Presenter: Nadia Merchant, MD
Overview:
Bone Health, Fractures, and Updates on Treatments for Bone Disorders
Objectives:
To increase awareness and education for pediatric providers
Dr. Nadia Merchant is a pediatric endocrinologist and geneticist at Children’s Health/UTSW. She attended medical school at Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar and completed her pediatric residency at Wright State/Dayton Children’s/Wright Paterson Airforce Base, and genetics and pediatric endocrine fellowship at Texas Children’s Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine. She joined Children’s National/George Washington University as a faculty. Her clinical and research interests include bone health and the intersection of genetics and endocrinology. She has specific interest in rickets, calcium disorders, osteoporosis in children, especially Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, and skeletal dysplasia.
Financial Disclosures: Nadia Merchant, MD has disclosed she was a consultant/advisor for Pfizer, BioMarin, and Ascendis. The relevant financial relationships noted for Dr. Merchant have been mitigated.
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.