This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Accreditation Program (ANCC) through joint providership of Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center  (Einstein) and the Infectious Diseases Society of New York. Einstein is accredited by the ACCME, ACPE, and ANCC to provide continuing medical education for physicians, Pharmacists and Nurses.

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The “Conflict of Interest Disclosure Policy” of Einstein requires that faculty participating in any CME activity disclose to the audience any relationship(s) with a commercial interest; pharmaceutical or equipment company*. Any presenter whose disclosed relationships prove to create a conflict of interest with regard to their contribution to the activity, will not be permitted to present. Einstein also requires that faculty participating in any CME activity disclose to the audience when discussing any unlabeled or investigational use of any commercial products or device, not yet approved in the United States. The staff of CME of Einstein have no conflicts of interest with commercial interests related directly or indirectly to this educational activity.

* The ACCME defines "relevant financial relationships" as financial relationships in any amount occurring within the 12 months prior to the educational activity that creates a conflict of interest. ACCME considers relationships of those in control of the content of the CME activity to include financial relationships of a spouse or partner with a commercial interest. All commercial relationships that create a conflict with the planner’s, speaker’s, author’s, content reviewer’s control of content must be resolved before the educational activity occurs.