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About the Program

• Program Overview
• Target Audience
• Commercial Support Acknowledgement
• Learning Objectives
• Course Directors
• Next Session and Participation Information
• Live Session Topics and Speakers
• Hardware/Software Notice
• Accreditation Statement/Credit
• Designation Statement
• Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest
• Discussion of Investigational and/or Off-label Use of Commercial Products and Devices
• Disclaimer

Program Overview

The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and ViralEd are proud to present this ground-breaking CME activity. Mirroring academic grand rounds programs, these CME-certified sessions combine traditional academic grand rounds with the innovation and convenience of telemedicine. The HIV Grand Rounds from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania is live webcast every Thursday at 12:00pm Eastern Time starting in October through June. All webcasts will be available for on-demand viewing immediately following the live broadcast. CME credit will be available for 24 hours following the start of each webcast.

Presentations cover the most important and current topics in HIV/AIDS and are delivered by the top experts in the field. They are designed to be immediately relevant to practicing HIV clinicians and many are case-based. The final 10 minutes of each one-hour educational activity consists of a live question and answer period, with the presenting faculty member available to answer questions asked by attendees using the webinar interface. These weekly grand rounds are intended to provide clinicians with convenient and easily accessible knowledge and clinical skills they need to provide the best medical care for their HIV-positive patients.

Each session may be broadcast via your Internet connection in your conference room or auditorium for large groups to view, or individually to your personal computer at your convenience. Simply register at www.viraled.com/hivgrandrounds for easy access. 

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Target Audience

This program has been designed for Family Medicine, Psychiatry, Public Health and General Preventive Medicine, Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine - Infectious Diseases, All Specialties.

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Commercial Support Acknowledgement

HIV Grand Rounds is supported by independent educational grants from  ViiV Healthcare, Merck & Co. and Gilead Sciences, Inc.

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Learning Objectives

After completing this activity, participants should be better able to:

• Describe how to apply in clinical practice approaches for preventing HIV infection and getting newly diagnosed patients rapidly into care
• Describe how to manage various patient populations, such as the aging patient with HIV infection, including issues associated with cardiovascular and bone disease, PWIDs and underserved populations
• Discuss the basic science concepts involved with HIV and be able to apply those concepts to HIV therapeutics, epidemiology, and other issues involved in HIV patient care and HIV prevention
• Discuss how to individualize ARV therapy for the treatment-naïve and treatment-experienced patients to support adherence and patient satisfaction

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Current Session Learning Objectives

After completing this activity, participants should be better able to:

• Discuss complex, multidimensional biopsychosocial phenotypes in HIV and their clinical implications.
• Evaluate how baseline comorbidities and clinical factors shape the progression of biopsychosocial phenotypes in HIV-infected individuals.
• Analyze biomarker compartmentalization between cerebrospinal fluid and blood.

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Course Directors

Next Session and Participation Information

Live Session Topics and Speakers

 

 

 

 

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Hardware/Software Notice

You will need Internet to participate in this activity.

Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Penn Medicine and ViralEd. Penn Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Designation of Credit

Physicians: Penn Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses/Pharmacists: This activity is not approved for nursing or pharmacy contact hours

PAs: AAPA accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by ACCME or a recognized state medical society. PAs may receive a maximum of 1.00 Category 1 credits for completing this activity.

Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships and Unapproved Uses of Products

It is policy at Penn Medicine Office of Continuing Medical and Interprofessional Education 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 provide products or services that may be relevant to the content of this continuing education activity.  For this purpose, we consider relationships of the person involved to include financial relationships of a spouse or partner.

The intent of this policy is to ensure that Penn CME/CE 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 was found to contain relationships that created a conflict of interest relevant 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 Continuing Medical and Interprofessional Education (CME and IPCE)  have disclosed that they have no relevant financial relationships with any commercial interests related to the content of this educational activity. Any peer reviewer with a potential conflict of interest will recuse themselves from the peer review process.

The following faculty or planning committee members have disclosed that they have no relevant financial relationships with any commercial interests related to the content of this educational activity:

The following faculty or planning committee members have reported the listed relevant financial relationships with commercial interests related to the content of this educational activity:

Discussion of Investigational and/or Off-label Use of Commercial Products and Devices

The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania requires all faculty to disclose any discussion of an investigational and/or off-label use of a pharmaceutical product or device within their presentation. Participants should note that the use of products outside DA-approved labeling should be considered experimental and are advised to consult current prescribing information for approved indications.

Faculty members will disclose to participants any discussions of off-label and/or investigational uses of pharmaceutical products within their presentations.

Disclaimer

Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance patient outcomes and their own professional development. The information presented in this activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed or suggested in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of their patient's conditions and possible contraindications on dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer's product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities.