Presenters
Alex H. Gifford, MD, FCCP
Genetic Determinants of Iron Homeostasis in People with Cystic Fibrosis
About our presenter:
Dr. Alex Gifford graduated from the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine, Chief Residency, and fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at DHMC. Dr. Gifford directs the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program at Dartmouth-Hitchcock has been the recipient of several career development grants from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Dr. Gifford has sought to understand the clinical ramifications of abnormal iron homeostasis in people with cystic fibrosis, including how those abnormalities are associated with CFTR dysfunction, iron deficiency, anemia, and chronic lung infections.
Suzannah J. Luft, MD
Accuracy of Stool-Based Testing (FIT) for Colorectal Cancer Prevention in Older Adults
About our presenter:
Dr. Suzannah Luft is currently a 3rd year Gastroenterology fellow with interests in general gastroenterology, liver disease, and obesity. She completed medical school at Dartmouth and Internal Medicine residency at Yale New Haven Hospital where she served as a hospitalist and ran a hepatitis C clinic prior to returning to DHMC for fellowship. She will be joining the DH-Keene GI department starting this summer.
Marcus Shaker, MD, MSc, FAAAAI, FAAP
Patient Centered Care in Anaphylaxis: Finding Value
About our presenter:
Dr. Marcus Shaker is a Professor of Pediatrics and of Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine, and a Fellow in the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Shaker attended medical school and completed his Pediatrics residency at the University of Virginia, and remained in Charlottesville for his fellowship in Allergy and Immunology. Dr. Shaker’s research interests center around optimizing value-based care in allergy and clinical immunology.
Rongxiao Zhang, PhD
Al-Powered MR-guided Radiation Therapy
About our presenter:
Dr. Rongxiao Zhang completed his PhD in physics at Dartmouth, imaging the first veterinary and human images of Cherenkov in external beam radiation therapy and going on to demonstrate how to achieve chemical sensing. After completing the Harvard Medical Physics Residency Program in 2018, he joined the Department of Radiation Oncology at Emory University School of Medicine. He was recently recruited as a Clinical Physicist II at the Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health, with a focus on MRI-guided radiation therapy and the Medical Physics residency program. He is committed to being a medical physicist who leads on clinical and translational research and implements scientific discoveries in clinical practice to ensure and continuously improve the quality of radiation therapy.
Lynn F. Butterly, MD, FACG and Joseph C. Anderson, MD
New Hampshire Colonoscopy Registry: Using Population Based Data to Optimize CRC Prevention with Colonoscopy
About our presenters:
Dr. Lynn Butterly is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and completed her internship, residency, and fellowship in Gastroenterology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She is a Professor of Medicine and Director of Colorectal Cancer Screening for Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. She is the Principal Investigator for the New Hampshire Colonoscopy Registry, an NCI-funded statewide, population-based registry collecting longitudinal data on all aspects of screening and surveillance colonoscopy, and for the CDC-funded New Hampshire Colorectal Cancer Screening Program.
Dr. Joseph Anderson graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in engineering, and received his MD degree from the Mount Sinai Medical School. He completed his residency and fellowship in Gastroenterology at Stony Brook University where he joined the tenured staff. He has been on faculty at the University of Connecticut since 2007 where he is an Associate Professor and continues to collaborate with UConn faculty and lectures students and trainees. In 2011 he joined the Geisel faculty and the clinical staff at the White River Junction VA, and he serves as Chair of the WRJVA Research and Development Committee.
Learning Outcome(s)
Alex H. Gifford, MD, FCCP - Genetic Determinants of Iron Homeostasis in People with Cystic Fibrosis.
Learning Objective: Recognize that iron homeostasis is abnormal in people with cystic fibrosis and that this is reflected by blood and sputum biomarkers.
Suzannah J. Luft, MD - Accuracy of Stool-Based Testing (FIT) for Colorectal Cancer Prevention in Older Adults.
Learning Objective: Identify fecal immunochemical testing (FIT) as a potential option for colon polyp surveillance in older adults.
Rongxiao Zhang, PhD - Al-Powered MR-guided Radiation Therapy.
Learning Objective: Describe MR-guided Adaptive Radiation Therapy and the potential of AI in MRgART.
Marcus Shaker, MD, MSc, FAAAAI, FAAP - Patient Centered Care in Anaphylaxis: Finding Value.
Learning Objective: Leverage an understanding of cost-effective care to describe contextual factors that can optimize shared decision-making to promote value-based patient-centered care in anaphylaxis.
Lynn F. Butterly, MD, FACG and Joseph C. Anderson, MD - New Hampshire Colonoscopy Registry: Using Population Based Data to Optimize CRC Prevention with Colonoscopy.
Learning Objective: To increase knowledge leading to improved colonoscopy practices that optimize colorectal cancer screening, and provide understanding regarding the role of serrated polyps in CRC prevention.
Disclosure
In accordance with the disclosure policy of Dartmouth-Hitchcock/Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth as well as standards set forth by the Accreditation Council on Continuing Medical Education and the Nursing Continuing Education Council standards set forth by the American Nurses Credentialing Center Commission on Accreditation, continuing medical education and nursing education activity director(s), planning committee member(s), speaker(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content have been asked to disclose any financial relationship* they have to a commercial interest (any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on patients). Such disclosure is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation, but is elicited to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a given activity.
The following Activity Physician Director(s), planning committee member(s), speaker(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content have reported the following financial interest or relationship* with various companies/organizations. The Planning Committee member role was resolved by altering the individual’s control over content about the products or services of the commercial interest by Marc Bertrand, MD, Associate Dean for GME (as alternate for vacant Associate Dean for CME position). The speaker conflicts were resolved by validating the activity content though independent peer review. All potential conflict(s) were resolved.
* Richard I. Rothstein, MD ~ has research support from Fractyl and is on the Scientific Advisory Board for Allurion.
* Alex Gifford, MD, FCCP ~ has research support from Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and is a consultant with Insmed, Immunext, and Celdara Medical.
* Rongxiao Zhang, PhD ~ is a consultant with DoseOptics, Inc., and the MathWorks customer advisory board.
Other planning committee member(s), speaker(s), activity director(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content for this program report no financial interest or relationship* with any company(ies) or organizations whose product may be germane to the content of their presentations.
*A “financial interest or relationship" refers to an equity position, receipt of royalties, consultantship, funding by a research grant, receiving honoraria for educational services elsewhere, or to any other relationship to a company that provides sufficient reason for disclosure, in keeping with the spirit of the stated policy.
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