Administrative Director

Scientific Meeting: Implications of AI and Super-Intelligence for Psychoanalysis

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  •  March 10, 2026
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

***This meeting is virtual and will be held on ZOOM.***

NYPSI’s 1083rd Scientific Meeting:

“Implications of AI and Super-Intelligence for Psychoanalysis”

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

8:00 – 10:00 PM (EST)

Presenter: Andrew Rosendahl, M.D., Ph.D.

Discussant: Andrew Gerber, M.D., Ph.D.

This presentation is designed for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic candidates seeking to understand the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence and its implications for clinical practice and psychoanalysis. Drawing on both technical knowledge and psychoanalytic theory, the presenter—a member psychoanalyst with a science and technology background—will examine how AI is already appearing in our consulting rooms, how it may function as a new object of transference and resistance, and what it means for the future of our field. Through didactic presentation, vignettes, and guided discussion, participants will be invited to approach AI as psychoanalysts—with curiosity, openness, and the capacity to sit with something that doesn’t yet fit our existing categories.

2 Contact Hours. 2 CME/CE credits will be offered. See details below.

General Admission: $50

Student Admission: $35

Free Admission for current NYPSI members/students and HFI Candidates

REGISTRATION LINK HERE

Please note registration closes at 5 PM on Monday, December 8th.

THIS MEETING IS VIRTUAL; READ INSTRUCTIONS BELOW:

***Registration in Zoom Before the Meeting is Required to Attend***

After you have completed registering for the event, please look out for a confirmation email with more details on how to receive your Zoom Link.

Evaluation Survey and CME/CE documentation will be emailed after the event.

Please make sure you type your email correctly when you register!  Contact with questions.

OPTIONAL READINGS
    1. Rabeyron, T. (2025). Artificial intelligence and psychoanalysis: Is it time for psychoanalyst.AI? Frontiers in Psychiatry, 16, 1558513. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1558513
    2. Fiske, A., Henningsen, P., & Buyx, A. (2021). “Like I’m talking to a real person”: Exploring the meaning of transference for the use and design of AI-based applications in psychotherapy. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 720476. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.720476
    3. Hadar-Shoval, D., Alon-Tirosh, M., Morag, O., Elyoseph, Z. (2024). The artificial third: A broad view of the effects of introducing generative artificial intelligence on psychotherapy. JMIR Mental Health, 11, e54781. https://doi.org/10.2196/54781
BIOGRAPHIES

Andrew Rosendahl, M.D., Ph.D. is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst practicing in New York City. He earned his M.D. and Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Miami and completed his psychoanalytic training at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute (NYPSI). As a faculty member at NYPSI, Dr. Rosendahl teaches a neuropsychoanalysis course designed to bridge the gap between neuroscience and psychoanalytic knowledge. Additionally, he is a devoted technophile and the co-founder of a healthcare tech startup. His enthusiasm for technology includes a keen interest in large language models and artificial intelligence, and their potential to shed light on the workings of the human mind.

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Andrew J. Gerber, M.D., Ph.D. is the President and Medical Director of Silver Hill Hospital, a private non-profit psychiatric hospital in New Canaan, Connecticut. Dr. Gerber serves as associate clinical professor at the Yale University Child Study Center and as a board member of the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology. Prior to joining Silver Hill, Dr. Gerber was Medical Director and CEO of the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He is also the former co-director of the Sackler Parent-Infant Program at Columbia University, former director of the MRI Research Program at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and former director of research at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  1. Analyze and apply psychoanalytic thinking to the emergence of artificial intelligence and AI-based bots—considering how they may participate in the compromise formation of clinical material and function as objects of transference, resistance, competition, and as potential sources of genuine therapeutic assistance—and use this understanding to formulate analytic responses in treatment.
  2. Discuss the multiple layers and scales of AI’s implications for psychoanalytic practice, including its potential impact on insurance reimbursement, accessibility of mental health care, and the evolving role of human therapists as AI-based interventions become increasingly prevalent.

Psychologists

New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY – 0073.

New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists. New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. DISCLOSURE: None of the planners and presenters of this CE program has any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Social Workers

New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW – 0317.

Physicians
ACCME Accreditation Statement
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of [2] AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure Statement
None of the planners and presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies* whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. *Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.
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Administrative Director

Advanced Child Seminar: Finding a Path Through the Thicket of Loss and Envy to New Forms of Connection: The Description of a Child Analysis

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  •  December 11, 2025
     8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

***This meeting is virtual and will be held on ZOOM.***

Advanced Child Seminar:

Finding a Path Through the Thicket of Loss and Envy to New Forms of Connection:

The Description of a Child Analysis

Thursday, December 11th

8:00 – 9:30 PM (EST)

Presenter: Sarah Knox, M.D

 

Description: The presentation will feature the description of a child analysis that illustrates technique based on an integration of several different psychoanalytic perspectives. The case will also demonstrate the importance of focusing on the child’s intrapsychic reality in the context of the analytic work, while also attending to the parents and their concerns. Finally, there will be an emphasis on the importance and complexities of the ending phase of the treatment in order to increase the likelihood that the treatment will have ongoing effects on the child’s developmental trajectory.

No CME/CE credits will be offered.

Free Admission

REGISTRATION LINK HERE

Please note registration closes at 2 PM on Thursday, December 11th.

THIS MEETING IS VIRTUAL; READ INSTRUCTIONS BELOW:

***Registration in Zoom Before the Meeting is Required to Attend***

When you register, please look out for a confirmation email! This will have the zoom link to the meeting in it.

If you cannot find the link, please email  BEFORE the meeting, no staff will be available right as the meeting is starting.

*No recording will be made available due to the nature of the clinical content being presented*

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Brill Lecture: Inheritance and Trust: Reading the Family Novel

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  •  February 10, 2026
     8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

***This meeting is virtual and will be held on ZOOM.***

Brill Lecture:

Inheritance and Trust: Reading the Family Novel

Tuesday, February 10th

8:00 – 9:30 PM (EST)

Presenter: Daria Colombo, M.D.

 

Description: Daria Colombo, M.D. will use the occasion of the Brill lecture to consider our relationship to our socio-cultural surround.  Building on the author’s previous work on autotheory, Dr. Colombo will present an analysis of a recent novel: Hernan Diaz’s Trust. The novel centers on economic and narrative collapse, in the context of Haydée Faimberg’s model of “Listening to Listening.” In particular, Faimberg’s ideas about basic assumptions, misunderstandings and otherness are used as springboards for an interrogation of our psychoanalytic inheritances and an argument for our pressing responsibilities in the current moment.

1.5 Contact Hours. 1.5 CME/CE credits will be offered. See details below.

General Admission: $50

Student Admission: $35

Free Admission for current NYPSI members/students and HFI Candidates

REGISTRATION LINK HERE

Please note registration closes at 2 PM on Tuesday, February 10th.

THIS MEETING IS VIRTUAL; READ INSTRUCTIONS BELOW:

***Registration in Zoom Before the Meeting is Required to Attend***

After you have completed registering for the event, please look out for a confirmation email with more details on how to receive your Zoom Link.

Evaluation Survey and CME/CE documentation will be emailed after the event.

Please make sure you type your email correctly when you register!  Contact with questions.

OPTIONAL READINGS
  1. Bach, S. (2018) Some Thoughts on Trust and Betrayal. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 28:557-568. https://doi.org/10.1080/10481885.2018.1506214
  2. Colombo, D. (2024) Revisiting, Rewriting, Reexperiencing: Clinical Writing Today, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 93:1, 3-12, https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2024.2319015
  3. Faimberg, H. (2019) Basic Theoretical Assumptions Underpinning Faimberg’s Method: “Listening to Listening”. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 100:447-462. https://doi.org/10.1177/000306512211005

 

BIOGRAPHIES

Daria Colombo, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at The New York Psychoanalytic Institute and a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College.  She is an Associate Editor and on the Board of Directors of Psychoanalytic Quarterly, and was before that a longstanding editorial board member of both the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She is a member of The Center for Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies. She won the Gertrude and Ernst Ticho prize in 2021 and is a past winner of the IJP’s Sacerdoti Prize as well as The New York Psychoanalytic Institute Foundation Award for Candidate Writing. Dr. Colombo has written about the analytic frame, literature, feminism and neutrality. Her most recent paper “Autotheory: Towards the Embodying of Analytic Framing” was awarded the JAPA prize in 2024. Dr. Colombo practices in New York City.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  1. Discuss how to listen to clinical material from different theoretical backgrounds.
  2. Explain how to examine our clinical and theoretical work for unrecognized assumptions.

Psychologists

New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY – 0073.

New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists. New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. DISCLOSURE: None of the planners and presenters of this CE program has any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Social Workers

New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW – 0317.

Physicians
ACCME Accreditation Statement
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of [1.5] AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure Statement
The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME’s identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
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Scientific Meeting: “Drive or trauma-Drive and trauma (Ilse Grubrich-Simitis) Revisited”

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  •  January 17, 2026
     10:00 am - 12:00 pm

***This meeting is virtual and will be held on ZOOM.***

NYPSI’s 1082nd Scientific Meeting:

“Drive or Trauma-Drive and Trauma (Ilse Grubrich-Simitis) Revisited”

Saturday, January 17th, 2026

10:00 – 12:00 PM (EST)

Presenter: Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Ph.D.

Discussant: Luis Ripoll, M.D.

 

Description: Almost 40 years ago, Ilse Grubrich-Simitis, in her groundbreaking paper, “Drive or Trauma: Drive and Trauma,” integrated drive and object relational aspects, on the one hand, and trauma-specific perspectives, on the other, in a creative way, as will be discussed regarding some conceptual developments in contemporary psychoanalysis. A short case example will illustrate the conceptual richness for treating chronically depressed patients with early trauma available to clinicians today. Considering both drive and trauma is among the strengths of modern psychoanalytic treatment techniques as will be illustrated alongside recent findings of the LAC depression study indicating that these difficult-to-treat patients profit especially well from psychoanalysis.

2 Contact Hours. 2 CME/CE credits will be offered. See details below.

General Admission: $50

Student Admission: $35

Free Admission for current NYPSI members/students and HFI Candidates

REGISTRATION LINK HERE

Please note registration closes at 2 PM on Friday, January 16th.

THIS MEETING IS VIRTUAL; READ INSTRUCTIONS BELOW:

***Registration in Zoom Before the Meeting is Required to Attend***

After you have completed registering for the event, please look out for a confirmation email with more details on how to receive your Zoom Link.

Evaluation Survey and CME/CE documentation will be emailed after the event.

Please make sure you type your email correctly when you register!  Contact with questions.

OPTIONAL READINGS
    1. Bohleber, W., & Leuzinger-Bohleber, M. (2016). The Special Problem of Interpretation in the Treatment of Traumatized Patients. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 36(1), 60–76. https://doi.org/10.1080/07351690.2016.1112223
    2. Krakau, L., Ernst, M., Hautzinger, M., Beutel, M.E., Leuzinger-Bohleber, M. (2024): Childhood trauma and differential response to long-term psychoanalytic versus cognitive-behavioural therapy for chronic depression in adults. The British Journal of Psychiatry, First View, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.112.
    3. Leuzinger‐Bohleber, M. (2015). Working with severely traumatized, chronically depressed analysands. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 96(3), 611–636. https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-8315.12238
BIOGRAPHIES

Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Ph.D. is the former Director of the Sigmund Freud Institute in Frankfurt, Professor Emerita at the University of Kassel, and Senior Professor at the University of Medicine in Mainz. She is a training analyst of the German Psychoanalytical Association and the International Psychoanalytical Association and she has chaired the Research Subcommittees for Clinical, Conceptual, Epistemological and Historical Research of the IPA, served as Vice Chair for Europe of the Research Board of the IPA, and Chair of the IPA Subcommittee for Migration and Refugees. Dr. Leuzinger-Bohleber has been honored with the Mary Sigourney Award (2016), the Haskell Norman Prize for Excellence in Psychoanalysis (2017), the Robert S. Wallerstein Fellowship (2022-2027), and the IPA’s Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award (2023). Her research fields are clinical and extra-clinical research in psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic developmental research, prevention studies, interdisciplinary dialogue between psychoanalysis and literature, educational sciences and the neurosciences.

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Luis H. Ripoll M.D. was born in Cartagena, Colombia, completed his undergraduate education in 2001 at Brown University with a double concentration in Biology and Philosophy, and received his medical degree in 2006 from the University of Florida College of Medicine. He completed his psychiatric residency at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York in 2010 which was followed by a clinical research fellowship focusing on the neurobiology of empathic accuracy in personality disorders and work at Mount Sinai’s World Trade Center Mental Health Program, where he also taught a course on the application of attachment theory and mentalization-based therapy to this severely traumatized patient population. Dr. Ripoll completed psychoanalytic training at NYPSI in 2018, serving as Silvan Clinical Research Fellow. He has presented at APSA’s annual meetings on the disturbance of self in borderline personality disorder and on a panel devoted to Freud’s conception of trauma in “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” as applied to contemporary issues regarding racism, climate change, and immigration. He presently teaches two courses at NYPSI on Interpersonal and Relational Psychoanalysis and the use of tape-recordings of psychoanalytic sessions to understand the psychoanalytic process as well as an online course organized by the William Alanson White Institute on the works of Donnel Stern. Dr. Ripoll serves on the board of the Psychoanalytic Research Consortium where he continues to participate in process and outcome research using recorded analyses. He has been in full-time private practice in NYC since 2015.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  1. Utilize the concept of embodied memories with psychoanalytic treatment technique
  2. Explain why in treating chronically depressed patients who experienced early trauma, it is crucial to address embodied memories of early trauma both in the transference relationship with the analyst and by approaching the “historical truth” of the trauma.

Psychologists

New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY – 0073.

New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists. New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. DISCLOSURE: None of the planners and presenters of this CE program has any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Social Workers

New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW – 0317.

Physicians
ACCME Accreditation Statement
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of [2] AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure Statement
The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME’s identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
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Fred Pine Award Plenary Address: Time and Timelessness in the Unconscious

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  •  January 13, 2026
     8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

***This meeting is virtual and will be held on ZOOM.***

Fred Pine Award Plenary Address

Time and Timelessness in the Unconscious

Tuesday, January 13th, 2026

8:00 – 9:30 PM (EST)

Presenters: Kenneth Feiner, Psy.D. &

Deborah Waxenberg, Ph.D.

 

Kenneth Feiner, Psy.D. & Deborah Waxenberg, Ph.D. will present on the influence of temporality on people’s mind and lives. They reconsider Freud’s assertions that time belongs exclusively to the system Cs. and is absent from the unconscious (UCS), highlighting the inconsistencies in Freud’s own clinical observations and theorizing. Time and timelessness are coexistent, interrelated dimensions of experience, rather than binaries. The past, present and future coexist in both unconscious and conscious mentation. Psychoanalytic literature, contemporary chronobiological and developmental research, recent work in neuroscience, and clinical observations will be drawn upon. As psychoanalytic practitioners and educators, they want to expand recognition of the role of temporality in the workings of unconscious processes and contribute to a revised theory of the unconscious.

1.5 Contact Hours. 1.5 CME/CE credits will be offered. See details below.

General Admission: $50

Student Admission: $35

Free Admission for current NYPSI members/students and HFI Candidates

REGISTRATION LINK HERE

*Registration will close at 2PM on Tuesday, January 13th*

THIS MEETING IS VIRTUAL; READ INSTRUCTIONS BELOW:

***Registration in Zoom Before the Meeting is Required to Attend***

After you have completed registering for the event, please look out for a confirmation email with more details on how to receive your Zoom Link.

Evaluation Survey and CME/CE documentation will be emailed after the event.

Please make sure you type your email correctly when you register!  Contact with questions.

OPTIONAL READINGS
    1. Cairo, I. (2017). It’s about Time: Temporality in Analysis. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 65:317-326.
    2. Scarfone, D. (2016) Enactive Cognition, the Unconscious, and Time. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 36(5):388-397.
    3. Steiner, J. (2018). Time and the Garden of Eden Illusion. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 99(6), 1274–1287.
BIOGRAPHIES
Kenneth Feiner, Psy.D. a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, is the co- author (with Danielle Knafo) of the book, Unconscious Fantasies and the Relational World. He is a clinical consultant at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and a faculty member at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He has published articles on child development, empathy,
unconscious fantasy, and sexual abuse. Dr. Feiner is in private practice in New York City where he sees adults, teenagers and couples.
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Deborah Waxenberg, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. She is Teaching Faculty, Clinical Consultant, and served for 6 years as Co-Chair of the Relational Track at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is also Faculty at the Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center and the National Training Program of NIP. Dr. Waxenberg maintains an office practice in NYC working with individuals and couples.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  1. Identify instances in which Freud’s descriptions of the unconscious included time, contradicting his claim that the unconscious is timeless.
  2. Describe how time and timelessness coexist in unconscious processes in their work with patients and discuss the ramifications of this for a psychoanalytic theory of the unconscious.

Psychologists

New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY – 0073.

New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists. New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. DISCLOSURE: None of the planners and presenters of this CE program has any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Social Workers

New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW – 0317.

Physicians
ACCME Accreditation Statement
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of [1.5] AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure Statement
The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME’s identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
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