18th Annual Advocate Heart Institute - Prevention to Cure Symposium

Oak Lawn, IL US
February 12, 2025

The symposium aims to present the latest strategies and updates in heart disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. The sessions cover a broad range of topics, including heart disease research, stress management for frontline workers, heart failure treatments, cardiovascular disease in women, and telemedicine in cardiovascular care.

This conference is being held in-person and virtually.

NOTE: Please note this activity will be presented 8:55am – 4:00pm CST / 9:55am - 5:00pm EST

Target Audience

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

Learning Objectives

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

  • Apply appropriate therapeutic tactics for atrial fibrillation patients.
  • Develop appropriate consultations for minimally invasive valvular procedures.
  • Analyze assessment for infiltrative heart disease.
  • Examine appropriate selection of non-invasive screenings for ischemic heart disease.
  • Apply recommended lipid therapies for new targets.

 

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 5.75 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.
    • 5.75 ABS Self-Assessment
  • 5.75 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 5.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
  • 5.75 Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
    Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)

    As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Advocate Aurora Health is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers receiving this course receive 5.75 of ethics, clinical, cultural competence, and/or general continuing education credits.
  • 5.75 Attendance
    Attendance Credit
    • 5.75 Approved AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 5.75 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. 5.75 contact hours have been awarded to this activity by the Wisconsin Nursing Association. To receive contact hours, participants must attend the entire activity.
  • 5.75 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.
  • 5.75 ABIM MOC Part II
    Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 5.75 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: 
11/25/2024
Course expires: 
12/31/2025
Event starts: 
02/12/2025 - 8:55am CST
Event ends: 
02/12/2025 - 4:00pm CST
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8:55am – 9:00am

 

 

 

9:00am – 10:00am

 

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

 

Understanding the Toll of a High Stress Career: What Frontline Medicine Can Learn from Allostatic Load,

Special Operations Forces and Biometric Data

KEYNOTE: Brian Ferguson, Founder & CEO of Arena Labs

 10:00am – 10:25am

 

 

10:25am – 10:40am

Relaxation is Difficult, Update on Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction

Christopher Sciamanna, DO – Advanced Heart Failure Cardiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center

 

BREAK

10:40am – 11:05am

Percutaneous Tricuspid Valve Repair: Who & How  

Abdul Ghani, MD - Cardiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center

11:05am – 11:30am

Cardio Obstetrics & Cardiovascular Disease in Women

Rashmi Raghuvir, MD – Cardiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center

11:30am – 11:55am

 

 

11:55am – 12:40pm

Cardiometabolic Clinics: New Strategies for Risk Reduction

John Chau, MD – Advanced Heart Failure Cardiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center

 

 LUNCH

12:40pm – 1:05pm

 

 

   1:05pm – 1:30pm

     

 

  1:30pm – 1:55pm

 

Carotid Artery Disease Indications for Treatment & Interventional Strategies

Nader Tehrani, MD – Vascular Surgeon, Advocate Christ Medical Center

 

Atrial Fibrillation: Update on Ablation Indication, Techniques and Simultaneous Appendage Closure

William Spear, MD – Electrophysiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center

 

Evaluation of Chest Pain in Primary Care. Differentiating Between Cardiac and Non-Cardiac Causes

and Deciding When to Refer

James Sur, MD – Cardiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center

1:55pm – 2:20pm

 

Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring in Cardiovascular Care. The Role of Technology in Enhancing

Patient Care and Monitoring.

Wassim Ballany, MD – Cardiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center

2:20pm – 2:35pm

 

2:35pm – 3:00pm

BREAK

 

Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease & Management of Risk-strategies for Risk Assessment,

Lifestyle Modification and Medical Management

Dinker Trivedi, MD – Cardiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Debate: Biology vs Technology: Transplant or VAD for Advanced Heart Failure

Antone Tatooles, MD – Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Advocate Christ Medical Center

Allison Beckett, MD – Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Advocate Christ Medical Center

Moderator: William Cotts, MD – Advanced Heart Failure Cardiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center

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

Faculty

Paul Silverman, MD; Chief, Section of Cardiology and Symposium Program Director, Advocate Christ Medical Center
Gina Roache, RN, BSN, MA; Executive Director, Advocate Heart Institute | Christ Medical Center; Southland Chicagoland PSA, South Suburban Hospital | Trinity Hospital
Michelle Tomeczkowicz, PharmD, BCTXP; Clinical Pharmacy Specialist; Advocate Christ Medical Center
Heather Isome, MSW, LCSW; Hospital Social Work, ACMC
Pat Pappas, MD; Medical Director, Advocate Heart Institute, Advocate Christ Medical Center
Brian Ferguson; Founder & CEO of Arena Labs
Christopher Sciamanna, DO; Advanced Heart Failure Cardiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center
Abdul Ghani, MD; Cardiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center
Rashmi Raghuvir, MD; Cardiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center
John Chau, MD; Advanced Heart Failure Cardiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center
Nader Tehrani, MD; Vascular Surgeon, Advocate Christ Medical Center
William Spear, MD; Electrophysiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center
James Sur, MD; Cardiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center
Wassim Ballany, MD; Cardiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center
Dinker Trivedi, MD; Cardiologist, Advocate Christ Medical Center
Antone Tatooles, MD; Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Advocate Christ Medical Center
Allison Beckett, MD; Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Advocate Christ Medical Center
William Cotts, MD; Advanced Heart Failure Cardiologist, 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 5.75 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 5.75 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 5.75 hours of CPE credit for (pharmacists and pharmacy technicians). 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. 

Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Advocate Health is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 5.75  general continuing education credits.

Board Recognition Statement(s)

American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) MOC
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 5.75 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

  • 5.75 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.
    • 5.75 ABS Self-Assessment
  • 5.75 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 5.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
  • 5.75 Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
    Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)

    As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Advocate Aurora Health is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers receiving this course receive 5.75 of ethics, clinical, cultural competence, and/or general continuing education credits.
  • 5.75 Attendance
    Attendance Credit
    • 5.75 Approved AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 5.75 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. 5.75 contact hours have been awarded to this activity by the Wisconsin Nursing Association. To receive contact hours, participants must attend the entire activity.
  • 5.75 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.
  • 5.75 ABIM MOC Part II
    Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 5.75 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.

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This conference is being held virtually and in-person.  A link to the meeting will be provided prior to the event.
In-person location is Advocate Christ Medical Center.

NOTE: Please note this activity will be presented 8:55am – 4:00pm CST / 9:55am - 5:00pm EST

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