Program Description
The goal of this activity is to explain the environmental hazards associated with the 9/11 attacks and provide information about the World Trade Center Health Program.
Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Identify immediate, short- and long-term health risks posed by exposure to disaster and/or terrorist attacks to responders and survivors
- Identify comorbidities most common in survivors and responders to the 9/11 World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania sites
- Assess the healthcare status and needs of the survivors and responders from the 9/11 attacks
Faculty/Credentials
- Iris G. Udasin, MD, Professor of Environmental and Occupational Medicine; Director of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences Institute Clinical Center & Employee Health, Rutgers University - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey
- Paul Park, PsyD, Clinical Psychologist, World Trade Center Environmental Health Center
- Laurie I. Breyer, JD, MA, World Trade Center Health Program, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Washington, DC
- Denise Harrison, MD, Director, World Trade Center Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program; Associate Medical Director, Bellevue/NYU Occupational Medicine Clinic; Assistant Professor of Medicine and Environmental Medicine
Origination Date
March 1, 2017
Expiration Date
March 1, 2019
Target Audience
Administrators, CHES Certified Health Educators, Licenses Practical/ Vocational Nurses, MDs, Medical Assistants, Medical Students, Nurse Practitioners, Nurse Technicians, Other Health Educators, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, Physician Assistants, Program Managers, Registered Nurses
Format
Enduring Material
Contact Information
World Trade Center Health Program
202-245-0625
Accreditation Statements
CME activities with Joint Providers: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Medscape, LLC. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is accredited by the (ACCME®) to provide medical education for physicians. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention designates this enduring material for a maximum of (0.75) AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
CNE: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is accredited as a provider of Continuing Nursing Education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
This activity provides (0.7) contact hours.
CEU: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is authorized by IACET to offer (0.07) CEU's for this program.
CPE: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is authorized by IACET to offer (0.07) CEU's for this program.
This program is a designated event for pharmacists to receive (0.07) CEUs in pharmacy education. The Universal Activity Number is 0387-9999-17-103-H04-P
Category: This activity has been designated as Knowledge-based.
Once credit is claimed, an unofficial statement of credit is immediately available on TCEOnline. Official credit will be uploaded within 60 days on the NABP/CPE Monitor.
For Certified Public Health Professionals (CPH)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a pre-approved provider of Certified in Public Health (CPH) recertification credits and is authorized to offer (1.0) CPH recertification credits for this program.
CDC is an approved provider of CPH Recertification Credits by the National Board of Public Health Examiners. Effective October 1, 2013, the National Board of Public Health Examiners (NBPHE) accepts continuing education units (CEU) for CPH recertification credits from CDC. Please select CEU as your choice for continuing education when registering for a course on TCEOnline. Learners seeking CPH should use the guidelines provided by the NBPHE for calculating recertification credits. For assistance please contact NBPHE at https://www.NBPHE.org
Disclosure
In compliance with continuing education requirements, all presenters must disclose any financial or other associations with the manufacturers of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services, or commercial supporters as well as any use of unlabeled product(s) or product(s) under investigational use.
CDC, our planners, our content experts, and their spouses/partners wish to disclose they have no financial interests or other relationships with the manufacturers of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services, or commercial supporters.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Medscape, LLC are jointly providing the CNE for this activity.
CDC did not accept commercial support for this activity.
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Hardware/Software Requirements
To access activities, users will need:
- A computer with an Internet connection.
- Internet Explorer 8.x or higher, the latest versions of Firefox or Safari, or any other W3C standards compliant browser.
- Adobe Flash Player and/or an HTML5 capable browser may be required for video or audio playback.
- Occasionally other additional software may be required such as PowerPoint or Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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