Credit Hours: CME 1.00

Target Audience:

Faculty, residents, fellows, and community physicians in General Internal Medicine and subspecialties.

Using implementation science to improve care for people with cirrhosis
Presented by: Shari Rogal, MD, MPH

Tissue resident memory T cells in acute and chronic rejection after lung transplantation
Presented by: Mark Snyder, MD

GCN5L1 enhances cardiac energetics through retrograde regulation of PGC1a transcription
Presented by: Manling Zhang, MD

Educational Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

Explain what an implementation gap is and provide 3 examples
Define implementation strategies
Explain how to apply implementation strategies to address public health problems
Recognize the limitations to long term survival after lung transplantation
Describe the risk factors for chronic rejection after lung transplantation
how to apply implementation strategies to address public health problems.
Explain mitochondria and heart energetics
Describe mitochondria dysfunction in heart failure
Describe mitochondria and nucleus cross talk mediated cardiac metabolism regulation

Joint Accreditation Statement - Note: This Accreditation Statement Supersedes All Other Statements: :

Joint Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit[s]™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This educational activity is approved for 1.0 contact hours.

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Authors:

Manling Zhang, MD — Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.

Mark Snyder, MD — Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.

Shari Rogal, MD, MPH — Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
Core Faculty, Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Dr. Rogal receives grant/research support from NIH, VA.

No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

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