CDC: CME course for colonoscopy

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is offering a continuing medical education course on colonoscopy.

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The CME course “Screening for Colorectal Cancer: Optimizing Quality” is offered for both primary care physicians and endoscopists.

The program was developed by the following physicians and leaders in the GI field:’

•    Lynn Butterly, MD, medical director, New Hampshire Colorectal Cancer Screening Program; Director of Colorectal Cancer Screening at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (Lebanon, N.H.)
•    Diane Dwyer, MD, former medical director, Center for Cancer Prevention and Control, Prevention and Health Promotion Administration, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (Baltimore)
•    David Lieberman, MD, professor of medicine and chief, division of gastroenterology and hepatology, Oregon Health and Science University (Portland)
•    Marion Nadel, PhD, senior epidemiologist, division of cancer prevention and control, CDC (Atlanta)
•    Michael B. Potter, MD, professor, department of family and community medicine, University of California (San Francisco)
•    Paul C. Schroy, MD, MPH, professor of medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
•    Jean Shapiro, PhD, epidemiologist, division of cancer prevention and control, CDC (Atlanta)
•    Richard Wender, MD, chief cancer control officer, American Cancer Society (Atlanta) and professor, family and community medicine, Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia)

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