Faculty Disclosure In accordance with the ACCME Standards for Commercial support, course directors, planning committees, faculty and all others who are in a position to control the educational content of the CME activity must disclose to the learners all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest that they or their spouse/partner may have had within the past 12 months.
The intent of this policy is not to prevent expert faculty with relevant relationship(s) with commercial interest(s) from involvement in CME, but rather to ensure that Sunrise Hospital CME-certified activities promote quality and safety, are effective in improving medical practice, are based on valid content, and are independent of control from commercial interests and free of commercial bias.
Conflict of Interest
If an individual refuses to disclose relevant financial relationships, they will be disqualified from being a part of the planning and implementation of this CME activity. Employees of a commercial interest with business lines or products relating to the content of this CME activity will not participate in the planning or any accredited portion of the activity.
Peer review of all content was conducted for all faculty presentations whose disclosure information provided to the Sunrise Hospital Office of CME was found to contain relationships that created a conflict of interest relative to the topic of their presentation. In addition, all faculty were instructed to provide balance, scientifically rigorous, and evidence-based presentations.
Declaration of Affiliations
Planning Committee
The Education and Library Committee members, Marietta Nelson, MD, Michael Gross, MD, Johanna Fricke, MD, Gabriela Gregory, MD, Wayne Jacobs, MD, Robert Kaplan, DO, Michael Metzler, MD, Ken Mooney, MD, Beverly Neyland, MD, Barbara Fraser, RN, MaryAnn Koester, Margaret Russitano, Eric Scott, Chaplain, Pam Weber, RN, and the Sunrise Hospital Office of CME staff report having no actual or potential conflict of interest related to the activities listed above.
