Release Date: January 12, 2024
Expiration Date: January 11, 2025
Format: Video presentations with Q&A session

Target Audience

The target audience is adult and pediatric physicians and physician's assistants, nurse practitioners, fellows, dietitians and nutritionists, researchers, and patients.

Purpose

The purpose of this series is to increase the knowledge base of participants in the pathophysiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, and management of celiac disease to make them aware of the potential increase of morbidity and mortality and to educate about the nature of a gluten-free diet.

Educational Objectives

Upon completion of this activity learners should be able to:

1. Identify key factors affecting an individual on a gluten-free diet's overall quality of life score.
2. Assess the social and emotional quality of life issues, identify, evaluate an individual's barriers to compliance and guide the individual to overcome these barriers.
3. Describe the family-wide "ripple-effects" when a child is diagnosed with celiac disease and learn about the "Family Wide Effects Framework"
4. Summarize recent literature on caregiver burden related to celiac disease.
5. Describe how celiac disease may affect health-related quality of life.
6. Discuss the importance of a gluten-free diet.

Accreditation Statement

The Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation Statement

The Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons designates this enduring material for a maximum of 2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The Commission on Dietetic Registration has approved this activity for 2 CPEUs.

Agenda

The Impact of a Celiac Disease Diagnosis on an Individual's Social Life
Anne Roland Lee, EdD, RDN, LD 
Assistant Professor of Nutritional Medicine, Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University, USA

What is the Ripple-effect of a Celiac Disease Diagnosis on QOL for Patients, Partners, and Other Family Members?
Randi L. Wolf, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor of Human Nutrition, Teachers College, Columbia University Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University, USA

Celiac Disease and Quality of Life Over the Life Course
Kalle Kurppa, MD
Professor of Clinical Medicine, Tampere University, Finland

Case Presentation/Q&A
Moderator: Peter HG Green, MD
Phyllis & Ivan Seidenberg Professor of Medicine, Moderator and Course Director
Columbia University Medical Center

Disclosures

All those involved with the planning and delivery of this education will disclose all financial relationships in the past 24 months with ineligible companies. An ineligible company is any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. For each financial relationship, disclosure will include the name of the ineligible company and the nature of the financial relationship(s).

All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.

Acknowledgment

Supported by an educational grant from Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc.

Technical Requirements

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