Credit Designation Statement
The Maine Medical Education Trust designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Session: How to Address Unhealthy Alcohol Use
Speaker: Charles Brackett, MD
Moderator: Kenton Allen, MD
About the Speaker
Charles Brackett, MD - Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. Dr. Brackett received his MPH, Health Promotion/Disease Prevention, Epidemiology/Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA. He did his residency at Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, MA and Fellowship at Boston University. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine. Dr. Brackett serves as Assistant Professor of Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine and Associate Professor of The Dartmouth Institute,
Session Objectives
- Learn the elements of a brief intervention for at-risk drinking
- Understand the role of medications in managing alcohol use disorder
- Become familiar with self-management, mutual support, and specialty treatment options for AUD
About the Moderator
Moderator - Dr. Kenton Allen has served as the as the 189th president of the New Hampshire Medical Society. He serves as the Vice Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover, NH. Dr. Allen was also elected as President of Health Partners of New Hampshire, Inc. – a Physician Hospital Organization (PHO). Dr. Allen is an alumnus of St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Dover, NH and graduated with honors from The College of the Holy Cross, earning a bachelors degree in biology. He attended Dartmouth Medical School and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth before completing a residency in anesthesiology, perioperative and pain management at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and a fellowship at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH.This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Maine Medical Education Trust and New Hampshire Medical Society.
Accreditation Statement
The Maine Medical Education Trust is accredited by the Maine Medical Association Committee on Continuing Medical Education and Accreditation to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Disclosure Declaration
As an organization accredited by the ACCME, the Maine Medical Association Committee on Continuing Medical Education and Accreditation (CCMEA) requires that the content of CME activities and related materials provide balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor. Planning must be free of the influence or control of a commercial entity and promote improvements or quality in healthcare. All persons in the position to control the content of an education activity are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships in any amount occurring within the past 12 months with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on patients.