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The meeting link has been sent. If you have not received the email, please confirm your email address and check your order confirmation in your profile for the link.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 pr...

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.

While the incidence of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) has decreased, that of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) continues to rise, accounting for ~50% of heart failure hospitalizations. Patients with HFpEF suffer mentally and physically, similar to their HFrEF counterparts, and are markedly limited in terms of their functional capacity and quality of life. Yet in contrast to HFrEF, there are few effective pharmacologic treatments for HFpEF, despite numer...