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ForwardProgrammatic Essentials: Nursing Preparation, Coordination and Care of the Gamma Knife® Patient
Commercial Supporter
Baptist Health gratefully acknowledges the commercial support provided by Elekta for this activity.
Target Audience
Neurosurgeons, medical physicists, radiation oncologists and neuro-otolaryngologists.
Learning Objectives
- Describe and outline the procedure for the patient.
- Assists in coordinating chemotherapy treatments with medical oncologist.
- Integrate neurocognitive function into stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) practice.
Haley R. Appel, PA-C, MMS
Physician Assistant
Department of Radiation Oncology
Miami Cancer Institute
Baptist Health South Florida
Haley R. Appel, PA-C, MMS, faculty and planner for this educational activity, is a consultant with Novocure and has indicated that the presentation or discussion will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.
Michael McDermott, M.D., conference director for this educational event, is a consultant with Deinde Medical and Stryker, and has indicated that the presentations or discussions will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.
Rupesh Kotecha, M.D., conference director for this educational event, has received honorariums from Elekta AB, Accuray, Viewray, Novocure and Elsevier. He has received research support from Medtronic, Blue Earth Diagnostics, Novocure, Exelixis, CT Medical, AstraZeneca and Viewray. He is also on the speakers’ bureau with Novocure, and has indicated that the presentations or discussions will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.
All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.
Non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies.*
*Ineligible companies – Companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Baptist Health South Florida is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Baptist Health has been re-surveyed by the ACCME and awarded Commendation for 6 years as a provider of CME for physicians.
Baptist Health South Florida designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Available Credit
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 1.00 General certificate of attendance
- 1.00 Nurse Practitioners
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