Chester County Hospital and Health System
Cancer Conference
June 5, 2013
12 Noon- 1 PM
Mira Room
Dennis Berman, MD
Pam Demnicki, MD
Donald Andersen, MD
Target Audience
This program has been designed for departmental/institutional faculty, community physicians, residents, medical students, other health sciences students, nurses, allied health professionals, QI/CEQI personnel, and administrators in the medical specialties of medical oncology, radiation oncology, surgical oncology, radiology and pathology.
Educational Objectives
After completing this activity, participants should be able to:
- Enhance knowledge and treatment capabilities which will prevent the need for patient outmigration
- Increase skills of multidisciplinary team to develop a survivorship plans and improve continuity of care for cancer survivors
- Increase skills of oncology program team members in the practice of preventive medicine including the use of preventative reminders
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
Theresa Schweikert, CTR
610-431-5176
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
Scott Saul, MD / Dennis Berman, MD / Theresa Schweikert, CTRMary Lou Lafreniere, MBA, RHIA, CPHQ / Marianne Casale, RN, MSN, CS, AOCN / Judy Suska, MBA, FHFMA
Presenter Name
William Barry, MD / Reina Bender, MD / Phil Bergey, MD / David Bobman, MD / Won Chang,MDPamela Demnicki,MD / Steven Fukuchi, MD / Memhet Goral,MD / James I. Heald, MD / Maureen Hewitt,MD
Liza Jodry, MD / Robert Krisch, MD / Alex Kuryan, MD / David Neiblum, MD / Groegory Ochsner, MD
Sunil Saroha, MD / Scott Saul, MD / Ann Marie Siegal,MD / Richard Yelovich, MD / Michele Tedeschi, MD
Alexander Keszeli, DO
Donelle Rhoads, MD
Kenneth Fitzpatrick, MD
Catherine Plzak, MD
Bernard Greenberg, MD
Brian P Priest, MD / Adam Mariotti, MD
George Trajtenberg, MD
William Merriam, MD
Matthew Baichi, MD
Dennis Berman, MD
Molly Stumacher, MD / Alfred Mauriello, MD
Nestor Veitia, MD
IIene Wong, MD
William Luginbuhl, MD
David Grossman, MD
Kenneth Witterholt, MF / Michael Picariello, MD
Donald Andersen, MD
Pamela Scott, MD
James Patterson, MD
Cheryl Johnson, MD
Carrie Miller, MD / Lisa Pinherio, MD
Kenneth Collins, MD
Waleed Shalaby, MD
Calvin Lu, MD
Michael Costello, 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
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