Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:
1. Realize the importance of obtaining a family history in pediatric and adolescent patients presenting with rheumatologic or inflammatory disease processes.
2. Define the potential genetic or inherited factors in children and adolescents presenting with rheumatologic or inflammatory disease processes.

Faculty

Paul McCarthy, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Yale University School of Medicine

Faculty Disclosure

The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education ( CE ) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options.  Faculty or planner conflicts of interest are resolved before the educational activity.

None of the members of the faculty and planning committee for this educational event have commercial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods and services consumed by or used on patients.