Clinical Case Management Conference
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
7:30a.m. – 8:30a.m.
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
Heart & Vascular Pavilion Building
Conference room 102
Carl Reynolds, M.D.
Penn Cardiology
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
Target Audience
This program has been designed for physicians, fellows, residents, medical students, physician assistants, professional nurses, advanced practice nurses, nursing students, social workers, and case workersin the specialty of cardiology.
Series Educational Objectives
After completing this activity, participants should be able to:
- Review statistics of caseloads and complications for cardiovascular surgery and interventional cardiology at PPMC and make recommendations to be forwarded to the QA committee for care
- Assess risks and benefit ratio for different management strategies in adult acquired heart disease
- Improve decisions affecting delivery of care to patients with a variety of disorders
- Describe standards of care in the field of cardiology and improve patient outcomes
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.
PAs: AAPA accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by ACCME or a recognized state medical society. PAs may receive a maximum of 1 Category 1 credits for completing this activity.
Approved for (PSRM) patient safety/risk management designation
Acknowledgement of Commercial Support* NONE
For more information, please contact
Natalie Bleu
215-662-9645
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 reviewerand 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
Carl Reynolds, MD / Gene Chang, MD / Fern Kaufman, CRNPHarvey Waxman, MD / Alan Askenase, MD / Neil Levin,MD
Marc Goldenberg, MD / William Matthai, MD
Presenter Name
Patti Baroni, MD / Betsy Benedik, CRNP / Jignesh Bhavsar, MD / Rochelle Brown, RN / John Bullinga, MDMaria Carpenter, RN / Helen Chavar / Stephen Chrzanowski, MD / Theodhor Diamanti, MD / Patricia DiVito,RN
Brian Drachman, MD / Benjamin D’Souza, MD / Brian Drachman, MD / Norman Feinsmith, MD / Kelly Fisher, CRNP
Craig Frankil, MD / Jacob Gutsche, MD / Douglas Jacoby, MD / Della Jarrett, CRNP / Fern Kaufman, CRNP
Sameer Khandhar, MD / Charles Leng, MD / Neil Levin, MD / Robert Li, MD / Joshua Liez, MD
Manish Malik, MD / Karen Maslowski, RN / Hansie Mathelier, MD / Alan Moak, MD / Aliyia Patterson, RN
Catherine Price, CRNP / Carl Reynolds, MD / Mikel Rodgers, RN / David Schwartz, MD / Mary Sears, RN
Jennifer Seneca, CRNP / Margaret Shanks, CRNP / Laura Solano, RN / Arthur Topoulos, MD / Gary Vigilante, MD
Richard Weiss, MD / Ross Zimmer, MD
The following individuals have reported the listed relevant financial relationships with commercial interests related to the content of this educational activity.
Presenter NameName of Commercial InterestRelationship
Robert Fenning, MDNovartis, PenumbraStock/Shareholder
Christopher Sipala, CRNPBoston ScientificClinical Specialist
Relevant 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: NONE