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ACCREDITATION AND CREDIT DESIGNATION
These activities have been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of the Dannemiller Memorial Educational Foundation and Vital Issues in Medicine (VIM®). The Dannemiller Memorial Educational Foundation is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Physicians
The Dannemiller Memorial Educational Foundation designates these educational activities for a maximum of 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ each. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in each activity.

Nurse Practitioners
These programs have been approved for 0.5 contact hours of continuing education each by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. Program ID’s TBD.


DISCLOSURE OF CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
In accordance with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Dannemiller Memorial Educational Foundation requires that any person who is in a position to control the content of a CME activity must disclose all relevant financial relationships they have with a commercial interest. Please refer to individual faculty disclosure of conflicts of interest listed below.

Michael J. Thorpy, MD, reported the following financial interests/relationships or affiliations with commercial interests related to the content of this CME activity:

Speaker Bureaus: Cephalon, Inc.; Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Sanofi-Aventis; Sepracor, Inc.; Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc.

Consulting Fees (e.g. Advisory Boards): Cephalon, Inc.; Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc.;
Sanofi-Aventis; Sepracor, Inc.; Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc.


Laura K. Barger, PhD, has no real or apparent conflicts of interest to report.

The Dannemiller staff and Vital Issues in Medicine staff that were involved in the development of this activity have no financial relationships with any commercial interests that are relevant to this activity. William Yarnall, RPh, CCP, medical writer for VIM, has nothing to disclose.

To resolve identified conflicts of interest, the educational content was fully peer-reviewed by a physician member of the Dannemiller Clinical Content Review Committee who has nothing to disclose. The resulting certified activity was found to provide educational content that is current, evidence-based, and commercially balanced.


DISCLOSURE OF UNLABELED OR INVESTIGATIONAL DRUGS
These educational activities may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. The opinions expressed in the educational activity are those of the faculty. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings. Further, attendees/participants should critically appraise the information presented and are encouraged to consult appropriate resources for any product or device mentioned in this program.

DISCLAIMER
The content and views presented in this educational activity are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Dannemiller Memorial Educational Foundation; Cephalon, Inc.; or Vital Issues in Medicine. This material is prepared based upon a review of multiple sources of information, but it is not exhaustive of the subject matter. Therefore, healthcare professionals and other individuals should review and consider other publications and materials on the subject matter before relying solely upon the information contained within these educational activities.


ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This activity is supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Cephalon, Inc.

To Obtain CME Credits
This activity includes text, graphics, and may include multi-media features. Click on all of the medical education activity links and review the content presented.
 Read, complete, and submit answers to the examination and evaluation questions online.
 You must score with a 70% or higher to receive credit for this activity.
 Once you have successfully completed the examination & evaluation, a certificate will be automatically generated.



COURSE VIEWING REQUIREMENTS
PC
Microsoft Windows 2000 SE or above.
Internet Explorer (v5.5 or greater), or Firefox
Adobe Acrobat Reader*
MAC
MAC OS 10.2.8
Safari
Adobe Acrobat Reader*
Internet Explorer is not supported on the Macintosh.
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Release Date: January 08, 2009
Expiration Date: January 31, 2010

This continuing medical education activity is jointly sponsored by the Dannemiller Memorial Educational Foundation and Vital Issues in Medicine, A PDI Company.