The Smart Guide to Lipid Management: What You Need to Know and Do

October 28, 2025

Target Audience

This activity provides continuing education for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. A certificate of attendance is available for other attendees.

Learning Objectives

  1. Interpret and apply the 2018 American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology (ACC)/Multi-society guidelines for cholesterol management in adults.
  2. Implement updated LDL-C and non-HDL-C goals from the 2022 ACC Expert Consensus Statement and confidently select appropriate add-on therapies for patients not at target.
  3. Recognize and appropriately utilize alternative lipid monitoring parameters in select patient groups, considering their cost-effectiveness and impact on healthcare expenditures.
  4. Effectively evaluate and manage statin intolerance in patients.
  5. Identify and describe emerging lipid-lowering therapeutics, with a focus on agents targeting Lipoprotein(a).
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.50 ACPE-Pharm

    UAN: JA4008136-0000-25-113-L01-P
    No valid paper/electronic statement of credit will be offered. DHA, J-7, CEPO is accredited by the American Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) to provide continuing education for Pharmacists. This knowledge based activity will provide a maximum of 1.50 contact hours of pharmacy continuing education credit. Participant CE records will be electronically communicated to CPE Monitor. There is no cost to participate in this activity.

  • 1.50 ACPE-Tech

    UAN: JA4008136-0000-25-113-L01-T
    No valid paper/electronic statement of credit will be offered. DHA, J-7, CEPO is accredited by the American Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) to provide continuing education for Pharmacy Technicians. This knowledge based activity will provide a maximum of 1.50 contact hours of pharmacy continuing education credit. Participant CE records will be electronically communicated to CPE Monitor. There is no cost to participate in this activity.

  • 1.50 Attendance
Course opens: 
10/20/2025
Course expires: 
11/13/2025
Event starts: 
10/28/2025 - 2:00pm EDT
Event ends: 
10/28/2025 - 3:30pm EDT
Part of: 
2025 DHA Clinical Pharmacy Course
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This course will be delivered in Microsoft Teams.

The course POC will send invited learners the MS Teams link and the access code to register to obtain CE/CME credit.

Saskia Leather, PharmD, BCACP. Presenter has no relevant financial or non-financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Disclosure: DHA J-7 staff, planners, authors, faculty, and content reviewers for this educational activity have no relevant financial or non-financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Available Credit

  • 1.50 ACPE-Pharm

    UAN: JA4008136-0000-25-113-L01-P
    No valid paper/electronic statement of credit will be offered. DHA, J-7, CEPO is accredited by the American Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) to provide continuing education for Pharmacists. This knowledge based activity will provide a maximum of 1.50 contact hours of pharmacy continuing education credit. Participant CE records will be electronically communicated to CPE Monitor. There is no cost to participate in this activity.

  • 1.50 ACPE-Tech

    UAN: JA4008136-0000-25-113-L01-T
    No valid paper/electronic statement of credit will be offered. DHA, J-7, CEPO is accredited by the American Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) to provide continuing education for Pharmacy Technicians. This knowledge based activity will provide a maximum of 1.50 contact hours of pharmacy continuing education credit. Participant CE records will be electronically communicated to CPE Monitor. There is no cost to participate in this activity.

  • 1.50 Attendance
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Requirements: CE/CME certificates are awarded to participants who fully complete the activity, successfully submit the evaluation survey, and pass the posttest. The deadline to claim credit is Nov 13, 2025.

Access Code: Some activities require an access code to register or claim credit. Please contact the organization providing the activity for the access code. The Continuing Education Program Office (CEPO) does not provide access codes.

Accommodations: Please contact the course instructor to inquire about accommodations. For additional accommodation requests and/or technical support, email [email protected].

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