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Title: You and Asthma: A Patient’s Guide™ to Asthma
Release date: Nov 5, 2015
Expiration date: Nov 5, 2016

Jointly provided by the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower and Prime Medic Inc. in collaboration with Postgraduate Institute for Medicine.

This activity is supported by an educational grant from:
Genentech, Inc.

Technical Requirements
You and Asthma is an internet-based educational program available on Mac and PC. Click here to view Technical Requirements

Target Audience
This activity has been designed to meet the educational needs of patients and caregivers affected by asthma.

Learning Objectives

  1. To enhance communications between asthma patients and their caregivers by increasing understanding of the complexities of their disease, its risk, its symptoms, therapeutic options, management strategies, and health outcomes.
  2. To explain and contrast the complex evidence-based clinical data, scientific concepts of asthma, and provide greater understanding on the role of different therapeutic agents – including treatment risks and benefits in disease management, as well as issues about safety, side-effects, and utility in the spectrum of management options related to asthma.
  3. To empower patients through effective education on asthma to be better partners with their health care providers thereby promoting better dialogue between patients and physicians leading to improved health outcomes.

Faculty

Sanjay Sethi, MD, FACP
Professor and Chief, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
Assistant Vice President for Health Sciences
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Buffalo, New York

Heather Lehman, MD, FAAAAI
Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Program Director, Allergy and Immunology
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo
Buffalo, New York

Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest

The Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower requires instructors, planners, managers and other individuals who are in a position to control the content of this activity to disclose any real or apparent conflict of interest (COI) they may have as related to the content of this activity. All identified COI are thoroughly vetted and resolved according to the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower policy. The Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower is committed to providing its learners with high quality CME activities and related materials that promote improvements or quality in healthcare and not a specific proprietary business interest of a commercial interest.


The faculty reported the following financial relationships or relationships to products or devices they or their spouse/life partner have with commercial interests related to the content of this CME activity:

Sanjay Sethi, MD, FACP
Consulting Agreements/Advisory Boards: Boehringer Ingelheim, Roche, Sunovion, Novartis
Fees for Non-CME/CE Services: Boehringer Ingelheim, Sunovion
Contracted Research: AstraZeneca, Dey

Heather Lehman, MD, FAAAAI
Consulting Agreements/Advisory Boards: American Lung Association, Access Therapeutics Inc.


The planners and managers reported the following financial relationships or relationships to products or devices they or their spouse/life partner have with commercial interests related to the content of this activity:


Charles E. Willis, Director of Continuing Education from the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower consults for Pfizer, Inc.; Amanda Sewell, MBA, Manager of Continuing Education, Debbie Price, Database Administrative Secretary, and Alma Perez, Accreditation Specialist from the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower have no relevant commercial relationships to disclose.


The following PIM planners and managers, Trace Hutchison, PharmD, Samantha Mattiucci, PharmD, CHCP, and Jan Schultz, MSN, RN, CHCP, hereby state that they or their spouse/life partner do not have any financial relationships or relationships to products or devices with any commercial interest related to the content of this activity of any amount during the past 12 months.


The following Prime Medic, Inc. planners and managers, Stephanie Searle and Nicholas Searle, hereby state that they do not have any financial relationships or relationships to products or devices with any commercial interest related to the content of this activity of any amount during the past 12 months.


Disclosure of Unlabeled Use
This educational activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. The planners of this activity do not recommend the use of any agent outside of the labeled indications.

The opinions expressed in the educational activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily represent the views of the planners. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.

Disclaimer
Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance their own personal 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 be discussed with your physician.

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