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This curriculum is designed to provide a broad overview of the factors that drive disparities in health care and health outcomes for patients with surgical disease. This course is not intended to merely reiterate why eliminating surgical disparities are important. Rather, the curriculum focuses on engaging participants in meaningful dialogue about how systems perpetuate disparities in access, care quality, experience, and outcomes for disadvantaged patient populations with surgical diseas...

Current Advances in Heart and Vascular Care 2021 will provide the most current, evidence-based strategies for managing cardiovascular disease. The goal is to increase the knowledge of the inter-professional and multidisciplinary learner to provide high quality, cost effective care leading to superior, improved patient outcomes.

The 12th University of Pennsylvania Inflammatory Bowel Disease Symposium will highlight the advances in the treatment of IBD. The program will include lectures by nationally and internationally recognized experts which will be followed by interactive case presentations and panel discussions. A wide array of topics will be discussed including pharmacologic therapies and surgical interventions and optimal use of imaging and endoscopy. Participants will receive a comprehensive overview of the lates...

The purpose of this educational activity is: to educate relevant care providers on in-hospital care of cardiac arrest patients, most specifically to teach about 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-card...

The goal of this one-day conference is to share state-of-the-art information on COVID-19. The course, taught by experts in the field from the University of Pennsylvania, will include core topics such as the epidemiology of COVID-19, current and emerging treatment modalities, infection control measures, and prevention strategies. The conference aims to enable physicians and nurses to stay current with best practices, diagnoses, and treatments of COVID-19 diagnosed in the primary care and other pr...

While the incidence of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) has decreased, the incidence of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) continues to rise, accounting for ~50% of heart failure hospitalizations. Patients with HFpEF are markedly limited in terms of their functional capacity and quality of life, similar to their HFrEF counterparts. Yet in contrast to HFrEF, there are no effective pharmacologic treatments for HFpEF, despite numerous clinical trials, leaving...

The 1st Annual Technical Aspects of Lead Extraction and Management Symposium is designed to provide the audience with a thorough overview of the most up-to-date practices and emerging concepts within the cardiac implantable electronic device extraction and management community. Topics covered include procedural indications, strategies for infected and non-infected scenarios, a thorough review of the available tools and techniques, and consideration for the future lead extraction and management l...

The program will draw upon recent clinical advances and guidelines, as well as the presenters’ clinical experience, to provide a practical approach to diagnosis and management of patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD).  The format will be primarily case-based discussions, with presentation of evidence where it helps inform management decisions. The participant will come away from the conference with increased confidence in diagnosing and managing patients with a variety of interstiti...