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Activity Date: 04/24/2018

AAPP 2018 registration is closed.

Session Time and Location

The live session is complete.

Target Audience

This course is designed for pharmacists, nurse practitioners or other healthcare professionals involved in the comprehensive medication management of psychiatric and/or neurological patients.

Session Summary

Several new agents for multiple sclerosis have been approved in recent years, including the first medicine to be approved for progressive forms of the disease. With many new choices, it is difficult for the clinician to determine the preferred treatment for an individual patient. Some guidelines, consensus statements, algorithms, and patient preference studies exist for determining the most appropriate treatment choice for an individual, but they are not widely known and often ignored. Additionally, the pace of new medication approval has rendered many of these publications obsolete. There is evidence that patients have difficulty understanding the risks and benefits of medications to treat multiple sclerosis. This program will review the newly approved agents and discuss their place in therapy. Determining the appropriate therapy for specific patients will be emphasized. Additionally, methods for assisting patients in understanding the risks and benefits of the therapies for multiple sclerosis will be explained.

Course Requirements

To receive ACPE credit for the live session at the Annual Meeting, you must:

  • Sign in (or create a FREE account).
  • Register for this course.
  • Attend and participate in the entire session and reflect upon its teachings.
  • Complete the evaluation at the end of the activity.
  • Provide the necessary details in your profile to ensure correct reporting by AAPP to CPE Monitor.

This course will be provided at the CPNP 2018 Annual Meeting, April 22-25, 2018. Upon successful completion, ACPE credit is reported immediately to CPE Monitor although transcripts can be retrieved by participants online at https://aapp.org/mycpnp/transcript/acpe.

Faculty Information and Disclosures

Jacquelyn L. Bainbridge, BSPharm, PharmD, FCCP, MSCS

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Learning Objectives

  1. List risks and benefits of newly approved medications for multiple sclerosis.
  2. Choose appropriate therapy for multiple sclerosis patients, considering patient-specific factors.
  3. Assist patients in understanding the risks and benefits of particular multiple sclerosis therapies.

Continuing Education Credit and Disclosures

Activity Date: 04/24/2018
ACPE Contact Hours: 1
ACPE Number: 0284-0000-18-039-L01-P (Knowledge)
Nursing Credit Reminder: Note that ACPE credit is accepted for certification renewal.

ACPEThe College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This course provides 1.0 contact hour of knowledge-based continuing education credit from CPNP approved programming.

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