Project Editors
Ruth Thomson, DO FACOI FAAHPM HMDC
Miguel A. Paniagua, MD FACP FAAHPM

Authors and Reviewers
Christopher Jones, MD
Michael T. Beets, MD HMDC FAAFP FAAHPM
Matthew G. Kestenbaum, MD FAAHPM
Joseph Shega, MD

AAHPM endorses the standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME). All who are in a position to control or influence the content of an educational activity must disclose all relevant financial relationships with an ineligible companies that they have had over the past 24 months. *Disclosures documents were reviewed for potential conflicts of interest and, if identified, they were mitigated prior to confirmation of participation. Only those who had no conflict of interest or who agreed to an identified resolution process prior to their participation were involved in this activity.

(All editors, authors, reviewers and staff have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.)

*An ineligible company is defined as those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, reselling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Eligible companies are those whose mission and function are 1. providing clinical services directly to patients; or 2. The education of healthcare professionals, or 3. Serving as fiduciary to patients, the public, or population health; and other organizations that are not otherwise ineligible. (Examples of such organizations include: ambulatory procedure centers, blood banks, diagnostic labs that do not sell proprietary products, electronic health record companies, government or military agencies, group medical practices, health law firms, health profession membership organizations, hospitals or healthcare delivery systems, infusion centers, insurance or managed care companies, nursing homes, pharmacies that do not manufacture proprietary compounds, publishing or education companies, rehabilitation centers, schools of medicine or health science universities, or software, or software or game developers.)