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Target Audience
This program has been designed for cardiologists, CT surgeons, radiologists specializing in cardiovascular imaging, internists, clinical and basic scientists in medicine, biology, genetics, biomedical engineering, pharmacology, physiology and other specialties, PHDs and PhD candidates, cardiology and CT surgery fellows, medicine and surgery housestaff
Educational Objectives
After completing this activity, participants should be able to:
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Describe evidence supporting the latest treatment for cardiac conditions (i.e., interventional procedures such as cardiac catheterization, cardiac biopsies, electrophysiologic studies), noninvasive cardiac procedures and clinical cardiology therapy
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Review experimental data from translational and clinical studies with the potential to influence practice
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Assess the results of clinical trials from a regional and national view
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Assess patient care through discussing medical errors, complications and unanticipated outcomes
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Gain practice-based learning and improvement through reviewing records, specifics and revisiting errors to gain insight without blame or derision
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Recognize the importance of systems-based practice that explicitly depict the larger context and system health care by stressing the importance of collaborative efforts involving physicians and ancillary staff for safety and quality improvements
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
Denice Susini
215-662-3140 denice.susini@uphs.upenn.edu

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 and the peer reviewer(s) 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:
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J OSEPH C ARVER , MD
I RVING H ERLING , MD
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The following individuals have reported the listed relevant financial relationships with commercial interests related to the content of this educational activity.
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Michael S. Parmacek, MD
Lee Goldberg, MD
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Thomas Force, MD
Phillip Lyttle LLC
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Cardiac Concepts & Alere Medical
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GlaxoSmithKline
Ambit Biosciences
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Scientific Advisor
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PI, Consultant
Consultant
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
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