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Release Date:  May 5, 2011
Expiration Date:  May 5, 2013

Estimated Time of Completion: 1 hour

Description

The Medicine Today, Internal Medicine Webcast Series features on-demand CME webcasts. Each webcast consists of an hour-long video presentation and related questions following the video.

This lecture discusses the history of treating Asthma, new therapies, and information to translate improved understanding of pathophysiology into practice.

Learning Objectives

1. Appreciate the history of asthma therapy.
2. Describe the rationale for asthma therapy both past and present.
3. Appraise new asthma therapies and recognize the targeted pathophysiology.

Target Audience

This activity is directed to pulmonologists, allergists, general internists, family practitioners and subspecialists as well as other medical professionals who manage patients with asthma.

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 1.0 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

William D. Carey, MD
Director, Center for Continuing Education
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio

Faculty

Mark Aronica, MD
Respiratory Institute
Department of Pathobiology
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio

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 they have no relationship which, in the context of their contribution, could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest:

William D. Carey, MD
Mark Aronica, MD

This CME activity was produced by The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education,
the Medicine Institute and the Department of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine.

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