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Sixth Annual Updates in Digestive Diseases
This conference will cover a wide range of topics critical to clinicians who treat patients with gastrointestinal and liver diseases, including the latest evidence-based medicine in diagnosis and management, emerging medical and surgical technologies, application of high-yield clinical pearls in diagnosis of complex diseases, expert views on varied approaches to controversial areas of disease management, and new guidelines for therapeutic disease monitoring and management.
Target Audience
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Describe how to implement evidence-based medicine in the diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal and liver diseases;
- State the role of emerging technologies for medical and surgical management of gastrointestinal diseases such as endoscopic management of obesity and surgical management of GERD;
- Discuss how to apply high-yield clinical pearls to diagnose complex gastrointestinal diseases;
- Evaluate different views in controversial areas of the management of gastrointestinal and liver diseases;
- Outline new guidelines for the therapeutic monitoring and management of gastrointestinal diseases;
- Analyze the evidence for and against requiring a biopsy for celiac disease diagnosis;
- Define how new guidelines for colon cancer screening and use of medical therapy in inflammatory bowel disease affect treatment practices.
*Agenda subject to change.
WANT TO KNOW MORE?
ACCESSIBILITY The University of Chicago is committed to providing equal access appropriate to need and circumstances and complies fully with legal requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you are in need of special accommodation, please contact Amy Majkowski via email at aszczudl@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu.
The University of Chicago reserves the right to cancel or postpone this conference due to unforeseen circumstances. In the unlikely event this activity must be cancelled or postponed, the registration fee will be refunded; however, The University of Chicago is not responsible for any related costs, charges, or expenses to participants, including fees assessed by airline/travel/lodging agencies.
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO COURSE DIRECTORS
Disclosure Declarations
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone in a position to control the content of an education activity to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible companies. This includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if a financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company during the past 24 months, and the content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship. Mechanisms are in place to identify and mitigate any relevant financial relationships prior to the start of the activity.
Additionally, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires Authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration at first mention and where appropriate in the content.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 7.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
American Board of Internal Medicine MOC Part II Credit
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 7.25 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.
Please Note: Requests to claim MOC Part II credit must be made within one month to report to ABIM. Requests to claim AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ after three months will be subject to additional fees.
VIRTUAL EXHIBIT OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE!
Download the prospectus
here or contact Amy Majkowski at aszczudl@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu or 773-702-8597. We hope to see you there!
REGISTRATION
| Profession Type | Fee |
|---|---|
| Physicians | $75 |
| Nurses and Other Healthcare Professionals | $50 |
| Trainees | $0 |