Perelman Center, 1 South Conference Room

Perelman Center, 1 South Conference Room

Osteoporosis

11-22-16

8:00am-9:00am

Perelman Center, 1 South Conference Room

Dr. Anupama Shahane

Target Audience

This program has been designed for physicians, fellows, residents, medical students, physician assistants, medical assistants, professional nurses, advanced practice nurses, nursing students, licensed practical nursesin the medical specialties of internal medicine, subspecialty of rheumatology.

Series Educational Objectives

After completing this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Improve knowledge base regarding the manifestations and management of rheumatic diseases
  • Develop the skills to assess and differentiate manifestations of rheumatic diseases and rheumatologic emergencies from issues outside the scope of rheumatology
  • Review and incorporate into clinical practice uniform processes from communication with providers and patients

Session Educational Objectives

After completing this activity, participants should be able to:

  • To increase awareness of osteoporosis among the general public so as to assist in the role of prevention as well as cure.
  • To assist and educate osteoporosis sufferers with falls prevention.

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.

Acknowledgement of Commercial Support* NONE

For more information, please contact

Jennifer Fisher

215-662-2792

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 Member Name

Sharon Kolasinski, MD / Steffan Schulz, MD
Colleen Yoachum, BSN / Sheilagh McCauley, NP

Presenter Name

Anupama Shahane

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 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