Date: Thursday, May 14, 2025
Time: 7:00 AM ‐ 8:00 AM
Location: Medical School Building
Learning Format: In‐Person
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:
Accreditation Statement: McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education or physicians.
Credit Designation: McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston designates this live activity for 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
ABS MOC Statement: Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME and Self-Assessment requirement (s) of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACGME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.
Disclosure of Financial Relationships:
Speaker: Syed Shiraz Naqvi, MD, and Mario Font Garcia, MD, have no financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients to disclosure.
Planners Committee Members: David Wainwright, MD, Sasha D. Adams, MD, Acute Care Surgery Program Director, General Surgery Residency Vice-Chair for Education, Department of Surgery, Lillian Kao, MD, Professor, Surgery, Natalie Drucker, MD and Tamara Saunders, MD have no financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies who primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients to disclose.
Mark Hobeika, MD – TransMedics, Inc – Contracted Research – Relationship Ended
Steven Canfield, MD – AngioDynamics – Advisory Committee Member – Relationship Has Not Ended
Erik Wilson, MD – Johnson & Johnson – Teaching – Relationship Has Not Ended; Gore – Teaching – Relationship Has Not Ended; Medtronic – Teaching – Relationship Has Not Ended; GI Windows – Independent Contractor – Relationship Has Not Ended; Boston Scientific – Teaching – Relationship Has Not Ended
Laura Moore, MD – Frontline Medical Technologies – Advisory Committee Member – Relationship Has Not Ended
Shinil Shah, DO – GI Windows – Contracted Research – Relationship Has Not Ended
Any financial relationship that was found to be relevant has been mitigated.