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Grand Rounds: A bionic pancreas for Automated Management of Glycemia in Diabetes Mellitus

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+1 210-469-0159   United States, San Antonio (Toll)

Conference ID: 110 958 175# Pediatric Grand Rounds

Speaker:      Rabab Z. Jafri, MD

Rabab Z. Jafri, MD, has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

Dr. Rabab Z. Jafri, MD is Attending Physician, Pediatric Endocrinology at Texas Diabetes Institute, University Medical Associates and Specialist, Pediatrics at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Dr. Jafri completed her medical training from the Aga Khan Medical College in Karachi, Pakistan and pediatric residency from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Subsequently she joined the pediatric endocrine fellowship program at Massachusetts General Hospital where her research interest in diabetes and technological advances in glycemic control led her to join the Russell lab. Following the completion of fellowship, she joined Harvard Medical School as an instructor while continuing to work on several clinical trials that explored the utility of the bionic pancreas in cohorts other than type 1 diabetes. Following the completion of these studies she joined the pediatric endocrinology department at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center.

Disclosure to Learners

The Pediatric Grand Rounds Planning Committee (Deepak Kamat, MD, PhD, Daniel Ranch, MD and Elizabeth Hanson, MD) has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.  Planning Committee member Steven Seidner, MD has disclosed he receives funding from Draeger Medical for the Clinical Study to Evaluate the Safety and Effectiveness of the Infinity Acute Care System Workstation Neonatal Care Babylog VN500 Device in High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation (HFOV) Mode in Extremely Low Birth Weight (ELBW) Neonates for which he is a co-principal investigator.

Continuing Medical Education Statements

The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.  The UT Health Science Center San Antonio designates this live activity up to a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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Step One: Text your email address to 844-502-1338 to link your responses to your existing profile in CME database
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