BY JESSICA VAUTOUR, SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER, CONTINUING EDUCATION
In case you missed the educational activities that were part of the MMS 2024 Interim Meeting, recordings are available as online CME courses.
The 2024 Annual Oration, “A Classroom Every Week: Adolescent Overdose Deaths and the Role of the Pediatric Workforce,” was presented by Scott E. Hadland, MD, MPH, MS, who addressed the critical issue of adolescent overdose deaths
and the pivotal role of the pediatric workforce. This activity was an exploration, blending real-world statistics with compassionate inquiry, aiming to understand the complexities and dynamics that contribute to this pressing public health
crisis.
Dr. Hadland is the Chief of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and holds triple board certification in General Pediatrics, Adolescent Medicine,
and Addiction Medicine. In an engaging conversation following the presentation, Dr. Hadland and MMS President Hugh M. Taylor, MD, discussed many aspects and questions related to the topic.
This session took place on November 22, 2024. An online version of this educational activity is available here.
The 2024 MMS Interim Meeting Ethics Forum, “Health Care’s Carbon Footprint: Exploring the Health Care Sector’s Impact on Climate Change,” was an informative and timely program in which a panel of dynamic speakers considers the
health care system’s impact on climate change.
This activity analyzed how the US health care system contributes to climate change and examines the advantages and challenges associated with lowering the carbon footprint of the health care system.
Panelists Wynne Armand, MD, Associate Director, Massachusetts General Hospital Center for the Environment and Health; Andrew Hantel, MD, Faculty, Divisions of Leukemia and Population Sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Harvard Medical
School Center for Bioethics; and Rachel Oblath, PhD, Director of Research Methodology, Boston Medical Center Department of Psychiatry, explored actionable strategies for implementing sustainable practices in health care settings, moderated
by Renu Goyal, MD, Chair of the MMS Committee on Ethics, Grievances, and Professional Standards.
This program took place on December 11, 2024. An online version of this educational activity is available here.
Each of the above online educational activities is approved for
AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.
