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CE Credits Available for this Activity: 1
Release and Expiration Dates
10/12/2023 – 10/12/2026
Knowledge Gap: This activity aims to educate healthcare providers with the most up-to-date information on conducting clinical trials in rural communities.
Target Audience: The target audience includes all healthcare professionals such as physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and allied health professionals who would like to learn about approaches to conducting clinical trials in rural communities.
Program Overview: The purpose of this activity is to educate medical professionals on approaches to conducting clinical trials in rural communities.
Objectives
Identify ways to conduct research in rural populations.
Discuss common challenges faced while conducting clinical research in rural communities.
Provide effective approaches to overcoming barriers.
References
ECHO IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network
Financial Disclosure Statement
The following planners, speakers, moderators, peer reviewers, and/or panelists of this CE activity have financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose:
Jessica Snowden, MD – Consultant: Pfizer
All financial relationships have been mitigated.
No other planners, speakers, and/or peer reviewers of this CME activity have relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
The compliance reviewer, Courtney Bryant, Sara Hale, or Brandie Jones, has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
Planners: Jessica Snowden, MD; Jeannette Lee, PhD; Lora Lawrence, RN; Catrice Banks-Johnson, MPA; DeAnn Hubberd, MA
Speaker(s): Ann Davis, PhD and Lesley Cottrell, PhD
Speaker(s) Bio
Ann Davis, PhD, MPH, ABPP
Ann Davis graduated from the University of Kansas with a dual degree in Psychology and English. She attended Western Michigan University for her PhD in Clinical Psychology, and completed her psychology internship at Father Flanagan’s Boys Home in Nebraska. After a two-year research fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center she returned to her native home in Kansas, to accept a faculty position at the University of Kansas Medical Center in the Department of Pediatrics.
Shortly after her arrival in 2001, Ann founded the pediatric obesity program at KUMC called Healthy Hawks, and embarked on her career as an externally funded scientist in the realm of healthy lifestyles in children. Ann and her team have attained funding from the National Institutes of Health and other federal agencies, as well as local and philanthropic grants to support their work.
Lesley Cottrell, PhD
Dr. Lesley Cottrell is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics in the WVU School of Medicine. She received a PhD in Developmental Psychology from West Virginia University. Her training included an NIDA-funded doctoral project examining parental monitoring and adolescent risk behaviors including substance use and unprotected sexual risk. She is a Co-Principal Investigator for the WVU Prevention Research Center and the Vice Chair of Research for the Department of Pediatrics. During her graduate training, she received a NIDA-funded fellowship to examine parental monitoring and adolescent risk behaviors including substance use and unprotected sexual risk.
Dr. Cottrell’s research interests examine parental influences on child and adolescent health risk decision-making and behaviors. She has led several national projects designed to examine childhood chronic health issues such as obesity, diabetes, asthma as well as health risks in adolescence related to unhealthy decision making. She recently completed her service as the Principal Investigator on the Marion County, WV portion of the National Children’s Study, which was sponsored by NIMH. She is currently the Co-Principal Investigator for the WV Prevention Research Center and the ACTIVATE Project, which is designed to examine children’s physical activity, fitness, and academic achievement over a five-year period. She is also the Principal Investigator on the USDA-funded Choose to Change Project.
Peer Reviewers: Angela MCCabe, RNC; Jennifer Faiella, RNC, CCRP
Instructions to Obtain Credit
(1) Launch the activity
(2) View the module
(3) Take 1 post-test at the end
(4) Complete Evaluation and Print certificate
Joint Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 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 Designation Statements
AMA Credit Designation Statement
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
ACPE Credit Designation Statement
These knowledge-based activities will provide pharmacists with up to 1 contact hour or 1 CEU. CE credit information, based on participation and completion of the program evaluation, will be provided to NABP within 60 days after the activity completion.
ANCC Credit Designation Statement
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1 ANCC contact hours. Nursing contact hours will be awarded for successful completion of program components based upon documented attendance and completion of evaluation materials.
AAPA Credit Designation Statement
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 1 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
Disclosure Policy Statement
It is the policy of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Office of Continuing Education (OCE) to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all directly or jointly provided educational activities. All individuals who are in a position to control the content of the educational activity (course/activity directors, planning committee members, staff, teachers, or authors of CE) must disclose all relevant financial relationships they have with any commercial interest(s) as well as the nature of the relationship. The ACCME describes relevant financial relationships as those in any amount occurring within the past 24 months that create a conflict of interest. Individuals who refuse to disclose will be disqualified from participation in the development, management, presentation, or evaluation of the CE activity.
UAMS Office of Continuing Education (OCE) Contact Information
Email: cmeconf@uams.edu
Phone: 501-661-7962
DCOC Contact Information
Catrice Banks-Johnson
Email: crbanksjohnson@uams.edu
DeAnn Hubberd
Email: DEHubberd@uams.edu
