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Administration and Interpretation of the MoCA-Do You Know What You’re Doing?

Shirlene Sampson, M.D. and Mary Machulda, Ph.D., L.P.

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

12:00-1:00 p.m., Gonda 5-104 Leighton Lecture Hall

Lunch will be served on a first come basis

Introduction

Dr. Sampson attended Dalhousie University with honors in psychiatry.  Dr. Sampson attended Medical School and did her internship and residency at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.  She did a fellowship at Harvard University (Brigham and Women’s Hospital and West Roxbury VA Hospital for Medical Psychiatry/Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.  She also did a fellowship at Harvard University (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for Neuropsychiatry).   Dr. Sampson is board certified in Behavioral Neurology and Neuro Psychiatry.  She is active in TMS, ECT, DBS, and research. 

Dr. Machulda is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and a neuropsychologist in the Division of Neurocognitive Disorders at Mayo Clinic, Rochester.  She completed her doctoral training at the Finch University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School, her predoctoral internship at the West Virginia University School of Medicine, and her postdoctoral fellowship at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine. Her professional activities include clinical responsibilities, teaching/supervision, serving as the Adult Neuropsychology Fellowship Speciality Director, and collaborating with colleagues on several NIH funded research projects that examine aging/dementia as well neurodegenerative speech and language disorders

Learning Objectives

1. Participants will be able to administer the MoCA reliably and validly

2. Participants will be able to identify the brain regions assessed with different subtests of the MoCA

3. Participants will be able to discuss the implications of poor test performance

Live webcast available at:  http://videos.mayo.edu/live

1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ hour is offered for watching this Webcast live.  MedHub will be implemented for all post presentation surveys.  Your name and e-mail are not linked to your evaluation. Identifiers are tracked separately for attendance records only.  To document your attendance, please send an email to rstpsychgr@mayo.edu. The badge reader should continue to be utilized for Gonda and Sister Helen Hayes locations.

Credit Statements

• Mayo Clinic College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

• Mayo Clinic College of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.   

Archived webcast available at: Psychiatry & Psychology Video Library

Industry Acknowledgment (if applicable): None.

Disclosure Summary
As a provider accredited by ACCME, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine (Mayo School of Continuous Professional Development), 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 this information will be published in course 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: 

Dr. Sampson, research equipment support, Neuronetics, Inc.

 No relevant financial relationship(s) with industry:
Brian Palmer, M.D., Michael Bostwick, M.D., Karen Grothe, Ph.D., Lois Krahn, M.D., Jarrod Leffler, Ph.D., Larissa Loukianova, M.D., Mary Machulda, M.D., Patricia Maus, M.D., Amber Pearson, Jeffrey Staab, M.D., Cosima Swintak, M.D., Kristin Vickers Douglas, Ph.D., Cynthia Harbeck-Weber, Ph.D., Michael Zaccariello, Ph.D., Georgina Rink

References to off-label usage(s) of pharmaceuticals or instruments in their presentation:

Dr. Sampson: TMS machines (Neuronetics, Inc., MagStim, MagVenture)

Questions regarding this program can be directed to rstpsychgr@mayo.edu