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OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this activity, the participant should be able to: (1) Review current guidelines for diagnosis and management of postmenopausal osteoporosis, (2) Explain how recent fracture history informs overall risk for fracture and helps to identify patients at highest clinical and near-term risk, (3) Discuss how to sequence osteoporosis therapies effectively and when to start and stop bisphosphonate drug holidays. Review current guidelines for diagnosis and management of postmenopausal osteoporosis, (2) Explain how recent fracture history informs overall risk for fracture and helps to identify patients at highest clinical and near-term risk, (3) Discuss how to sequence osteoporosis therapies effectively and when to start and stop bisphosphonate drug holidays.

FACULTY DISCLOSURE:  Dolores Shoback, MD, is currently a researcher and principal investigator on a shared grant with Bone Health Technologies.

PLANNER DISCLOSURE:  John D. Myers, MD, has no relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.  Tresa McNeal, MD, is a principal investigator for Dexcom.

All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.

ACCREDITATION: The A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Scott & White Health is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

DESIGNATION:  The A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Scott & White Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

ABIM MOC:  Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.0 Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

For information, please contact Denise Ralston at [email protected]