Release Date: March 27, 2024
Expiration Date: March 27, 2025

Expected time to complete this activity as designed: 30 minutes
There are no fees for participating in or receiving credit for this online activity.

Program Overview

This activity focuses on emerging strategies for improving outcomes in patients with myeloma, including the combination of CD38-targeting agents with novel therapies such as bi-specific antibodies. Faculty also discuss the importance of improving diversity in clinical trial populations and specific, applied strategies that clinicians can employ to promote diversity among MM patients who are referred to clinical trials. Finally, faculty address the evolving role of MRD in the de-escalation of therapy, including in MM patients on maintenance therapy.

Target Audience

The target audience is the multidisciplinary team of community-based hematology/oncology physicians; academic and community-based oncology physicians; community-based advanced practice providers (NPs/PAs) in hematology/oncology; and others in the multidisciplinary treatment team for patients with multiple myeloma.

Learning Objectives

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

• Adapt treatment strategies to incorporate emerging therapeutic agents and assessment/monitoring approaches
• Identify the impact of lack of racial diversity in clinical trials and outline practical strategies community oncology practitioners can implement in their own care setting to improve access to clinical trials for all patients

Agenda

How the Journey Might Change: Emerging Concepts, Future Directions and CD38-targeting Agents in MM

• What are the new directions and emerging therapies in MM that will impact clinical practice?
• How does the lack of diversity in clinical trials impact treatment in MM?
• What is the role of MRD in managing patients with MM?

Instructions for Participation and Credit

This activity is eligible for credit through March 27, 2025. After this date, this activity will expire and no further credit will be awarded.

1. Read the target audience, learning objectives, and faculty disclosures.
2. You may be asked to complete a short pre-test before accessing the educational content. This must be completed in order to move forward in the activity.
3. Complete the educational content as designed.
4. Complete the post-test. To receive a certificate, you must receive a passing score of 70%.
5. Complete the activity evaluation survey to provide feedback and information useful for future programming.
6. Certificates for CME and CE credit may be printed immediately after successfully completing the post-test and activity evaluation.

Faculty Biographies

Joshua Richter, MD, FACP
Associate Professor of Medicine
Tisch Cancer Institute
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Director of Myeloma
Blavatnik Family Chelsea Medical Center at Mount Sinai
New York City, New York

Dr. Joshua Richter received his medical degree from New York Medical College. He completed an internal medicine residency at St. Vincent’s Hospital – New York Medical College, and a hematology/oncology fellowship at Yale Cancer Center, Yale University. Dr. Richter served as Clinical Assistant Professor at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, and worked in the Division of Myeloma at the John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, New Jersey. He is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine at Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Director of Myeloma at Blavatnik Family Chelsea Medical Center at Mount Sinai in New York City.

Dr. Richter is board certified in internal medicine, hematology, and medical oncology. He has been published in numerous oncology journals including New England Journal of Medicine, Blood, Journal of Clinical Oncology, and the British Journal of Haematology. Dr. Richter specializes in multiple myeloma as well as other plasma cell dyscrasias such as amyloidosis and Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia. His clinical research interests focus on multi-functional antibodies and precision medicine. 

Andrew Yee, MD
Clinical Director, Center for Multiple Myeloma
Massachusetts General Cancer Center
Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

Dr. Andrew Yee received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, followed by training in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and hematology and oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Partners Cancer Care. He is currently the Clinical Director of the Center for Multiple Myeloma at Massachusetts General Cancer Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. 

Dr. Yee sees patients with multiple myeloma and plasma cell dyscrasias.  He is actively involved in clinical trials in multiple myeloma, where he leads several investigator-initiated trials and serves as principal investigator on a range of multicenter trials.   

Accreditation

CME CREDIT MediCom Worldwide, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. MediCom Worldwide, Inc. designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosure

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Faculty Disclosures

Dr. Joshua Richter has relevant financial relationships to disclose related to speakers’ bureaus from Adaptive Biotechnologies, Bristol Myers Squibb Company, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Sanofi; and for consulting and advisory activities from AbbVie Inc., Bristol Myers Squibb, Genentech, Inc., Janssen, Karyopharm Therapeutics, Pfizer Inc., Sanofi, and Takeda Oncology.

Dr. Andrew Yee has relevant financial relationships to disclose related to consulting activities from AbbVie Inc., Adaptive Biotechnologies, Amgen Inc., Bristol Myers Squibb Company, Celgene Corporation, GSK, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Karyopharm Therapeutics, Oncopeptides AB, Prothena, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Sanofi, and Takeda Oncology. He has received research grants from Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, and Janssen.

All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.

Unapproved Product Use

This educational activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the US Food and Drug Administration. The faculty have been informed of their responsibility to disclose to the audience if they will be discussing off-label or investigational uses of products or devices. ­­­

Planning Committee

Joan Meyer, RN, MHA, Executive Director; Sheri Sturgis, Strategy and Education Manager; Lillian McVey, Content Director; and Jennifer Murphy, Project Manager, planners for this educational activity, have no relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, reselling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Peer Reviewer

Peer reviewer(s) for this educational activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, reselling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

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