HIV, Inflammation and Cardiovascular Disease
May 25, 2011 12:00 PM
Pricilla Hsue, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine,
Division of Cardiology
University of California, San Francisco
School of Medicine
San Francisco, California
Target Audience
This program has been designed for HIV specialists, Infectious Disease specialists, Internal Medicine specialists, Family Practice physicians, Dermatologists, Ostio-specialists, Nephrologists, Hematology/oncologist, Psychiatrists, Public Health professionals, OB/GYN physicians and other clinicians interested and involved in the care of patients with HIV/AIDS.
General Goals and Learning Objectives for Series
After completing this activity, participants should be able to:
· List the important factors that play a role in ARV therapy success;
· Explain the role that drug adverse events, drug pharmacokinetics and patient adherence play in achieving ARV success and avoiding morbidity and mortality;
· Describe the important opportunistic infections and co-morbidities that may affect HIV-positive patients and increase their risk for morbidity and mortality;
· Discuss the importance of individualizing the care of each HIV-positive patient.
Accreditation
The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation of Credit
The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Acknowledgement of Commercial Support
Supported by educational grants from: Gilead Sciences and Tibotec Therapeutics
Obtaining CME Credit
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Tracey Barrett
856-506-5790
Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships and Unapproved Uses of Products
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The intent of this policy is not to prevent expert faculty with relevant relationship(s) with commercial interest(s) from involvement in CME, but rather to ensure that Penn CME-certified activities promote quality and safety, are effective in improving medical practice, are based on valid content, and are independent of control from commercial interests and free of commercial bias. Peer review of all content was conducted for all faculty presentations whose disclosure information provided to the Penn Office of CME was found to contain relationships that created a conflict of interest relative to the topic of their presentation. In addition, all faculty were instructed to provide balanced, scientifically rigorous and evidence-based presentations.
The staff in the Office of CME at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (Rodman Campbell, Mila Kostic, Belinda Rose, and Mindy Pollock Troy), our educational partner ViralEd, LLC (Tracey Barrett, RN, BSN, Brian Boyle, MD, JDand Ed Hettman), and the peer reviewer, Zalman Agus, MD, Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education, have reported that they have no relevant financial relationships with any commercial interests related to the content of this educational activity.
The following individuals have disclosed that they have no relevant financial relationships with any commercial interests related to the content of this educational activity:
Faculty Name
John Bartlett, MD
The following individuals have reported the listed relevant financial relationships with commercial interests related to the content of this educational activity.
Faculty Name Name of Commercial Interest Relationship
Calvin Cohen, MD Gilead; Bristol-Myers Squibb: Merck & Co.; Tibotec; ViiV Contracted Research
Gilead; Bristol-Myers Squibb; Merck & Co.; Tibotec; Abbott Consulting Fees
Gilead; Bristol-Myers Squibb; Merck & Co.; Tibotec Speakers Bureaus
Ian Frank, MD GlaxoSmithKline, Merck & Co. Contracted Research
Gilead, Tibotec Consulting Fees
Gilead, Tibtec (both ceased Sept. 2010) Speakers Bureaus
Priscilla Hsue, MD Gilead; Bristol-Myers Squibb Speakers Bureaus
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Disclosure of Unapproved Uses of Products
This educational activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. ViralEd, LLC, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Gilead Sciences and Tibotec Therapeutics do not recommend the use of any agent outside of the labeled indications.
The opinions expressed in the educational activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily represent the views of ViralEd, LLC, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Gilead Sciences and Tibotec Therapeutics. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications and warnings.