CME Peer-to-Peer Dialogue

CME Peer-to-Peer Dialogue features insightful audio commentary from a prestigious group of experts in adult pneumococcal disease. Listen in for state-of-the-art information as they address timely, clinically relevant topics identified by the expert faculty.

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Accreditation Statement
The University of Nebraska Medical Center, Center for Continuing Education is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Nebraska Medical Center, Center for Continuing Education designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Expert Faculty
Keith P. Klugman, MB BCh, PhD, FAAM, FIDSA
William H. Foege Chair of Global Health
Hubert Department of Global Health
Rollins School of Public Health
 
Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia

Kristin L. Nichol, MD, MPH, MBA
Professor of Medicine
University of Minnesota Medical School
 
Associate Chief of Staff for Research
Minneapolis VA Medical Center
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Barbara P. Yawn, MD, MSc, FAAFP
Director of Research
Olmsted Medical Center
 
Adjunct Professor
Department of Family and Community Health
University of Minnesota
Rochester, Minnesota

Disclosures
It is the policy of The University of Nebraska Medical Center and The France Foundation to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all its sponsored educational activities. All faculty, activity planners, and staff involved in the development of this activity have disclosed any significant financial interest or other relationship with manufacturer(s) of any commercial product(s)/device(s) and/or provider(s) of commercial services included in this educational activity. The intent of this disclosure is not to prevent a person with a relevant financial or other relationship from participating in the activity, but rather to provide participants with information on which they can base their own judgments. The University of Nebraska Medical Center and The France Foundation have identified and resolved any and all conflicts of interest prior to the release of this activity.

Activity Staff Disclosures
The planners, reviewers, editors, staff, CME committee, or others at The France Foundation in control have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.

The planners, reviewers, editors, staff, CME committee, or others at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Center for Continuing Medical Education in control have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Faculty Disclosures
The following faculty have reviewed the content and indicated they have no relationships with industry to disclose relative to the content of this CME activity:

  • Barbara P. Yawn, MD, MSc, FAAFP, has nothing to disclose.

The following faculty have indicated that they have relationships with industry to disclose:

  • Keith P. Klugman, MB BCh, PhD, FAAM, FIDSA, has received grant/research support from Johnson and Johnson and Wyeth and has served as a consultant for GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Novartis, sanofi-aventis, and Wyeth.
  • Kristin L. Nichol, MD, MPH, MBA, has received grant/research support from GlaxoSmithKline, MedImmune, and Sanofi-Pasteur. Dr. Nichol has served as a consultant for CSL, GlaxoSmithKline, MedImmune, Merck, Novartis, Sanofi-Pasteur, and Wyeth.