Available now—TeamCFcare: A Quality Improvement Initiative for Coordinated Care Teams. Don’t miss this exciting, new initiative designed to supplement your knowledge on improving interaction and efficiency in your Cystic Fibrosis care team.

Available now—Understanding and Managing Pancreatic Exocrine Insufficiency in the CF Patient. Unearth the complexities of maintaining adequate pancreatic exocrine function, and define its importance in enhancing the outcomes of your Cystic Fibrosis patients with this free one-hour on-demand webconference.

Introducing new Blogging Feature
Use this blog and get connected with your CF health care colleagues today! TeamCFcare.org has given participants the ability to interact in a weblog format. The blog will allow you, as a CF health care professional, to interact with your colleagues and peers around the country, to post new or interesting findings, ask or answer questions, or simply engage in CF-related conversations with staff at other centers.

PROGRAM INFORMATION

In TeamCFcare: A Quality Improvement Initiative for Coordinated Care Teams, University of Alabama at Birmingham, CF Center Director, Hector Gutierrez, MD, and East Tennessee Children’s Hospital's Judy Marciel, MSN, RN, CPNP, APN, will share first hand perspectives on factors preventing optimal care in coordinated teams, and will invite you to participate in a novel on-going CME-Quality Improvement initiative designed to provide a real world application of currently available tools and resources.

In Understanding and Managing Pancreatic Exocrine Insufficiency in the CF Patient, University of Utah pediatric gastroenterologist and CF nutrition expert, John Pohl, MD, will share with you the latest data, and current best practice options for the diagnosis and treatment of pancreatic exocrine insufficiency (PEI) in CF patients. Learn more about this common but often mis- or under-diagnosed disease, and its relationship to CF, including why it is important to promptly recognize and treat PEI, and how it impacts other systems to the detriment of the patient’s health.