Activity Title: 17th Annual South Beach Symposium Highlights

Release Date: April 15, 2019

Expiration Date: April 15, 2020

2.5 hour activity | ACCME, ANCC

Activity Overview:
For almost two decades, the South Beach Symposium (SBS) has served as the benchmark for other educational conferences: offering attendees the opportunity to learn transferrable skills, real-time clinical pearls, and best-practice techniques that can easily be adapted into practice. Since its inception in 2002, the South Beach Symposium has provided the most clinically current dermatology education to thousands of physicians and healthcare providers, helping them stay informed on the newest therapies, technologies, procedures, and practice guidelines in medical dermatology, cosmetic dermatology, and aesthetic medicine. This online activity will cover the latest therapies in Seborrheic Keratosis, Alopecia, Psoriasis and Atopic Dermatitis.

Target Audience:
This symposium is designed for an audience of physicians, nurses and professional staff members of medical practices specializing in dermatology, pediatric dermatology, plastic surgery, cosmetic surgery and other dermatologic medical procedures.

Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of the educational activity, participants should be able to:

• Explain treatment strategies for moderate-to-severe psoriasis based on an understanding of psoriasis as a systemic immune-mediated disease, as well as on the efficacy and safety of current and new agents.
• Discuss the importance of treating comorbidities, including lifestyle adjustments, as important components of psoriasis therapy.
• Diagnose atopic dermatitis based on the evaluation of clinical characteristics specific to infants, children, adolescents, and adult patients.
• Describe the pathogenic mechanisms of atopic dermatitis across the age spectrum, from pediatric through adult patient populations.
• Explain individualized treatment plans for pediatric and adult patients with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis based on current guideline recommendations, the safety and efficacy of new and emerging treatment options, comorbidities, and patient quality of life.
• List current and emerging treatment options for alopecia areata.
• Compare the efficacy and safety of agents, devices, and techniques currently available in hair restoration for androgenic alopecia.
• Review the clinical presentation of seborrheic keratoses.
• Discuss the impact of seborrheic keratoses on patients’ quality of life and rationale for treatment
• Define the efficacy and safety of the current and new treatment options for seborrheic keratoses.

Criteria for Success
In order to receive credit, participants should watch the entire video. Once you have watched the video, you will continue to the online quiz and evaluation. A passing score of 70% on the quiz is required to receive credit. A certificate will be available in your transcripts upon successful completion of the quiz and evaluation. If you have questions about this CME activity, please contact AKH Inc. at tbrignoni@akhcme.com. There is no fee for this activity.

CME/CE Credit provided by AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare

Physicians
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare and Tarsus Cardio dba South Beach Symposium. AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 2.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Physician Assistants
NCCPA accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by ACCME.

Nurses
AKH, Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
This activity is awarded 2.5 Contact Hours.

Activity is jointly-provided by AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare and Tarsus Cardio dba South Beach Symposium

Commercial Support:
This activity is supported by educational grants from Celgene Corporation and Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation.

Disclaimer
This course is designed solely to provide the healthcare professional with information to assist in his/her practice and professional development and is not to be considered a diagnostic tool to replace professional advice or treatment. The course serves as a general guide to the healthcare professional, and therefore, cannot be considered as giving legal, nursing, medical, or other professional advice in specific cases. AKH Inc. specifically disclaim responsibility for any adverse consequences resulting directly or indirectly from information in the course, for undetected error, or through participant's misunderstanding of the content.

Disclosure of Unlabeled Use and Investigational Product
This educational activity may include discussion of uses of agents that are investigational and/or unapproved by the FDA. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.

Disclosure Declaration
It is the policy of AKH Inc. to ensure independence, balance, objectivity, scientific rigor, and integrity in all of its continuing education activities. The faculty must disclose to the participants any significant relationships with commercial interests whose products or devices may be mentioned in the activity or with the commercial supporter of this continuing education activity. Identified conflicts of interest are resolved by AKH prior to accreditation of the activity and may include any of or combination of the following: attestation to non-commercial content; notification of independent and certified CME expectations; referral to National Faculty Initiative training; restriction of topic area or content; restriction to discussion of science only; amendment of content to eliminate discussion of device or technique; use of other faculty for discussion of recommendations; independent review against criteria ensuring evidence support recommendation; moderator review; and peer review. AKH planners and reviewers have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Required hardware/software:
A computer with an internet connection
Internet Browser: Internet Explorer 7.x or higher, Firefox 4.x or higher, Safari 2.x or higher, or any other W3C standards compliant browser
Other additional software may be required such as PowerPoint or Adobe Acrobat Reader.