Breast Cancer Case Conference

January 7, 2014

7:30am to 8:30am

Suite 211 Conference Room, Kennedy Cancer Center

Eduardo Careaga, MD Breast Surgeon Kennedy Health Alliance

900 Medical Center Drive, Suite 201, Sewell, NJ

Trina Poretta, DO, Medical Oncology, Comprehensive Cancer & Hematology Specialists, P.C.,

900 Medical Center Drive, Suite 200, Sewell, NJ

Carolyn Horowitz, PhD, MD, Penn Radiation at Kennedy University Hospital

900 Medical Center Drive, Suite 100, Sewell, NJ

Joseph DeLaurentis, MD, Radiology, Kennedy University Hospital

Jun Liu, MD, Pathology, Kennedy University Hospital

Target Audience

This program has been designed for departmental/institutional faculty, community physicians, fellows, residents, medical students, nurses, allied health professionals, oncology social work, cancer registry in the medical specialties of surgery, medical oncology, radiation oncology, pathology, radiology, internal medicine, pulmonary, and gastroenterology.

Educational Objectives

After completing this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Coordinate treatment between surgical and medical oncologic specialists for best outcomes
  • Apply most current diagnostic tests to obtain results which assure the proper final diagnosis attained and the best treatment strategy planned
  • Properly stage patients with cancer and follow the appropriate NCCN treatment guidelines for best patient care management

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

Bill Klinepeter, CTR

856-218-5236

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 Name

Carolyn Horowitz, PhD, MD / Trina Poretta, DO / Eduardo Careaga, MD
Lori DePersia, MD / Janusz Godyn, MD / Linda Szczurek, DO

Presenter Name

Locke Barber / Gordon Brown, DO / Eduardo Careaga, MD / Joseph DeLaurentis / Lori Depersia
Adeshola Fakulujo / john Glassburn / Mylene Go, MD / James Haney, MD / Carolyn Horowitz, MD
Noah Lindenberg, MD / Jun Liu, mD, PhD / Anil Nair / Dr. Neff / Andriy Pavlenko, MD
Trina Poretta, DO / Dashan Roy / Rebecca Sahlman, MD / Andrew Shaer, MD / Alan Shienbaum, DO
Linda Szczurek, DO / Joseph Torres, 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

Thomas J. Mueller, MDAbbvieSpeaker Honorarium

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: NONE