Special thanks to Dr. Robert Mosteller for his evening photography of the Wiggers Lecture.

10th Annual Cardiovascular Update &
54th Annual Carl J. Wiggers Memorial Lecture
April 19, 2017 | The Ritz-Carlton, Cleveland

12:15-12:55 p.m.   Registration & Exhibits

12:55 p.m.   Welcome and Introductions
Laxmi S. Mehta, MD, FACC and Sandra Smith, RN, MSN, CNP, AACC

1:00-2:00 p.m. Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion: Updates for 2017
Andrea Robinson, RN, MSN, ACNP and Steven J. Yakubov, MD, FACC
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2:00-3:00 p.m. Pulmonary Hypertension: Medical and Pharmacological Insights
Weston Bush, PharmD, BCPS and Catherine C. Fallick, MD, FACC
Bush handout  |  Fallick handout

3:00-3:30 p.m. Break

3:30-4:30 p.m. Endocarditis: When Is Early Surgery Indicated?
Brian P. Griffin, MD, FACC, Gosta Pettersson, MD, PhD, and Nabin K. Shrestha, MD, MPH
Griffin handout  |  Pettersson handout  |  Shrestha handout

4:30-5:30 p.m. Novel Imaging Approaches to Identifying High Risk Patients with Cardiovascular Disease
Sanjay Rajagopalan, MD, FACC

54th Annual Carl J. Wiggers Memorial Lecture

5:30-6:30 p.m. Registration and Reception

6:30 p.m. Dinner

7:15 p.m. – 8:45 p.m. 54th Annual Carl J. Wiggers Memorial Lecture
The Evolution, Current Status and Future Development of Percutaneous Therapies for Valvular Heart Disease
Ted Feldman, MD, FESC, FACC, MSCAI
Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
The Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Walgreen Chair in Interventional Cardiology
NorthShore University Health System
Evanston Hospital
Professor of Clinical Medicine
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
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Prize Winners:
Maurice Alston – Amazon gift card
Cindy Volk – free annual meeting registration
Qarab Syed – Starbucks gift card

Physicians
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the American College of Cardiology Foundation and the Ohio Chapter of the American College of Cardiology. The American College of Cardiology Foundation is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The ACCF designates this live activity for a maximum of 5.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credits commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses
American College of Cardiology Foundation is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

The ACCF designates this live educational activity for a maximum of this 5.5 CNE contact hours (1.0 CNE Pharmacotherapeutic contact hours).  Each attendee should only claim credits commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

While offering credits noted above, the course is not intended to provide extensive training or certification in this field.

Pharmacists
This program is certified for Continuing Pharmacy Education, via UH Cleveland Medical Center, through the Ohio State Board of Pharmacy for .5 Continuing Education Units (C.E.U.) for Ohio Licensure only.

Statement of Need
Cardiovascular care is rapidly evolving with new technologies.  Healthcare providers need periodic educational updates on emerging clinical trials and advances in patient management.  They need to learn from case scenarios applicable to daily practice and gain knowledge of changes to practice guidelines, so they can apply evidence-based research to their patient management decisions.

Overall Goal
The overall goal of this activity is to increase learner competence by discovering strategies to anticipate research-driven changes in practice, to enhance professional growth, and to demonstrate efficacy in team based patient care practice as new clinical approaches and technologies change.

Learner Objectives
Upon completion of this program, participants should be able to:

• Describe the efficacy of left atrial occlusion devices and appropriately refer atrial fibrillation patients for this treatment option.
• Employ latest advancements in the management of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension.
• Apply the latest evidence based guidelines to the evaluation, medical management and surgical treatment of patients with endocarditis.
• Review the appropriate selection and use of cardiac imaging in patients with cardiac disease
• Discuss the foundation of surgical treatments for mitral regurgitation, the outcomes from catheter based mitral repair and replacement, and the indications for transcatheter aortic valve replacement.

Target Audience
Adult Cardiologists, Pediatric Cardiologists, Cardiothoracic Surgeons, Cardiology Fellows-in-Training, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Physician Assistants, Pharmacists

Disclosure Policy
As a provider accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), the American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF) must ensure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor in all of their directly provided or jointly provided/co-provided educational activities. Planners, presenters, and other contributors, in a position to control the content are required to disclose to the audience all relevant financial relationships he/she and/or his/her spouse or domestic partner may have, occurring within the past 12 months, with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients. When an unlabeled use of a commercial product or an investigational use not yet approved for any purpose is discussed during an educational activity, the contributor should disclose that the product is not labeled for the use under discussion or that the product is still investigational.

ACCF is committed to providing its learners with high-quality activities and materials that promote improvements and quality in health care and not a specific proprietary business or commercial interest. The intent of this disclosure is not to prevent participation in educational activities by persons with a financial or other relationship, but rather to provide learners with information on which they can make their own determination whether financial interests or relationships may influence the education activity.

ACCF assesses conflicts of interest (COI) with its faculty, planners, managers, staff and other individuals who are in a position to control the content of CME/CNE activities. All relevant potential conflicts of interest that are identified are thoroughly vetted through a process that includes course directors and appropriate peer review by education committee chairs/members, for fair balance, scientific objectivity and validity, and patient care and safety recommendations.

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Appreciation is expressed to the following company for providing an educational grant:

Boston Scientific
Gilead Sciences

Appreciation is expressed to the following companies for exhibiting at this conference:

Abbott
Actelion Pharmaceuticals
Ambry Genetics
Amgen
Arbor Pharmaceuticals
Astellas Pharma US, Inc.
AstraZeneca
BioTelemetry Healthcare,  CardioNet/Mednet
Boehringer-Ingelheim
Boston Scientific
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Gilead Sciences
Gnome Diagnostics
Itamar Medical Inc.
Janssen Pharmaceuticals
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America
Lantheus Medical Imaging
LifeWatch
Lundbeck
Medicure Pharma
Medtronic
Novartis
Pfizer, Inc.
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Shumsky Therapeutic Pillows
ZOLL Medical