Katrina Nickels, MD, DFASAM

Assistant Professor

University of Kentucky College of Medicine

Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Palliative & Supportive Care

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

• Develop inpatient management plans for cancer-related pain based on cancer pain pathophysiology

• Define inpatient management plan for cancer-related intractable nausea and vomiting based on pathophysiology

• Use communication frameworks in patient and family conversations regarding change in cancer trajectory

Disclosure of Financial Interest Summary to Learners

All planners, faculty, and others in control of educational content are required to disclose all their financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months.  An ineligible company is defined as one 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.

None of the planners, faculty, and others in control of educational content for this educational activity have a relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies.

The material presented in this course represents information obtained from the scientific literature as well as the clinical experiences of the speakers. In some cases, the presentations might include a discussion of investigational agents and/or off-label indications for various agents used in clinical practice. Speakers will inform the audience when they are discussing investigational and/or off-label uses.

Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone commercial bias in any presentation, but it is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation