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MEDtalks Webinar: Learnings from significant decreases in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality rates

Date/Time: Thursday, February 27, 2025 | 7-8a.m.

Webinar Overview:
Hear recent data highlighting two areas that are helping to reduce cardiovascular risk in our communities: effective prevention and treatment strategies and enhanced communication between medical specialties.

Speaker:
Anthony C. DeFranco, MD
Cardiovascular Disease and Interventional Cardiology

Moderator:
Ashley Kwasinski, DNP, APNP
MEDtalks planner and Infectious Disease
Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center 
Advocate Health Midwest 

Objectives:

Upon completion of the activity, the learner should be able to:

  • Define "residual risk:" Review recent data and the PCP’s role in reducing residual risk with aggressive lipid, blood pressure, smoking cessation strategies and emerging risk factor evaluation in primary and secondary prevention, 
    and how best to communicate with CV specialists in reducing risk
  • Understand the “Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin” Initiative and navigating patient care 

Target Audience: Physicians, APCs, nurses and other interested health care professionals

Session date: 
02/27/2025 - 7:00am to 8:00am CST
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  • 1.00 American Board of Surgery
    Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME and Self-Assessment requirements of the American Board of Surgery's Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    Aurora Health Care is accredited by the Wisconsin Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Aurora Health Care designates this activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
  • 1.00 Attendance
    Attendance Credit
  • 1.00 Continuing Nursing Education (CE)
    Aurora Health Care is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Wisconsin Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. 1.00 contact hours have been awarded to this activity by the Wisconsin Nursing Association. To receive contact hours, participants must attend the entire activity.

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