Success With Failure: Strategies for the Evaluation and Treatment of Heart Failure

July 15-17, 2018
Skamania Lodge, Stevenson, WA

Registration Closed
Credit Types: AMA PRA Category 1™ (17.0), ABIM MOC Points (17.0), Price: $775 - $870 | Early registration saves $100

Program

6:30 a.m.

Sunday, July 15

6:30 a.m.

Registration | Continental Breakfast

7:20 a.m.

Welcome and Introduction - Pre-Test

7:30 a.m.

Focus on Heart Failure Including Reduced Ejection Fraction

Moderator: Barry Borlaug, MD

7:30 a.m.

Evaluation of the Patient With New Heart Failure

Paul McKie, MD

7:50 a.m.

Questions and Answers

7:55 a.m.

Echo Doppler: The Non-invasive Hemodynamic Table of Truth

Barry Karon, MD

8:20 a.m.

Questions and Answers

8:25 a.m.

Atlas of Heart Failure With Reduced EF (HFrEF): Invasive and Noninvasive Assessment

Barry Borlaug, MD, Brooks Edwards, MD, Barry Karon, MD

8:50 a.m.

Questions and Answers

8:55 a.m.

Imaging in Heart Failure - What Is the Right Test for My Patient?

Tyler Peterson, MD

9:20 a.m.

Questions and Answers

9:25 a.m.

Refreshment Break

9:45 a.m.

Dealing With the Failing Right Heart

Robert Frantz, MD

10:10 a.m.

Questions and Answers

10:15 a.m.

Amyloid Heart Disease: Evaluation Pearls and New Treatment for an Old Problem

Omar Abou Ezzeddine, MD, MS

10:40 a.m.

Questions and Answers

10:45 a.m.

Sleep Apnea in Heart Failure: Time to Put to Rest?

James Fang, MD

11:10 a.m.

Questions and Answers

11:15 a.m.

Use of Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in the Evaluation and Management of Patients With Heart Failure

Thomas Olson, PhD

11:40 a.m.

Questions and Answers

11:45 a.m.

Cardio-Oncology: Practical Daily Management

Naveen Pereira, MD

12:05 p.m.

Questions and Answers

12:10 p.m.

Rapid Fire Cases: Outpatient Management – Is This Heart Failure? Panelists: Drs. Fang, Pereira, Borlaug and Grazzini-Frantz

Barry Karon, MD

1:00 p.m.

Adjourn

6:45 a.m.

Monday, July 16

6:45 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

7:00 a.m.

Early Bird Cases: Echo Identification of Unusual Forms of Heart Failure

Tyler Peterson, MD

7:25 a.m.

Questions and Answers

7:30 a.m.

Focus on Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

Moderator: Barry Borlaug, MD

7:30 a.m.

What is Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)? How to Recognize and Diagnose

Margaret Redfield, MD

7:55 a.m.

Questions and Answers

8:00 a.m.

Atlas of Heart Failure With Preserved Heart Failure (HFpEF): Invasive and Noninvasive Assessment

Barry Borlaug, MD, Brooks Edwards, MD, Barry Karon, MD

8:30 a.m.

What is the Therapy of HFpEF: Pharmacologic and Devices

Barry Borlaug, MD

8:55 a.m.

Questions and Answers

9:00 a.m.

Integrating Implantable Hemodynamic Monitoring Into Practice

Margaret Redfield, MD

9:20 a.m.

Questions and Answers

9:25 a.m.

Clinical Case Vignette: Heart Failure With Mid-Range Ejection Fraction

Barry Karon, MD

9:40 a.m.

Questions and Answers

9:45 a.m.

Refreshment Break

10:05 a.m.

Exercise for Treatment of Patients with Heart Failure

Thomas Olson, PhD

10:25 a.m.

Questions and Answers

10:30 a.m.

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Patient Management and Unanswered Questions

Mackram Eleid, MD

10:55 a.m.

Questions and Answers

11:00 a.m.

The Evolving Role of Biomarkers in Heart Failure Diagnosis and Management

Margaret Redfield, MD

11:20 a.m.

Questions and Answers

11:25 a.m.

Acute Decompensated Heart Failure: Is There An Ideal Approach?

James Fang, MD

11:45 a.m.

Questions and Answers

11:50 a.m.

Cath Lab Intervention Approaches to Valvular Heart Disease

Mackram Eleid, MD

12:10 p.m.

Questions and Answers

12:15 p.m.

Old Drugs, Old Mistakes. New Drugs, New Mistakes

Barry Karon, MD

12:35 p.m.

Questions and Answers

12:45 p.m.

Box Lunch - Concurrent Breakout Sessions 12:45-1:30 p.m. and rotate 1:45-2:30 p.m. Participant will choose 2 sessions to attend.

12:50 p.m.

How to Break Bad News Without Devastating the Patient and Family

Edward Creagan, MD FAAHPM Rouse Professor of Humanism in Medicine

12:55 p.m.

Managing the Outpatient With New Onset Heart Failure Monday, July 16 12:45-2:30 concurrent session

Janell Grazzini Frantz, APRN, MSN, CNP, Paul McKie, MD

1:00 p.m.

Interpreting Reports From Heart Rhythm Devices and Innovative Approaches to Monitoring Patients Monday, July 16 12:45-2:30 concurrent session

Paul Friedman, MD

1:10 p.m.

Real World Cases of Advanced Heart Failure Monday, July 16 12:45-2:30 concurrent session

Richard Daly, MD, Naveen Pereira, MD

6:45 a.m.

Tuesday, July 17

6:45 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

7:00 a.m.

Early Bird Session: The Pandemic of Physician Burnout: Solutions That Work

Edward Creagan, MD FAAHPM Rouse Professor of Humanism in Medicine

7:25 a.m.

Questions and Answers

7:30 a.m.

Lessons From the Patient: Clinical Cases and Critical Lessons

Moderators: Brooks Edwards, MD, Barry Karon, MD

7:30 a.m.

Rapid Fire Cases: Inpatient Management of Heart Failure - Panelists: Drs. Abou-Ezzeddine, Frantz, Daly, and Fang

Brooks Edwards, MD

8:00 a.m.

Update in Atrial Fibrillation: Arrhythmias Management in Heart Failure

Paul Friedman, MD

8:20 a.m.

Questions and Answers

8:25 a.m.

Timing Decision for Advanced Therapies

8:45 a.m.

Questions and Answers

8:50 a.m.

Bridging Anticoagulation: Premum non Nocere

James Fang, MD

9:10 a.m.

Questions and Answers

9:15 a.m.

Transplant Selection, Management, and Complications

Robert Frantz, MD

9:40 a.m.

Questions and Answers

9:45 a.m.

Surgical Advances That Benefit the Heart Failure Patient

Richard Daly, MD

10:05 a.m.

Questions and Answers

10:10 a.m.

Refreshment Break

10:30 a.m.

Knowledge Assessment

10:40 a.m.

Lessons From the Patient: Clinical Cases and Critical Lessons

Moderators: Brooks Edwards, MD, Barry Karon, MD

10:40 a.m.

Discussing Prognosis, Palliative Care and Hospice for Advanced Heart Failure Patients

Edward Creagan, MD FAAHPM Rouse Professor of Humanism in Medicine

11:05 a.m.

Questions and Answers

11:10 a.m.

Clinical Case Vignettes: Recovered Heart Failure

Brooks Edwards, MD

11:25 a.m.

Genetics, FDA, and Drug Labels: Guidance for the Practitioner

Naveen Pereira, MD

11:45 a.m.

Questions and Answers

11:50 a.m.

Regenerative Medicine: Treatment of Heart Failure With Cell Based Therapies

Brooks Edwards, MD

12:10 p.m.

Questions and Answers

12:15 p.m.

Summary and Closing Comments

Credit Types Offered

AMA PRA Category 1™

17.0
ABIM MOC Points

17.0

Price: $775 - $870 | Early registration saves $100

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