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ForwardWorth up to 11.0 credits!
Available Credits: ACPE-P/T, AMA, ANCC, APA, ASWB, CCMC and Attendance
Start Date: July 12, 2021
Expiration Date: July 12, 2023
Intended Audience
These activities are designed to meet the educational needs of case managers, nurses, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, physicians and other health care professionals who are interested in the care and management of oncology, solid organ and blood/marrow transplantation patient populations.
Activity Description
This activity consists of recorded presentations from "Essentials of Oncology, Solid Organ and Blood/Marrow Transplant Management for the Health Care Team" held virtually May 5–6, 2021. Throughout these activities, faculty will discuss the keys to optimize the management/benefits of individuals with cancer and/or undergoing organ or blood/marrow transplant. Participants will hear about current topics and exciting advances in the fields of transplantation and oncology, as well as learning about specific transplanted organs, recent trends in immunosuppression management, gene therapy, and drug development.
Learning Objectives
At the end of these educational activities, participants should be able to:
- Recognize therapeutic options in cancer treatments to include immunotherapy for lung cancer.
- Evaluate transplantation with low-listing MELD scores.
- Provide an update on current management therapies for acute and chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) and infectious complications after chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy.
- Detail the benefits of a combined procedure of liver transplantation and heart surgery.
- Examine the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer care.
- Describe the role of frailty in risk assessment and the effects on outcomes and recovery after transplantation.
- Explain the current heart transplant allocation policy and best collaborative practices to increase organ donation.
- Analyze emerging strategies to predict, induce and monitor graft tolerance in kidney transplantation.
- Explore the current medical and surgical techniques for managing intestinal failure.
- Discuss the role of CRISPR/Cas9, its application and potential for treating human disease.
Agenda
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| Update on GVHD Therapies: Acute and Chronic Amin M. Alousi, MD, Professor, Department of Stem Cell Transplantation Division of Cancer Medicine The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX 1.0 credit |
| CRISPR Technology and the Potential Applications for Treating Diseases John F. DiPersio, MD, PhD Virginia E and Samuel J Golman Professor of Medicine Chief, Division of Oncology Director, Center for Gene and Cellular Immunotherapy Deputy Director, Siteman Cancer Center Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis, MO 1.0 credit |
| Transplantation with Low-Listing MELD Scores R. Mark Ghobrial, MD, PhD, FACS, FRCS(Ed) J.C. Walter Jr. Presidential Distinguished Chair Director, J.C. Walter Jr. Transplant Center Professor of Surgery, Academic Institute Full Member, Research Institute Houston Methodist Weill Cornell Medical College Houston, TX 1.0 credit |
| Growing Challenges in Heart Transplantation Radha Gopalan, MD, FACC Medical Director, Advanced Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support, and Transplant Banner Health Phoenix, AZ 1.0 credit |
| Infectious Complications After CAR T-cell Therapy Joshua A. Hill, MD Assistant Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases University of Washington Seattle, WA 1.0 credit |
Frailty in Transplantation Michael Petty, PhD, RN, APRN-CNS |
| New Therapies for Acute Myeloid Leukemia Nandita Khera, MD, MPH Consultant, Division of Hematology/Oncology Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, AZ 1.0 credit |
| Immunotherapy for the Treatment of Lung Cancer Amit Kulkarni, MBBS Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 1.0 credit |
| Predicting, Inducing and Monitoring Graft Tolerance in Kidney Transplantation Joseph R. Leventhal, MD, PhD Interim Chief of Organ Transplantation, Department of Surgery Fowler McCormick Professor of Surgery Professor of Surgery (Organ Transplantation) Northwestern Medicine Chicago, IL 1.0 credit |
| Current Approaches to Intestinal Failure David F. Mercer, MD, PhD, FRCS(C), FACS Professor, Department of Surgery Division of Transplantation Director, Intestinal Rehabilitation University of Nebraska Medical Center Omaha, NE .75 credit |
| The Effects of COVID-19 on Cancer Care Diane Reidy-Lagunes, MD, MS Associate Deputy Physician-in-Chief, Regional Care Network President of the Medical Staff Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York, NY .75 credit |
| Cardiac Surgery in Patients with End-Stage Liver Disease Rodrigo Martinez de Mello Vianna, MD, PhD Director of Solid Organ Transplant Services Professor and Chief, Liver and Gastrointestinal Transplantation The Andreas Tzakis Chair in Transplant Surgery Department of Surgery University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital; Miami Transplant Institute Miami, FL .75 credit |
Method of Participation
There are no fees for participating in or receiving credit for this activity.
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Participants will receive a certificate upon successful completion of the activity, which includes the following:
- Completing the entire activity
- Completing the Pre- and Post-Activity Assessment, Activity Evaluation, and Application for Certificate of Credit forms
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Provided By
These activities are provided by OptumHealth Education.
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