Description: This continuing education presentation is designed to equip pharmacists and other health care professionals with evidence-based strategies for optimizing heart failure care in ambulatory care settings. The session will consist of two 30-minute presentations delivered by Collin Kruczek, PharmD, and Joseph Loredo, PharmD. Collin will focus on heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), highlighting guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) and practical ambulatory care tips for improving patient outcomes. Joseph will address heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), emphasizing emerging pharmacologic therapies and strategies for integrating these treatments into ambulatory care workflows.

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Speakers: Collin Kruczek, PharmD, CPP, PGY2 Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Resident – Atrium Health; and Joseph Loredo, PharmD, PGY2 Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Resident – Aurora Health Care Metro, Inc

Objectives: ​​

  1. Recognize the pathophysiology and classification of heart failure across the ejection fraction spectrum.  
  2. Identify strategies for implementation and titration of guideline-directed medication treatment (GDMT) for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). 
  3. Select a GDMT regimen for a patient with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). 
  4. Identify the updated literature surrounding HFpEF.

Target Audience:​ Advocate Pharmacists, Physicians, Nurses, and other interested healthcare professionals

Disclosure:​ The planner(s) and speaker(s) have indicated that there are no relevant financial relationships with any ineligible companies to disclose. 

Materials: PDF icon Single Activity Flyer - Live-Kruczek, Loredo.pdf

Pharmacist UAN: JA0006327-0000-26-001-L01-P

Session date: 
02/24/2026 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm CST
Location: 
VC – WI St Lukes Family Practice LL and Virtual via Microsoft Teams Webinar
United States
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  • 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 Approved AMA PRA Category 1 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.
    • 1.00 APRN Pharmacotherapeutic Contact Hours
  • 1.00 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.
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