Provided by:
Interprofessional Palliative Care
Education Series
Academic Year 2014-2015
Challenges of Ventricular Assist Device Use for Children with Neurodegenerative Diseases
June 2, 2015
8a-9a
Gates Conference Room Penn Tower 4th Floor
Eileen Rhee, MD
Pediatric Palliative Care Fellow
Target Audience
This program has been designed for departmental/institutional faculty, fellows, residents, medical students, other
health sciences students, nurses, allied health professionals, social work, and chaplains in the medical specialties of
internal medicine, geriatric medicine, palliative medicine, neurology, family medicine, psychiatry, anesthesia, and
oncology.
Series Educational Objectives
After completing this activity, participants should be able to:
 Improve skills in addressing the comprehensive needs of the veteran receiving hospice and palliative care
 Increase comfort in caring for patients and families that express spiritual and/or sexual issues related to their
care needs
 Practice a team based approach to providing complex patient centered palliative care and hospice care
Session Educational Objectives
After completing this activity, participants should be able to:
1. Summarize current indications, use, and outcomes of Ventricular Assist Device support in the pediatric
population.
2. Describe the use of mechanical support in patients with neurodegenerative disease.
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.
Nurses: Nurse participants will be awarded 1.0 contact hours. The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania,
Department of Nursing Education, Innovation and Professional Development is an approved provider of continuing
nursing education by the PA State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing
Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Social Workers: At the completion of the seminar series, Social Work Continuing Education credits will be offered by
Penn Medicine Social Work and Penn School of Social Policy and Practice.
Acknowledgement of Commercial Support*
NONE
For more information, please contact
Susan Kristiniak, DHA, MSN
267-317-5168
Susan.kristiniak@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 NAME
DEBORAH WAY, MD
SUSAN KRISTINIAK, DHA, MSN
SHARON MCDONNELL, MSW
MONIQUE NEAULT, CRNP
JEN HWANG, MD
DAVID CASARETT, MD
PRESENTER NAME
Eileen Rhee, MD
The following individuals have reported the listed relevant financial relationships with commercial interests related to
the content of this educational activity.
PRESENTER NAME
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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
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