Activity Objectives & CME Credit Information
Activity Objectives
- Identify patients appropriate for home modality and develop strategies to mitigate any barriers identified (All attendees).
- Recognize catheter malfunction issues and make appropriate and timely referrals (PD Nurses, Renal Case Managers, Surgeons, Nephrologists, and Interventional Radiologists).
- Describe the clinical benefits of peritoneal dialysis and home hemodialysis to patients resulting in increased utilization of the therapies (Nephrologists and Renal Case Managers).
CME Credit TPMG Physician Education and Development is accredited by the Institute for Medical Quality/California Medical Association (IMQ/CMA) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Planning Committee TPMG Physician Education and Development designates this live activity for 5.0 hours of AMA
PRA Category 1 credit(s) TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure
Joanne M. Bargman, MD, FRCPC has disclosed that she has served as a consultant for Amgen Inc., Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc., Rockwell Scientific Company LLC, and Baxter Global and received honoraria from DaVita Healthcare Partners, Fresenius Medical Care, Baxter Canada, and Janssen Inc. Ortho Canada.
Allan J. Collins, MD, FACP disclosed that he serves as a current full-time employee of NxStage Medical, Inc. and served as a consultant for Fibrogen, Inc.
Brent W. Miller, MD has disclosed that he has received consulting fees from Fresenius Kidney Care.
Leslie Wong, MD, MBA has disclosed that he served as a consultant for Fresenius Medical Therapies and Baxter Healthcare.
TPMG Physician Education and Development, along with the program planners, have determined through slide review that Drs. Bargman, Miller, and Wong’s presentations are balanced and pose no potential COI with their participation in this activity. The session for Dr. Collins is not certified as CME and is ineligible for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.
All other speakers and the planning committee members for this activity do not have affiliations with any corporate organizations that may constitute a conflict of interest with the content of this activity. TPMG does not endorse any brand name products.
CME Credit and Certificates
Completion of the post-activity online survey will enable you to print your CME certificates of attendance. The survey link will be provided to attendees post conference.
Nurses/CEU Credit
Nurses may report up
to 5.0 hours AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s)
TM towards the
continuing medical education requirements for license renewal by the California
Board of Registered Nurses.
Certificate of attendance will be available on the TPMG Physician Education and Development website after completion of the post-activity online survey. It will be up to individual attendees to report applicable hours of attendance to their respective boards. TPMG Physician Education and Development is not a BRN provider. However, you may report your hours for this course by indicating "CME" on your license renewal application (in the space where BRN Number is requested).
Neelam Bhalla, MD - Chief of Medicine, Nephrology/GSAA - Hayward**
Joanna Mroz, MPH - TPMG Regional Director, Renal Services - Region**
Jong-Ping Lu, MD - General Surgery - Santa Clara**
Tracy Jonelis, MD - Chair of Chiefs Nephrology, Nephrology - San Francisco
Karen Mariano, MPH, CHES® - Professional Development Consultant, TPMG Physician Education & Development - Region
**Planning Committee members who are also serving as activity faculty.
Faculty
Joanne Bargman, MD, FRCPC - University Health Network and Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto
Christopher Chan, MD, FRCPC - Director -Division of Nephrology, Professor of Medicine - University Health Network
Allan Collins, MD, FACP - Director, Chronic Disease Research Group
Brent Miller, MD - Professor of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine
Leslie Wong, MD - Nephrology - Cleveland Clinic
