Mary Greeley Medical Center Grand Rounds is a multi-disciplinary clinical activity which serves to maintain, develop, or increase the knowledge, skills, and professional performance and relationships that a physician uses to provide services for patients, the public or the profession.  

Target Audience

Physicians, mid-level providers, nurses and healthcare administrators.

Professional Practice Gap

The presentation will allow primary care providers to better understand modern treatment modalities and decision making related to several common head and neck disorders in order to better understand which patients would benefit from specialist referral and to better counsel patients. 

Learning Objectives

1. Describe how the management of throat cancer has changed over the past several years.
2. Describe new developments in sinus surgery.
3. Understand new therapeutic uses of botulinum toxin in the head and neck.  

Speaker(s)

Nitin Pagedar, MD
Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, University of Iowa

Biography

Disclosures

Speaker(s)

• Dr. Pagedar indicates he has no financial relationships to disclose relevant to the content of this CME activity.

CME Committee

• Dr. Brenda Burrough discloses she is a principal investigator in an Amgen research trial.
• No member of the Mary Greeley Medical Center CME Committee who planned this activity, including Dr. Burrough, has any financial relationship to disclose relating to the content. 

The content and selection of speaker(s) is the responsibility of the Mary Greeley Medical Center for Continuing Medical Education Committee.

Continuing Education Credit

• DO: Des Moines University is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) and approves this live activity for 1.0 AOA Category 2-A CME credit(s).