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Advancing COPD Care in Primary Practice: Early Diagnosis, Targeted Therapy, and High Value Interventions
Activity description
This live webcast will provide primary care clinicians with a practical, guideline aligned approach to improving COPD care, including earlier and more accurate diagnosis through consistent spirometry use and optimization of inhaled therapy. It will highlight targeted and appropriate use of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS), including how to identify patients unlikely to benefit and how to minimize ICS-related risks. The activity will also review standardized strategies for managing exacerbations, emphasize high value non pharmacologic interventions—particularly pulmonary rehabilitation, inhaler technique education, and adherence support—and outline coordinated, cost-conscious care pathways, including appropriate pulmonology referral and careful selection of advanced therapies such as biologics for those patients most likely to benefit.
This activity is designed to meet the educational needs of physicians, PAs, nurses, nurse practitioners, pharmacists and other HCPs who have an interest in learning about the management of COPD.
At the end of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Apply GOLD 2026 guidance to improve early and accurate diagnosis of COPD, including appropriate use of spirometry in at-risk adults.
- Optimize pharmacologic management of COPD, including appropriate initiation, follow-up, and targeted use of inhaled corticosteroids.
- Manage COPD exacerbations effectively using standardized protocols, action plans, and post-event optimization.
- Prioritize high-value non-pharmacologic interventions, including pulmonary rehabilitation, patient education, and adherence strategies.
- Implement coordinated, cost-effective care pathways, including pulmonology referral and appropriate selection of advanced therapies such as biologics.
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This activity is provided by Optum Health Education and Optum Health.
Commercial support
No commercial support was received for this activity.
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Kevin B. Martin, MD
Chief of Pulmonary
Optum Massachusetts
About the presenter
Dr. Martin is originally from Long Island, New York. After studying biochemistry at Harvard College, he attended medical school at the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY. During internal medicine residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, he developed a passion for pulmonary and critical care medicine and pursued fellowship at Brown University. He has practiced at Reliant Medical Group – now a part of OptumHealth – in Worcester, MA for the last 19 years and in recent years has been first the ICU medical director at St Vincent Hospital and then the Chief of Pulmonary for Optum MA. His clinical interests include diagnosis and treatment of difficult respiratory illness and robotic navigation bronchoscopy. He lives with his wife and four children in Shrewsbury, MA, where his personal interests include singing, long distance running, indoor rock climbing and science fiction.
Planners
Elizabeth Albert, MD
Clinical Planner
Optum Health Education
Sarah Chart, RN
Senior Director Healthcare Optimization & Strategy
UHG Medical Affairs
Optum Health Education
Ken Cohen, MD, FACP
Chief Medical Officer, Optum Health
Chief Scientific Officer, Healthcare Transformation Hub
Executive Director of Health Outcomes Research, Optum Health
Amy Mullins, MD, CPE, FAAFP
Senior Medical Director
Optum Health Specialty Strategy
Disclosures of relevant financial relationships
In accordance with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education's (ACCME) Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, Optum Health Education (OHE) requires all those in control of educational content to disclose their financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. Ineligible companies are defined by the ACCME as companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care products used by or on patients. Individuals must disclose all financial relationships, regardless of the amount, with ineligible companies and regardless of their view of the relevance of the relationship to the education. OHE ensures that the content is independent of commercial bias.
The presenter and planners have no financial relationships to disclose.
Accreditation statement
Credit designation statements
Nurses
The participant will be awarded up to 1.00 contact hour(s) of credit for attendance and completion of supplemental materials.
Nurse practitioners
The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Program (AANPCP) accepts credit from organizations accredited by the ACCME and ANCC.
Pharmacists/Pharmacy technicians
This activity is approved for 1.00 contact hour ([0.10] CEU) in states that recognize ACPE.
Attending the full program will earn 1.00 contact hour.
Unique Activity Number(s): JA0007123-9999-26-008-L01-P/T
Physicians
Optum Health Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
PAs
The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) accepts credit from organizations accredited by the ACCME.
AAPC-certified coders
AAPC will honor 1-for-1 CEUs for any live event offering CME credit or AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. A certificate of attendance or completion is necessary to show participation. The certificate will give the total CMEs possible for the offering. Physicians are advised to claim only the actual hours that they were present during the education. We ask that AAPC-certified members abide by this request also. One hour of instruction is worth 1 CEU.
Attendance
A certificate of attendance will be provided to learners upon completion of activity requirements, enabling participants to register with licensing boards or associations that have not been preapproved for credits. To apply for credit types not listed above, participants should use the procedure established by the specific organization from which they wish to obtain credit.
Available Credit
- 1.00 AAPC - Coders
- 1.00 ACPE - Pharmacists
- 1.00 ACPE - Pharmacy Technicians
- 1.00 AMA - Physicians
- 1.00 ANCC - Nurses
- 1.00 Attendance - General Attendance
REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS:
- You must be logged into your optumhealtheducation.com account to register for this live webcast.
- To log in, click here or scroll to the Log in bar at the top of this page.
- If you DO NOT have an optumhealtheducation.com account, click Create account at the top of the page and enter your information. Click CREATE ACCOUNT.
- Once logged into your account, click Continue to complete registration.
Registrants will receive an email confirmation upon successful completion of registration. This confirmation will be sent to the email address associated with your optumhealtheducation.com account. If you do not receive an email within one hour after registering, please contact [email protected].
Activity date/time: This live webcast will be held on Tuesday, March 31, 2026, from 1–2 p.m. ET (12–1 p.m. CT; 11 a.m.–12 p.m. MT; 10–11 a.m. PT).
Fees: There are no fees for participating in or receiving credit for this activity.
Questions: Email [email protected].