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...

Care of adult patients with hematologic or oncologic malignancies is increasingly complex. Hospice and palliative care clinicians are asked to care for them earlier in the course of care, based on evidence that early palliative care improves survival, symptoms, mood, cost, and patient and caregiver satisfaction. To ensure success of upstream involvement, clinicians must be equipped to competently care for these patients and “speak the language” of the hematologist/oncologist and radiation oncolo...

This course will provide current approaches to caring for and improving the lives of patients with pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary embolism. Experts in the field who provide care for these patients at large specialty centers will present at this course which will be highly interactive with attendees.This activity has been designed for physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, respiratory therapists, nurses, residents, fellows, students who may encounter patients with pulmonary ...

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...

The 13th University of Pennsylvania Inflammatory Bowel Disease Symposium will highlight the advances in the treatment of IBD. Lectures by nationally and internationally recognized experts 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 latest available research and clinic...

A gathering of any Penn Medicine staff members to review various media covering topics including (but not exclusively) implicit bias, structural racism, and less known historical events involving persons of color.

Current Advances in Heart and Vascular Care 2023 will provide the most current, evidence-based strategies for managing cardiovascular disease. The goal is to increase the knowledge of the interprofessional and multidisciplinary care team to provide high quality, cost effective care leading to superior and improved patient outcomes. This activity has been designed for primary care physicians, interventional cardiologists, clinical cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, vascular surgeons, hospitalists,...

M&M Conferences will review timeline of event (allograft loss, complications, deaths, return to OR, and unanticipated readmissions), identify area where breakdown occurred, identify root cause, review related literature if applicable, identify action items to prevent similar events in future.

Our instructor-led educational series demonstrates the implementation of an effective compliance program. Presentations promote general documentation principles of the medical record to ensure full compliance with all billing requirements, including providing accurate billing to both the patient and third-party payers for both Hospital and Professional Fees. The UPHS compliance program requires training for all billing providers and applicable billing personnel. These training sessions concen...

A monthly morbidity and mortality conference which will present inpatient and/or outpatient case presentations to order to discuss management decisions, provide education, and work to develop and implement solutions for both provider and systemic inadequacies which have led to suboptimal patient outcomes through interprofessional discussion.