Provided by:
PPMC Penn Cardiology Clinical
Management & Morbidity and Mortality
Case Conference
Academic Year 2014-2015
PPMC Penn Cardiology Morbidity & Mortality Conference
March 26, 2015
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
Heart & Vascular Pavilion Building
Conference Room 106
William Groh, MD
University of Pennsylvania Health System
Penn Cardiology
Target Audience
This program has been designed for departmental/institutional faculty, fellows, residents, medical students, nurses,
allied health professionals, community physicians, and QA/CEQI personnel in the medical specialties of cardiology,
interventional cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, echocardiography, preventive cardiology, nuclear cardiology,
electrophysiology, heart failure, vascular medicine and endovascular therapy.
Educational Objectives
After completing this activity, participants should be able to:
 Identify major sources of morbidity and mortality in cardiovascular practice
 Review statistics of caseloads and complications for cardiovascular surgery and interventional cardiology at
PPMC and make recommendations to be forward to the QA committee for care
 Assess risk/benefit ratio for different management strategies in adult acquired heart disease
 Improve decisions affecting delivery of care to patients with a variety of disorders
 Describe standards of care in the field of cardiology and improve patient 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
Natalie Bleu
215-662-9645
Natalie.bleu@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
WILLIAM GROH, MD
PRESENTER NAME
ALAN ASKENASE, MD
TED BUTCHER, PA-C
DEB GIORDNO, CRNP
JOE DIMARTINO, NM
DOUGLAS JACOBY, MD
FERN KAUFMAN, CRNP
WILLIAM MATTHAI, MD THOMAS MICKLER, MD
DAVID SCHWARTZ, MD
GINA TERRANOVA, RN
ROSS ZIMMER, MD
JIGNESH BHAVSAR, MD
JEANNE FOX, CRNP
NEIL LEVIN, MD
DEBRA PRIORE, PA-C
ARTHUR TOPOULOS, MD
GENE CHANG, MD
MARC GOLDENBERG, MD
ROBERT LI, MD
JESSE RAITEN, MD
HARVEY WAXMAN, MD
CHRISTINE GASPERETTI, MD
JACOB GUTSCHE, MD
JOSHUA LIEZ, MD
CARL REYNOLDS, MD
RICHARD WEISS, MD
The following individuals have reported the listed relevant financial relationships with commercial interests related to
the content of this educational activity.
PRESENTER NAME
NAME OF COMMERCIAL INTEREST
RELATIONSHIP
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
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