11th Annual Rare Disease Symposium

Add to Calendar 11th Annual Rare Disease Symposium 3/1/2024 8:30:00 AM 3/1/2024 3:55:00 PM America/Chicago For More Details: https://childrensal.cloud-cme.com/course/courseoverview?EID=7577 Description: According to the National Institutes of Health, any disease that affects fewer than 200,000 people in the United States considered "rare." There are 7,000 rare diseases, and 25-30 million Americans are estimated to live with a rare disease. People living with rare diseases frequently face challenges finding diagnoses and quality clinical care. The Annual Rare Disease Symposium hosted by UAB and Ch... CoA Bradley Lecture Center false MM/DD/YYYY


Date & Location
Friday, March 1, 2024, 8:30 AM - 3:55 PM, CoA Bradley Lecture Center, Birmingham, AL

Target Audience
Specialties - Adolescent Medicine, Allergy/Immunology, Anesthesia, Cardiology, Cardiovascular Surgery, Community Pediatrics, Critical Care, Dentistry/OMF, Dermatology, Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, General Pediatrics, General Surgery, Genetics, Hematology/Oncology, Hospital Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Neonatology, Nephrology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Nutrition, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics, Otolaryngology, Pathology, Plastic Surgery, Primary Care Physicians, Pulmonology & Sleep Medicine, Radiology, Rehabilitation Medicine, Rheumatology, RN, CRNP, Sports Medicine, Urology

Overview
According to the National Institutes of Health, any disease that affects fewer than 200,000 people in the United States considered "rare." There are 7,000 rare diseases, and 25-30 million Americans are estimated to live with a rare disease. People living with rare diseases frequently face challenges finding diagnoses and quality clinical care. The Annual Rare Disease Symposium hosted by UAB and Children's of Alabama provides current medical education content for providers, researchers, and rare disease families with a goal of improving diagnostics and patient care.

Objectives
  1. Describe and explain several ways that disease-related phenotypes might be uncovered using cell images
  2. Explain how cell image data can be used to accelerate several steps in the drug discovery process
  3. Describe the drug development process
  4. To discuss the measures that have been made by the US government to incentivize development of therapeutics for rare diseases
  5. To report how NBS is currently implemented
  6. To explain the benefits and challenges of integrating genomic sequencing into NBS
  7. Provide an overview of the ACA Medicaid Expansion and implementation since 2014
  8. Present the economic case for expansion in Alabama including economic and budgetary impact for state

Accreditation

Children's of Alabama designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 4.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Children’s of Alabama is accredited by the Medical Association of the State of Alabama to provide continuing medical education for physicians.


Credits
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (4.50 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (4.50 hours)