17th Annual Advocate Heart Institute Prevention to Cure Symposium

Oak Lawn, IL US
February 7, 2024

This Program will present novel and foundational heart disease prevention strategies, update diagnostic guidelines, and treatment options for patients with heart disease utilizing current heart disease research trial and findings.

This conference is being held in-person and virtually.

Target Audience

This activity is designed for all physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this session, learners should be able to:

  • Apply appropriate therapeutic tactics for Heart Failure patients.
  • Improved appropriate consultations for minimally invasive venous procedures.
  • Improved assessment for Pulmonary Hypertension.
  • Appropriate selection of Pulmonary Embolism Treatment.
  • Apply recommended hypertension management for new targets.

 

 

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 6.00 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.
    • 6.00 ABS Self-Assessment
  • 6.00 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 6.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
  • 6.00 Attendance
    Attendance Credit
    • 6.00 Approved AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 6.00 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. 6.00 contact hours have been awarded to this activity by the Wisconsin Nursing Association. To receive contact hours, participants must attend the entire activity.
  • 6.00 Continuing Pharmacy Education (CPE)
    Aurora Health Care Department of Pharmacy Services is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.
  • 6.00 ABIM MOC Part II
    Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 6.00 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.
Course opens: 
12/05/2023
Course expires: 
12/31/2024
Event starts: 
02/07/2024 - 8:00am CST
Event ends: 
02/07/2024 - 4:15pm CST
Cost:
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AGENDA:

7:55am – 8:00am

 

 

 

8:00am – 9:00am

 

Welcome and Introduction
Pat Pappas, MD – Medical Director, Advocate Heart Institute, Advocate Christ Medical Center
Paul Silverman, MD - Chief, Section of Cardiology and Symposium Program Director,
 Advocate Christ Medical Center

Social Determinants of Health and how technology may close the gap.
KEYNOTE: Emma Silverman – Principal, TMV Investments

9:00am – 9:15am

 

9:15am – 9:40am

BREAK

 

Too Wired or Too Drunk? What does the data tell us about caffeine and alcohol for Cardiovascular Health?
Ali Zaidi, MD – Cardiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center

9:40am – 10:05am

Update on Management of Congestive Heart Failure: What medications in which patients and in what order?
Sunil Pauwaa, MD, FACC - Advanced Heart Failure Cardiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center

10:05am – 10:30am

 

10:30am – 10:45am

Too fast or too slow – update on pacemakers and ICDs
Stephen Tyler Phillips, MD – Electrophysiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center

 

BREAK

10:45am – 11:10am

 

11:10am – 11:35am

Sleep and the Heart
Moutaz Sunbuli, MD - Cardiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center

Update on Hypertension: Goals and New Therapeutic Modalities
Ravi Ramana, DO – Cardiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center

11:35am – 12:00pm

 

 

12:00pm – 1:00pm

 

1:00pm – 1:25pm

 

1:25pm – 1:50pm

Venous Disease – When and How to Treat
Jaafer Golzar, MD - Cardiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center

 

LUNCH

What’s the evidence for evidence-based medicine? The benefits and limitations of guidelines
Antone Tatooles, MD – Cardiac Surgeon, Advocate Christ Medical Center


Adult Congenital Heart Disease: What does an adult PCP need to know?
Michael Earing, MD – Adult Congenital Heart Disease & Pediatric Cardiologist, Advocate Children’s Hospital

1:50pm – 2:15pm

Coronary Intervention is Becoming More Complex: Challenges and Innovations
Thomas Levin, MD – Cardiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center

2:15pm – 3:00pm

 

3:00pm – 3:25pm

BREAK

 

State of the Art Management of Pulmonary Embolism
Abdulah Alrifai, MD – Cardiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center

3:25pm – 3:50pm

Pulmonary Hypertension for Primary Care Physicians
Muhyaldeen Dia. MD – Advanced Heart Failure Cardiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center

3:50pm – 4:15pm

Cryptogenic Stroke – Evaluation and Management
Ibrahim Kassas, MD - Cardiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center

Advocate Christ Medical Center
4440 W 95th St.
Stein Auditorium
Oak Lawn, IL 60453
United States

Faculty

Pat Pappas, MD – Medical Director, Advocate Heart Institute, Advocate Christ Medical Center
Paul Silverman, MD - Chief, Section of Cardiology and Symposium Program Director, Advocate Christ Medical Center
Ali Zaidi, MD – Cardiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center
Sunil Pauwaa, MD, FACC - Advanced Heart Failure Cardiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center
Moutaz Sunbuli, MD - Cardiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center
Ravi Ramana, DO – Cardiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center
Jaafer Golzar, MD - Cardiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center
Antone Tatooles, MD – Cardiac Surgeon, Advocate Christ Medical Center
Michael Earing, MD – Adult Congenital Heart Disease & Pediatric Cardiologist, Advocate Children’s Hospital
Thomas Levin, MD – Cardiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center
Abdulah Alrifai, MD – Cardiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center
Muhyaldeen Dia. MD – Advanced Heart Failure Cardiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center
Ibrahim Kassas, MD - Cardiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center
Renata Schergen, Pharm.D., BCPS, Advocate Christ Medical Center
Tatyana M Lawrecki, Pharm.D., BCPS, Advocate Christ Medical Center
George Gavrilos, Pharm.D., M.A., BCCCP, Advocate Christ Medical Center
Stephen Phillips, MD; Advocate Christ Medical Center

Disclosure

Faculty disclosures are being reviewed and will be presented to the audience in advance of the program.

 

Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, Advocate Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Credit Statement(s)

American Medical Association (AMA) 
Advocate Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) 
Advocate Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.00 ANCC contact hours. Nurses should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE): ​ 
Advocate Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.00 hours of CPE credit for pharmacists.  CPE credit can be claimed on the AAH CE platform within 60 days of activity completion and information will be provided to CPE Monitor. Participants should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.​

American Board on Internal Medicine (ABIM) MOC
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 6.00 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

American Board of Surgery (ABS) MOC
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 requirement(s) 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.

Available Credit

  • 6.00 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.
    • 6.00 ABS Self-Assessment
  • 6.00 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 6.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
  • 6.00 Attendance
    Attendance Credit
    • 6.00 Approved AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 6.00 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. 6.00 contact hours have been awarded to this activity by the Wisconsin Nursing Association. To receive contact hours, participants must attend the entire activity.
  • 6.00 Continuing Pharmacy Education (CPE)
    Aurora Health Care Department of Pharmacy Services is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.
  • 6.00 ABIM MOC Part II
    Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 6.00 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

Price

Cost:
$0.00
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This conference is being held in-person and virtually.  A link will be sent prior to the start of the meeting.

Virtual:
Microsoft Teams meeting
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This is the In-Person Location: 
Advocate Christ Medical Center
Stein Auditorium
4440 W 95th St, 
Oak Lawn, IL 60453

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