In this webinar, you’ll learn from physicians and healthcare industry professionals about the Joint Incentive Fund (JIF) Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Project. which is dedicated to facilitating active duty and veteran military service members addresscardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors. The program is designed in an avatar-based education platform.

This JIF funded initiative, was developed to position Preventive Medicine Junior Faculty at Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals in order to develop and test educational content on CVD risk factors using the VA VMC.

Expert Speaker(s):

• Dr. Angela Mickalide, PhD, MCHES, VP, ACPM
• Dr. Tim K. Mackey, Director of the Global Health Policy Institute; Assistant Professor, UC San Diego-School of Medicine; Associate Director of the Joint Master’s Degree Program in Health Policy and Law at UCSD-California Western School of Law.
• Dr. Antonio Eppolito, Air Force Medical Service Chief of Telemedicine.
• Dr. Ryan Vega, Chief Officer for the Office of Healthcare Innovation and Learning.
• Brian James, Associate Director for the e-Learning division within the Employee Education System for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Relevant Content to this Course

The content in this lecture covers the following topics:

• Telemedicine
• Telehealth Applications
• COVID-19
• Preventive Medicine
• Federal Healthcare System
• Lifestyle Medicine
• Health Advocacy
• Primary Care

Instructions for Claiming Physician Credit

In order for physicians to receive AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for this activity, you must complete the activity evaluation survey for each session; a link to this evaluation survey is provided at the end of each session. Physician credit will not automatically be awarded. Follow all instructions for completing the evaluation.

Once you’ve completed the course evaluation, you can download your certificate from the “My Transcript tab” on the left side of the navigation page.