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.

Learning Objectives

1. Identify the synthetic drugs of abuse growing in popularity, most notably, synthetic cannabinoids, synthetic cathinones, and synthetic opioids.
2. Recognize the methods of drug abuse, mechanism of action, clinical effects, and toxicity of synthetic drugs.
3. Describe the approach taken by toxicologists/poison centers toward the management of synthetic drug toxicity.

Speaker(s)

Linda B. Kalin, RN, BS, CSPI
Executive Director, Iowa Poison Control Center

Disclosures

Speaker(s)

• Linda Kalin has nothing to disclose regarding financial relationships with any commercial entities, commercial companies providing support for this program, or any commercial manufacturers of products and/or providers of services discussed in this presentation.

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. 

This program is supported by gifts to the Mary Greeley Medical Center Foundation from Mary Greeley Medical Center, McFarland Clinic, First American Bank, and Green Hills Health Care Center. The content and selection of speaker(s) is the responsibility of the Mary Greeley Medical Center for Continuing Medical Education Committee and not the sponsors of this program.