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Women in GI: Embracing Your Value: Tools and Strategies for Optimizing Professional Growth and Development

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In this podcast episode, Anita Afzali, MD, MPH, MHCM, FACG, AGAF, and Aja McCutchen, MD, discuss how women in GI can embrace and enhance their value. These inspiring GI medicine experts propose a practical formula that involves ongoing, careful self-reflection and asking yourself how your strengths, core values, and interests can be aligned with professional endeavors. In addition, self-advocacy and self-allyship can serve as harmonious tools to drive action and positive change.   

Physicians: Maximum of 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit

Released: September 25, 2023

Expiration: September 24, 2024

No longer available for credit.

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Faculty

Anita Afzali

Anita Afzali, MD, MPH, MHCM, FACG, AGAF

Professor of Clinical Medicine
Division of Digestive Diseases
Executive Vice Chair
Department of Internal Medicine
Associate Chief Medical Officer
University of Cincinnati, UC Health System
Co-Founder
The Scrubs & Heels Foundation
Cincinnati, Ohio

Aja McCutchen

Aja McCutchen, MD

Partner and Physician Executive
Atlanta Gastroenterology Associates
A division of United Digestive
Atlanta, Georgia 

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Provided by Clinical Care Options, LLC in partnership with Scrubs & Heels

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Supporters

Supported by educational grants from Lilly, Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc., Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies, and Boston Scientific.

Boston Scientific

Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies

Lilly

Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.

Partners

Scrubs & Heels

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Target Audience

The program is intended for HCPs in gastroenterology, including physicians, fellows, nurse practitioners, and physician associates/physician assistants.

Program Learning Goal

The goal of this program is to improve learners’ knowledge and competence regarding the role of mentors, sponsors, and allies; tools and communication strategies that facilitate professional growth and development; and strategies to achieve work–life balance—all of which will support the advancement and longevity of women practicing in gastroenterology.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Employ tools and communication strategies to optimize professional growth and development

Disclosure

Clinical Care Options, LLC (CCO) requires instructors, planners, managers, and other individuals who are in a position to control the content of this activity to disclose all financial conflicts of interest (COI) they may have with ineligible companies. All relevant COI are thoroughly vetted and mitigated according to CCO policy. CCO is committed to providing its learners with high-quality CME/CE activities and related materials that promote improvements or quality in healthcare and not a specific proprietary business interest of an ineligible company.

The faculty reported the following relevant financial relationships or relationships to products or devices they have with ineligible companies related to the content of this educational activity:

Program Director

Anita Afzali, MD, MPH, MHCM, FACG, AGAF

Professor of Clinical Medicine
Division of Digestive Diseases
Executive Vice Chair
Department of Internal Medicine
Associate Chief Medical Officer
University of Cincinnati, UC Health System
Co-Founder
The Scrubs & Heels Foundation
Cincinnati, Ohio

Anita Afzali, MD, MPH, MHCM, FACG, AGAF: consultant/advisor/speaker: AbbVie, Bristol Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, IBD Horizons, Janssen, Pfizer, Takeda.


Presenter

Aja McCutchen, MD

Partner and Physician Executive
Atlanta Gastroenterology Associates
A division of United Digestive
Atlanta, Georgia 

Aja McCutchen, MD: consultant/advisor/speaker: Eli Lilly, Redhill Biopharm, Sanofi Regeneron, Takeda.

The planners and content peer reviewers from Clinical Care Options, LLC and Scrubs & Heels, do not have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Instructions for Credit

Participation in this self-study activity should be completed in approximately 0.5 hours. To successfully complete this activity and receive credit, learners must follow these steps during the period from September 25, 2023, through September 24, 2024:

  1. Login or Sign Up for an account by clicking at the top of this page.
  2. Read the target audience, learning objectives, and faculty disclosures.
  3. View and study the content in its entirety.
  4. Submit answers to the posttest questions and evaluation questions online.

Format

This program has been made available online.

Disclosure of Unlabeled Use

This educational activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. The planners of this activity do not recommend the use of any agent outside of the labeled indications.

The opinions expressed in the educational activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily represent the views of the planners. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.

Disclaimer

Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance patient outcomes and their own professional development. The information presented in this activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed or suggested in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of their patient’s conditions and possible contraindications and/or dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer’s product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities.

Accreditation

Joint Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Clinical Care Options, LLC (CCO) and Scrubs & Heels. Clinical Care Options, LLC (CCO) is jointly 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.

Physician Continuing Medical Education

CCO designates this enduring material  for a maximum of 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.