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Title	Category	Credit	Event date	Cost
Achieving Value-Based Care: The Role of Oncology Clinical Pathways	Oncology	ACPE - Pharmacists ACPE - Pharmacy Technicians AMA - Physicians ANCC - Nurses Attendance - General Attendance CCMC - General - Case Managers		$0.00	This activity will discuss best practices in cancer care, provide an overview of the current status of pathways in oncology and explore their role in helping practices to deliver value-based care.
Threading the Needle: Practical Considerations in the Modern, Evidence-based Management of Type 2 Diabetes	Disease management	ACPE - Pharmacists ACPE - Pharmacy Technicians AMA - Physicians ANCC - Nurses APA - Psychologists Attendance - General Attendance ASWB - Social Workers		$0.00	This activity will assist learners in identifying optimal lifestyle and behavioral changes that can impact disease development and progression in their patients and will discuss practical strategies and forms of support that HCPs can offer to assist patients in setting healthy lifestyle goals. Learners will examine how appropriate prescribing decisions must be based on a comparative analysis of diabetes medications and will also review disease etiology and biological changes seen during disease progression. Lastly, the presenter will discuss policy and system changes that can best assist in integrating evidence into daily practice for the purpose of maximizing health in individuals with T2D.
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) in Children and Adolescents	Behavioral health Pediatrics	AMA - Physicians ANCC - Nurses APA - Psychologists Attendance - General Attendance ASWB - Social Workers		$0.00	This activity will present HCPs with a comprehensive overview of MDD and suicidality in children and adolescents, and effective screening tools will be reviewed. The focus of MDD will include subtypes, differential diagnoses, risk factors, protective factors, and the course of illness that may be expected. Aspects of suicidality such as current statistics, risk assessment, and prevention will be discussed. Importantly, treatment modalities will be examined, with an updated overview of effective antidepressant medications and psychological therapies.
Optimal Care—Combining Evidence and Technology to Drive Quality and Eliminate Low-Value Care	Disease management	ACPE - Pharmacists ACPE - Pharmacy Technicians AMA - Physicians ANCC - Nurses APA - Psychologists Attendance - General Attendance ASWB - Social Workers		$0.00	This activity will provide learners with successful approaches to address the issues of wasted and harmful care in order to decrease unnecessary expenditures and improve patient outcomes.
Mental Health and Substance-Use Disorders: Impact of COVID-19	Behavioral health Covid-19 Infectious diseases	AMA - Physicians ANCC - Nurses APA - Psychologists Attendance - General Attendance ASWB - Social Workers		$0.00	This activity will provide education surrounding current trends in mental health issues and increases in SUD, OUD, and SI that have been associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. It will discuss possible etiologies for these changes and will highlight areas of focus for health care providers (HCPs) that can induce potential changes in approaches to patient care that can effectively promote improved evaluation, treatment, recovery, and health moving forward.
Advancing Complex Care Philosophy: Tools for Healing-Centered Care	Behavioral health	ACPE - Pharmacists ACPE - Pharmacy Technicians AMA - Physicians ANCC - Nurses APA - Psychologists Attendance - General Attendance CCMC - General - Case Managers ASWB - Social Workers		$0.00	This activity will equip participants with practical tools that will help strengthen their skills in facilitating conversations and activities and conducting follow-up interventions with individuals experiencing complex health and social needs. As a result of this increased knowledge, learners can feel more confident in their ability to foster authentic healing relationships that build resiliency and avoid re-traumatization.
Understanding and Preventing Burnout: Improving Health Care Outcomes	Behavioral health Wellness	AMA - Physicians ANCC - Nurses APA - Psychologists Attendance - General Attendance ASWB - Social Workers		$0.00	This activity will discuss contributing factors to burnout, its impact on the health and well-being of HCPs and their patients, interventions to decrease overall stress and how burnout can influence patient care and health care outcomes.
Diabetic Kidney Disease: Improving Outcomes and Reducing Costs	Disease management	ACPE - Pharmacists ACPE - Pharmacy Technicians AMA - Physicians ANCC - Nurses APA - Psychologists Attendance - General Attendance ASWB - Social Workers		$0.00	This activity will present HCPs with the information necessary to evaluate kidney health in individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and will discuss CKD risk stratification, including interpretation of albuminuria levels and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR). Interventions that can reduce progression of disease, likelihood of hospitalization and costs will be identified, and recent data about effective treatment regimens and their indications for improving outcomes will be examined. Additionally, early strategies to decrease the risk for CVD and ESRD in these individuals will be defined, with a review of the pathophysiology of progression of these disorders.
Women's Mental Health	Behavioral health	AMA - Physicians ANCC - Nurses APA - Psychologists Attendance - General Attendance ASWB - Social Workers		$0.00	This activity will provide an overview of the psychiatric conditions experienced by women across their lifespans and alert HCPs to differences in symptom patterns, evaluation, and treatment, as compared to those of men. In addition, diagnostic criteria and management considerations for psychiatric conditions specific to women’s reproductive lifespans, such as those associated with perimenopause, postmenopause, pregnancy, the postpartum period, and the menstrual cycle, will be discussed.
Developing an Optimal COVID-19 Test Program: Strategies and Considerations for Success	Covid-19 Disease management Infectious diseases	ACPE - Pharmacists ACPE - Pharmacy Technicians AMA - Physicians ANCC - Nurses APA - Psychologists Attendance - General Attendance ASWB - Social Workers		$0.00	This activity will identify pathways to creating effective, practical and sustainable testing strategies for COVID-19 that can accelerate a return to normalcy and allow schools and other facilities to remain open. It will relay to participants how determining the goal of testing is the key factor to establishing an optimal testing strategy through consideration of multiple factors, including test type, sensitivity and turnaround time as well as program implementation and costs. Current testing programs will be discussed, examining how the selection of these elements can be adapted to satisfy the needs of the target community as well as the testing program’s goals. The roles that communication and partnership can play in establishing effective strategies, enhancing safety, enabling improved implementation and shaping public policy will also be examined.

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