Focus on Research is a monthly forum to talk about the innovative research in being done at Baylor Scott & White Research Institute and to explore trends in medicine and healthcare moving forward. 

Every month, Baylor Scott & White Research Institute will host an hour-long educational webinar intended to share findings and updates from different areas of research taking place across our organization. Each CME session is intended to spur collaboration and to increase awareness surrounding our work amongst other researchers, staff and the enterprise as a whole. 

Healthcare physicians and other providers face many challenges in practice to include delayed diagnosis and treatment plans for patients for which research developments could provide better options. This series seeks to close gaps in knowledge regarding available research and research methods within the BSWH system.

OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this activity, the participant should be able to:

• Recognize the most sensitive and specific diagnostic testing available for various disease states
• Access data and analyses completed local that is relevant to their patients
• Consult/collaborate with other providers and research specialists
• Utilization of research developments in practice to improve patient care/population health

PLANNER DISCLOSURE: The planners have no relevant financial relationship(s) with companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Javed Butler, MD is a consultant for Abbott, American Regent, Amgen, Applied Therapeutic, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol Myers Squibb, Cardiac Dimension, Cardior, CVRx, Cytokinetics, Daxor, Edwards, Element Science, Innolife, Impulse Dynamics, Imbria, Inventiva, Lexicon, Lilly, LivaNova, Janssen, Medtronics, Merck, Occlutech, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, Pharmacosmos, Pharmain, Prolaio, Roche, Secretome, Sequana, SQ Innovation, Tenex, Vifor.

CONTENT REVIEWER DISCLOSURE: Alaina Tellson PhD, RN, NPD-BC, NE-BC; and Crystal Brooks, LCSW, ACM-SW, CTP  have 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.

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.

NURSES: Baylor Scott & White Health is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

SOCIAL WORKERS: This program has been screened and determined to be related to the practice of social work to the best of our ability. The Behavioral Health Executive Council will make the final determination as to whether the activity claimed by the licensee is directly related to the practice of social work. BSWH SW CE Approval # ___________.