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Practicing Clinicians Exchange Mission Statement
Practicing Clinicians Exchange (PCE) is an innovative national educational initiative designed specifically for nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs). PCE’s premier series of live, national CE/CME symposia and other educational activities revolve around challenges NPs and PAs face most often in clinical practice. To ensure that you receive all of our educational activities, including live programs in your area or national home study activities, please register at: www.practicingclinicians.com. PCE is a division of Continuing Education Alliance.

Target Audience
Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants

Accreditation Information
Continuing Nursing Education Provider Unit, Boston University School of Medicine is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Contact Hours: 6.25.
        

The University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing Continuing Nursing Education is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

The gout segment is provided for 1.0 contact hour under ANCC criteria.

Provided for 1.2 contact hours under Iowa Provider #78. Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #13699 for 1.2 contact hours.

This program has been reviewed and is approved for a maximum of 7.0 hours of AAPA Category I CME credit by the Physician Assistant Review Panel. Approval is valid for 1 year from the issue date of February 15, 2010. Participants may submit the self-assessment at any time during that period.

This program was planned in accordance with AAPA’s CME Standards for Enduring Material Programs and for Commercial Support of Enduring Material Programs.

Continuing Nursing Education Provider Unit, Boston University School of Medicine’s provider status refers only to continuing nursing education activities and does not imply that there is real or implied endorsement of any product, service, or company referred to in this activity nor of any company subsidizing costs related to the activity.
        

Accredited status as a provider of continuing nursing education refers only to the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing Continuing Nursing Education continuing education activities, and does not imply UNMC or American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation endorsement of any commercial supporters.

This program is supported by educational grants from Abbott Laboratories, Daiichi Sankyo, Inc., Eisai Inc., Eli Lilly and Company, Endo Pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck & Co., Inc., Novo Nordisk, and Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Practicing Clinicians Exchange gratefully acknowledges the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Global Directions in Medicine, Miller Medical Communications, Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation, Scienta Healthcare Education, and TCL Institute for their contributions as education partners for this program.

Disclaimer
The opinions or views expressed in this continuing education activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or recommendations of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, Boston University, the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing Continuing Nursing Education, Continuing Education Alliance, Practicing Clinicians Exchange, or any educational supporter.
      

THESE MATERIALS AND ALL OTHER MATERIALS PROVIDED IN CONJUNCTION WITH CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION ACTIVITIES ARE INTENDED SOLELY FOR PURPOSES OF SUPPLEMENTING CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS FOR QUALIFIED HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS. ANYONE USING THE MATERIALS ASSUMES FULL RESPONSIBILITY AND ALL RISK FOR THEIR APPROPRIATE USE. TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY MAKES NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS WHATSOEVER REGARDING THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, CURRENTNESS, NONINFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OF THE MATERIALS. IN NO EVENT WILL TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY BE LIABLE TO ANYONE FOR ANY DECISION MADE OR ACTION TAKEN IN RELIANCE ON THE MATERIALS. IN NO EVENT SHOULD THE INFORMATION IN THE MATERIALS BE USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PROFESSIONAL CARE.

Faculty Reviewers 

Philip Altus, MD
Professor Emeritus of Medicine
University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida

Michael E. Cobble, MD
Adjunct Faculty
University of Utah School of Medicine
Salt Lake City, Utah
Director, Canyons Medical Center
Sandy, Utah

        
Joseph D. Croft Jr, MD, MACR
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Georgetown University Medical School
Washington, DC

        
Joel M. Gelfand, MD, MSCE
Medical Director, Clinical Studies Unit
Department of Dermatology
Assistant Professor of Dermatology
Associate Scholar, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Associate Fellow, Center for Public Health Initiatives
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sharon G. Humiston, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics
University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry
Rochester, New York

Benjamin Seltzer, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Associate Neurologist
Brigham Behavioral Neurology Group
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts

Ridwan Shabsigh, MD
Director, Division of Urology
Maimonides Medical Center
Brooklyn, New York
Professor of Clinical Urology
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University
New York, New York

        
Barbara P. Yawn, MD, MSc
Director of Research
Olmsted Medical Center
Adjunct Professor
Family and Community Health
University of Minnesota
Rochester, Minnesota

Disclosures
Boston University School of Medicine asks all individuals involved in the development and presentation of Continuing Medical Education (CE/CME) activities to disclose all relationships with commercial interests. This information is disclosed to CME activity participants. Boston University School of Medicine has procedures to resolve apparent conflicts of interest. In addition, faculty members are asked to disclose when any discussion of unapproved use of pharmaceuticals and devices is being discussed. This educational activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the US Food and Drug Administration.

Unlabeled/investigational uses of commercial products are discussed in the following activities: gout, hypogonadism, restless legs syndrome, and type 2 diabetes.

Dr Altus: speakers bureau: Bristol-Myers Squibb, sanofi-aventis.
Dr Cobble: consultant: Abbott Laboratories, AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly and Company; research grants: Abbott Laboratories; speakers bureau: Abbott Laboratories, AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly and Company, Forest Laboratories, Inc., GlaxoSmithKline, Novo Nordisk.
Dr Croft: consultant: Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; educator: Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Inc., TCL Institute.
Dr Gelfand: consultant: Abbott Laboratories, Amgen Inc., Celgene Corporation, Centocor, Inc., Galderma, Genentech, Inc., Pfizer Inc, RTI International; research grants: Abbott Laboratories, Amgen Inc., Genentech, Inc., Pfizer Inc.
Dr Humiston: consultant: GlaxoSmithKline, Merck & Co., Inc., Novartis, Sanofi Pasteur; speakers bureau: GlaxoSmithKline, Merck & Co., Inc., Sanofi Pasteur.
Dr Kushida: research grants: GlaxoSmithKline, XenoPort, Inc.
Dr Seltzer: consultant: Eisai Inc/Pfizer Inc, Medivation, Inc.; research grants: Novartis; speakers bureau: Eisai Inc/Pfizer Inc, Novartis.
Dr Shabsigh: consultant: American Medical Systems, Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Bayer Schering Pharma, Boehringer Ingelheim, Dong-A Pharmaceutical, Eli Lilly and Company, Endo Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer Inc, VIVUS Inc.
Dr Yawn: research grants: GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis.

The Planning Committee for this activity included Patti-Ann Collins, MSN, MBA, RN, Ilana Hardesty, and Jason Worcester, MD, of Boston University; William L. Atkinson, MD, MPH, of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Deanna N. Schuly of Global Directions in Medicine; Lyerka Miller of Miller Medical Communications; Georgianna Bell, MPH, PNP, of Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation; Monique Johnson, MD, and Tracy Stewart of Scienta Healthcare Education; Lisa Conklin, Elike Graser, and Karin Yao of TCL Institute; Lisa Anzai of the University of Nebraska Medical Center; and Ruth Cohen, Dominic Francese, Grace Halsey, and Christine M. Olsen, PhD, of Continuing Education Alliance. Ms Bell has received research support from GlaxoSmithKline. The remaining members of the Planning Committee have no significant relationships to disclose.