Disclosure of Financial Relationships

As the accredited provider, Des Moines University (DMU) is committed to ensuring that accredited continuing education (1) presents learners with only accurate, balanced, scientifically justified recommendations and (2) protects learners from promotion, marketing, and commercial bias. DMU is responsible for identifying financial relationships between individuals in control of educational content and ineligible companies and managing them to ensure they do not introduce commercial bias.

Financial relationships of any dollar amount are defined as relevant if the educational content is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company. The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) defines an ineligible company as an organization “whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients." The ACCME does not consider clinical service providers directly to patients as ineligible companies. Ineligible companies are prohibited from engaging in joint providership with accredited providers.

DMU must collect information from all planners, faculty, and others in control of educational content about all their financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. There is no minimum monetary threshold; individuals must disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies regardless of the amount. Individuals must disclose, irrespective of their view the relevance of the relationship to education. Any individual who refuses to disclose relevant financial relationships will be disqualified from developing, managing, presenting, or evaluating the activity. The disclosure intends not to prevent an individual from being involved in a continuing education activity but to provide learners with information on which to make judgments. This disclosure policy is intended to protect all parties involved from any potential conflict of interest that may arise.

DISCLOSURE

The speaker(s) will disclose if any pharmaceuticals, medical procedures, and devices discussed are investigational or unapproved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The determination of educational content and the selection of speakers is the responsibility of the activity director. 

Relevant to the content of this educational activity, the following individual(s) have no conflict(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

  • Yaasin Abdulrehman, MD - Regional Activity Director
  • Robin Acino, MPH - Regional Planning Committee Member
  • Shipra Arya, MD, SM - Regional Activity Director
  • Megon Berman - Regional Lead Data Manager
  • Patricia Bozeman, APRN - Regional Planning Committee Member
  • Vanessa Cambria-Mengel, MSN, RN, CCRN-K - Regional Planning Committee Member and Moderator
  • Tracy Campin - BSN, RN - Regional Planning Committee Member
  • Ankur Chandra, MD - Regional Activity Director
  • Andrey Churkin, RN - Data Manager
  • Sheila Coogan - Regional Planning Committee Member and Moderator
  • Brooke Dolacky, RT(R)(CI), RCES - Regional Lead Data Manager
  • Naomi Eisenberg, PT, MEd, CCRP - Regional Activity Coordinator and Planning Committee Member
  • Jens Eldrup-Jorgensen, MD - Speaker
  • Young Erben - Regional Planning Committee Member and Speaker
  • Mohammad Eslami - Regional Activity Director
  • Jennifer Farrell, RN - Regional Activity Coordinator
  • Ashlee Fletcher, MSN, BSN, RN - Regional Activity Coordinator and Planning Committee Member
  • Kristina Giles, MD - Regional Planning Committee Member
  • Leah Gober, MD - Speaker
  • Ashley Gutwein, MD - Moderator
  • Lynn Hampton, RN - Lead Regional Coordinator
  • Joseph Hart, MD - Regional Activity Director, Planning Committee Member and Speaker
  • Andrew Hoel, MD - Regional Activity Director
  • Jeffrey Indes, MD - Speaker and Moderator
  • Rhonda Iverson, RN - Co-Lead Data Manager
  • Leka Johnson - Series Activity Coordinator
  • Melissa Latus, RN - Regional Activity Coordinator and Speaker
  • Melinda Lewis RN - Regional Activity Coordinator, Planning Committee Member and Speaker
  • Michael Madigan, MD - Activity Director
  • Emily Malgor, MD - Regional Planning Committee Member and Speaker
  • Julie Mason, RVT - Regional Data Manager
  • Katharine McGinigle, MD, MPH - Regional Activity Director
  • Michael McNally, MD - Regional Activity Director
  • Samantha Minc, MD, MPH - Regional Activity Director and Planning Committee Member
  • Caroline Morgan, RN - Speaker and Regional Planning Committee Member
  • Crystal Riddle, BSN, RN, CCRN - Regional Planning Committee Member
  • Graham Roche-Nagle, MD - Moderator and Speaker
  • Rachelle Sapp, RN - Regional Planning Committee Member
  • Salvatore Scali, MD - Moderator
  • Elizabeth Schwendler - Regional Leader
  • Amanda Sigala, RN, BSN, MPH, CPHQ - Regional Planning Committee Member and Speaker
  • Jeffrey Siracuse, MD, MBA - Regional Activity Director
  • Kendra Smith, RN, MSN, RCIS - Activity Coordinator and Speaker
  • Yauhen Tarbunou, MD - Assistant Director
  • Bethany Taylor, RT(R) - Regional Activity Coordinator and Moderator
  • Nam Tran, MD - Regional Activity Coordinator
  • Ashley Vavra, MD - Regional Activity Coordinator, Moderator, and Speaker
  • Ashley Verhyen, RN - Regional Activity Coordinator
  • James Wadzinski - Speaker and Series Planning Committee Member
  • Mary Wanzek, RN - Co-Lead Data Manager
  • Betsy Wymer, DNP, RN, CV-BC - Speaker and Regional Planning Committee Member
  • Eleftherios Xenos, MD, MBA - Regional Activity Director

Relevant to the content of this educational activity, the following individual(s) have conflict(s) with ineligible companies to disclose. The accredited provider has mitigated all relationships.

  • Rana Afifi, MD - Regional Activity Director
    • Consultant: Medtronic, Endoron Ltd. 
      • The financial relationship(s) above are not relevant to the content of the educational activity.
  • Faisal Aziz, MD - Regional Activity Director
    • Honorarium: Jennsen and Jennsen
      • The financial relationship(s) above are not relevant to the content of the educational activity.
  • Scott Berman, MD, MHA - Regional Activity Director
    • Grant or Research Support: Terumo, Blue Grass Vascular, Merit Medical, Silk Road Medical
    • Speaker: Gore Medical
    • Proctor: Silk Road Medical
      • The financial relationship(s) above are not relevant to the content of the educational activity.
  • Meghan Dermody, MD - Speaker and Moderator
    • Honoraria: Silk Road Medical, Gore, Shockwave
    • Consultant: Silk Road Medical
      • The financial relationship(s) above are not relevant to the content of the educational activity.
  • Joseph Hart, MD, MHL, FACS, DFSVS
    • Does not have a financial relationship to disclose but does intend to discuss the off-label use of a commercial product and agrees to inform learners of such. 
  • Gregory Magee, MD, MSc, FACS - Regional Activity Director
    • Consultant: WL Gore and Silk Road Medical
      • The financial relationship(s) above are not relevant to the content of the educational activity.
  • Nedaa Skeik, MD - Speaker
    • Honoraria: Janssen
      • The financial relationship(s) above are not relevant to the content of the educational activity.
  • Michael Stoner, MD - Regional Planning Committee Member and Moderator
    • Consultant: Silk Road Medical 
      • The financial relationship(s) above are not relevant to the content of the educational activity.
  • Sara Zettervall, MD, MPH - Moderator
    • Consultant: Gore
      • The financial relationship(s) above are not relevant to the content of the educational activity.