Attendee Syllabus

Cardiovascular Disease Management for Nurses | October 4, 2017

Cardiovascular Disease Management: A Case-Based Approach | October 5-6, 2017

General Course Materials:

Updated Scientific Program

Faculty Disclosures


The faculty presentations, when approved by the speaker(s), will be posted below within 24 hours of presentation.

Cardiovascular Disease Management for Nurses | Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Best Practices for Best Door to Balloon Time

Curtis Townsend, RN, BSN

Atrial Fibrillation: Designation Overview and Best Practices

Philip Beckley, PhD, AACC

Heart Failure: Designation Overview and Best Practices

Maghee Disch, MSN, RN, CNL, CHFN, AACC

Electrophysiology, What Should I Know?

Terron Arbon, MSN, RN, Dean Porcelli, RN, BSN & Stacy Tukuafu, RCIS, BBA


Cardiovascular Disease Management: A Case-Based Approach | Thursday, October 5, 2017

(slides not approved by speaker) Statins are Way Underused…and it’s Killing Americans

Dinesh Kalra, MD, FACC

Primary Aldosteronism and Implications for Primary Hypertension

Richard Auchus, MD, PhD

What’s New in Heart Failure Treatment? What Role Do the New Agents Have?

Uri Elkayam, MD, FACC

Cardiopulmonary Arrest: Who Needs to be Cooled and is Compression Only Resuscitation the Best Approach?

Jason A. Bartos, MD, PhD

Aortic Aneurysms: The Paradigm has Shifted…Abdominal and Thoracic Aneurysms Can Almost Always be Treated Percutaneously

Venkatesh G. Ramaiah, MD

The Superficial Femoral Artery is Not Just a Long LAD: What Works to Treat SFA Disease?

Lawrence Garcia, MD, FACC

Are the Feds Going to Finally Let Us Treat These Patients? What Patients with PFO Can Have Closure?

John Carroll, MD, FACC

How Do We Transition From a Coronary Artery Disease Based Practice to a PVD Based Practice: How Do We Screen and Manage These Patients?

Terry Bowers, MD, FACC

Can Heart Disease Eventually be Abolished? The PCSK9 Revolution

Robert Vogel, MD, FACC


Cardiovascular Disease Management: A Case-Based Approach | Friday, October 6, 2017

Can We Prevent Diabetes? It’s All on Your Plate

Robert Vogel, MD, FACC

New Treatments for Peripheral CTO’s: Perspective From a Leader

Lawrence Garcia, MD, FACC

(slides not approved by speaker) Amputation Prevention from A to Z: Perspective From a Pioneer

Fadi Saab, MD, FACC

Wound Care Is not Always About Arterial Disease: Venous Obstructive Disease, Perspective From a World Leader in Venous Treatment

Patricia E. Thorpe, MD, FSIR

The Coronary Angiogram is Normal, However, My Patient Still Has Chest Pain

Jennifer A. Tremmel, MD, MS, FACC

TAVR is Here and Mainstream: With the Risk of Stroke During Any Valvular Procedure: Is There Any Role for Embolic Protection?

John Carroll, MD, FACC

Severe PAD with No Percutaneous Options: The Paradigm Shift with PQ Bypass

Richard R. Heuser, MD, FACC

Atrial Fibrillation: How Do You Treat and What is the Role of Left Atrial Appendix Exclusion?

Wilber Su, MD, FACC

The Radial Revolution: How to Convince Your Colleagues and Administration to Change to Radial First

Jennifer A. Tremmel, MD, MS, FACC

From Andreas Gruentzig to PCSK9s: How Angioplasty Transformed Cardiovascular Care…From Where it All Started

Spencer B. King, III, MD, MACC