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Volume 1 - Issue 3

 

 August 2007

 

 Maximum of 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ for physicians.
 

 

Release Date: August 20, 2007; Expiration date: August 20, 2008

 

Letter from CME Chair, Jonathan Schapiro, MD

 

Jonathan Schapiro, MD

CME Chairperson

 

 

 Jacob Lalezari, MD

Kara Nyberg, PhD

Editor/Writer

 

Lillian Thiemann

Editor-in-Chief

 

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 FACULTY DISCLOSURES

 

CME Information

 

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The planning committee and faculty members have the following disclosures:

 

CME Chairperson

Jonathan Schapiro, MD

Director HIV/AIDS, National Hemophelia Center, Israel

Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine (VCF)

Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA

 

Jonathan Schapiro, MD has the following relationships to disclose: speaker’s bureau, consultant, research support, advisory committee for Abbott Laboratories, Ambrilia, Bayer, Bristol Myers Squibb, Gilead, Merck, Monogram, Pfizer, Roche, Siemans and Tibotec Therapeutics.

 

Editor

Jacob Lalezari, MD

Medical Director

Quest Clinical Research

Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine

University of California, San Francisco

 

Jacob Lalezari, MD has the following relationships to disclose: GlaxoSmithKline: clinical research support; Johnson & Johnson: clinical research support; Merck; clinical research support; Panacos: clinical research support; Pfizer: clinical research support, speakers’ bureau, consultant; Roche: clinical research support, speaker’s bureau, consultant; Tibotec Therapeutics: clinical research support.

 

Editor-in-Chief

            Lillian Thiemann

            President

            Visionary Health Concepts

 

            Lillian Thiemann has no relationships to disclose.

 

Writer          

           Kara Nyberg, PhD

           Science/Medical Writer

           Boulder, CO

 

           Kara Nyberg, PhD has no relationships to disclose.

 

Accredited Provider

Employees of Medical Education Collaborative, the accredited provider for this activity, have disclosed that they have no significant financial relationships. 

 

  

 

This activity was made possible by an educational grant from

Boehringer Ingelheim.

 

This activity is joint sponsored by Visionary Health Concepts and Medical Education Collaborative (MEC).  MEC is a non-profit organization that has been certifying quality educational activities since 1988.

 

 

 

 

 

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of Medical Education Collaborative, Inc. (MEC) and Visionary Health Concepts.  MEC is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

 

Medical Education Collaborative designates this educational activity for a maximum of .50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.  Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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Editor-in-Chief, Lillian Thiemann.