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3/11/2025- Medical Grand Rounds: A Neural Basis for the Mind-Body Connection - Translating Insights into Therapies

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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:

    • Improve patient outcomes by incorporating a biopsychosocial approach and mind-body practices in general medical care.
    • Utilize recent neuroanatomic evidence of the cerebral cortical origins of central commands in patient discussions of the mind-body connection and role in clinical care
    • Recognize translational research opportunities that probe the neurophysiological basis of mind-body processes.   .

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), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.


Physician (CME)

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.


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:
David Levinthal, MD, PhD — Associate Professor, Director, UPMC Neurogastroenterology & Motility Center, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Systems Neuroscience Center, University of Pittsburgh Brain Institute
Dr. Levinthal is a consultant with Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Mahana Therapeutics, Gemelli Biotech, and Enterra Medical. He receives in-kind equipment donation for research lab from Alimetry, Inc.
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.