Current Status of Melanoma Treatment
Attendees will be able to recognize, diagnose, properly assess and treat patients with malignant melanoma and learn when to refer patients for the most current therapy. The conference will educate regarding evaluation, AJCC Staging, Prognostic Indicators, current medical and surgical therapies, and evidence-based guidelines.
Target Audience
Primary Care Physicians, Dermatologists, General Surgeons, Medical Oncologists, Radiation Oncologists, Resident Physicians, APP, RN, RTT, PCP, IM, FP, Medical Staff
Learning Objectives
- Recognize malignant melanomas
- Identify the steps for evaluation and treatment of melanomas
- Explain the decision making in the surgical and oncologic treatment of malignant melanomas
- Attendees will be able to recognize, diagnose, properly assess and treat patients with malignant melanoma and learn when to refer patients for the most current therapy
Travel
Sheraton Milwaukee Brookfield Hotel is located right off Interstate 94 and just a short twenty minute drive from downtown Milwaukee.
From East
Follow Interstate 94 West to the Moorland Road North Exit 301B. Turn left at the first light on Moorland Road and the hotel is on the left.
From North
Follow US Highway 45 South to Interstate 94 West to the Moorland Road North Exit. Turn left at the first light on Moorland Road. The hotel is on the left.
From West
Follow Interstate 94 East to the Moorland Road Exit 301. Turn left onto Moorland Road and the hotel is 1/2 block up on the left.
From South
Follow Interstate 43 North to the Moorland Road Exit. Turn left off the exit and follow Moorland Road for approximately 5 miles. The hotel is on the left.
Course Directors: James Weese, MD, FACS and Aaron Chevinsky, MD, FACS; Aurora Health Care
Faculty
Patrick Heintz, MD; Great Lakes Pathologists, SC
Giorgos Karakousis, MD, FACS; University of Pennsylvania
MIchale Mullane, MD; Aurora Health Care
Manish K. Pant, MD; Aurora Cancer Care
Lauren Rimoin, MD, FAAD; Aurora Health Care
Nyama Sillah, MD; Aurora Health Care
Disclosure
As an accredited provider of the WI Medical Society, Aurora Health Care must ensure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor in its educational activities. Course Directors, planning committees, faculty, and all others who are in a position to control the content of this educational activity are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest to participants of the educational activity. An individual has a relevant financial relationship if he or she (or spouse/partner) has a financial relationship in any amount occurring in the last 12 months with a commercial interest whose products or services are discussed in the CME activity content over which the individual has control.
In the process of collecting disclosures. All disclosures will be made in advance of the activity.
Available Credit
- 4.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™Aurora Health Care is accredited by the Wisconsin Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Aurora Health Care designates this activity for a maximum of 4.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 4.00 AttendanceAttendance Credit
- 4.00 ABIM MOC Part IISuccessful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 4.00 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.