Critical Steps for Long-Term Management of HBV: Focus on Monitoring and HBV Reactivation
Premiere Date: Monday, July 12, 2021This activity offers CE credit for:
- Physicians (CME)
- Pharmacists (ACPE)
- ABIM (MOC)
- Other
All other clinicians will receive a Certificate of Attendance stating this activity was certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Credit Expiration Date:
Tuesday, July 12, 2022
Note: Credit Is No Longer Available
 | Joseph K. Lim, MD Professor of Medicine Director, Clinical Hepatology Section of Digestive Diseases/Yale Liver Center Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, CT |
New targeted treatment and biologics have revolutionized immunosuppression for patients with cancer, autoimmune diseases, and anti-rejection agents, but are associated with HBV reactivation (HBVr) at various levels of risk. Additionally, HBVr occurs in patients with HBV-HCV coinfection receiving viral agents. Clinicians need to be aware of potential HBVr related to immunosuppressive therapies that are increasingly common across many specialties and should screen patients for HBV prior to initiation of treatment to reduce HBVr associated morbidity and mortality.
In this CME Outfitters BriefCase you meet Thomas, a 31-year-old man who immigrated from Nigeria as a child and has been diagnosed with CD20-positive B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. His case will be used to illustrate the importance of screening at-risk patients for HBV and routinely monitoring patients with HBV who are immunosuppressed every 6 months for disease progression, HCC, and HBV reactivation.
At the end of this CE activity, participants should be able to:
- Routinely monitor patients with HBV every 6 months for disease progression, HCC, and HBV reactivation in patients who are immunosuppressed.
The following learning objectives pertain only to those requesting CNE or CPE credit:
- Describe ways to routinely monitor patients with HBV every 6 months for disease progression, HCC, and HBV reactivation in patients who are immunosuppressed.
Supported by an educational grant from Gilead Sciences, Inc.
Primary care physicians, PAs, nurse practitioners, nurses, and pharmacists.
CME Credit (Physicians):
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CME Outfitters, LLC, designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
CPE Credit (Pharmacists):
CME Outfitters, LLC, is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. 0.5 contact hours (0.05 CEUs) Universal Activity Number:
Enduring: JA0007185-0000-21-119-H01-P
Type: Knowledge-based
ABIM/MOC Credit:
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 0.5 medical knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.
Learning Format
Enduring material
Royal College MOC:
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MIPS Improvement Activity: This activity counts towards MIPS Improvement Activity requirements under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). Clinicians should submit their improvement activities by attestation via the CMS Quality Payment Program website.
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Dr. Lim reports that he receives research support from Allergan; Celgene Corporation; Eiger BioPharmaceuticals; GENFIT; Gilead Sciences, Inc.; and Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Maria Glukhovsky, PharmD (planning committee) has no disclosures to report.
Jan Perez (planning committee) has no disclosures to report.
Sharon Tordoff (planning committee) has no disclosures to report.
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