Next live webinar, From Service to Support: Addressing Tobacco Use in Veterans, co-hosted by the NBHN

Please join the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the National Behavioral Health Network for Tobacco & Cancer Control for the next live webinar, From Service to Support: Addressing Tobacco Use in Veterans, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 1-2:15 p.m. ET.

The following speakers will present on this important topic:

• Paul Caseley, MA, CPC, TTS, Program Manager, Veteran Commercial Tobacco Cessation, Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs
• Dana E. Christofferson, PhD, Deputy Director, Tobacco Use Treatment Program, Veterans Health Administration, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
• Alex Hurst, MHA, Project Director, National Behavioral Health Network for Tobacco and Cancer Control, National Council for Mental Wellbeing

Webinar objectives:

1. Describe the landscape of tobacco use among veterans, including prevalence, unique challenges and contributing factors connected to mental health and wellbeing
2. Identify strategies to address and promote wellness in the context of tobacco use among the veteran population
3. Describe tobacco use rates, available treatment options for veterans in the VA health care system, and how to enroll.
4. Explain  the impacts of tobacco use on veterans’ health experiences, including prevalence and associated health outcomes. 

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Participants who join the live session can earn 75 minutes of free credit. You will receive instructions on how to claim credit via the post-webinar email.

ACCME Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, the University of California, San Francisco 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.

UCSF designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the webinar activity.

Advance Practice Registered Nurses 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 Credit^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.

California Psychologists: The California Board of Psychology recognizes and accepts for continuing education credit courses that are provided by entities approved by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME). AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^TM is acceptable to meeting the CE requirements for the California Board of Psychology. Providers in other states should check with their state boards for acceptance of CME credit.

APA: Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.

Up to 1.25 CE Credit may be claimed.

ASWB: As a Jointly Accredited Organization, UCSF Continuing Education is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 1.25 general continuing education credit.

Interprofessional Continuing Education Credit (IPCE): This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 1.25 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.

Disclosures

This UCSF CME activity was planned and developed to uphold academic standards to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor; adhere to requirements to protect health information under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA); and include a mechanism to inform learners when unapproved or unlabeled uses of therapeutic products or agents are discussed or referenced.

All speakers, planning committee members and reviewers have disclosed they have no relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Catherine Bonniot, Paul Caseley, MA, CPC, TTS, Christine Cheng, Brian Clark, Alex Hurst, MHA, Jennifer Matekuare, Ma Krisanta Pamatmat, MPH, CHES, Jessica Safier, MA, Jason Satterfield, PhD, Katherine Stone, MPH, BASc, and Maya Vijayaraghavan, MD, MAS.

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