is: www.thewellnessbydesignproject.com.
