CME - PANCREATITIS: CHALLENGES IN MEDICAL AND SURGICAL MANAGEMENT
| Date Posted: 4/15/2016
June 8, 2016
PANCREATITIS: CHALLENGES IN MEDICAL AND SURGICAL MANAGEMENT
Dinner at 5:45 p.m. • Program to follow at 6:15 p.m.
Conference Center FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital • Pinehurst, North Carolina
Objectives: At the completion of this activity, the participant should be able to: • Examine the strategies available for the management of severe acute necrotizing pancreatitis • Discuss early and late sequela • Describe surgical options for management of acute necrotizing pancreatitis and sequela
Target Audience - All physicians and other interested health care providers.
Speaker - John B. Martinie, M.D., FACS. Dr. Martinie earned his Doctor of Medicine at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania. He completed his residency in General Surgery at Brown University School of Medicine at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, and his Fellowship in Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery and Multi-organ Transplantation at McGill University School of Medicine, MUHC, at The Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, Quebec. He is professionally associated with the Carolinas Medical Center – Division of HPB Surgery.
Professional Practice Gap to be filled: Lack of current knowledge of medical and surgical management of pancreatitis