Please join us for 

Medicine Grand Rounds on Friday, February 10, 2017 for the presentation titled:

“Can We Work Together to Improve COPD Care?”

Joseph P. Lynch, III, MD Lecture

           David H. Au, MD, MS

Professor of Medicine and Pharmacy

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

University of Washington

Director, Center of Innovation for Veteran-Centered and Value-Driven Care

VA Puget Sound Health Care System

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Auditoria E&F, Rubin Building, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Co-sponsored by the Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and the Department of Medicine

The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Objectives – Participants will be able to:

1. Identify the current care quality for COPD

2. Recognize system and provider barriers to effective COPD care

3. Discuss how specialty care might be able support care quality in primary care settings.   

Dr. Au is the Director of the Health Services Research and Development Center of Innovation for Veteran-Centered and Value-Driven Care at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System, and a Professor of Medicine and Pharmacy at the University of Washington. His research focuses primarily on the quality and delivery of care for patients with chronic lung diseases, in particular, for patients with COPD and lung cancer.  His research program encompasses a number of areas that utilize clinical research methodology, including clinical trials design, comparative effectiveness research, implementation sciences, health services research and clinical epidemiology in order to inform clinical practice and improve health outcomes for patients. He is interested in patient health behaviors and the effects of health behaviors on outcomes. One of his primary research focuses is on identifying and intervening upon potential gaps in the quality of care for patients with lung cancer and COPD using population management approaches to care.

Dr. Au reported potential conflicts of interest with Novartis. These conflicts have been resolved by validating the activity content through independent peer review by Kelly Kieffer, MD.

If you are unable to attend and would like to either view Grand Rounds live on your computer or if you would like to view it another time, please use this link.

http://med.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/education/dept_medicine_grand_rounds_live.html

Activity Codes will not be provided until the time of the presentation. Please email Jessica Kinzie with questions Jessica.d.kinzie@hitchcock.org

The office of Continuing Medical Education will not be able to give you credit unless you use the mobile sign in. If you need to claim credit more than 48 hours after the conference you will need to contact clpd.support@hitchcock.org.

** The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education programs for physicians.**

** The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. **