Mastering Triglyceride Science: An In-Depth Master’s Course
September 6, 2024
OBJECTIVES & ACCREDITATION

Program Overview
The Mastering Triglyceride Science: An In-Depth Master’s course is a master’s level course series addressing knowledge, competence, and practice gaps in managing hypertriglyceridemia and its associated pathophysiological manifestation and to provide lipid specialists with improved proficiency on the complexities of severe hypertriglyceridemia, and targets of therapy.

Target Audience
This activity is intended for lipidologists, allied health specialists, researchers, and other specialists with advanced knowledge and experience in preventive cardiology and/or lipid science.

Type of Activity
Live Course Activity
Knowledge

Educational Objective(s)
At the conclusion of this activity, all participants should be able to:

• Discuss strategies for the management of patients with lipid disorders.
• Recognize the prevalence of triglyceride-rich remnant lipoproteins in ASCVD.
• Discuss treatment options for hypertriglyceridemia, both for primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular events in patients with ASCVD.
• Outline appropriate therapy options for high CVD risk patients with elevated triglyceride levels.
• Identify the clinical and genetic attributes, available diagnostic tools, and screening practices to aid the identification of individuals with chylomicronemia syndrome.
• Explain the role of genetic testing in the identification of familial chylomicronemia syndrome (FCS) and multifactorial chylomicronemia (MCM).
• Outline appropriate therapy options for patients with chylomicronemia syndrome and multifactorial chylomicronemia.
• Discuss strategies to improve the knowledge, skills, or performance of the healthcare team.

CRITERIA FOR SUCCESS
Statements of credit will be awarded based on the participant’s attendance and submission of the activity evaluation form. Partial credit may be awarded for ACPE credit.  A statement of credit will be available upon completion of an online evaluation/claimed credit form at lipid.org/cme.  The deadline to claim credit is October 6, 2024. Questions related to this content should be sent to cme@lipid.org.

COMMERCIAL SUPPORT
This activity is being supported from funding by Ionis. 

CREDIT DESIGNATION

CME/CE credit provided by the National Lipid Association

In support of improving patient care, The National Lipid Association is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physician Credit Designation Statement
The National Lipid Association designates this internet enduring activity for a maximum of 8.0 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 I Credits™ from organizations accredited by ACCME.

Pharmacist Accreditation Statement

Universal Activity Number UAN JA0007192-0000-24-012-L01-P (Knowledge)

This Activity has been approved for 8.0 contact hour(s) (0.10 CEUs) of the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education

Nursing
The maximum number of hours awarded for this CE activity is 7.6 contact hours.

DISCLOSURE INFORMATION
FACULTY, PLANNERS, & REVIEWERS

Zahid Ahmad, MD
Consultant: Amryt
Research: US Department of Defense, National Institute of Health, Ionis

Elham Afghani, MD, MPH
Has nothing to disclose.

Alan Brown, MD
Advisory Board: Ionis, Esperion, New Amsterdam, Regeneron, Novartis, Merck, Amgen
Speaker: Esperion, Regeneron, Amgen

Abhimanyu Garg, MD
Consultant: Amryt, Arrowhead, Regeneron
Research: Amryt, Regeneron, Intercept

Nivedita Patni, MD
Advisory Board: Amryt Pharmaceuticals Inc
Consultant: Ionis Pharmaceuticals

Staff Disclosures

NLA Staff
Has nothing to disclose.

NLA ICE Committee Reviewers

Chris DeVille, CHCP
Has nothing to disclose.

DISCLOSURE OF UNLABELED USE AND INVESTIGATIONAL PRODUCTS
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 NLA to ensure independence, balance, objectivity, scientific rigor, and integrity in all of its continuing education activities. Planners, faculty, reviewers, and staff have disclosed any financial relationships with commercial interests as defined by the ACCME. 

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. The NLA specifically disclaims responsibility for any adverse consequences resulting directly or indirectly from information in the course, for undetected error, or through reader’s misunderstanding of content.

PERMISSIONS
The National Lipid Association acknowledges that permissions have been obtained for use of all copyrighted materials, including graphs, tables, pictures, and charts printed in this activity syllabus. Permissions have also been obtained from identifiable patients in photographs and other images, consistent with the DHHS HIPAA regulations for individual privacy.