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Biologic Therapies IV

T Cell Targeting:
Current and Future Options

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Release Date:  May 27, 2011
Expiration Date:  May 27, 2013

Estimated Time of Completion:  30 minutes

Description

Biologic Therapies IV: Webcast Series is a compilation of live presentations recorded at the Biologic Therapies Summit IV: Current and Emerging Indications. This webcast series continues a successful tradition of presenting innovative, quality presentations that provide evidence-based, practical knowledge to fulfill participants' educational objectives. An international faculty of experts who span a multitude of scientific disciplines will provide their insights on a variety of timely topics, including the following:

• Research advances in immunodeficiencies and autoimmunity.
• Approved biologic agents and clinical trial data.
• Development of new biologic agents.
• Toxicities associated with biologic agents.
• Clinical implications and potential new indications.

Learning Objectives

• Describe the efficacy of abatacept across the spectrum of RA-patient populations including induction of clinical responses sustaining those clinical responses up to 2 years.
• Explain the implication of T cells in the pathogenesis of RA and its role in the induction of adaptive immune responses.

Target Audience

This activity is directed to rheumatologists, gastroenterologists, dermatologists, pulmonologists, internal medicine physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other health care professionals interested in or using biologic therapies in autoimmune and inflammatory disorders.

Accreditation

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Participants claiming CME credit from this activity may submit the credit hours to the American Osteopathic Association Council on Continuing Medical Education for Category 2 credit.

Activity Director

Leonard Calabrese, DO
Professor of Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
of Case Western Reserve University
Vice Chairman
Department of Rheumatic & Immunologic Diseases
R.J. Fasenmyer Chair of Clinical Immunology
Orthopaedic & Rheumatologic Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH

Faculty

Peter Taylor, MD, PhD, MA
Head of Clinical Trials and Campus Dean
Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology Division
Imperial College
London, England

Disclosures

In accordance with the Standards for Commercial Support issued by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education requires resolution of all faculty conflicts of interest to ensure CME activities are free of commercial bias.

The following faculty have indicated that they may have a relationship which, in the context of their presentation, could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest:

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education acknowledges educational
grants for partial support of this activity from:
Abbott Laboratories Inc.
Amgen, Inc.
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Centocor Ortho Biotech Services, LLC
Genentech, Inc. and Biogen Idec
UCB, Inc.

This CME activity was produced by The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education and the
R.J. Fasenmyer Center for Clinical Immunology.

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