Epilepsy Case Conference

12/15/2016

4-5 pm

Radiology Auditorium, Donner Building

Michael Gelfand, MD, PhD; Arun Swaminathan, MD

HUP

Target Audience

This program has been designed for physicians, fellows, residents, physician assistants, medical students, professional nurses, advanced practice nurses, psychologists, and case workers in the medical specialties of internal medicine, neurology, epilepsy, radiology, surgery and neurosurgery.

Series Educational Objectives

After completing this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Review the best evidence available in support of the resective surgical option
  • Review the best evidence available in support of non-resective surgical procedures
  • Assess the medication therapy of patients and develop an alternate plan where safety, cost and efficacy support a change using a team-based approach
  • Set up evidence based management of a patient with intractable epilepsy
  • Review the best evidence available in support of the surgical option and specific procedures

Accreditation

Physicians: 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.

Nurses: Penn Medicine Nursing is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Approval # 124-3-H-15

Designation of Credit

Physicians: 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.

Nurses: Nurse participants will be awarded 1.0 contact hour.

Approved for (PSRM) patient safety/risk management designation

Acknowledgement of Commercial Support* NONE

For more information, please contact

Ruth Krieger

215-746-4850

Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships and Unapproved Uses of Products

It is policy at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Nursing Education, Innovation and Professional Developmentfor 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 provide products or services that may be relevant to the content of this continuing education activity. For this purpose we consider relationships of the person involved to include financial relationships of a spouse or partner.

The intent of this policy is to ensure that Penn CME/CNE 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 was found to contain relationships that created a conflict of interest relevant 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, CHCP, FACEHP, Director of CME,Zalman Agus, MD, Senior peer reviewer and Patricia A. Smith, DNP, RN-BC, Nursing professional development specialist of the HUP Department of Nursing Innovation and Development 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 & Presenter Name

Brian Litt, MD / John Pollard, MD / Michael Gelfand, MD
Timothy Lucas, MD, PhD / Daniel Becker, MD / Phyllis Dubendorf, MSN
Presenter Name
Dallas Armstrong, MD
Po-Hao Chen, MD / Linda Bagley, MD
Yin Jie Chen, MD / Leah Blank, MD
Robert Clancy, MD / Lawrence W. Brown, MD
Marissa Di Giovine, MD
Dennis Dlugos, MD / Jacob Dubroff, MD, PhD / Colin Ellis, MD / Mark Fitzgerald, MD
Thomas Flynn, PhD / Lawrence Fried, MD / France Fung, MD / Chloe Hill, MD
Ammar Kheder, MD / Sudha Kessler, mD / Kuei-Cheng Lim, MDPhD / Shavonne Massey, MD
Emily McGinnis, MD / Fadi Mikhail, MD / Philipose Mulugeta, MD / Austin Pantel, MD
Darshan Patel, MD / Erin Simon Schwartz, MD / Douglas Smith, MD / Joel Stein, MD, PhD
Arun Swaminathan, MD / Katherine Taub, MD / Arastoo Vossough, MD / Diana Walleigh, MD
Shawniqua Williams, MD

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

Planning Committee & Presenter NameName of Commercial InterestRelationship

Kathryn Davis, MDLundenbeck & SunovianAdvisory Board

Presenter NameName of Commercial InterestRelationship

Nicholas Abend, MDPfizerInstitution Research

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

Disclosue of Unapproved Uses of Products

Presenter nameProductInvestigational and/or Off-label Use

Dennis Dlugos, MDvarious antiepileptic drugs used off label in pediatric patients