Consistent with Children’s of Alabama CME policy, planners for this live activity are required to disclose to you any economic or other personal interests that create, or may be perceived as creating, a conflict related to the material discussed. This policy is intended to make participants aware of planners’ interest so they may form their own judgments about the educational material provided.  Full disclosure, including the nature of any planners’ relationship(s) with commercial interests is listed below.

The following Planners of this live activity disclose:

Marion L. Walker, MD
Discloses a financial relationship with Medtronic as a consultant related to hydrocephalus.

Michael A. Williams, MD
Discloses a financial relationship with Medtronic for travel/speaker honorarium related to normal pressure hydrocephalus and Aqueduct Critical Care as a Technical Advisory Board member and stock options related to hydrocephalus.

The following Planners of this live activity have nothing to disclose:

Cathy Cartwright, APRM
SarahAnn Whitbeck, MBA, CHCP
Jennifer Berchard
Amanda Garzon
Kristina Catrambone, CMP
Marissa Streun

Content Reviewer information

Children’s of Alabama requires that the content of CME activities and related materials provide balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor. Content must be free of the influence or control of a commercial entity and must promote improvements or quality in healthcare.

Regarding CME content, it is the policy and expectation of Children’s of Alabama that:

• All recommendations involving clinical medicine are based on evidence that is accepted within the profession of medicine as adequate justification for their indications and contraindications in the care of patients.
• All scientific research referred to, reported or used in this activity in support of justification of a patient care recommendation conform to the generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection, and analysis.

The content review was conducted prior to this activity and considered compliant with the standards listed above by one or more of the following reviewers:

The following Content Reviewers of this live activity disclose:

Marion L. Walker, MD
Discloses a financial relationship with Medtronic as a consultant related to hydrocephalus.

Michael A. Williams, MD
Discloses a financial relationship with Medtronic for travel/speaker honorarium related to normal pressure hydrocephalus and Aqueduct Critical Care as a Technical Advisory Board member and stock options related to hydrocephalus.

The following content reviewers have nothing to disclose:

Caty Cartwright, APRM
Jennifer Berchard,

Disclaimer Statement

This live activity does not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, policies or procedures of Children’s of Alabama, its staff or representatives.  Children’s of Alabama cannot and does not assume any responsibility for the use, misuse or misapplication of any information.

Disclosures of the speakers:

Jefferson Chen, MD

• Does not intend to discuss commercial products or services.
• Does not intend to discuss non FDA approved uses of products or services.
• Does not have relevant financial relationships with any commercial interests.

Ramin Eskandari, MS, MD

• Does not intend to discuss commercial products or services.
• Does not intend to discuss non FDA approved uses of products or services.
• Does not have relevant financial relationships with any commercial interests.

Mark G. Hamilton, MDCM, FRCSC

• Will discuss commercial products or services.
• Does not intend to discuss non FDA approved uses of products or services.
• Discloses a financial relationship with Medtronic Canada for speaker honorarium related to shunts and Codman International as a consultant related to shunts.

John Kestle, MD, PhD

• Does not intend to discuss commercial products or services.
• Does not intend to discuss non FDA approved uses of products or services.
• Does not have relevant financial relationships with any commercial interests.

Michael G. Muhonen, MD

• Will discuss commercial products or services.
• Will discuss non FDA approved uses of products or services.
• Does not have relevant financial relationships with any commercial interests.

Michael A. Williams, MD

• Will discuss commercial products or services.
• Does not intend to discuss non FDA approved uses of products or services.
• Discloses a financial relationship with Medtronic for travel/speaker honorarium related to normal pressure hydrocephalus and Aqueduct Critical Care as a Technical Advisory Board member and has stock options related to hydrocephalus.

T. Andrew Zabel, PhD, ABPP

• Does not intend to discuss commercial products or services.
• Does not intend to discuss non FDA approved uses of products or services.
• Does not have relevant financial relationships with any commercial interests.