Agenda
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Wednesday, June 10
3-5 pm | Concurrent Breakout Session
You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know: Support Strategies for New CME Coordinators (CME Basics)
Wendy Macias
Methodist Healthcare
Casey Harrison, MBA and Paige Green, MEd Texas Medical Association
New CME professionals often face a steep learning curve as they navigate activity planning, compliance requirements, and broader program responsibilities. This session will highlight practical strategies, tools, and resources to support new coordinators as they build their CME foundation. Attendees will engage in case discussion and interactive exercises focused on support systems, resource identification, and long-term success.
Transforming Dual Accreditation into a Joint
Model
Kojo Aung, MD, MPH, MACP and Cynthia Juarez, MSc, MA
Texas Tech University Health Science Center El Paso
This session will help attendees identify overlap across accrediting body requirements, develop a practical transition plan for joint accreditation, and apply key concepts through sample tools and scenarios to support future implementation planning.
Thursday, June 11
9-10 am
Mark Gregg Memorial Distinguished Lecture: ACCME Presentation
Steve Singer, PhD
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education
10-10:30 am | Break and Exhibits
10:30-11:30 am
When CME Goes to “H E double hockey sticks” on You… Financial Disclosure Edition
Carrie Roberts, MS, CHCP
St. Joseph Medical Center
This session will examine complex financial disclosure situations and practical strategies for mitigating relevant financial relationships. Attendees will work through challenging scenarios involving individuals with control over content who have unresolvable relationships, including how to respond when leadership expects the activity to move forward. The session will also highlight ways AI can be used to make relevant financial relationship mitigation more efficient and manageable.
11:30 am-12:30 pm | Lunch and Exhibits
12:30-1:30 pm | Concurrent Breakout Sessions
Jay Richards and Melissa Kupczynski
University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio
This session will provide an overview of CE requirements for Regularly Scheduled Series (RSS) activities and highlight best practices for collecting disclosures and mitigating relevant financial relationships. Attendees will also consider approaches for creating a consistent template for marketing materials.
How to Use AI to Mitigate Financial Relationships
Carrie Roberts, MS, CHCP
St. Joseph Medical Center
This hands-on session will demonstrate how to use ChatGPT or Gemini to help determine whether a company is an ineligible organization and whether its products or services may conflict with a presenter’s topic. Attendees are encouraged to bring a device so they can follow along and leave with practical, actionable skills.
1:30-2:30 pm
Navigating CE Broker and TMB Requirements: A Practical Guide for CME Providers
Anne Perch, MBA, CHCP
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
This session will explain the Texas Medical Board’s (TMB) CE Broker requirements for physician relicensure and the provider’s role in maintaining and reporting credit. Attendees will compare manual and automated reporting methods, consider data and operational requirements, and assess their organization’s current capacity for implementation. The session will also help participants develop an action plan for CE Broker compliance and identify effective ways to communicate responsibilities, limitations, and recommendations to organizational leadership.
2:30-3 pm | Break & Exhibits
3-4:30 pm
Tech Tools for CME Efficiency: Using Basic Tech Tools to Streamline Your Program, Make Time for Innovation and Maintain Activity Compliance
Julia Vanchiere
Louisiana American Academy of Pediatrics
This session will highlight practical ways simple technology tools can save time and reduce effort in the activity accreditation process. Attendees will begin thinking through how to move a commonly used form into a technological tool and will consider how to communicate the value of these tools to supervisors, colleagues, speakers, and learners.
4:45-5:30 pm | TACME General Membership Meeting
5:45 pm | Reception
Friday, June 12
8:30-9 am
Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions (ACEHP) Highlights
Andy Crim, Med, CHCP, FACEHP
American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians & Gynecologists
9-10 am
Evaluation Criteria – Part 1 – Evaluation That Counts: Understanding ACCME Expectations and Common Pitfalls
Anne Perch, MBA, CHCP
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Casey Harrison, MBA
Texas Medical Association
This session will explore common evaluation-related compliance issues and review expectations for collecting data, analyzing results, and drawing conclusions in accredited CME. Particular attention will be given to the difference between analyzing individual activities and analyzing the CE program as a whole, with a focus on identifying common pitfalls and strengthening understanding of what meaningful evaluation should demonstrate.
10-10:15 am | Break and Exhibits
10:15-11:15 am
Evaluation Criteria – Part 2 – You Be the Reviewer: Strengthening Evaluation Through Practice
Anne Perch, MBA, CHCP
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Casey Harrison, MBA – Texas Medical Association
This session will build on Part 1 by giving participants an opportunity to apply these concepts through interactive exercises focused on interpreting evaluation data, drafting stronger conclusions, and distinguishing between activity-level findings and program-level analysis. Participants will also consider how these findings can be used to improve CME activities and strengthen the CE program overall.
11:15-11:45 am
Annual Recap and Resource Roundup
Casey Harrison, MBA
Texas Medical Association
Jen Hawkins
CHRISTUS Health Northeast Texas and Louisiana Region
This session will highlight updates in CME and accreditation requirements and share resources and tools to support accredited providers. Attendees will have an opportunity to consider potential improvements within their own CME programs and identify topic ideas for the 2028 Texas CME Professional Development Conference.