The goal of Vascular Surgery M&M conference is to provide a forum for the interprofessional vascular surgery team to explore the management details of particular cases wherein morbidity or mortality occurred. In carefully reviewing the records and specifics of care, a primary goal of these session is to revisit errors to gain insight without blame or derision.

The goal of the ID Case Management Conference as an educational activity is to create a setting where real cases are presented and discussed. This will keep the attendees (physicians, nurses, physician assistants, and pharmacists) up-to-date with the latest trends in infectious diseases, diagnoses, diagnostic approaches, and treatments. Such a series will allow attendees to maintain their competence and improve patient safety. These goals are also important links to the departmental/institutiona...

The Sleep Medicine Grand Rounds series is presented by sleep medicine fellows and faculty on a weekly basis. The series will improve awareness of cultural differences in diagnosis and treatment of patients with sleep disorders and is intended for physicians, nurse practitioners, and researchers.

Melanoma and Cutaneous Malignancy Tumor Board is designed to give healthcare professionals the opportunity to collaborate on the care of patients who have been diagnosed with melanoma, skin cancer, or other skin malignancy/risk factors. Providers submit their most complex cases in order to seek insight on the best patient care via the collaboration of clinicians such as surgeons, oncologists, radiologists, pathologists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and registered nurses.

This is a regularly scheduled series meeting that is scheduled the first Tuesday of each month. The series content is for our Provider Builder program. Provider Builders are clinicians who engage with PennChart and Epic processes and understand the enterprise goal of organizational improvement. Clinical content for the meeting involves all clinical settings in the health system. Topics are structured to address gaps in patient care, education needs to manage those gaps, and review outcomes o...

This course will provide a contemporary overview of indications for intervention on the mitral valve with a comprehensive discussion of medical, surgical, and percutaneous options treating mitral valve pathology from regional and national experts.

Perinatal Loss and Bereavement Care in the 21st Century will feature speakers who are leaders and researchers in their respective fields of stillbirth and pregnancy loss and trauma and grief. The first half of the day will have a medical focus with a keynote speaker who has spent over 20 years researching stillbirth and pregnancy loss.  We will also hear from other medical providers who will speak to the research in this field and the current and future directions. The second half of t...

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. A key goal is to help each learner discover an integrated, multidisciplinary system of both cardiac arrest and post-cardiac arrest care, through hands-on experience with various cooling meth...

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.

This is the 18th year for the International Symposium on Ventricular Arrhythmias: Pathophysiology and Therapy. Using a combination of didactic presentations, panel discussions, and question and answer sessions, our goal is to educate the participants in state of the art information regarding the pathophysiology and treatment of ventricular arrhythmias. The structure of the symposium is meant to be highly interactive. There will also be VT ablation cases streamed live from the Hospital of the Uni...