This course will provide a contemporary overview of indications for intervention on the mitral valve with a comprehensive discussion of medical, surgical, and percutaneous options treating mitral valve pathology from regional and national experts.

Perinatal Loss and Bereavement Care in the 21st Century will feature speakers who are leaders and researchers in their respective fields of stillbirth and pregnancy loss and trauma and grief. The first half of the day will have a medical focus with a keynote speaker who has spent over 20 years researching stillbirth and pregnancy loss.  We will also hear from other medical providers who will speak to the research in this field and the current and future directions. The second half of t...

CVD is the leading cause of death in the US. Hypertension and diabetes are among the foremost risk factors for the development of CVD, stroke, peripheral artery disease, and heart attack. This program will provide an overview of recent advances that target the underlying pathophysiology of cardiovascular disease. The focus of the program will be on the new guidelines for hypertension, DM and CKD and will discuss the advances in pharmacotherapeutics in these fields.

This is the 18th year for the International Symposium on Ventricular Arrhythmias: Pathophysiology and Therapy. Using a combination of didactic presentations, panel discussions, and question and answer sessions, our goal is to educate the participants in state of the art information regarding the pathophysiology and treatment of ventricular arrhythmias. The structure of the symposium is meant to be highly interactive. There will also be VT ablation cases streamed live from the Hospital of the Uni...

Seriously ill patients and family members have defined the importance of various elements related to quality End-of-Life Care. The most important elements are trust in the treating physician, avoidance of unwanted life support, sensitive effective communication, continuity of care and life completion.  Generally speaking, people who are dying need care in four areas: physical comfort, mental and emotional needs, spiritual needs, and practical tasks. Of course, the family of the dying person...

Using examples including organ transplantation and influenza, this course provides an overview of how clinicians and policymakers have approached the rationing of health care resources, as well as an ethical framework that can inform present and future rationing and resource allocation decisions. During the course, we delineate a system for ethically allocating resources based on 4 principles: Treating people equally. Favoring the worst off. Maximizing total benefits. Promoti...

This course is complimentary to participate on and is available ONLY to Penn Employees.The goal of the educational activity is to change the paradigm towards more judicious opioid prescribing by providing an overview of the opioid epidemic and identifying strategies for clinicians to safely manage and treat acute and chronic pain, promote adherence to new prescribing guidelines and promote harm reduction with opioid use. New Joint Commission requirements issued January 1, 2018 mandate that our h...

Live panel discussion featuring pancreatic cancer experts from medical oncology, surgery, radiation oncology, nurse navigation and translational research from Penn Medicine.  Moderated by Ursina Teitelbaum, MD, the team will provide updates in the coordinated care approach to this complex disease, including clinical trial navigation, surgical updates to minimally invasive and locally advanced procedures, perioperative therapy for pancreatic cancer and more.

This learning activity provides an overview of ethical and regulatory principles of research with participants perceived as vulnerable.  Learners will review definitions of vulnerability, relevant regulations in the United States, and their implications for special protections among various populations, including: Children Pregnant women and fetuses Prisoners The cognitively impaired Patients in emergency settings Content Last Reviewed: March 3, 2021

Intended for researchers in the social and behavioral sciences, as well as IRB members and staff, this course provides an overview of ethical principles and federal regulations that govern research in these fields. Learners will review the rationale for regulating social and behavioral research, as well as landmark studies that have raised ethical questions. Other topics include:Social and behavioral science under the Common Rule.Ethics and regulation of ethnographic studies and studies that inv...