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Sweet Dreams - Improving Outcomes for Patients With Insomnia

Curriculum:
Sweet Dreams - Improving Outcomes for Patients With Insomnia
Credits:
1 ANCC Contact Hours 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) ™
Launch Date:
September 29, 2015
Expiration Date:
The accreditation for this activity has expired.

Primary Audience:

Primary Care Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, and Registered Nurses Involved in the Management of Patients with Insomnia

Relevant Terms:

Insomnia, Sleep Disorders

Larry Culpepper, MD, MPH

Larry Culpepper, MD, MPH
Chief, Department of Family Medicine
Professor and Chairman of Family Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts

Larry Culpepper, MD, MPH, is professor of family medicine and was the founding chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine and his master of public health degree from Boston University. An active researcher, Dr Culpepper has conducted federally funded studies of depression and anxiety, otitis media, and school-based and community interventions to improve pregnancy outcomes. He has served as president of the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG), and has chaired or served as a member of research grant review committees for 5 National Institutes of Health and other federal agencies, and has served on 6 federal expert panels for consensus committees or evidence-based centers. He is a member of National Sleep Foundation, the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, and The Anxiety Disorders Association of America scientific advisory boards and editor of The Primary Care Companion for CNS Disorders.
 
Dr Culpepper was the 2012 NSF annual meeting program chair. In 1997 he received the NAPCRG-STFM Career Research Award, and in 1998 was elected to the Institute of Medicine; in 2010 he received the NAPCRG Maurice Wood Lifetime Research Award. He was the primary care member of an Institute of Medicine study on the Assessment of Ongoing Efforts in the Treatment of PTSD, a congressionally mandated 4-year study evaluating Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs programs for treating post-traumatic stress disorder.

Ruth Benca, MD, PhD

Ruth Benca, MD, PhD
Professor, Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry
University of Wisconsin – Madison
Madison, Wisconsin

Ruth Benca, MD, PhD, received her undergraduate education at Harvard University and her medical degree and a doctor of philosophy degree in pathology from the University of Chicago. She is currently professor in the Department of Psychiatry and in the Center for Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and director of the University of Wisconsin Center for Sleep Medicine and Sleep Research. She also serves as the medical director for Wisconsin Sleep, where she treats patients with a broad range of sleep disorders.
 
Dr Benca’s research focuses on the interface between sleep and psychiatric disorders and she has served as principal investigator for a number of basic and clinical research studies, funded by agencies including the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense. Her work focuses primarily on the relationship between sleep and psychiatric disorders and has spanned basic research studies in animal models to clinical research studies and clinical trials in humans. She has authored more than 100 articles, reviews, and book chapters as well as a single-authored handbook, Sleep Disorders: The Clinician’s Guide to Diagnosis and Management, published by Oxford University Press. She has served as president of the Sleep Research Society and has been on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. She is a member of several editorial boards, including as deputy editor of Sleep: Journal of Sleep and Sleep Disorders Research and a section editor of UpToDate.

Angela Golden, DNP, FNP-C, FAANP

Angela Golden, DNP, FNP-C, FAANP
AANP Past President
Owner and NP 
NP from Home, LLC
Munds Park, Arizona

Angela Golden, DNP, FNP-C, FAANP, is the past president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners and a family nurse practitioner. She provides clinical services as a family nurse practitioner in her own practice and in urgent care. She received her doctor of nursing practice from Arizona State University in Phoenix, Arizona, with an emphasis in evidenced-based practice and health policy. She has authored and co-authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and chapters, and has presented locally, nationally, and internationally on varied topics for primary care. 
 
 
 
 
1. Review the mechanism of the sleep/wake cycle as it relates to insomnia
2. Proactively evaluate patients for insomnia 
3. Evaluate the mechanisms, efficacy, and safety of therapeutic choices for insomnia 
4. Apply appropriate management strategies in patients with insomnia 

Jointly provided by Postgraduate Institute for Medicine and MedEdicus LLC
 
              
 
This activity is supported by an independent educational grant from Merck & Co, Inc.
 
Target Audience
This activity has been designed to meet the educational needs of primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and registered nurses involved in the management of patients with insomnia.
 
Estimated time to complete activity: 1.0 hour.
 
Physician Continuing Medical Education
 
Accreditation Statement
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of Postgraduate Institute for Medicine and MedEdicus. The Postgraduate Institute for Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
 
Credit Designation
The Postgraduate Institute for Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
Nursing Continuing Education
 
Credit Designation
This educational activity for 1.0 contact hour is provided by Postgraduate Institute for Medicine. 
 
Accreditation Statement
Postgraduate Institute for Medicine is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest
Postgraduate Institute for Medicine (PIM) requires instructors, planners, managers and other individuals who are in a position to control the content of this activity to disclose any real or apparent conflict of interest (COI) they may have as related to the content of this activity. All identified COI are thoroughly vetted and resolved according to PIM policy. PIM is committed to providing its learners with high quality CME/CE activities and related materials that promote improvements or quality in healthcare and not a specific proprietary business interest of a commercial interest.
 
The faculty reported the following financial relationships or relationships to products or devices they or their spouse/life partner have with commercial interests related to the content of this CME activity:
 
Ruth Benca, MD, PhD, had a financial agreement or affiliation during the past year with the following commercial interests in the form of Consultant Fees: Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc; Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc; Merck & Co, Inc. Contracted Research: Merck & Co, Inc.
 
Larry Culpepper, MD, MPH, had a financial agreement or affiliation during the past year with the following commercial interests in the form of Consultant Fees: Astra Zeneca; Forest Labs; Lundbeck A/S; Merck & Co, Inc; Shire PLC, Inc; Takeda Pharmaceuticals Inc. Fees for Non-CME/CE Services Received Directly from a Commercial Interest or their Agents (e.g., speakers' bureaus): Elsevier Press. Ownership Interest: M‑3 Information, LLC. Royalty: UpToDate, Oxford University Press. Other: Editor in Chief of the Primary Care Companion for CNS Disorders.
 
Angela Golden, DNP, FNP-C, FAANP, had a financial agreement or affiliation during the past year with the following commercial interest in the form of Consultant Fees: Merck & Co, Inc.

Planners and Managers Disclosures
The planners and managers reported the following financial relationships or relationships to products or devices they or their spouse/life partner have with commercial interests related to the content of this CME activity:
 
The following PIM planners and managers, Trace Hutchison, PharmD; Samantha Mattiucci, PharmD, CHCP; Judi Smelker-Mitchek, RN, BSN; and Jan Schultz, RN, MSN, CHCP, and the following MedEdicus editors and planners, Cheryl Guttman and Cynthia Tornallyay, RD, MBA, CHCP, hereby state that they or their spouse/life partner did not have any financial relationships or relationships to products or devices with any commercial interest related to the content of this activity of any amount during the past 12 months.
 
Method of Participation and Request for Credit
There are no fees for participating in and receiving CME/CE credit for this activity. During the period of September 29, 2015, through September 29, 2016, participants must read the learning objectives and faculty disclosures and study the educational activity. Upon successfully completing the post-test with a score of 75% or better and the activity evaluation, your certificate will be made available immediately.
 
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Disclosure of Unlabeled Use
This educational activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. The planners of this activity do not recommend the use of any agent outside of the labeled indications. 
 
The opinions expressed in the educational activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily represent the views of the planners. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.
 
Disclaimer
Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance patient outcomes and their own professional development. The information presented in this activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed or suggested in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of their patients' conditions and possible contraindications and/or dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer’s product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities.
 
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