Faculty
Panelists
July 20, 2022
8:00 AM - 1:00 PM PTAgenda
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Program Description
This course will be a half-day virtual update covering the latest clinical updates on COVID-19.
This course will include an overview of the clinical relationship between HIV and COVID-19, 2 case-based panel discussions on difficult cases in prevention, outpatient care, and inpatient care for COVID-19, including what drugs to use and when, and a discussion on post-COVID-19 complications, including our current understanding of the mechanisms of long-COVID-19.
Assessment of Needs
Rapid advances in HIV and COVID-19 requires the ongoing attention of practitioners involved in direct patient care. This course will address the implications of new information on strategies for the clinical management COVID-19 in different clinical settings. Information will be presented through a mix of didactic lectures, clinically relevant cases, and a roundtable discussion developed and led by an expert faculty of HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 clinicians and researchers.
Learning Objectives
After participating in the activity, learners will be better able to:
- Describe the potential interaction between COVID-19 and HIV
- Describe current and investigational therapeutics for the prevention and treatment of acute COVID-19
- Describe the current best understanding of the long-term complications of COVID-19
Conflicts of Interest
In the interest of maintaining the independence of its continuing education activities, and in accordance with the policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the IAS–USA requires all persons with control of content (eg, faculty, IAS–USA Board members, and program staff) to disclose any financial relationships with ineligible companies (previously defined as “commercial interests”) that they or their spouses or partners have had within the past 24 months. Any real or apparent conflicts of interest of those parties are resolved prior to the continuing education activity being delivered. Individuals who refuse to disclose financial interests may not participate in an IAS–USA continuing education activity.
The ACCME defines ineligible companies as those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Registration
Who Should Attend
This course is designed for physicians who are actively involved in the medical care of people with HIV infection or COVID-19 and:
- Provide comprehensive or specialty care for patients with HIV infection
- Provide outpatient or inpatient care for patients with COVID-19
- Are currently active in HIV or COVID-19 research
This activity is also relevant to nurse practitioners, registered nurses, physician assistants, registered pharmacists, and other health professionals.
Representatives and employees of commercial companies (eg, pharmaceutical, diagnostic, medical products, advertising, insurance, investment, and communications firms) must contact the IAS–USA regarding registration procedures.
Cancellation Policy
Cancellation requests must be made 8 or more days before the date of an activity. All refunds will be processed minus a $15.00 processing charge. Regrettably, any cancellation requests received within a week before the course will not be eligible for the partial refund.
Continuing Education Credits
CME Credits
The International Antiviral Society–USA (IAS–USA) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The IAS–USA designates this live activity for a maximum of 4.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
ABIM MOC Points
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 4.5 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.
Nursing Credits
Educational Review Systems is an approved approver of continuing nursing education by the Alabama State Nursing Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Provider # 5-115. This program is approved for 4.5 hours of continuing nursing education.
This activity is also approved for 4.5 hours of Pharmacotherapy credits.
Educational Review Systems is also approved for nursing continuing education by the state of California (Provider # 14692), the state of Florida and the District of Columbia.
Pharmacy Credits
Educational Review Systems is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. Participants of the session who complete the evaluation and provide accurate NABP e-Profile information will have their credit for 4.5 contact hours (0.45 CEU) submitted to CPE Monitor as early as 14 days after the event and no later than 60 days after the event. Please know that if accurate e-Profile information is not provided within 60 days of the event, credit cannot be claimed after that time. The participant is accountable for verifying the accurate posting of CE credit to their CPE Monitor account within 60 days.
UAN # 0761-9999-22-338-L02-P
Grant Support
This activity is part of the IAS–USA national educational effort that is funded, in part, by charitable contributions from ineligible companies. Per IAS–USA policy, any effort that uses grants from ineligible companies must receive grants from several companies with competing products. Funds are pooled and distributed to activities at the sole discretion of the IAS–USA. Grantors have no input into any activity, including its content, development, or selection of topics or speakers. Generous support for this activity has been received from the following contributors.
PLATINUM SUPPORTERS
Gilead Sciences, Inc.
Merck & Co, Inc.
ViiV Healthcare
SILVER SUPPORTER
Janssen Therapeutics
BRONZE SUPPORTER
Theratechnologies, Inc.
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Further Questions?
Please contact the registration department at registration@iasusa.org or 415-544-9400.