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3/29/2022 - Medical Grand Rounds: How do we prevent atrial fibrillation and its complications

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INTRODUCTION

Credit Hours: CME 1.00

Target Audience:

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

Educational Objectives:

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

  • Review emerging approaches to screen for AF
  • Appreciate opportunities and challenges involved with various screening strategies
  • Practice primordial, primary, and secondary AF prevention
  • Identify future research directions to advance AF prevention


Abstract

Dr. Emelia Benjamin, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, and serves as Provost for Faculty Development at Boston University Medical Campus. Her research focuses on the intersection of epidemiology and atrial fibrillation, along with its genetic underpinnings and downstream health outcomes. Dr. Benjamin’s lecture is titled, "How do we prevent atrial fibrillation and its complications?"

Suggested Additional Reading & 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.


Suggested Additional Reading

  • Weng Circulation 2018;137:1027
  • Benjamin J Am Heart Assoc 2021;10:e021566
  • McConnell MV J Am Coll Cardiol. 2018;71:2691
  • Sarraju JACC Clin Electrophysiol. 2020;6:739

Authors:
Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM — Associate Provost for Faculty Development, BUMC
Professor of Medicine, BUSM & Epidemiology, BUSPH
NHLBI & Boston University’s Framingham Heart Study
Dr. Benjamin discloses that she receives grant/research support from AHA and NIH. No other planners, 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 to disclose.
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.

This activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.