Curatio CME Institute Receives Reaccreditation, Announces Several Staff Appointments

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Curatio CME Institute Receives Reaccreditation, Announces Several Staff Appointments


Exton, Pennsylvania – March 29, 2010 - Curatio CME Institute (www.curatiocme.com) today announced that it has been reaccredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) for four years as a provider of continuing medical education for physicians.

To gain reaccreditation from the ACCME, Curatio demonstrated compliance with the ACCME’s updated criteria, released in September 2006. Curatio President Denise LaTemple, PhD, credits CME Director Derek Warnick with playing a pivotal role in leading the reaccreditation process. “Meeting the new criteria required demonstrating through extensive documentation that Curatio’s CME program contributes to measurable improvements in physician competence, performance, or patient outcomes. The reaccreditation process is a large undertaking, made even more complex by the demands of meeting the new criteria. Derek compiled and analyzed our outcomes data from the past 4 years to generate a comprehensive self-assessment that clearly documented our compliance.”

Curatio also announces the appointment of team members to key positions:

Denise LaTemple, PhD, has been named President of Curatio. Prior to this appointment, Dr. LaTemple served as Curatio’s Vice President of Scientific Services. She joined Huntsworth Health North America’s medical communications agency, ApotheCom, as a Senior Medical Director in 2002. Dr. LaTemple received a doctorate in microbiology & immunology from the Medical College of Pennsylvania/Hahnemann University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Steve Bender has been appointed Vice President of Strategic Development; he previously served as Director of Grant Development at The Chatham Institute in Chatham, New Jersey. He brings to Curatio eight years of medical education experience in cultivating partnerships to develop educational activities that have been delivered in a variety of unique formats. One of these CME activities utilizes medical claims data to measure the impact of physician participation in CME activities, the results of which will be published in an upcoming manuscript. Bender spent the first 18 years of his career in medical publishing and has held various account management roles at the McGraw-Hill Companies, Rodale Custom Publishing, and Bobit Business Media.

Daniel Duch, PhD, has joined Curatio as Medical Director. Dr. Duch also comes to Curatio from The Chatham Institute, where he was a medical director, leading the clinical content development team for CME programs and educational materials, including a multi-supported, multi-disciplinary national educational initiative designed to educate primary care clinicians in the management of patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Dr. Duch served for 10 years as an assistant professor for the Departments of Physiology and Anesthesiology at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, where he was the principal investigator of a biomedical research laboratory, managing a team of postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and technicians. He was responsible for experimental research design and writing/publishing results, teaching, lecturing, authoring articles, and writing and receiving grants. Dr. Duch received a doctorate in physiology from the University of Colorado at Denver Health Sciences Center.

About Curatio CME Institute

Curatio CME Institute was founded in 2002 and is an independent, comprehensively firewalled, continuing medical education (CME)–accredited provider within the Huntsworth Health family. Curatio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide CME credit for physicians who practice medicine in the United States. Curatio produces high-quality, clinically relevant, medically accurate, and innovative educational activities focused on improving physicians’ professional practice in full compliance with the guidelines established by the ACCME. Curatio employees are dedicated to CME projects only and do not work on or engage in any promotional activities. For more information, visit www.curatiocme.com

About Huntsworth Health

Huntsworth Health is a global family of best-in-class agency brands with expertise in strategic analysis and planning, medical communications, interactive marketing, branding and brand awareness, advertising and marketing communications, public relations, and sales training and development. Huntsworth Health has offices in Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, and London. For more information about Huntsworth Health, contact our global CEO, Neil Matheson, at neil.matheson@hhna.com or visit www.huntsworthhealth.com.

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