Lehigh- Penn MCS teleconference-9/11/14

12PM-1PM

Perelman Center-2nd Floor East Conference Room

Moderator: Dr. Joyce Wald

Target Audience

This program has been designed for departmental/institutional faculty, community physicians fellows, residents, medical students, nurses, allied health professionals, QA/CEQI personnel, administrators, clinical trial coordinators, social work, and nurse practitioners in the medical specialties of hematology/oncology, radiation/oncology, primary care, surgical oncology, pathology, radiology, surgical subspecialties, and medical subspecialties

Educational Objectives

After completing this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Improve patient care by sharing clinical expertise and knowledge in advanced heart failure care
  • Identify patients who are appropriate for advanced therapies
  • Engage in ongoing review of records and root cause analysis to reduce errors and improve practice
  • Present overview of medical literature related to specific practice-based guidelines
  • Improve communication between physicians, nurses and staff to improve overall patient care

Accreditation

The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Designation of Credit

The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania 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*

NONE

For more information, please contact

Christie Gulla

215-662-2807

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Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships and Unapproved Uses of Products

It is policy at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania for individuals who are in a position to control the content of an educational activity to disclose to the learners all relevant financial relationships that they have with any commercial interest that provides products or services that may be relevant to the content of this continuing medical education activity. For this purpose we consider relationships of the person involved in the CME activity to include financial relationships of a spouse or partner.

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 Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Mila Kostic, Director of CMEandthe peer reviewerZalman Agus, MD, Associate Dean for CME, have disclosed that they have norelevant 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:

Planning Committee Member And Presenter Name

Joyce Wald, MD / James Kirkpatrick, MD / Eduardo Rame, MD / Sanjay Doddamani, MD
Neuman Islam, MD / Timothy MIsselbeck, MD / Depack Sing, MD / Lisa Rothman, NP
Roy Small, MD / Anjali Owens, MD / Anjali Vaidya, MD / Rhondalyn McLean, MD
Meriam Aberra / Janine Gerringer, NP

Presenter Name

The following individuals have reported the listed relevant financial relationships with commercial interests related to the content of this educational activity.

Planning Committee Member And Presenter NameName of Commercial InterestRelationship

Kenneth Margulies, MDJuventis Therapeutics, Celladon, CorpClinical Research

Thoratec Corp, Innolign Biomedical, LLCClinical Research

Novo Nordis, Inc, Astra Zeneca, IncAdvisory Board

Merck, Inc., Pfizer, Inc.Speaker Honorarium

Lee Goldberg, MDMedtronic, Thoratec, Boston ScientificHonorarium

Barbara Ebert, RN, MSN, CCRN, CRNPThoratecSpeaker & Advisor

Presenter NameName of Commercial InterestRelationship

Relevant Financial Relationships: Financial relationships are those relationships in which the individual benefits by receiving a salary, royalty, intellectual property rights, consulting fee, honoraria, ownership interest (e.g., stocks, stock options or other ownership interest, excluding diversified mutual funds), or other financial benefit. Financial benefits are usually associated with roles such as employment, management position, independent contractor (including contracted research), consulting, speaking and teaching, membership on advisory committees or review panels, board membership, and other activities from which remuneration is received or expected

Disclosure of Unapproved Uses of Products

Presenter nameProductInvestigational and/or Off-label Use

Kenneth Margulies, MDMechanical Circulatory Assist DevicesBridge to Recovery

Eduardo Rame, MDHeartwave HVADInvestigational use for Destination Therapy