Heart Failure Management for NP, PA, and Primary Care Providers

March 17-20, 2025
In-Person or Livestream | Disney's Yacht and Beach Club, Lake Buena Vista, FL

Currently accepting registrations!
Credit Types: Nursing (22.0), AAPA (22.0), AMA PRA Category 1™ (22.0), Price: $850 - $995 | Register by 2/17 to save $100

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Program

4:00 p.m.

SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 2025

4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Early Registration

7:00 a.m.

MONDAY, MARCH 17, 2025

Select presentations will contain pharmacology content as noted in the program. Identified presentations represent approximately 6.00 hours of pharmacology content. Keep a copy of the program for your records. **

7:00 a.m.

Registration and Continental Breakfast (Newport Ballroom West, A-C)

7:45 a.m.

Welcome and Course Overview (Newport Ballroom East, D-E)

8:00 a.m.

FOUNDATIONS OF HEART FAILURE

Moderators: Grace Lin, MD, Janell Grazzini Frantz, APRN, MSN, CNP

8:00 a.m.

What is Heart Failure? Heart Failure Terms and Evaluations

Jackson Hermanson, PA-C

8:20 a.m.

Patient Story in Documentation

Sara Severson, APRN, CNP, MS

8:40 a.m.

Challenging Clinical HF Presentations: Critical Thinking

Yee Weng Wong, MBBS

9:05 a.m.

What is Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)? Clinical Clues and Evaluation

Melissa Lyle, MD

9:30 a.m.

Questions and Answers

9:50 a.m.

Refreshment Break | Visit Exhibits

10:10 a.m.

TOOLS TO COMPLETE THE PUZZLE

Moderators: Sara Severson, APRN, CNP, MS, Melissa Lyle, MD

10:10 a.m.

Echo in Heart Failure: Clinical Utility Getting the Most Out of an Echo in Various HF Scenarios

Grace Lin, MD

10:35 a.m.

Choosing Diagnostic Testing: When to Order an Echo / MRI / CT

Katie Young, MD

11:00 a.m.

Interpreting the CXR

Jeffrey Geske, MD

11:15 a.m.

ECG Interpretation

11:30 a.m.

Genetics: When and What to Order – Role of Genetic Testing in Heart Failure

John Giudicessi, MD, PhD

11:45 a.m.

Questions and Answers

12:00 p.m.

Working Lunch – Pick-up Lunch Return to General Session

12:15 p.m.

HEART FAILURE CONTRIBUTING PLAYERS

Moderators: Lyle Baker, MD, Sara Severson, APRN, CNP, MS

12:15 p.m.

Common Dysrhythmias in Patients with Heart Failure

12:40 p.m.

Ruling Out Coronary Artery Disease

Kyla Lara-Breitinger, MD

1:05 p.m.

Nomenclature Valve Disease: Functional Assessment

Jeffrey Geske, MD

1:30 p.m.

Valve Disease in Heart Failure: New Treatment Options

Rekha Mankad, MD

1:55 p.m.

Questions and Answers

2:15 p.m.

Adjourn

7:00 a.m.

TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 2025

7:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

7:25 a.m.

Program Overview & Announcements

7:30 a.m.

PILLARS OF THERAPY

Moderators: Melissa Lyle, MD, Sara Severson, APRN, CNP, MS

7:30 a.m.

Foundation of Guideline Directed Medical Therapy: ACE Inhibitors, ARBs, Beta Blockers, Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists, and Digoxin **

Melissa Lyle, MD

7:55 a.m.

When Do I Use Entresto? What About Vericiguat & Ivabradine? **

Yee Weng Wong, MBBS

8:20 a.m.

When Do I Use a SGLT2i? **

Grace Lin, MD

8:35 a.m.

Heart Failure Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF) Management **

Yogesh Reddy, MBBS

9:00 a.m.

Outpatient Volume Management: Non-Pharmacologic Measures, Diuretics Beyond Furosemide **

Jackson Hermanson, PA-C

9:25 a.m.

Questions and Answers

9:30 a.m.

Refreshment Break | Visit Exhibits

9:50 a.m.

OTHER STRATEGIES OR TOOLS TO IMPROVE OUTCOMES

9:50 a.m.

Device Therapy in HF: ICE, Pacing, CRT

10:15 a.m.

Implantable Pulmonary Artery Monitor Pressure Measurement Devices

Sara Severson, APRN, CNP, MS

10:40 a.m.

POCUS in Daily Clinical Practice

Govind Panda, MD

11:05 a.m.

Patient Adherence

Janell Grazzini Frantz, APRN, MSN, CNP

11:30 a.m.

Questions and Answers

11:45 a.m.

Working Lunch – Pick-up Box Lunch Return to Meeting

12:00 p.m.

HOT TOPICS

Moderators: Grace Lin, MD, Janell Grazzini Frantz, APRN, MSN, CNP

12:00 p.m.

Illustrative Cases **

12:00 p.m.

Cardiac Sarcoidosis

John Giudicessi, MD, PhD

12:20 p.m.

Rheumatology in Cardiovascular Disease

Rekha Mankad, MD

12:40 p.m.

Handheld Echo in CHF

Govind Panda, MD

1:00 p.m.

Women & Heart Disease

Rekha Mankad, MD

1:30 p.m.

Adjourn

2:00 p.m.

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy **

Jeffrey Geske, MD

8:20 a.m.

Inflammatory Disease: Myocarditis and Sarcoidosis **

John Giudicessi, MD, PhD

8:45 a.m.

Cardio-Oncology

Grace Lin, MD

9:10 a.m.

Peripartum Cardiomyopathy

Katie Young, MD

9:35 a.m.

Questions and Answers

9:50 a.m.

Refreshment Break | Visit Exhibits

10:10 a.m.

FRIENDS AND FOES: COMORBIDITIES ASSOCIATED WITH HEART FAILURE

Moderators: Sara Severson, APRN, CNP, MS, Grace Lin, MD

10:10 a.m.

Obesity Management and Heart Failure **

Kyla Lara-Breitinger, MD

10:30 a.m.

Acute Renal Failure Work-Up

Lyle Baker, MD

10:50 a.m.

Diabetes and Heart Failure **

Kyla Lara-Breitinger, MD

11:10 a.m.

Combined Heart & Renal Failure: Nephrologist Approach

Lyle Baker, MD

11:30 a.m.

Questions and Answers

11:45 a.m.

DON'T FORGET THE RIGHT SIDE

Moderators: Melissa Lyle, MD, Janell Grazzini Frantz, APRN, MSN, CNP

11:45 a.m.

Pulmonary Hypertension

Yogesh Reddy, MBBS

12:05 p.m.

What is a Right Heart Cath: What Do the Numbers Mean?

Parag Patel, MD

12:20 p.m.

Right Heart Failure

Yogesh Reddy, MBBS

12:40 p.m.

Questions and Answers

12:50 p.m.

Adjourn

7:15 a.m.

THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2025

7:15 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

7:25 a.m.

Program Overview & Announcements

7:30 a.m.

ADVANCED HEART FAILURE

Moderators: Grace Lin, MD, Janell Grazzini Frantz, APRN, MSN, CNP

7:30 a.m.

Management of Acute Decompensated Heart Failure **

Yogesh Reddy, MBBS

7:55 a.m.

Symptom Management in Advanced Heart Failure **

Amanda Lorenz, MD

8:20 a.m.

Palette of Devices for Temporary Mechanical Support

Parag Patel, MD

8:45 a.m.

Strategies When Discussing End of Life Issues

Amanda Lorenz, MD

9:10 a.m.

Questions and Answers

9:30 a.m.

Refreshment Break | Visit Exhibits

9:45 a.m.

HOW TO APPROACH THE STAGE D HEART FAILURE PATIENT

Moderators: Sara Severson, APRN, CNP, MS, Melissa Lyle, MD

9:45 a.m.

Cardiac Transplant and LVAD: When to Refer?

Parag Patel, MD

10:10 a.m.

Post-Transplant or LVAD Care: Do’s, Don’ts and When to Get Excited

Yee Weng Wong, MBBS

10:35 a.m.

Illustrative Cases in Advanced Heart Failure **

Melissa Lyle, MD

Moderators: Yee Weng Wong, MBBS, Parag Patel, MD, Amanda Lorenz, MD, Yogesh Reddy, MBBS

11:40 a.m.

Summary and Closing Comments

11:45 a.m.

Course Adjourns

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Credit Types Offered

Nursing

22.0
AAPA

22.0
AMA PRA Category 1™

22.0

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