Emerging Solutions for PCPs
HPV: Targeting the Hidden Virus

Issue Date: October 5, 2005    Expires: October 5, 2008

This live teleconference/Webcast series is designed to update primary care physicians by examining the latest data on HPV management and prevention strategies. The program features slide presentations via the Internet followed by an interactive question and answer segment.

Target Audience

Primary care physicians, internists, pediatricians, and family physicians, and other medical professionals who treat patients at risk for HPV.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this educational activity, it is intended that the participant will be able to:

• Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of treatment options for HPV and genital warts
• Review HPV recurrence rates with various treatment modalities
• Understand key data from HPV clinical vaccine trials

Program Faculty

Program Chair and Moderator:

Jeffrey Lin, MD, FACOG

Associate Professor
Director, Divisions of Gynecologic Oncology and General Obstetrics and Gynecology
Chief, Gynecologic Surgery
The George Washington University School of Medicine
Washington, DC

Presenters:

Thomas Cox, MD

Director of the Gynecology and Colposcopy Clinic
University of California, Santa Barbara

Past Executive Medical Director
National HPV and Cervical Cancer
Prevention Resource Center, American Social Health Association
Raleigh-Durham, NC

Martin Mahoney, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Family Medicine
Assistant Research Professor of Epidemiology
Chair, Department of Health Behavior
Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY

CME Credit

The George Washington University Medical Center designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 credit in category 1 of the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he or she actually spent in the educational activity.