Course Directors: The main people (usually two) in charge of developing an education session. Course directors develop the session agenda and choose the speakers (for education forums) and moderators (for correlative sessions).
Speakers: Presenters at education forums, sunrise symposia, and correlative sessions
Moderators: Those who moderate or run the correlative sessions
Poster Moderators: Those who review and score posters
Disclosures of Relevant Financial Relationships
Accredited continuing education must protect learners from commercial bias and marketing.
All decisions related to the planning, faculty selection, delivery, and evaluation of accredited education must be made without any influence or involvement from the owners and employees of an ineligible company.
Names or contact information of learners must not be shared with any ineligible company or its agents without the explicit consent of the individual learner
Therefore, all course directors, speakers, and moderators must disclose any relevant financial relationships (RFRs) to the ABA, which then provides them to the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).
An Ineligible company is one whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Examples of financial relationships include employee, researcher, consultant, advisor, speaker, independent contractor (including contracted research), royalties or patent beneficiary, executive role, and ownership interest. Individual stocks and stock options should be disclosed; diversified mutual funds do not need to be disclosed.