Presenter:
Cristabel Torres, MD, FAAP
Overview:
Bone Tumors: what to know as a pediatrician
Objectives:
To increase awareness and education for pediatric providers
Cristabel Torres, MD, FAAP. is originally from Puerto Rico. She moved to Mexico to begin her medical training, and after two years moved back to Puerto Rico to continue clinical rotations and receive her medical degree in 2015. Subsequently she did her residency in pediatrics in Puerto Rico. After residency she stayed there as a junior faculty to work as general pediatrician on inpatient service and emergency department, as well as an outpatient clinic for a year. She always had passion for pediatric oncology, as her older brother is a childhood cancer survivor. She then moved to San Antonio in 2020 (in the middle of COVID pandemic) to start fellowship in Peds Heme-Onc at UT Health San Antonio and she is currently a third-year fellow and will be completing her fellowship soon.
Financial Disclosures:
Cristabel Torres, MD, FAAP has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
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.
Credits:
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hour)
Non-Physician Participation Credit (1.00 hour)
MOC-2 credit (1.00 hour)
Target Audience:
Pediatric Doctors and Providers
Faculty, residents, health care providers; medical students and trainees.
Accreditation:
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Credit Designation:
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio designates this live activity up to a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nurses and other healthcare professionals will receive a Certificate of Attendance. For information on applicability and acceptance, please consult your professional licensing board.