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
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, MBA, 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, MBA
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, MBA
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, MBA, 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.
HANDS-ON WORKSHOP
Moderator: Govind Panda, MD
2:00 p.m.
- 4:00 p.m.
Basic Scanning Skills for Cardiac Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)
Kyla Lara-Breitinger, MD, Melissa Lyle, MD, Rekha Mankad, MD, Govind Panda, MD, Yee Weng Wong, MBBS, Katie Young, MD
7:00 a.m.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 2025
7:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
7:25 a.m.
Program Overview & Announcements
7:30 a.m.
ZEBRAS AND OTHER EXOTICS
Moderators: Melissa Lyle, MD, Sara Severson, APRN, CNP, MS
7:00 a.m.
Amyloid Heart Disease: Diagnosis and Management **
Janell Grazzini Frantz, APRN, MSN, CNP
7:55 a.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, MBA
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, MBA
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, MBA, 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
Credit Types Offered
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Nursing22.0
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AAPA22.0
-
AMA PRA Category 1™22.0
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