The University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine (UCSF) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

UCSF designates this live activity for a maximum of 25.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

• The General Session offers 19.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM.
• Ultrasound Guided Ortho Procedures workshop offers 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Airway optional workshops (3) offers 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM each.
• Ultrasound Guided Nerve Blocks optional workshop offers 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM.
• Ultrasound Guided Volume

Assessment optional workshop offers 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM.

This CME activity meets the requirements under California Assembly Bill 1195, continuing education and cultural and linguistic competency.

Pharmacists: The California Board of Pharmacy accepts as continuing professional education those courses that meet the standard of relevance to pharmacy practice and have been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM.

Family Physicians: This Live activity, High Risk Emergency Medicine Hawaii, with a beginning date of 02/11/2015, has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 25.00 Prescribed credit(s) by the American Academy of Family Physicians. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses: For the purpose of recertification, the American Nurses Credentialing Center accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM issued by organizations accredited by the ACCME.

Physician Assistants: AAPA accepts Category 1 credit from AOACCME, Prescribed credit from AAFP, andAMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM for the PRA for organizations accredited by the ACCME.

Pain Management and End-of-Life Care: Approved credits include up to 16.00 from the General Session and up to 6.00 from the Optional Workshops toward meeting the requirement under California Assembly Bill 487, Pain Management and End-of-Life Care.

Emergency Physicians: Application has been made to the American College of Emergency Physicians for ACEP Category I credit.

Trauma: Approved credits include up to 18.00 from the General Session and up to 6.00 from the Optional Workshops toward satisfying the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma requirement for trauma related continuing medical education.

ABEM Self-Assessment Credit Includes up to 6 self-assessment credits - 2 from each Optional Workshop.

(Beginning 1/1/2012, American Board of Emergency Medicine diplomates are required to earn and report an average of 25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TMper year, 8 of which are self-assessment.)

High Risk Emergency Medicine Hawaii is a course designed to address those topics that, due to the risk of misdiagnosis or misadventure, produce the greatest anxiety and concern in the daily practice of emergency medicine. Offered by the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, nationally renowned for emergency medical and trauma care, this conference will meet the needs of the practitioner who encounters a high risk condition in their daily medical practice. This includes practicing emergency physicians as well as internists, family practitioners, and others who practice in an urgent care, high risk, or emergency department setting.

The objectives of this conference are to improve competence and performance in diagnosis, application of current treatment recommendations, and patient counseling for:

• Advanced airway management, palliative care, wounds and burns, neck and chest trauma, sepsis, strokes, TIA's and intracranial bleeding;
• Patients with ocular, cardiac, gastrointestinal, orthopedic, toxicologic, and behavioral emergencies;
• Pediatric sedation, infections, and trauma;
• Procedural competence in ultrasound and airway management.

Diane M. Birnbaumer, MD
Professor of Medicine,
Harbor-University of California,
Los Angeles Emergency Medicine,
Los Angeles, CA

Rachel Chin, MD
Professor of Emergency Medicine

David Duong, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Gregory Hendey, MD
Professor of Emergency Medicine;
Chief of Emergency Medicine, UCSF Fresno

Eric Issacs, MD
Professor of Emergency Medicine

Sean Kivlehan
Resident
Department of Emergency Medicine

Judith Klein, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Elizabeth Kwan, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Brian Lin, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency
Medicine; Kaiser Hospital,
San Francisco, CA

Jeanne Noble, MD, MA
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Guy Shochat, MD
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Eric Silman, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Stuart Swadron, MD
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine; 
Assistant Dean, Undergraduate Studies
Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

Nathaniel Teismann, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Scott Weingart, MD, FCCM
Chief, Emergency Critical Care
Stony Brook University Medical Center
Stony Brook, NY

Michael E. Wyssession, PhD
Associate Professor of Geophysics
Department of Earth and Planetary Science
Washington University
St. Louis, MO

Loren G. Yamamoto, MD, MPH, MBA, FAAP, FACEP
Professor of Pediatrics,
University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine
Emergency Medicine Director & Vice-Chief of
Staff, Kapiolani Medical Center
for Women & Children
Honolulu, HI

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