Diabetes and the Heart

Diabetes and the Heart

Cardiometabolic Screening and
Hospital Care

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How to Obtain AMA PRA
Category 1 Credit

  1. Watch the CME webcast.
  2. Take the CME posttest.
  3. Login to your account.
  4. Complete the registration / evaluation form.
  5. Print your personalized CME certificate.

Technical Requirements

 

Release Date:   November 12, 2009
Expiration Date:  November 12, 2011

Estimated Time of Completion: 2 hours, 45 minutes

Description
The Diabetes and the Heart webcast series is composed of selected presentations from Diabetes and the Heart: A Clinical Summit on Critically Challenging Patients, a live symposium held August 6-7, 2009. The Summit was the inaugural educational activity of the Joslin Diabetes Center and Cleveland Clinic partnership.

With the increase in prevalence of the cardiometabolic syndrome and its comorbidities, the need to optimize preventive and therapeutic interventions is a major focus of most clinicians in primary care. Certainly, clinicians must recognize the signs and symptoms of the cardiometabolic syndrome and initiate early and effective preventive interventions. However, timely diagnosis and appropriate treatment are equally as important to reduce eventual morbidity and mortality.

Objectives
After completing this activity, the participant will be able to do the following:

  1. Describe the characteristics and pathophysiology of dyslipidemia associated with diabetes.
  2. Discuss the rationale of established and emerging therapeutic strategies to achieve optimal lipid goals to reduce cardiovascular events.
  3. Discuss the possible mechanisms underlying glucose toxicity in the acute care situation.
  4. Explain the physiologic mechanisms underlying the benefit of insulin in the acute care setting.
  5. Review the pathophysiology of diabetic nephropathy and its treatment.
  6. Recognize chronic kidney disease as an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease.
  7. Review the modifiable cardiovascular risks other than glucose levels for patients with diabetes.

Target Audience
Primary care physicians, endocrinologists, cardiologists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses and other allied healthcare professionals will find this webcast valuable in their daily practice.

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 educational activity for a maximum of 2.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim 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 Directors
Richard S. Beaser, MD
Medical Executive Director
   of Professional Education
Joslin Diabetes Center
Boston, MA
  James B. Young, MD
Institute Chairman
Endocrinology and Metabolism Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
 
Robert S. Zimmerman, MD
Director, Fellowship Program
Endocrinology and Metabolism Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
 

Faculty
Om P. Ganda, MD
Director, Lipid Center
Joslin Diabetes Center
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
  Adi Mehta, MD, FACE
Endocrinology and Metabolism Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
 
Joseph Nally, MD
Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
  Leann Olansky, MD
Endocrinology and Metabolism Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH

 

Faculty Disclosure
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:

  Om P. Ganda, MD  
    Board Membership and Consulting: Takeda Pharmaceuticals
       
    Teaching and Speaking: Abbott Pharmaceuticals
     
  Adi Mehta, MD, FACE  
    Teaching and Speaking: Eli Lilly; Merck & Company; Novo Nordisk
       
  James B. Young, MD  
    Consulting: AstraZeneca; Gilead Sciences, Inc.; GlaxoSmithKline
       
    Independent Contractor: AstraZeneca
       
    Review Panels: AstraZeneca; Gilead Sciences, Inc.; GlaxoSmithKline
       
  Robert S. Zimmerman, MD  
    Teaching and Speaking: GlaxoSmithKline; Novo Nordisk
       
       

The following faculty have indicated that they have no relationship which, in the context of their presentation, could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest:

Richard S. Beaser, MD
Joseph Nally, MD
Leann Olansky, MD

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education
acknowledges educational grants for partial support of this activity from:

Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Lilly USA, LLC
Athena Diagnostics, Inc.
Daiichi Sankyo, Inc.
Merck & Co., Inc.
St. Jude Medical

This CME activity was produced by
the Cleveland Clinic Endocrinology and Metabolism Institute,
the Center for Continuing Education, and the Joslin Diabetes Center.

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