PPMC Prostate Tumor Board

Academic Year 2014-2015

03/03/2015

12 PM -1PM

Flyers Conference Room 249

Wright Sanders Building

Arthur Feldman, MD., Moderator

Target Audience

This program has been designed for departmental/institutional faculty, community physicians, fellows, residents, medical students, nurses, allied health professionals, QA/CEQI personnel, administrators, clinical trial coordinators, social work, and nurse practitioners in the medical specialties of hematology/oncology, radiation/oncology, primary care, surgical oncology, urology, pathology, and radiology.

Educational Objectives

After completing this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Improve knowledge in staging and treatment of prostate cancer
  • Increase adherence to NCCN guidelines to improve standardization of care and decrease variability
  • Discuss recent advances in treatment to improve patient care and health outcomes

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

Sophia Fokas-Kligos, CRNP

215-662-9801

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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 & Presenter Name

Arthur Feldman, MD / Gamil Hanna, MD / Sophia Fokas-Kligos, CRNP

Presenter Name

Evan Alley, MD, PhD / Christina Bach / Justin Bekelman, MD / John Christodouleas
Curtiland Deville, MD / Joseph Harryhill, MD / Bo Jian / David Lee, MD
Htun Min, MD / Harvey Nisenbaum, MD / Neha Vapiwala

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