Presenter: Carol L. Greene, MD, FAAP, FACMG
Overview:
Genetic Disorders in Your Practice – and How to Try to Avoid Missing Them
Objectives:
To increase awareness and education for pediatric providers
Dr. Carol Greene received her MD from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and initially trained in Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, before training in Genetics at Stanford Medical Center. She is currently Professor of Pediatrics and of Ob/GYN at the University of Maryland. She is the interim Head of the Division of Genetics in the Department of Pediatrics, director of the general genetics clinics (pediatric and adult), and the Medical Director of the Masters in Genetic Counseling program. She is a Board-Certified Clinical Geneticist with special interests in inborn errors of metabolism, newborn screening and public policy, and is a past President of the Society for Inherited Metabolic Disorders. Her public policy experience includes a year working as staff for the Committee on Health, Labor and Pensions of the United States Senate in 1999 as a Congressional Fellow, followed by four years with the Department of Health and Human Services as an Analyst in the Office of Science Policy of the Office of the Secretary/Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, and more than a decade working with the CDC on quality improvement for genetic testing, including service on the CDC/CMS Advisory Committee for the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act.
Financial Disclosures: Carol L. Greene, MD 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.