Community and Continuing Medical Education

Dr. Yong-Qing Li, Professor, Department of Physics, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

Title: “Modeling bacterial spore germination – heterogeneity, commitment, memory, and CaDPA release”

Host: Dr. Peter Setlow

Stavropoula Tjoumakaris, MD, MBA, FAANS, FACS, FAHA

Interim Chair Department of Neurological Surgery

Professor of Neurological Surgery and Radiology

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

at Sidney Kimmel Medical College

Title: “Vascular Neurosurgery in the Dual-Training Era”

Time and Date: 7:00 am - 8:00 am on Wednesday, March 11^th, 2026

In-Person: The Brain & Spine Institute, 5 Munson Rd, Lower Level, Conference Room B (MN B003)

Virtual attendance: Please use the Neurosurgery Link

The University of Connecticut School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™

To claim CME credits: Please find the attached CME evaluation form for completion. Kindly return the completed form to dhpatel@uchc.edu, and we respectfully request that it be submitted within one week of your attendance.

Hosted by: Ketan R. Bulsara, MD, MBA

Neurosurgery Thursday Residency Curriculum Series

Provided by University of Connecticut School of Medicine Office of Community and Continuing Medical Education and the UConn Health Department of Neurosurgery.

This session will focus on the UConn’s efforts to address the shortages in Primary Care through the Strategic Plan for Primary Care and the Primary Care Leadership Track, which hope to address the needs by fostering mentorship and support for students through education, advocacy and research.

Learners will (be able to):
1. Describe the current state of the primary care workforce in Connecticut.
2. Describe current efforts on both the national and state levels to address the need for primary care.
3. Describe the role of the Primary care Leadership Track.
4. Identify the interventions available at UCONN to address the financial imbalance.
5. Identify the interventions in the area of student research.
6. Identify 2 interventions within the Primary Care Leadership Track.

Target Audience: Faculty, staff, and trainees at the UConn Health, School of Medicine.

Target Audience: UConn Health faculty, residents, medical students, and other mental health professionals

Learning Objectives: Participants will (be able to):
1. Discuss the design of genome-wide association studies (GWAS)
2. Discuss the methods for downstream analysis of GWAS findings
3. Discuss the results of GWAS of alcohol use disorder, opioid use disorder, and multidimensional pain

Speaker Disclosure Statement: Dr. Kranzler for this educational event, has a financial relationships with: Altimmune, as consultant, an advisory board, medication & funding for company-sponsored clinical trial; Lilly as consultant, medication & funding for company-sponsored clinical trial; Alkermes for medication and funding for an investigator-sponsored clinical trial; Sobrera and Ribocure as consultant; and Clearmind Medicine on an advisory board that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of his role as the speaker. The following mitigated safeguard(s) have been put into place: the activity director determined that the financial relationships of the speaker is outside the area of the content of the program. All the relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated.

Dr. Kranzler will not be discussing the off-labeled, or investigational use of any product or device.

Accreditation: The University of Connecticut School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Connecticut School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Conflict of Interest Policy: All faculty members participating in CME activities provided by the University of Connecticut School of Medicine are required to disclose to the program audience any actual or apparent conflict of interest related to the content of their presentations. Program planners have an obligation to resolve any actual conflicts of interest and share with the audience any safeguards put in place to prevent commercial bias from influencing the content.

Activity Director Disclosure Statement: Dr. Gregory C. Barron as the activity director for this educational event, has no relevant financial relationship(s) with any ineligible companies that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of this presentation that need to be disclosed. There are no relevant financial relationships listed for this individual to be mitigated.

Planning Committee Disclosure Statement: Drs. Linda Durst, Feier Liu, Cassandra Holinka, Jessica Meyer, Surita Rao, Andrew Winokur, Kristina Zdanys, and Sharon Freeman as members of the planning committee, for this educational event, have no relevant financial relationships with any ineligible companies that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of this presentation that need to be disclosed. There are no relevant financial relationships listed for this individual to be mitigated.

Dr. Beth Springate has a financial interest/arrangement with CogState and Medtronic that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of his/her role as the activity director. The following mitigated safeguard(s) have been put into place: the Activity Director determined that the financial relationship of the planner is outside the content of the program.

Commercial Support Statement: This CME activity has no commercial support associated with it.

Evaluations: Participants are required to complete an evaluation to obtain CME Credits. This CME activity uses an electronic evaluation survey. An email from the activity admin, Sharon Freeman, sfreeman@uchc.edu with instruction will be sent to the participants. Please complete the evaluation within 5 business days of receiving the email. If you do not receive an email within the 5 business days of this activity, please reach directly out to the activity admin. All evaluations must be completed within 5 business days of receiving the email evaluation assignment.