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CME

A.C.T. N.O.W. A Challenge To Neurologists to Open the Window-of-Opportunity for Patients with Early Alzheimer's Disease

  • Authors: Marwan Sabbagh, MD, FAAN; R. Scott Turner, MD, PhD
  • CME Released: 3/28/2018
  • THIS ACTIVITY HAS EXPIRED FOR CREDIT
  • Valid for credit through: 3/28/2019, 11:59 PM EST
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Target Audience and Goal Statement

This activity is intended for neurologists and other healthcare professionals who manage patients with Alzheimer's disease.

The majority of those with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) experience significant delays in diagnoses; it can be years before patients are referred to neurologists for a proper diagnosis. Further complicating matters after diagnosis, the care of AD patients is often fragmented, uncoordinated, and unresponsive to patients’ needs and those of their caregivers and families.

Significant time and skill are required to accurately diagnose neurologic conditions, communicate a life-shattering diagnosis to patients, and discuss and manage treatment options. Neurologists play a definitive role in the management of AD patients, and this CME-certified activity is designed to help these clinicians stay up to date with cutting-edge science on the early recognition of cognitive impairment, explore new tools and techniques to confirm diagnoses, and recognize where traditional and emerging therapies belong in the treatment armamentarium.

“A.C.T. N.O.W. - A Challenge To Neurologists to Open the Window-of-Opportunity for Patients with Early Alzheimer’s Disease” will also address the following National Alzheimer’s Project Act priorities: 1) accelerate the development of treatments that would prevent, halt, or reverse the course of AD; and 2) improve early diagnosis and coordination of care and treatment of AD.

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  1. Describe the critical importance of early recognition of mild cognitive impairment and early cognitive decline
  2. Outline the mechanism of action, clinical endpoints, and efficacy and safety of current and emerging treatment options for AD, their places in the current and evolving treatment paradigms, and strategies for becoming engaged in clinical trials
  3. Describe the success of neurologist-led initiatives to establish multidisciplinary collaborative care models for AD and action-based steps and resources for implementation of similar programs


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Faculty

  • Marwan Sabbagh, MD, FAAN

    Karsten Solheim Chair for Dementia, Professor of Neurology, Director, Alzheimer’s and Memory Disorders Division, Barrow Neurological Institute, Research Professor of Neurology, UA College of Medicine-Phoenix, Phoenix, Arizona

    Disclosures

    Disclosure: Consultant: Axovant Sciences, Biogen, Grifols, Lilly Pharmaceuticals, Sanofi, vTv Therapeutics; Research: Avid Pharmaceuticals, Axovant Sciences, Biogen, Genentech, Lilly Pharmaceuticals, Merck, Pfizer, Roche Diagnostics Corporation, Suven Life Sciences, vTv Therapeutics; Stock/Shareholder: Brain Health, Muses Labs, OCHC, Versanum; Royalties: Harper Collins.

  • R. Scott Turner, MD, PhD

    Professor of Neurology, Director, Memory Disorders Program, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC

    Disclosures

    Disclosure: Grant/Research Support: Acadia, Biogen, Lilly, Merck, Novartis.

Additional Planners/Reviewers

Chad Williamson, MS, MBA, CMPP; Blair St. Amand; Lindsay Scott, PT, DPT, ATC: Nothing to disclose.


Accreditation Statements

    For Physicians

  • Rockpointe

    Jointly provided by the Potomac Center for Medical Education and Rockpointe.

    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 Potomac Center for Medical Education and Rockpointe. The Potomac Center for Medical Education is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

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CME

A.C.T. N.O.W. A Challenge To Neurologists to Open the Window-of-Opportunity for Patients with Early Alzheimer's Disease

Authors: Marwan Sabbagh, MD, FAAN; R. Scott Turner, MD, PhDFaculty and Disclosures
THIS ACTIVITY HAS EXPIRED FOR CREDIT

CME Released: 3/28/2018

Valid for credit through: 3/28/2019, 11:59 PM EST

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