TAVR Case Conference
10/23/2017
7:00-9:00 am
6 Silverstein Conference room
David Jones, NP and Jeremy Jordan, NP, Julie Pitts, NP
HUP
Target Audience
This program has been designed for physicians, fellows, residents, physician assistants, professional nurses, advanced practice nurses, administrators, and researchers in internal medicine, cardiovascular medicine and in surgical specialties, cardiothoracic surgery.
Series Educational Objectives
After participating in this regularly scheduled series, participants should be able to:
- Develop a comprehensive risk index that can better identify patients diagnosed with aortic stenosis
- Define valvular disease including but not limited to aortic stenosis, aortic insufficiency, mitral regurgitation
- Define stages of heart failure as described by the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association
- Define access routes associated to transcatheter valve replacements
- Describe the risks and benefits associated with transcatheter valve surgery
- Describe in detail the diagnostics necessary to assess for transcatheter valve surgery candidacy
- Appropriately identify patient candidacy for transcatheter valve replacement
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 2 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 2.0 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 2 Category 1 credits for completing this activity.
Approved for (PSRM) patient safety/risk management designation
Acknowledgement of Commercial Support* NONEFor more information, please contact
Rosa Pinkney
215-662-4364
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 & Presenter Name
Pavan Atluri, MD / Jeremy Jordan, CRNP / Wilson Szeto, MD / Prashanth Vallabhajosyula MDPresenter Name
Julie PItts
The following individuals have reported the listed relevant financial relationships with commercial interests related to the content of this educational activity.
Planning Committee & Presenter NameName of Commercial InterestRelationship
Saif Anwarrudin, MDMerck, Edwards LifesciencesSpeaker/Proctor
Joseph Bavaria, MDEdwards Lifesciences, Medtronic, Abbott, St. JudePI
Nimesh Desai, MD, PhDEdwards Lifesciences, Medtronic, St. JudeSpeaker/Proctor
Jay Giri, MDSt. Jude Medical PI
Howard Hermann, MDAbbott, Edwards, Boston Scientific, St Jude, MedtronicResearch Funding
Edwards Life ScienceConsultant
David Brian Jones, NPEdwards LifesciencesSpeaker/Consultant
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