Accredited Continuing Education Financial Disclosure
The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide Accredited Continuing Education (ACE) for physicians. ACMG is an organization committed to improvement of patient care and general health by the incorporation of genetics and genomics into clinical practice.
ACMG has implemented the following procedures to ensure the independence of ACE activities from commercial influence/promotional bias, the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) requires that providers (ACMG) must be able to demonstrate that: 1) everyone in a position to control the content of an ACE activity has disclosed all financial relationships that they have had in the past 24 months with ineligible* companies; 2) ACMG has implemented a mechanism to mitigate relevant financial relationships; and 3) all relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies are disclosed to the learners before the beginning of the educational activity. The learners must also be informed if no relevant financial relationships exist.
*Ineligible companies are defined as those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
ACMG Education Policies
Please review the policies below regarding the ACMG Education program

All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.
Name
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Role: Presenter/ Panelist / Moderator / Liaison / Planner / Peer Reviewer
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Financial Disclosure for 24 Months (relationship is ongoing)
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Claudia Barnett
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Staff
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Nothing to Disclose
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Manuela Benary, PhD
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Planner/Moderator
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Speaker: Novartis
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Gordana Raca, MD, PhD, FACMG
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Planner
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Nothing to Disclose
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Jane Radford, MHA, CHCP
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Staff
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Nothing to Disclose
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Beth Pitel, MS
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Planner/ Presenter
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Somatic Advisory Board: Qiagen
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Jason Saliba, PhD
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Planner
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Nothing to Disclose
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Kaitlin Paxton
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Presenter
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Nothing to Disclose
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Kandelaria (Ande) Rumilla, MD
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Presenter
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Nothing to Disclose
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Disclaimer
ACMG educational programs are designed primarily as an educational tool for healthcare professionals who wish to increase their understanding of the application of genomic technologies to patient care. The ACMG does not endorse, or recommend the use of this educational program to make patient diagnoses, particular by individuals not trained in medical genetics. Adherence to the information provided in these programs does not necessarily ensure a successful diagnostic outcome. The program should not be considered inclusive of all proper procedures and tests or exclusive of other procedures and tests that are reasonably directed at obtaining the same results. In determining the propriety of any specific procedure or test, a healthcare professional should apply his or her own professional judgment to the specific clinical circumstances presented by the individual patient or specimen.
Questions regarding CE credit should be directed to education@acmg.net