Current Advances in Ankylosing Spondylitis: Application to Clinical Practice
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Premiere Date: Monday, October 15, 2018This activity offers CE credit for:
- Physicians (CME)
- Other
All other clinicians will receive a Certificate of Attendance stating this activity was certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Credit Expiration Date:
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Note: Credit Is No Longer Available
 | Allan Gibofsky, MD, JD, MACR, FACP, FCLM Professor of Medicine Weill Cornell Medicine Attending Rheumatologist Co-Director, Clinic for Inflammatory Arthritis Hospital for Special Surgery New York, NY |
Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic, inflammatory arthritis that effects the axial skeleton. The aging population combined with a declining rheumatology workforce has led to limited access to specialty care, with the condition largely managed in primary care. AS is also challenging to diagnose, having the longest diagnostic delay among other rheumatic diseases. With recent studies showing that patients with shorter disease duration have better response to treatment, this diagnostic delay may cause patients to miss the chance of early appropriate treatment and therefore have poorer prognosis, including disability, limitation of spinal and hip movements, pain, poor quality of life, and poor functional status.
Recognizing key clinical features, classification criteria, and diagnostic tests is critical in reducing diagnosis delays. This CME Outfitters mobile case series is designed to help primary care clinicians increase timely and appropriate treatment initiation for patients with AS.
At the end of this CE activity, participants should be able to:
- Apply the current classification criteria for early and accurate diagnosis of AS.
- Integrate targeted therapies of AS to improve patient outcomes.
Supported by an educational grant from Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation.
Primary care physicians, internists, rheumatologists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, and pharmacists who treat patients with ankylosing spondylitis.
CME Credit (Physicians):
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Dr. Gibofsky reports that he is on the speakers bureau for AbbVie Inc.; Celgene Corporation; Merck & Co., Inc.; Pfizer Inc. He is a consultant for AbbVie Inc.; Celgene Corporation; Merck & Co., Inc.; Pfizer Inc.; Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Samumed, LLC; Sandoz. He is a stock shareholder for Abbvie Inc.; Bristol-Myers Squibb Company; Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, L.L.C.; Pfizer Inc.; Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Jan Perez (planning committee) has no disclosures to report.
Shari Tordoff (planning committee) has no disclosures to report.
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