Review of AAPS Talks

March 16, 2017

7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.

Conference Room, 14th Floor South Tower

Perelman Center

Joshua Fosnot, MD – Moderator

Michael Tecce, Martin Carney, Jason Weissler, Michael Mirzabeigi

Division of Plastic Surgery

14thFloor, South Tower, Perelman Center

Target Audience

This program has been designed for physicians, fellows, residents, medical students, physician assistants, professional nurses, advanced practice nursesin the medical specialties of plastic surgery.

Series Educational Objectives

After completing this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Discuss recent publications in the plastic surgery literature to demonstrate understanding of the surgical research process in order to foster successful practices of our own clinical staff
  • Describe current and new trends and therapeutic modalities in plastic surgery today
  • Review principles of plastic surgery based on evidence-based research and clinical experience and advanced research findings with the aim of improving clinical care and outcomes

Session Educational Objectives

After completing this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Objective 1– Describe the talks that will be presented at AAPS
  • Objective 2 – Explain the literature that is included in the talks

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.

Acknowledgement of Commercial Support* NONE

For more information, please contact

Kris Gallagher

215-662-7659

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 MemberName

Joshua Fosnot, MD / Ines Lin, MD / Benjamin Chang, MD
Kris Gallagher, BA / Tiffani Della Polla, RN, BSN

Presenter Name

Joshua Fosnot, MD Jason Weissler

Martin CarneyMichael Mirzabeigi

Michael Tecce

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

Planning Committee member NameName of Commercial InterestRelationship

Stephen J. Kovach, MDDavol BardSpeaker

Presenter NameName of Commercial InterestRelationship

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

Presenter nameProductInvestigational and/or Off-label Use