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The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education designates

• Gastroenterology & Hepatology Symposium live activity for a maximum of 17 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
• Optional ABIM Medical Knowledge Module: 2014 Update in Transplant Hepatology live activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
• Optional ABIM Medical Knowledge Module: 2013 Update in Gastroenterology live activity for a maximum of 2AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Participants claiming CME credit from this activity may submit the credit hours to the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) for Category 2 credit.

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• Medical_students
• Nurses

• Analyze recent advances in the management of hepatitis C, compensated and decompensated cirrhosis
• Identify recent advances and compare challenges in the management of inflammatory bowel disease including Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, and disorders of the ileal pouch
• Summarize recent advances in the diagnosis and management of pancreatic diseases
• Delineate recent advances and controversies in rectal cancer management
• Formulate a strategy for the management of challenges in GI endoscopy, including: ergonomics, safety and efficiency in the GI endoscopy unit, perioperative management of antithrombotic agents, large colonic polyps and CBD stones
• Identify recent advances in GI endoscopy including: advanced imaging techniques and emerging therapies for management of obesity
• Evaluate and manage the following appropriately: patients with villous blunting on small bowel biopsies, eosinophilic esophagitis, dumping syndrome, polyposis syndromes, and the malignant
  colonic polyp after resection

Gina Brown, MD
Radiologist and Honorary Professor, Gastrointestinal Cancer Imaging
Royal Marsden NHS Foundation
London, England

Amitabh Chak, MD
Professor of Medicine, CWRU School of Medicine
Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
University Hospitals
Cleveland, OH

Ram Chuttani, MD
Professor, Harvard Medical School
Director of Endoscopy and Chief, Interventional Gastroenterology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA

Gregory Cooper, MD
Professor of Medicine, CWRU School of Medicine
Program Director, Department of Gastroenterology
UH Case Medical Center
Cleveland, OH

John Dumot, DO
Professor of Medicine, CWRU School of Medicine
Medical Director, Digestive Disease Institute
Ahuja Medical Center
Beachwood, OH

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• • Managed by the 
    Center for Continuing Education / UNITECH Communications:
  • 800.238.6750
  • or 216.448.0770
  • Managed by Cleveland Clinic FLORIDA:
  • 954.659.5490