Hot Topics in Clinical Cardiology  PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Program Directors: Marc E. Shelton, MD, FACC and George D. Dangas, MD, FACC

Program Co-directors: Gregg W. Stone, MD, FACC and W. Douglas Weaver, MD, FACC

Statement of Need

With up to 80% of interventionalists also practicing general cardiology, there exists a need to provide more opportunities for cardiologists to enhance their general cardiology knowledgebase. To address this educational gap, ACC and CRF have joined together to present Hot Topics in Clinical Cardiology: Highlights from ACC.08, a new, needs-based and convenient forum for knowledge exchange, designed for a meeting comprised primarily of interventionalists.

Overview
Hot Topics in Clinical Cardiology brings you the best of the ACC.08 Annual Meeting in an innovative, five-hour scientific session. Join your colleagues for a look at the latest, potentially practice-changing topics in general cardiology today. Renowned speakers will cover a variety of topics with particular relevance to the educational needs of interventionalists, including the management of venous disease, anticoagulation and bleeding, care for patients with diabetes, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, and imaging.  Sessions will be moderated by practicing physicians, question and answer periods will follow, and all attendees will receive – free-of-charge – a thumb drive loaded with additional educational highlights from ACC.08!  If you are an interventional, invasive or general cardiologist attending the 2008 TCT Conference, this is one session you won’t want to miss.

Learner Objectives
Upon completion of this program, attendees should be able to –

• Employ optimal evaluation techniques for venous disease
• Identify clinical areas where the many different anticoagulation paradigms are useful
• Apply the latest clinical data on the use of pharmaceuticals for the treatment of diabetes, hypertension and hyperlipidemia
• Discuss the pros and cons of drug therapy and device therapy in congestive heart failure
• Compare the merits of noninvasive imaging using echo, CTA, MR, PET and SPECT in current clinical practice

FACULTY
Program Directors

Marc E. Shelton, MD, FACC
President and Medical Director
Prairie Cardiovascular Consultants, Ltd.
Springfield, IL

George D. Dangas, MD, PhD, FACC
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Columbia University Medical Center
Cardiovascular Research Foundation
New York, NY

Program Co-directors

Gregg W. Stone, MD, FACC
Professor of Medicine
Director of Cardiovascular Research and Education
Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy
Columbia University Medical Center
Chairman
The Cardiovascular Research Foundation
New York, NY

W. Douglas Weaver, MD, FACC
Division Head, Cardiology
Henry Ford Heart and Vascular Institute
Detroit, MI

Invited Faculty

Allen S. Anderson, MD, FACC
Associate Professor of Medicine
Medical Director, Heart Failure and Transplantation
University of Chicago Medical Center
Chicago, IL

B. Greg Brown, MD, PhD
Professor, Medicine
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

Linda D. Gillam, MD, FACC
Medical Director, Cardiac Valve Program
Columbia University Medical Center
New York, NY

Ira Goldberg, MD
Professor of Medicine
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
New York, NY

Kenneth A. Jamerson, MD
Professor of Medicine
University of Michigan Health System
Ann Arbor, MI

Raghu Kolluri, MD, FACC, FACP
Director, Vascular Medicine and Laboratory
Prairie Vascular Institute
Springfield, IL

Sunil V. Rao, MD, FACC
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC

Allen J. Taylor, MD, FACC
Chief of Cardiology
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Bethesda, MD

Kim Allan Williams, MD, FASNC, FACC, FABC, FCCP, FAHA
Professor of Medicine and Radiology
Sections of Cardiology and Nuclear Medicine
Director of Nuclear Cardiology
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

TARGET AUDIENCE
This program is intended for interventional, invasive and cardiovascular specialists, physicians, fellows in training and cardiovascular care associates.