Accreditation

2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education designates this educational activity for a maximum of 2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This activity may be submitted for American Osteopathic Association Continuing Medical Education credit in Category 2.

Target Audience

This activity will be directed to rheumatologists, gastroenterologists, dermatologists, pulmonologists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other health care professionals interested in or using biologic therapeutics in autoimmune and inflammatory disorders.

Description

This activity was presented at the Cleveland Clinic Richard J. Fasenmyer Center of Clinical Immunology Biologic Therapies for Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disease States Summit. The reviewed advances in biologic therapies for autoimmune diseases.

Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, the participant will be able to:

1. Discuss the current status of biologic therapies for osteoporosis
2. Review the potential targets for biologic agents in the pathways leading to osteoclast, osteoblast and osteocyte activation
3. Explain the rationale and possible mechanisms of B cell targeting strategies
4. Describe the results of clinical trials using B cell targeted therapy
5. List the benefits TNFa inhibitors have in RA and other arthritides

Activity Director

Leonard H. Calabrese, DO
Professor of Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Vice Chairman
Department of Rheumatic & Immunologic Diseases
R.J. Fasenmyer Chair of Clinical Immunology

Author

Ferdinand Breedveld, MD
Chad Deal, MD
E. William St. Clair, MD
Vibeke Strand, MD

Faculty Disclosure

In accordance with the Standards for Commercial Support issued by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education requires resolution of all faculty conflicts of interest to ensure CME activities are free of commercial bias.

The following faculty have indicated that they may have a relationship, which in the context of their presentation(s), could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest: