Smoking and Dementia: Are You at Risk for Alzheimer’s? Webinar

The Smoking Cessation Leadership Center (SCLC) is pleased to invite you to our next free webinar, “Smoking and Dementia: Are You at Risk for Alzheimer’s?” on June 25, 2014 at 2:00pm Eastern Time/ 11:00am Pacific Time (90 minutes).

We are honored to have Eric B. Larson, MD, MPH, MACP, Vice President for Research, Group Health and  Executive Director & Senior Investigator, Group Health Research Institute (GHRI), presenting on this topic for us.

Webinar Objectives: 

• Describe how research has changed  our understanding of Alzheimer’s and late life dementias
• Value the magnitude of the “epidemic” of Alzheimer’s and late life dementias
• Explain that reduction of vascular risk is a promising way to reduce risk of experiencing Alzheimer’s and late life dementia and that these conditions are among the most feared of any chronic disease. 
• Apply the knowledge that smoking increases vascular risk and the risk of developing late life dementias and  Alzheimer’s disease  to promote smoking cessation
• Assess that evidence of declining incidence rates reported  in several recent papers argues for preventability of Alzheimer’s and late life dementias

REGISTER HERE:    https://cc.readytalk.com/r/r0i6p9xvv823&eom

Accreditation:

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

UCSF designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the webinar activity.

Nurse Practitioners and Registered Nurses: For the purpose of recertification, the American Nurses Credentialing Center accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^TM issued by organizations accredited by the ACCME.

Physician Assistants: The National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) states that the AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM are acceptable for continuing medical education requirements for recertification.

California Pharmacists: The California Board of Pharmacy accepts as continuing professional education those courses that meet the standard of relevance to pharmacy practice and have been approved for AMA PRA category 1 credit^TM. If you are a pharmacist in another state, you should check with your state board for approval of this credit.

Social Workers: This course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for MFTs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. If you a social worker in another state, you should check with your state board for approval of this credit.

Participants who join the LIVE session, on June 25, 2014, can claim CME/CEU credit for $35 per certificate. You will receive instructions on how to claim credit via the post webinar email.

Don’t need to claim CME/CEUs?  SCLC issues free certificates of attendance for those who want contact hours only.

Please feel free to forward this announcement to your colleagues.  For questions, contact Jennifer Matekuare, SCLC Operations Manager, at jmatekuare@medicine.ucsf.edu, or call toll-free (877) 509-3786.  This webinar will be recorded and may be viewed online on the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center’s website after the presentation.