Own the Bone Webinars

Speaker: Matthew T. Drake, MD, PhD, Hospital for Special Surgery

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the skeletal toxicity of cancer therapies.
• Describe how malignancies such as multiple myeloma and metastatic solid tumors lead to bone fragility and be able to differentiate mechanisms of bone loss in MGUS and myeloma.
• Be able to evaluate the treatment options available for patients with fractures and cancer.

Speaker: Kristyn Hare, PA-C, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the goals of bone health clinic in managing post-fracture and preoperative bone health optimization and identify key patient populations who benefit from specialized evaluation and treatment.
• Identify clinical settings within and outside of orthopaedics where at-risk patients can be captured.
• Learn how to leverage an EHR to design effective processes to identify and refer eligible patients from inpatient, outpatient, and community sources.

Speaker: S. Bobo Tanner, MD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Learning Objectives:

• Be able to compare pharmacologic options for treating osteoporosis in transplant patients while maintaining efficacy and safety.
• Evaluate management approaches in patients with contraindications to some pharmacologic therapies.
• Summarize key recommendations from clinical trials and existing guidelines on bone health in transplant recipients.

Speakers: Paul A. Anderson, MD, FAOA, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Ahmad Nassr, MD, FAOA, Mayo Clinic; Tony M. Keaveny, PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Learning Objectives:

• Define “Opportunistic CT” and describe how routine clinical CT scans can be repurposed to evaluate bone quality.
• Understand how to use a hospital PACS to draw a region of interest and measure CT HUs.
• Define bone compression testing (BCT) and its application in opportunistic bone strength assessment and be able to comment on how it differs from traditional BMD measurement.
• Describe how to use Opportunistic CT and BCT in clinical decision-making.

All webinars are available FREE without CME credit. For some courses, CME credit is available for $25 per course. Clinicians from enrolled institutions can receive free CME credit.

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc. and The American Orthopaedic Association. The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc. is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc. designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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