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DATE AND TIME
Friday, February 14, 2020
1:00 – 2:00 PM EST (12:00 Noon - 1:00 PM CST / 10:00 - 11:00 AM PST)
Program Faculty: Paul D. Biddinger, MD and Allison McGeer, MD, FRCPC
AGENDA
Welcome and Introductions
Current Global Status of the COVID-19 Infection
Preventing Coronavirus Transmission
Recognizing, Diagnosing, and Managing COVID-19 Infection
Q&A Session and Activity Roundup
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
The World Health Organization recently declared the
COVID-19 Wuhan Corona Virus as a global health emergency.
Our webinar will offer clinicians a practical guide on the
latest information on prevention, symptoms, diagnosis and management of the
Wuhan Corona virus. Join experts on COVID-19 infection to learn
strategies to deal with this emerging infection.
PROGRAM FACULTY
Paul D. Biddinger, MD
Director, Center for Disaster Medicine
Vice Chairman for Emergency Preparedness
Medical Director for Emergency Preparedness
Department of Emergency Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Paul D. Biddinger, MD is the Director of the Center for Disaster Medicine, and is Vice Chairman for Emergency Preparedness in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston. He is also the Medical Director for Emergency Preparedness at MGH and at Partners Healthcare. He is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a Senior Fellow at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. He serves as a special advisor to the Massachusetts Medical Society’s Committee on Preparedness and serves as a medical officer for the MA-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) in the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) in the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Dr. Biddinger has served as an investigator on several Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) grants addressing patient care and disaster preparedness. He is an active researcher in the field of emergency preparedness and has lectured nationally and internationally on topics of preparedness and disaster medicine. He has authored numerous articles and book chapters on multiple topics related to emergency medical services and disaster medicine. He completed his undergraduate study in international relations at Princeton University, attended medical school at Vanderbilt University, and completed residency training in emergency medicine at Harvard University.
Allison McGeer, MD, FRCPC
Microbiologist, Infectious Disease Consultant
Mount Sinai Hospital
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Allison McGeer, MD, FRCPC completed an undergraduate and
master's degree in biochemistry, then her medical degree at the University of
Toronto. She specialized in internal medicine and infectious diseases followed
by a fellowship in hospital epidemiology at Yale New Haven Hospital.
She returned to Mount
Sinai Hospital in 1989 as a microbiologist and Director of Infection Control. Her
major research interests are in the prevention of infection in hospitals and
nursing homes, and the use of surveillance to advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of infectious diseases. She is the principal investigator of the
Toronto Invasive Bacterial Diseases Network and the Ontario Group A
Streptococcal Study, two collaborative surveillance networks studying the
epidemiology of severe community-acquired infections.
Dr. McGeer is a Professor
in the Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology and Public Health
Sciences at the University of Toronto. In addition to her position as Director
of Infection Control at Mount Sinai Hospital, Dr. McGeer is an infection
control consultant to The Scarborough Hospital and the Baycrest Centre for
Geriatric Care. She currently serves on Canada's National Advisory Committee on
Immunization and on the infection control subcommittee of the Ontario Provincial
Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee, and is a member of several local,
provincial, and national pandemic influenza committees. She is an expert
reviewer for many research funding agencies, including the Canadian Institute of
Health Research and US National Institutes of Health, and has served on the
editorial boards of several journals, including the Canadian Medical
Association Journal and Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
MODERATOR
Terry Ann Glauser, MD, MPH
Medical Director
Potomac Center for Medical Education
Rockpointe Corporation
Columbia, MD
USA
Terry Ann Glauser, MD, MPH, Medical Director at the
Potomac Center for Medical Education, obtained her medical degree from
Jefferson Medical College and was a residency-trained, board-certified
Emergency Medicine physician. She served as an Assistant Director of the
Emergency Department of a regional burn center, was an instructor in the
Department of Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine, at Jefferson Medical
College, and was a Clinical Associate in the Department of Medicine at the
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Subsequently, she completed a
Master’s in Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health. She has been involved in continuing medical education since 1995.
TARGET AUDIENCE
This activity is intended for North American-based clinicians.
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
This program is designed to address ACGME and IOM competencies, including delivering patient-centered care and practicing evidence-based medicine.
At the conclusion of this
activity, participants should be able to:
ACCREDITATION
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 Potomac Center for Medical
Education and Rockpointe. The Potomac Center for Medical Education is
accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
DESIGNATION STATEMENT
The Potomac Center for Medical Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
For questions regarding CME credit or the evaluation, please email contact@potomacme.org.
DISCLOSURE INFORMATION
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Disclosures will be made known to the participants prior to the start of the activity.
FDA DISCLOSURE
The contents of some CME/CE activities may contain discussions of non-approved or off-label uses of some agents mentioned. Please consult the prescribing information for full disclosure of approved uses.
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR PARTICIPANTS AND OBTAINING CME CREDIT
There is no fee for this activity. To receive credit, participants must register, view the live CME activity in its entirety, and then complete the post-test, with a score of 75% or better, and evaluation. The estimated time for completion of this activity is 1 hour. To receive a certificate, participants must demonstrate mastery of the presented material via the post-test. Participants are allowed to take the post-test multiple times.
If you will be watching the webinar in a group setting, please note all group participants will need to register individually in order to complete the post-test and evaluation to receive credit.
In Collaboration with MedChi and Policy & Medicine
Jointly provided by the Potomac Center for Medical Education and Rockpointe
This activity is not supported by any grantor or commercial interest.