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12th Annual Cardiovascular Update & 56th Annual Carl J. Wiggers Memorial Lecture
April 17, 2019 | The Ritz-Carlton, Cleveland

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

12:55 p.m.   Welcome and Introductions
Jennifer Dicken, BSN, RN-BC, AACC and Sanjay Gandhi, MD, MBA, FACC

1:00-2:00 p.m. TAVR: The Latest Information & Team Strategy
Samir Kapadia, MD, FACC and Nora Brown, MSN, CNS
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2:00-3:00 p.m. Keeping your Patients (and their feet) in Circulation: A Collaborative Approach to Managing and Treating PAD
Sanjay Gandhi, MD, MBA, FACC, Levon V. Khojayan, MD, and Nancy O. Ogor, APRN-CNP
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3:00-3:30 p.m. Break

3:30-4:30 p.m. Case Studies in Acute Chest Pain: Diagnosis, Risk Stratification, and Test Selection
Kanny Grewal, MD, FACC and Shirlien Metersky, MSN, CNP, CCRN-CMC
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4:30-5:30 p.m. Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection
Leslie Cho, MD, FACC and Deborah Hornacek, MD
Hornacek handout

56th 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.
56th Annual Carl J. Wiggers Memorial Lecture
Lipid Management Update 2019
Christopher P. Cannon, MD, FACC

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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.

MOC
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 5.5 Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

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 (1.5 pharmacotherapeutic nursing 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.

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, to enhance the cardiovascular team practice and interprofessional collaboration, and to demonstrate efficacy in patient care practice as new clinical approaches and technologies change.

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

• Distinguish the utilization of newer available therapies for aortic valve disease, including TAVR, and appropriate referral patients for these treatments
• Increase competence in applying specific therapies to treating patients with PAD.
• Organize and prioritize a differential diagnosis of acute chest pain based on specific physical historical and exam findings.
• Recognize spontaneous coronary artery dissection and understand its pathophysiology.
• Identify the best, current evidence and guidelines on the use of statin therapy.

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 support as a Platinum Sponsor:  

Abbott

Appreciation is expressed to the following company for support as a Gold Sponsor:  

AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals

Appreciation is expressed to the following companies for support as a Silver Sponsor: 

Ambry Genetics, A Konica Minolta Company
Janssen
Regeneron
Siemens Healthineers, U.S.

Appreciation is expressed to the following companies for providing educational grants: 

Boston Scientific
Chiesi

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

Abbott
Aegerion Pharmaceuticals
Akcea Therapeutics, Inc.
AliveCor
Amarin Pharma, Inc.
Ambry Genetics, A Konica Minolta Company
American College of Cardiology – MemberHub
Amgen
Astellas Pharma US
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals
Bayer Pharmaceutical US
Boehringer-Ingelheim
Boston Scientific
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Chiesi
Gilead Sciences
Janssen
Kowa Pharmaceuticals
Lantheus Medical Imaging
Lundbeck, LLC
Medtronic
Novartis
Pfizer, Inc.
Pfizer, Inc. – Rare Disease
Portola Pharmaceuticals
Preventice Solutions
Regeneron
Sanofi
Siemens Healthineers, U.S.