DESCRIPTION

• This series is only available to members of the Mayo Clinic Care Network.  Mayo staff members are not eligible to participate in this series.   
• Mayo staff can only participate in the live series. The live sessions occur weekly on Friday, 12:15 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

The Neurology subspecialty conference is a weekly conference presented by various subspecialists in a rotating fashion from within Department of Neurology, residents and fellows.  The areas encompassed include sleep, multiple sclerosis/autoimmune neurology, neurologic education, child neurology, speech pathology, neuro-ophthalmology, behavioral neurology, movement disorders, epilepsy, neuro-oncology, muscle disorders and peripheral nervous systems diseases.

TARGET AUDIENCE
This course is intended for physicians, mid-level health care providers, nurses, and medical students.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon conclusion of this activity, learners should be able to:

• Identify and implement treatment of migraine and related headache
• Identify epilepsy patients who are surgical candidates
• Describe the molecular pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease
• Correctly segregate multiple sclerosis patients into appropriate treatments
• Identify which patients are eligible for brain tumor protocols
• Interpret paraneoplastic antibody test results
• Recognize the differences between different forms of myopathy
• Recognize how new advances in molecular neurosciences have changed ideas about how the brain works

Accreditation Statement:

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

 

Credit Statement(s):

AMA
The Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosure Summary
As a provider accredited by Joint Accreditation Interprofessional Continuing Education, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (Mayo Clinic School of CPD) must ensure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor in its educational activities. Course Director(s), Planning Committee Members, Faculty, and all others who are in a position to control the content of this educational activity are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest related to the subject matter of the educational activity.  Safeguards against commercial bias have been put in place.  Faculty also will disclose any off label and/or investigational use of pharmaceuticals or instruments discussed in their presentation.  Disclosure of these relevant financial relationships will be published in activity materials so those participants in the activity may formulate their own judgments regarding the presentation.

Listed below are individuals with control of the content of this program who have disclosed...

Relevant financial relationship(s) with industry:
Jeffrey Britton, MD – Grant/Research Support – Co-investigator with no direct reimbursement - IVIG in VGKC encephalitis (Grifols; placebo-controlled trial cannabidiol in tuberous sclerosis (GW Pharma)
Anhar Hassan, MBBCh – Grant/Research Support - Intrabio
Eric Sorenson, MD – Grant/Research Support – Biogen, Inc.; Cytokinetics, Inc.; Shire pharmaceuticals - all grant support for clinical trial research
Erik St. Louis, MD – Consultant – Inspire, Inc. – no personal fees; Grant/Research Support – NIH/NHLBI, NINDS, NIA; Michael J. Fox Foundation; Sunovion, Inc
Elaine Wirrell, MD – Consultant – Amzell, Amicus, Mallinckrodt, Biomarin

No relevant financial relationship(s) with industry:
Drs. Allen Aksamit, Sarah Berini, Christopher Boes, Sherri Braksick, David Burkholder, Jeremy Cutsforth-Gregory, Lyell Jones, Neeraj Kumar, Ruple Laughlin, Claudia Lucchinetti, Margherita Milone, Michel Toledano, Lily Wong-Kisiel, Mses. Shari Eversman, Janice Klaassen, Kim Klauer, and DeAnna Shones

COURSE DIRECTORS
Christopher Boes, MD and Anhar Hassan, MBBCh

QUESTIONS?
Contact: cme@mayo.edu