OAPP Grand Rounds - Long COVID: Lessons Learned in Clinical Care

This enduring materials course provides a comprehensive overview of Long COVID, with a special focus on orthostatic intolerance—a frequently reported but often under-recognized manifestation. Designed for healthcare professionals involved in post-acute COVID-19 care, this training will equip learners with the latest consensus definitions, diagnostic strategies, and treatment approaches.

Target Audience

  • Certified Registered Nurse Practitioners (CRNPs)
  • Physician Assistants (PAs)

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Define Long COVID using the 2024 National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) consensus study report.
  • Review the varying clinical presentations of Long COVID and recognize key nuances in symptomatology.
  • Describe a diagnostic approach for identifying orthostatic intolerance in patients with Long COVID.
  • Review current treatment options and management strategies for orthostatic intolerance in this patient population..
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 AAPA Category I CME
  • 1.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.00 Attendance
Course opens: 
07/22/2025
Course expires: 
07/22/2028

Planning Committee:

  • Aimee Smith, DPAS, MS, PA-C - Emergency Medicine, UPMC
  • Robert Bauer, CRNP - Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, UPMC

Course Director:

  • Joshua Levenson, MD, FACC - Director, UPMC Center for Cardio-Oncology Co-Director Noninvasive Cardiology, UPMC Shadyside Associate Director, UPMC Cardiology Fellowship Program Assistant Professor of Medicine
  • Karla Yoney, MPAS, PA-C - Senior Advanced Practice Provider, UPMC Post-COVID-19 Recovery Clinic Clinic Coordinator, Pitt IMPACCT Long COVID Care Program

Conflict of Interest Disclosure:

No members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.  

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In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physician Assistant (AAPA)
The University of Pittsburgh has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 1.0 AAPA Category 1 CME credit. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.0 contact hour.

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 AAPA Category I CME
  • 1.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.00 Attendance
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Released: 07/22/2025  Expires: 07/22/2028