2nd Annual West Texas Health Disparities Research Symposium

Accreditation and Designation

Accreditation Statement:
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Texas Tech University System Health Policy & Public Health Think Tank, and AHEC of the Plains. Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center is joint accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. 

Credit Designation Statements:

 “This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 6 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.”

Physician

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center designates this live activity for a maximum of 6 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The presentation, “Rural Health Disparities: Unresolvable?” has been designated by Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center for 1 credit hour of education in medical ethics and/or professional responsibility.

Disclosure & Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships:
It is the policy of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Office of Accredited Interprofessional Continuing Medical Education to abide by the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. It is the policy of TTUHSC to collect information from all planners, faculty, and others in control of educational content about all their financial relationships with ineligible companies within the past 24 months and mitigate relationships before the individuals assume their roles.  

Ineligible companies are those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.  Governmental agencies and providers of direct patient care services are not considered to be ineligible companies.

Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation but is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation.  TTUHSC expects that the content or format of accredited continuing education and related materials will promote improvements in the quality of healthcare and not the specific proprietary business interest of an ineligible company.  We employ several strategies to ensure the absence of commercial bias and mitigate relevant financial relationships.  

None of the planners and faculty for this educational activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies except for the following individuals:

1.       John Griswold, MD is in the Speaker list for Medline as well as part of the advisory board for Exsurco. These relationships were determined to be of no relevance to the activity topic.

All of the relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated.