Hospice & Palliative Care

Speaker: Ammar Y. Ahmad, MD
Attending Psychiatrist
Heart and Lung Transplant Programs
Montefiore Medical Center

Purpose: This webinar is intended to promote a greater understanding of mental illness within patients suffering from a life-threatening or terminal illness. The presentation will help providers identify and evaluate both depression and anxiety and implement appropriate and effective treatment strategies.

Objectives:  

1. Define depression and anxiety and their presentation amid serious and debilitating illnesses
2. Discuss the clinical evaluation and diagnoses of depression and anxiety
3. Explain the various treatment modalities for depression and anxiety

Continuing Education Credits: 1.0

Continuing Education Accreditation

Physicians: The AAFP has reviewed MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care 2023-2024 Interprofessional Webinar Series On-Demand, and deemed it acceptable for AAFP credit. Term of approval is from 11/16/2023 to 11/14/2024. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This session Depression and Anxiety in the Seriously Ill is approved for 1.0 enduring AAFP Elective credit.
Note: Physicians should contact their respective licensing boards and specialty certification boards about acceptance of AAFP Elective credits when attempting to satisfy CME credit requirements.

Nurses: The MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Social Workers: MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0242.

Fees:
Individual: Free (includes CME/CE certificate)
Group: Free (includes unlimited CME/CE certificates)

Release Date: May 2, 2024

Expiration Date: May 1, 2025 (for physicians and non-physicians); February 1, 2025 (for nurses); January 31, 2025 (for NYS Social Workers)

Disclosures:

Ammar Y. Ahmad, MD, has no financial arrangements or affiliations with any commercial entities whose products, research, or services may be discussed in these materials. Any discussion of investigational or unlabeled uses of a product will be identified.

No Planning Committee Member has any disclosures.

Planning Committee Members
Myra Glajchen, DSW
Kerrianne P. Page, MD, HMDC
Joyce Palmieri, MS, RN, CHPN
Karen Richards, PhD, EdS

Funding Disclosure: No commercial funding has been accepted for the activity.

Location: Online at https://www.mjhspalliativeinstitute.org/e-learning/