Educational Leadership Panel Session: How to Debate Dr. Internet: Dealing With Misinformation and Fake News

Concurrent Session Moderator(s)

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  Marcia Johansson, ACNP, DNP, FCCM

  Associate Professor
  University of South Florida College of Nursing
  Tampa, Florida

  No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

The internet provides the public with information about many different topics, including the etiology of common symptoms and possible medical diagnoses. Often patients and families feel that they are knowledgeable about a disease or management based on internet searching and not on information that is grounded in medical science. As healthcare professionals, it is sometimes difficult to reason with family members who have been misled by information from nonscientific, non-peer-reviewed sources. We have an obligation to provide our patients with scientifically sound, critically reviewed information.

Presentations:

• Welcome and Introductions
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Marcia K. Johansson, ACNP, DNP, FCCM – University of South Florida College of Nursing
• Media Versus Medicine: Disputing Social Media and Newsertainment
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Stephanie Charshafian, MD – Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine
• Catch Me if You Can: Dissecting the Sources of Vaccine Hesitancy
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Nasim Motayar, MD – Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
• Myths, Rumors, and Misinformation With Medications: Is Dr. Internet Replacing the Pharmacist?
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Salia Farrokh, PharmD – Johns Hopkins Hospital
• Putting It All Together
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Brett Hogan, ACNP, BSN, MS, RN – Univ. of Rochester