For questions, please contact Olivia Cipriani via e-mail at Olivia.Cipriani@baystatehealth.org

Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:

1|Apply the lessons of the cases discussed to the future care that is provided.
2|Appraise surgical outcomes.
3|Describe the roles of the members of the health care team in their respective responsibilities for quality care.

Faculty

Pranay Parikh, MD
Chief, Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
Chief, Division of Hand & Wrist Surgery
Assistant Professor of Surgery, UMass Chan Medical School-Baystate

Luanne McCloskey, DMSc PA-C
Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
Physician Assistant

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. Any relevant financial relationships are mitigated prior to the educational activity.

None of the planners or faculty for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. 

Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, Baystate Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. 

Physicians
Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM.  Physicians should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses
Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 contact hour(s).  Nurses should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Physician Assistants
Baystate Health has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credits for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 1.5 AAPA Category 1 CME credit(s). PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

MOC (CME ACCREDITED) – for physicians

Successful completion of this CME activity enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME requirement(s) of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program.  It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.