The USF Health endorses the standards of the ACCME that requires everyone in a position to control the content of a CME activity to disclose all financial relationships with commercial interests that are related to the content of the CME activity.  CME activities must be balanced, independent of commercial bias and promote improvements or quality in healthcare.  All recommendations involving clinical medicine must be based on evidence accepted within the medical profession. 

 A conflict of interest is created when individuals in a position to control the content of CME have a relevant financial relationship with a commercial interest which therefore may bias his/her opinion and teaching.  This may include receiving a salary, royalty, intellectual property rights, consulting fee, honoraria, stocks or other financial benefits. 

 The USF Health will identify, review and resolve all conflicts of interest that speakers, authors or planners disclose prior to an educational activity being delivered to learners.  Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation but is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation.

 Name/CME ROLE                             RELATIONSHIP                      COMPANY                       STATUS   

Juan G. Ochoa, MD                           Nothing to Disclose

Course Director         

Gerardo Castellanos                           Nothing to Disclose

Planning Committee                      

Disclosures were obtained from the USF Health OCPD staff:  Nothing to Disclose

OFF-LABEL DISCUSSION:

There is no discussion of an off-label / investigational use of a drug or device in this program.