The Bionic Pancreas for Children: How Does it Work and What’s Next?(Episode Includes Grand Rounds)

For CME Credit, click here: https://cmetracker.net/UTHSCSA/Publisher?page=pubOpen#/getCertificate/10092431

 

Presenter: Rabab Z. Jafri, MD
Pediatric Endocrinologist
Department of Pediatrics
Texas Diabetes Institute
UT Health San Antonio

Overview:
A Bionic Endocrine Pancreas for Automated Management of Glycemia in Diabetes Mellitus, grand rounds.  Plus, Pediatrics Now Host Holly Wayment gets reaction from Dr. Jafri about the bionic pancreas study published in NEJM, plus soundbites from patients in the clinical trial.

Objectives:
To increase awareness and education for pediatric providers

 

Financial Disclosures:
Rabab Z. Jafri, MD has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

 

The Pediatric Grand Rounds Planning Committee (Deepak Kamat MD, PhD, Daniel Ranch, MD and Elizabeth Hanson, MD) has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. Planning Committee member Steven Seidner, MD has disclosed he receives funding from Draeger Medical for the Clinical Study to Evaluate the Safety and Effectiveness of the Infinity Acute Care System Workstation Neonatal Care Babylog VN500 Device in High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation (HFOV) Mode in Extremely Low Birth Weight (ELBW) Neonates for which he is a co-principal investigator.

Our wonderful pediatric endocrinology team sees patients at University Hospital's Texas Diabetes Institute.

Credits:
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hour)
Non-Physician Participation Credit (1.00 hour)
MOC-2 credit (1.00 hour)

Target Audience:
Pediatric Community Doctors and Providers
Faculty, residents, health care providers; medical students and trainees.

 

Accreditation:
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

 

Credit Designation:
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio designates this live activity up to a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses and other healthcare professionals will receive a Certificate of Attendance. For information on applicability and acceptance, please consult your professional licensing board.