Provided by:
Hemodialysis Access Conference
Academic Year 2014-2015
PPMC Cases
Thursday, December 18, 2014
7:00am – 8:00am
Radiology Conference Room
4 Wright-Saunders
Timothy W.I. Clark, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Radiology
University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
Target Audience
This program has been designed for departmental/institutional faculty, fellows, residents, medical students, allied health
professionals and access coordinators in the medical specialties of nephrology, surgery, interventional radiology.
Educational Objectives
After completing this activity, participants should be able to:
 Review newly published and emerging literature concerning the utility of stent-grafts in the hemodialysis
access population

Describe the settings in which surgical management of aneurysm is preferable to outflow angioplasty

Identify patients who may benefit from catheters as opposed to fistulas or grafts

List 2 reasons why the use of stent-grafts for aneurysm is detrimental
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
Mary O’Dea
215-615-3540
Mary.odea@uphs.upenn.edu
Check your CME online at www.penncmeonline.com
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 CME and the peer reviewer Zalman Agus, MD, Associate Dean for CME, 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 & PRESENTER NAME
RAPHAEL COHEN, MD
SIDNEY KOBRIN, MD
JONAS REDMOND, MD
BENJAMIN JACKSON, MD
MARK MANTELL, MD
PRESENTER NAME
MANDEEP DAGLI, MD
MICAH WATTS, MD
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 INTEREST
RELATIONSHIP
SCOTT O. TREROTOLA, MD
COOK, ARROW/TELEFLEX
ROYALTY
ARROW/TELEFLEX, B. BRAUN, MEDCOMP, BARD PV, WL GORE, COOK, ORBIMED CONSULTANT
VASCULAR PATHWAYS
GRANT
PRESENTER NAME
NAME OF COMMERCIAL INTEREST
RELATIONSHIP
TIMOTHY CLARK, MD
MERIT MEDICAL & TELEFLEX
BARD
TERUMO
GRIFOLS
Siemens AX, Inc
ROYALTIES
CONSULTANT
CONSULTANT
CONSULTANT
Advisory Board
JEFFREY MONDSCHEIN, MD
RICHARD SHLANSKY-GOLDBERG, MD
Anne Marie Cahill, MD
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 NAME
PRODUCT
INVESTIGATIONAL AND/OR OFF-LABEL USE
Timothy Clark, MD
venous stenting
stents (multiple vendors)