Prevention & Management of
Venous Thromboembolism

Webcast CME Disclosure

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Intended Audience:

The educational activity is designed for physicians likely to encounter patients at risk for VTE, among them: primary care physicians, hospitalist physicians, critical care specialists/intensivists, orthopedic surgeons, general surgeons, hematologists, pulmonologists, thrombosis medicine anticoagulation specialists, hospital-focused internists, surgical oncologists, and emergency medicine specialists.

Registration:

Enrollment for this WebCAST is complimentary, and clinicians are invited to participate in this CME-certified WebCAST and/or share this invitation with other colleagues, departmental staff members, and healthcare professionals.

Grantor Support:

Supported by an
independent educational grant
from Eisai, Inc.

Designation of Credit:

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essentials and Standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS). The UMMS is accredited by ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The UMMS designates this continuing medical education activity for up to 3 credit hours in Category 1 toward the Physicians Recognition Award of the American Medical Association. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

Statement of Disclosure:

In accordance with the Standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the guidelines of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), it is the policy of the University of Massachusetts Medical School to disclose whatever interest or affiliation a speaker might have with any commercial organization whose products or services are related to the subject matter being presented.

Faculty Disclosures:

Samuel Z. Goldhaber, MD
Grant/Research Support: sanofi-aventis, Astra-Zeneca, GSK, Eisai, Mitsubishi
Consultant: sanofi-aventis, Bayer, BMS, Boehringer-Ingelheim

Russell Hull, MBBS, MSc
Grant/Research Support: sanofi-aventis, Bayer
Consultant: sanofi-aventis, Bayer, Wyeth, GSK

Craig M. Kessler, MD
Grant/Research Support: sanofi-aventis, Pfizer, GSK
Consultant: sanofi-aventis, GSK
Speaker's Bureau: sanofi-aventis, GSK

Program Faculty:

Samuel Z. Goldhaber, MD
Program Chairman and Series Medical Director
Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division
Harvard Medical School
Director, Venous Thramboembolism
Research Group
Director, Anticoagulation Service
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, MA

Russell Hull, MBBS, MSc
Professor of Medicine
Director, Thrombosis Research Unit
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta Canada

Craig M. Kessler, MD
Professor of Medicine and Pathology
Georgetown University Medical Center
Chief of the Division of Hematology-Oncology
Director of the Division of Coagulation
Department of Laboratory Medicine
Washington, DC

Educational Objectives:

• Clinicians will learn how to apply current guidelines
  issued by national professional organizations and
  colleges, such as the ACCP, mandating risk-directed
  prophylaxis against DVT in at risk patients with medical
  and surgical conditions.
• Clinicians will learn to risk stratify medical and surgical
  patients, assess their liklihood for incurring DVT, and be
  aware of prophylaxis measures that can reduce the incidence
  of DVT in the patient populations.
• Clinicians will learn to assess and manage special needs
  of cancer patients at risk for DVT, with a focus on protecting
  against recurrent DVT.
• Clinicians will learn to risk stratify patients undergoing
  general and orthopedic surgery, and implement ACCP-mandated
  pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic measures aimed at DVT
  prophylaxis.
• Clinicians will learn how to apply landmark clinical
  trials focusing on DVT prevention in medical and surgical
  patients to their clinical practice.
• Clinicians will learn how to evaluate, select among, and
  appropriately use the range of pharmacologic options available
  for DVT prophylaxis, including warfarin, unfractionated heparin,
  and LMWHs.

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