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ForwardSeamless Transitions: Navigating Pediatric to Adult Care for Patients with Sickle Cell Disease
This 1-hour continuing medical education (CME) session will explore the critical process of transitioning young adults with sickle cell disease (SCD) from pediatric to adult care. With medical advances transforming SCD into a chronic condition spanning across a lifetime, ensuring a smooth transition is essential for continued optimal care and quality of life.
Commercial Supporter
Baptist Health gratefully acknowledges the educational grants provided by Novo Nordisk, Agios Pharmaceuticals and Vertex.
Target Audience
Hematologists, internal medicine, primary care and family medicine physicians, pain specialists, emergency medicine physicians, pediatricians, hospitalists, advanced practice registered nurses, nurses, physician assistants/physician associates, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, social workers, lab personnel and case managers involved in the care of patients with sickle cell disease.
Learning Objectives
- Explain the significance of transition planning and identify the roles of key stakeholders involved in the transition process.
- Analyze systemic challenges that impact effective transition planning.
- Examine models of successful transition programs to develop strategies to improve transition processes.
Michelle Krichbaum, Pharm.D., BCPP
Clinical Manager, Pain Management and Palliative Care
Baptist Health South Florida
Neil Miransky, D.O.
Chief Medical Officer, Pharmacy
Baptist Health South Florida
Samuel Perna, D.O., FAAHPM
Associate Professor
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Michelle Krichbaum, Pharm.D., BCPP, Neil Miransky, D.O. and Samuel Perna, D.O., FAAHPM, faculty for this educational activity, have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose, and have indicated that the presentation or discussion will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.
Non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose.
*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.
American Board of Internal Medicine Maintenance of Certification
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1 Medical Knowledge 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.
Your participation information will be shared with specialty boards through the ACCME's PARS reporting system. Successful completion of a course examination is required. Submissions are recorded in approximately 48 hours. You will receive an email when your credits have been processed.
Through an agreement between the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, medical practitioners participating in the Royal College MOC Program may record completion of accredited activities registered under the ACCME’s “CME in Support of MOC” program in Section 3 of the Royal College’s MOC Program.
Available Credit
- 1.00 ABIM Medical Knowledge
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 1.00 General certificate of attendance
- 1.00 Florida Board of Laboratory Personnel
- 1.00 Florida Board of Clinical Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Mental Health Counselors
- 1.00 Nurse Practitioners
- 1.00 Florida Board of Nursing
- 1.00 Florida Board of Pharmacy
Your participation information will be shared with specialty boards through the ACCME's PARS reporting system. Successful completion of a course examination is required. Submissions are recorded in approximately 48 hours. You will receive an email when your credits have been processed.
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