Sponsorship Statement: This continuing medical education activity is sponsored by 
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Target Audience: This program is designed for cardiologists, internists, primary care physicians, and other healthcare professionals who treat and manage hypertension.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this activity participants should be able to:
- Implement treatment regimens for hypertension in accordance with current guidelines.
- Incorporate office-based strategies into practice to improve patient adherence and persistence to antihypertensive medication regimens.
- Describe the guidelines for employing antihypertensive therapy in the prevention of secondary stroke and the benefits of doing so.
- Recognize specific populations that are at increased risk of complications due to hypertension.
- Identify patients who may be at risk for resistant hypertension and modulate and intensify treatment regimens as needed.
Faculty:
George L. Bakris, MD, DMSc (Hon), FAHA, FASN
Professor of Medicine
Director, Hypertensive Disease Unit
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Chicago, IL
Rajiv Agarwal, MD
Professor of Medicine
Division of Nephrology
Indiana University Department of Medicine
Indianapolis, IN
William C. Cushman, MD
Professor, Preventive Medicine, Medicine and Physiology
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Chief, Preventive Medicine Section,
Memphis VA Medical Center
Memphis, TN
William J. Elliott MD, PhD
Professor Preventive Medicine, Internal Medicine and Pharmacology
Head, Division of Pharmacology
Pacific Northwest University of Health Science
Yakima, WA
Philip Gorelick, MD
John S. Garvin Professor & Head
Director, Center for Stroke Research
Department of Neurology & Rehabilitation
University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago
Chicago, IL
Keith C. Norris, MD, FACP
Executive VP for Research and Health Affairs
Charles Drew University
Assistant Dean for Translational Science, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
Accreditation:
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Credit Designation:
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This enduring material is approved for 1 year from the date of original release, December 22, 2011 to December 21, 2012.
How To Participate in this Activity and Obtain CME Credit:
To participate in this CME activity, you must read the objectives, answer the pretest questions, watch and listen to the presentations, complete the posttest, and complete the evaluation. Provide only one (1) correct answer for each question. A satisfactory score is defined as answering 4 out of 6 of the posttest questions correctly. Upon receipt of the completed materials, if a satisfactory score on the posttest is achieved, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine will issue an AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ certificate.
Disclosures:
In accordance with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education’s Standards for Commercial Support, all CME providers are required to disclose to the activity audience the relevant financial relationships of the planners, teachers, and authors involved in the development of CME content. An individual has a relevant financial relationship if he or she 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.
The authors disclose that they do have significant financial interests in any products or class of products discussed directly or indirectly in this activity, including research support.
Planning Committee and Faculty members report the following relationship(s):
George L. Bakris, MD, DMSc (Hon), FAHA, FASN
Consulting for Abbott, Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, Servier, and Takeda, CVRx, and Walgreens. I nvestigator-initiated research with Forest Labs, CVRx, Novartis, Medtronic, PepsiCo, and Relapysa.
Rajiv Agarwal, MD
Consulting for Amgen, Abbott, Celgene, Reata, Relypsa, and Rockwell Med.
Fees for Non-CME services from Abbott and Merck.
William C. Cushman, MD
Consulting for Takeda, Novartis, and Merck.
Fees for contracted research from Merck.
William J. Elliott MD, PhD
Research support from Forest Research Institute
Royalty fees from Elsevier (Division of Harcourt)
Consultant for Forest Laboratories, Takeda, and Novartis.
Fees for Non-CME services from Forest Laboratories, NicOx, Inc.
Philip Gorelick, MD
Consulting for Boehringer Ingelheim and AstraZeneca
Contracted research fees from Lundbeck Inc.
Member of study committees with Abbott, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Brainsgate, Dendreon, D-Pharm, Roche/Parexel, and Takeda.
Keith C. Norris, MD, FACP
Consulting for Amgen and Takeda
Grants from Abbott, Monarch/King, NIH, and Pfizer
Advisory boards for Abbott, Amgen, and Monarch/King.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine staff report the following relationship(s):
No relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Vindico Medical Education staff report the following relationship(s):
No relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Signed disclosures are on file at The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and Vindico Medical Education, Office of Medical Affairs and Compliance.
Unlabeled and Investigational Usage:
The audience is advised that this continuing medical education activity may contain references to unlabeled uses of FDA-approved products or to products not approved by the FDA for use in the United States. The faculty members have been made aware of their obligation to disclose such usage. All activity participants will be informed if any speakers/authors intend to discuss either non-FDA approved or investigational use of products/devices.
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