Genetics of Heart & Vascular Disease

COURSE LOCATION
Hilton Los Cabos                                                                                                                    
Carretera Transpeninsular Km. 19.5 Cabo Real 
San Jose del Cabo, BCS 23400

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This program will be presented live in-person in San José del Cabo, Mexico and also is available via livestream Pacific Time Zone (PST). 

During this 3 day CME course, experts in the field of genetic cardiology and cardiovascular genetics detail the important role of genetics, genomics, and pharmacogenetics in the diagnosis, risk stratification, and treatment of monogenetic, oligogenetic, and polygenic diseases affecting the heart and the blood vessels.

Topics covered will include genetics and genomics 101, pharmacogenetics, polygenic risk scores, variant interpretation, the diagnostic, prognostic, & therapeutic implications of genetic testing for patients with congenital heart disease, long QT syndrome, Brugada syndrome, hypertrophic/dilated/arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, coronary heart disease, hyperlipidemias, heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, cardiac amyloid, and the aortopathies, the state of the molecular autopsy, and the state of gene therapy for CV diseases.

INTENDED AUDIENCE
This course is intended for both pediatric and adult cardiologists, internists, primary care providers, PAs, nurse practitioners, nurses, pharmacists, pediatric and adult cardiology trainees, genetic counselors, and medical students with an interest in the management of patients with genetically mediated heart and vascular disease.

LIVESTREAM PARTICIPATION
Livestream participation is to be viewed during the livestreaming hours posted for the course. This course is not intended, nor approved, as an on-demand learning activity.  This livestream course will originate in Pacific Time Zone (PST).