Overview of Interventional Pulmonology

11/29/2016

12:00pm-1:00pm

Zubrow Auditorium, Pennsylvania Hospital

Andrew Haas, MD PhD

Director, Clinical Operations, Section of Interventional Pulmonology and Thoracic Oncology

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Target Audience

This program has been designed for physicians, residents and medical students in the medical specialties of internal medicine and all subspecialties.

Series Educational Objectives

After completing this activity, participants should be able to:

·  Possess knowledge of the current state-of-the-art in other subspecialty fields and general medicine

·  Provide care for common conditions incorporating the current understanding of disease concepts and therapies

·  Possess increased awareness of the contribution of multimorbidity to health care deliver and cost

·  Better coordinate with colleagues

·  Possess knowledge of current guidelines for common medical conditions

·  Review the reasoning behind the guidelines and possibly barriers in their implementation

·  Use guidelines to help direct care for patients

Session Educational Objectives

After completing this activity, participants should be able to:

·  To describe the diagnostic approach to an abnormal chest CT scan

·  To discuss the various therapeutic approaches to managing malignant pleural effusions

·  To learn new novel and emerging treatments for COPD and asthma

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.

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.

Acknowledgement of Commercial Support* NONE

For more information, please contact

Joy Robinson

215-829-3309

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 Development 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 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, MSN, RN-BC, Nursing professional development specialist of the HUP Department of Nursing Innovation and Development have disclosed that they have no relevant 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

Michael Braffman, MD / Waasil Kareem, MD / Trisha Sterlicchi, DO
David Henry, MD / Leigh Kennedy, DO / Dennis Policastro, MD

Presenter Name

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

Presenter Name Name of Commercial Interest Relationship

Andrew Haas, MD PhD Olympus America Consultant

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 name Product Investigational and/or Off-label Use