Lancaster Penn MCS Conference
3/22/17
12:00pm-1:00pm
Perelman Center-2nd Floor East Conference Room
Moderator: Dr. Joyce Wald
Target Audience
This program has been designed for physicians, fellows, residents, medical students, physician assistants, pharmacists, QI professionals, respiratory therapists, professional nurses, advanced practice nurses, nursing students, psychologists, physical therapists, administrators, researchers, social workers, case workers and perfusionists in internal medicine, cardiology & cardiothoracic surgery
Series Educational Objectives
After completing this activity, participants should be able to:
· Improve patient care by sharing clinical expertise and knowledge in advanced heart failure care
· Identify patients who are appropriate for advanced therapies
· Engage in ongoing review of records and root cause analysis to reduce errors and improve practice
· Present overview of medical literature related to specific practice-based guidelines
· Improve communication between physicians, nurses and staff to improve overall patient care
· Improve knowledge of ongoing clinical trials in MCA and advanced heart failure
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
Renee Williams
215-662-2807
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, DNP, 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
Eduardo Rame, MD / Christyna Justice, RN, BSN / Sanjay Doddamani, MDPresenter Name
Michael acker, MD / Alyse Ameer / Bertrand Benn, MD / Christian BermudesErin Berstler / Sarah Blair Smith / James Burke, MD / Lindsay Castle
Charlotte Collins, PhD / Jeff Cope, MD / Barbara Ebert, NP / Jon Echterling, CRNP
Jennifer Edwards / Mark Etter, MD / Donna M. Fiorini / Janine Gerringer, NP
Debbie Gordon / Kimberly Hart / Eugenia Hopkins, PA-C / Nicole Hornsby, CRNP
Kara Hovatter / Anthony Kayser / Cynthia Kline, CRNP / Kelly Laino, CRNP
Rhondalyn McLean, MD / Timothy Misselbeck, MD / Tess Moran / Alison Mowery, DNP
Kathleen Nissley, CRNP / Tareck Nossuli / Anjali Owens, MD / Emily Phillips
Nathan Sanzrs / Depack Singh, MD / Roy Small, MD / Claudia Smith
Amit Varma / Alex Zimmerman
The following individuals have reported the listed relevant financial relationships with commercial interests related to the content of this educational activity.
Planning Committee & Presenter Name Name of Commercial Interest Relationship
Joyce Wald, DO Medtronic Advisor
Justin Roberts, DO St. Jude & Medtonic Speaker
Gilead & Banjev Advisory Board
Kenneth Margulies, MD Thoratec Corp Research
Lee Goldberg, MD Medtronic, St. Jude Consultant
Presenter Name Name of Commercial Interest Relationship
Pavan Atluri, MD Sunshine Heart Consultant
Heartware Speaker
Lisa Rathman, MSN, CRNP St. Jude, Medtronic Advisory Board/Speaker
Novartis, Stealth Biopharma Advisory Board
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
Eduardo J. Rame, MD Heartware HVAD Destination Therapy
PHP cardiogenic shock