Office of CME Professional Presentations

2013           2012          2011

Tina Kehoe (l) from the MUSC Office of CME exhibited the Measure Your Health display at the annual Diabetes Awareness Day at the South Carolina Statehouse on March 13, 2013, which was hosted by the Diabetes Initiative of South Carolina (DSC), represented by Julie Benke-Bennett (r). DSC provided free diabetes screening to the public which included a blood glucose test and waist circumference measurement per the SC Guidelines on Diabetes Care. Measure Your Health is an OCME initiative to raise the public's awareness of the importance of measuring waist circumference for prevention of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. To learn more, click here.

Odessa Ussery, MEd, CCMEP, Director of the MUSC Office of Continuing Medical Education, and Sarah Ball, PharmD (not pictured), South Carolina College of Pharmacy, presented a poster at the national ACEHP annual conference in San Francisco, California on January 30 - February 1, 2013.

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Odessa also received the Distinguished Member Award for her valuable service and contributions to the Alliance.

Tina Kehoe, MAEd, CCMEP, from the MUSC Office of Continuing Medical Education (right) and Victoria Chien, PhD, MBA from the USC Office of Continuous Professional Development and Strategic Affairs gave an oral presentation at the national ACEHP annual conference in San Francisco, California on January 31, 2013. Their presentation highlighted educational strategies piloted in a joint MUSC/USC education research project on improving obesity care in South Carolina.

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(l-r) Odessa Ussery, MEd, CCMEP, Tina Kehoe, MAEd, CCMEP, and Elizabeth Gossen, BS (not pictured) presented the MUSC Office of CME poster titled Evolution of an RSS Case Conference Reporting System for Documenting Competency That Leads to Performance Change at the national annual conference of the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education in Orlando, Florida on January 21-24, 2012. Click here to view the poster supplement.

The MUSC Office of CME exhibited its Measure Your Health display at the annual Diabetes Day at the South Carolina Statehouse on March 21, 2012, which was hosted by the Diabetes Initiative of South Carolina (DSC), which also offered free diabetes screening to the public. Measure Your Health is an OCME initiative to raise awareness of the importance of measuring waist circumference for prevention of obesity and metabolic syndrome. To learn more, click here.

(l-r) Odessa Ussery, MEd, CCMEP, Tina Kehoe, MAEd, CCMEP, Dan Lackland, DrPh, and Pamela Benjamin presented the MUSC Office of CME poster titled First Steps in Assessing Metabolic Risk: An MUSC Office of CME & Diabetes Initiative of SC Practice Improvement Project at the national annual conference of the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education in San Francisco, CA on January 26-28, 2011. Click here to view the poster supplement.