Microbiome and Immunity: What We Need To Know

Microbiome and Immunity: What We Need To Know is organized by Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education.

Release Date: May 09, 2018
Expiration Date: May 09, 2020  

The target audience for this medical event is rheumatologists, dermatologists, gastroenterologists, allergists, clinical immunologists, and specialises in infectious disease, integrative medicine, primary care and other healthcare professionals caring for patients with immunologic diseases. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit.

Course Description:
Basic and Clinical Immunology series provides clinicians with a review of basic and clinical immunology. It is comprised of A-B-C teaching with an emphasis on biologic principles and implications and focuses on three areas- basic overview of immunology, a review of current advances, and biologic therapies for IMIDS.

This webcast will review the human immune system as it relates to microbiome and the developing insights currently being offered.

Learning Objectives
• Describe how the human immune system has co-evolved in the presence of the microbiome.
• Highlight the diversity of microbes within us.
• Identify the range of functions associated with the influence of the microbiome.
• Discuss examples in which dysbiosis contributes to clinical disease.

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.