Cardiovascular Physicians' Roundtable

July 16-17, 2010

InterContinental Hotel and Bank of America Conference Center
Cleveland, Ohio

Description
Target Audience
Objectives
Directors
Agenda
Location
Hotel Accommodations

Ground Transportation / Parking
Grantor and Exhibiting Opportunities
Additional Information
Faculty Disclosure
Americans with Disabilities Act
Accreditation
REGISTRATION

Description

Cleveland Clinic Heart & Vascular Institute presents the Cardiovascular Physicians’ Roundtable. This interactive CME program will serve to engage our physician colleagues throughout the enterprise and region to share best practices and established protocols and metrics in the treatment of cardiovascular disease.

The faculty will review current therapies, ideas and innovations for both the prevention and treatment of heart and vascular disease.

This meeting will convene in the InterContinental Hotel and Conference Center on Cleveland Clinic's main campus.

Target Audience

Cardiovascular Medicine
Cardiovascular Surgeons

Objectives

After completing this activity, the participant will be able to do the following:

Explore critical decision making in the role of ICDs and biventricular pacing
Define the medical and surgical options available to treat coronary artery disease
Utilize quality metrics to improve outcomes in cardiovascular disease
Review patient selection criteria for the use of implantable LVADS for HF treatment
Reporting on the role of biomarkers in prevention of CV disease
Discuss therapeutic options for the management of hyperlipidemia
Employ and integrate diagnostic imaging, detection and management in heart disease
Summarize outcomes of percutaneous Interventions for coronary, aortic, and valvular diseases
Review management of DVT and acute PE
Describe the natural history of ascending aortic aneurysms and management strategies

Directors

Bruce Lytle, MD
Cleveland Clinic

Katherine Hoercher, RN
Cleveland, Clinic

Agenda

Friday, July 16 | Saturday, July 17

FRIDAY, JULY 16
7:50 am	Welcome and Announcements - Bruce W. Lytle, MD
Session I:	Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Moderator: Steven Nissen, MD
8:00 am	Complex Lipid Cases and Statin Intolerance - Leslie Cho, MD
8:15 am	Role of Biomarkers in Preventive Cardiology - Stanley Hazen, MD, PhD
8:30 am	Cardiovascular Risk Assessment: Drugs, Diet, and Non-Invasive Imaging: Can We Prevent Death? - Steven Nissen, MD
8:45 am	Utilizing Cardiovascular Imaging in Risk Stratification – Richard Grimm, DO
9:00 am	Q & A
9:20 am	Break
Session II:	Coronary Artery Disease Management Moderator: Joseph Sabik, MD
9:35 am	Acute Myocardial Infarction Protocol for Referrals and Door to Balloon Time Data - Stephen Ellis, MD
9:50 am	Stem Cells for Cardiac Repair after Myocardial Infarction: Indications and Outcomes - Marc Penn, MD, PhD
10:05 am	Ischemic Heart Disease and PET Scanning - Wael Jaber, MD
10:20 am	Reoperation- Improved Safety with Novel Strategies: When More Experience Makes a Difference - Gosta Pettersson, MD, PhD
10:35 am	Left Main and Other High Complexity Lesions for PCI - Stephen Ellis, MD
10:50 am	Update on Antiplatelet Agents - Benico Barzilai, MD
11:05 am	Q & A
11:25 am	Break
Session III:	Valvular Disease Moderator: A. Marc Gillinov, MD
11:40 am	Indications and Timing of Treatment for Valvular Disease - Brian Griffin, MD
11:55 am	Imaging in Valvular Disease - James Thomas, MD
12:10 pm	Percutaneous and Transcatheter Therapies - Samir Kapadia, MD
12:25 pm	Minimally Invasive Valve Repair - Tomislav Mihaljevic, MD
12:40 pm	Surgical Treatment of Multi-Valve Endocarditis - Jose Navia, MD
12: 55 pm	Young Patients with Aortic Valve Disease: When to Consider the Ross Operation and When There is a Case for Valve Repair - Gosta Pettersson, MD, PhD
1:10 pm	Q & A
1:30 pm	Lunch
Session IV:	EPS Moderator: Bruce Lindsay, MD
2:45 pm	Management of Atrial Fibrillation: Drug Therapy vs Ablation and Stroke Prevention - Bruce Lindsay, MD
3:00 pm	Treatment Options for Patients with ICD Shocks - David Martin, MD, MPH
3:15 pm	Pacemaker and ICDs: Solving Lead and Access Problems - Thomas Callahan, MD
3:30 pm	Evaluation and Management of Patients with Syncope - Fredrick Jaeger, DO
3:45 pm	Biventricular Pacing/ICD: Indications and Outcomes - Walid Saliba, MD
4:00 pm	Surgical Treatment for Lone AF - A. Marc Gillinov, MD
4:15 pm	Q & A
Session V:	Vascular Disease Moderator: Heather Gornik, MD
4: 35 pm	Management of Carotid and PVD Including PCI - Daniel Clair, MD
4:50 pm	Management of DVT, Acute PE and Thrombophilia: New Anticoagulants and Thrombolytic Therapy - Heather Gornik, MD
5:05 pm	Wound Care: Leg Ulcers - Michael Maier, DPM
5:20 pm	Unusual Vascular Disorders - Mehdi Shishehbor, DO, MPH
5:35 pm	Q & A
6:00 pm	Reception on Rooftop
SATURDAY, JULY 17
Session VI:	Quality and Safety Moderator: Joseph Cacchione, MD
8:00 am	Update on Quality and Safety in CV Medicine and Surgery - Nicholas Smedira, MD
8:15 am	Quality Control in the Echo Lab - Thomas Marwick, MD, PhD
8:30 am	Optimizing Outcomes in Critical Care Transfers - Venugopal Menon, MD
8:45 am	Q & A
Session VII:	Aortic Disease Moderator: Roy Greenberg, MD
9:05 am	Imaging in Acute and Chronic Aortic Disease: Which Modality? How Often? - Leonardo Rodriguez, MD
9:20 am	Natural History of Ascending Aortic Aneurysms: Should We Be Operating Earlier? Novel Approaches to Repair - Lars Svensson, MD, PhD
9:35 am	Endovascular and Hybrid Techniques for Complex Thoracic Aortic Disease - Eric Roselli, MD
9:50 am	Branch Grafting for Thoracoabdominal Aortic Disease - Roy Greenberg, MD
10:05 am	Aortic Dissection--Contemporary Multidisciplinary Evaluation, Management, and Post-op Follow-Up - Edward Soltesz, MD
10:20 am	Q & A
Session VIII:	Heart Failure and Pulmonary Failure Moderator: Randall Starling, MD, MPH
10:40 am	Heart Failure Readmissions: What is H2H and What Can We Do? - Robert Hobbs, MD
10:55 am	New Patient Monitoring Strategies in the Management of Heart Failure - Wilson Tang, MD
11:10 am	LVADs for Advanced HF: A New Paradigm - Gonzalo Gonzalez-Stawinski, MD
11:25 am	Cardiac Transplantation in 2010: Patient Referral, Candidate Selection and Long Term Outcomes - David O. Taylor, MD
11:40 am	Lung Transplantation: Indications and Outcomes - David Mason, MD
11:55 am	Q & A
12:15 pm	Adjourn

Location

InterContinental Hotel & Bank of America Conference Center
9801 Carnegie Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44106
Phone: 216-707-4100 or 877-707-8999
Fax: 216-707-4101

Hotel Accommodations

A block of rooms has been reserved at the InterContinental Hotel & Conference Center. To make a reservation, contact the hotel directly via phone or online at www.ichotelsgroup.com (code LV1). Please mention the Cardiovascular Physicians Roundtable to receive the special rate of $169.00 plus tax per night.

Individual rooms must be canceled by 4:00pm (Eastern time) on the day prior to the scheduled arrival date to avoid a no-show charge

Ground Transportation / Parking

Taxi service is available from Cleveland Hopkins International Airport to the InterContinental Hotel. Valet parking is available at the hotel for a charge. Additional parking is available in the 100th Street Garage located at 100th Street and Carnegie Ave. for a charge of $10 per day.

Grantor and Exhibiting Opportunities

For more information on grantor and exhibitor opportunities, please contact Ceca Sarkissian at 216.932.3448 or ceca@jamiebelkin.com.

Additional Information

For further information about the course, contact Jamie Belkin at:

Telephone: 216-932-3448
Fax: 216-932-0444
Email: jamiei@jamiebelkin.com

Faculty Disclosure

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education has implemented a policy to comply with the current Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education Standards for Commercial Support requiring resolution of all faculty conflicts of interest. Faculty declaring a relevant commercial interest will be identified in the activity syllabus.

Americans with Disabilities Act

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education fully intends to comply with the legal requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you need assistance, please notify Mavi Golsmith at 216.932.3448 at least two weeks prior to the activity.

Accreditation

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education designates this educational activity for a maximum of 12.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Participants claiming CME credit from this activity may submit the credit hours to the American Osteopathic Association Council on Continuing Medical Education for Category 2 credit.

Registration

This course is complimentary. General registration deadline is July 9, 2010.

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