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The 5th North American Aortic Valve Repair Symposium (AVRS) is a two-day meeting designed to enhance learners’ understanding of aortic valve repair. Experts from North America, Europe, and around the world, will describe repair techniques, highlight outcomes, and identify areas for improvement. The program includes videos of surgical procedures, presentation of clinical data and outcomes, panel discussion with experts in the field, as well as hands-on and interactive sessions.

This is the 29th year for the State-of-the-Art Arrhythmia Symposium. Using a combination of case presentations with audience participation, didactic presentations, and question and answer sessions, our goal is to educate the participants in state of the art information on invasive and non-invasive electrophysiologic and electrocardiographic tools used in the current diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of cardiac rhythm disorders. The program is taught by members of the faculty and staff...

Glomerular disease is associated with morbidity and mortality in patients of all ages and is a common cause of end stage kidney disease. These include those that commonly present with nephrotic syndrome (minimal change disease, FSGS and membranous nephropathy), the nephrotic syndrome (vasculitis, lupus nephritis and IgA nephropathy), among others. Treatment often utilizes immunosuppressive regimens such as high dose corticosteroids, alkylating agents, calcineurin inhibitors, biologics and anti...

CVD is the leading cause of death in the US. Hypertension and diabetes are among the foremost risk factors for the development of CVD, stroke, peripheral artery disease, and heart attack. This program will provide an overview of recent advances that target the underlying pathophysiology of cardiovascular disease. The focus of the program will be on the new guidelines for hypertension, DM and CKD and will discuss the advances in pharmacotherapeutics in these fields.

The purpose of this educational activity is to teach relevant care providers about in-hospital care of cardiac arrest patients, most specifically post-arrest care, including the use of therapeutic hypothermia, cardiac catheterization, internal cardiac defibrillator (ICD) consideration, and advanced ICU care. In addition to scholarly presentations and discussions, a key goal is to help each learner discover an integrated, multidisciplinary system of both cardiac arrest and post-cardiac arrest car...

This course will provide a comprehensive, state of the art update on the management of heart failure focusing on the recently updated ACC/AHA Heart Failure Management Guidelines. The course is divided into six threads each focusing on a unique aspect of heart failure management from medical and device therapies, recognition of unique etiologies of heart failure, management of cardiogenic shock and selection for advanced therapies including transplant and ventricular assist devices. Each thread...

Our goal is to educate the participants in the topics of genetic cardiomyopathies, heart failure and VADs, advanced aortic disease, mitral valve disease, and postoperative atrial fibrillation. Additional topics will include the prevention of stroke during cardiac surgery, implementation science, examining the opioid epidemic and improving inclusion, equality and diversity.We will also discuss the history of the NHLBI Cardiac Surgical Network Clinical Trials (CTSN), ...

This will be a half day medical education course designed to empower clinician educators with new skills focusing on coaching and using innovative assessment mechanisms that are applicable to any specialty. It will also be a forum to build the clinician educator community, troubleshoot educational challenges, and collaborate on new projects.This activity is designed for Physicians only.