Thrombotic Microangiopathies: Deeper Dive Into Effective Management Strategies

SELF STUDY / ENDURING - ESTIMATED TIME TO COMPLETE ACTIVITY: 90 Minutes

Overview

Thrombotic microangiopathies are characterized by microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, microvascular thrombosis, and thrombocytopenia. It is important to effectively differentiate these disorders that require urgent treatment. During this webcast, expert faculty describes diagnostic and management approaches for thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP), atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS), disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC), and cancer and chemotherapy associated thrombotic microangiopathy.
 

Target Audience

This CME initiative was designed for oncologists, surgeons, radiation oncologists, NPs, PAs, pharmacists, nurses, and other healthcare professionals involved in the treatment of patients with cancer.

Learning Objectives

1. Describe the initial approach to the patient with thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA)
2. Discuss how to effectively differentiate and diagnose TTP, aHUS, DIC, and cancer/chemotherapy associated TMA
3. Identify management strategies of TTP, aHUS, DIC, and cancer/chemotherapy associated TMA
 

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    Horizon CME designates this Enduring activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
  • 1.00 ANCC
    This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation through the joint providership of the Nurse Practitioner Healthcare Foundation and Horizon CME. The Nurse Practitioner Healthcare Foundation is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. NPHF is awarding the contact hours and is responsible for adherence to the ANCC criteria. Upon completion, NPs and RNs will be awarded up to 1.00 credit.
Course opens: 
09/15/2023
Course expires: 
09/15/2024
Cost:
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Faculty

Jean Yared, MD

Dr. Jean Yared is a triple board-certified internist, hematologist and medical oncologist attending physician at the University of Maryland, Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center and full-time faculty at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (SOM). His main clinical focus is on the treatment of hematological disorders and particularly Blood & Marrow transplantation (BMT) and cellular therapy with CAR-T therapy. 

He attends on the BMT inpatient unit at the cancer center and he runs the outpatient stem cell transplantation unit. His research interests are in preventing complications during and after stem cell transplantation, reducing the rate of relapsed disease after stem cell transplantation, the role of maintenance treatment in lymphoma. 

Dr. Yared authored and co-authored several abstracts, posters and peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Yared received a large grant to launch, as the principal investigator (PI), a multicentric investigator-initiated phase 2 clinical trial testing the role of a PI3K inhibitor maintenance treatment of indolent B-cell lymphoma after high dose chemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplantation. 

He is the local PI on cooperative and pharmaceutical clinical trials and he is a Co-investigator on several other clinical trials at the cancer center. Dr. Yared is active in the SOM as a teacher and lecturer of the 1st and 2nd  year medical students; he is also a member of the SOM council meeting. Dr. Yared is an active investigator in the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR) which is a working group of more than 500 transplantation centers worldwide that contribute detailed data on hematopoietic cell transplantation to a statistical center at the Medical College of Wisconsin; Dr. Yared has authored and co-authored several observational studies conducted by the CIBMTR. Dr. Yared is also working in conjunction with the Department of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy on SEER/Medicare registry data regarding patients with multiple myeloma and lymphoma.

 

Disclosures:

In accordance with the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, Horizon CME (HCME) ensures that continuing education activities are balanced, independent, objective, and scientifically rigorous. 

All persons in a position to influence the content of an accredited continuing education activity provided by Horizon CME are required to disclose to HCME any relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies within the past 24 months. All reported relevant financial relationships have been mitigated by Horizon CME.

Jean Yared, MD discloses no relevant financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients during the past 24 months.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    Horizon CME designates this Enduring activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
  • 1.00 ANCC
    This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation through the joint providership of the Nurse Practitioner Healthcare Foundation and Horizon CME. The Nurse Practitioner Healthcare Foundation is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. NPHF is awarding the contact hours and is responsible for adherence to the ANCC criteria. Upon completion, NPs and RNs will be awarded up to 1.00 credit.

Price

Cost:
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There are no fees for participating and receiving CME credit for this enduring activity. To receive CME credit participants must:

  1. Read the CME/CE information and faculty disclosures.
  2. Participate in the online activity.
  3. Complete the post-test and score a minimum of 70%
  4. Submit the evaluation form

DISCLAIMER:

This activity is designed for educational purposes. Participants have a responsibility to utilize this information to enhance their professional development to improve patient outcomes. Conclusions drawn by the participants should be derived from careful consideration of all available scientific information. The participant should use his/her clinical judgment, knowledge, experience, and diagnostic decision-making before applying any information, whether provided here or by others, for any professional use.

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