Cleveland Clinic Teams with Northwell for Potent Cardiac CME in NYC

When Cleveland Clinic and Northwell Health teamed up last year to offer their first joint cardiovascular CME event in New York City, the 200-plus attendees had one piece of overriding feedback: This is so good that next year you need a larger venue.

So this year the two health systems have obliged by moving their course, “Controversies in the Management of Cardiovascular Disease,” to the Roosevelt Hotel on East 45th Street in Manhattan to accommodate even greater interest. The event takes place Friday, Oct. 6, 2017, with a jam-packed program from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The target audience is cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons and specialists in emergency medicine, internal medicine and family practice. In addition to AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, attendees may earn up to 7.25 MOC points in the ABIM’s Maintenance of Certification program.

The course has been refreshed from last year, with new and additional areas of focus and an expanded faculty of over two dozen expert cardiologists and cardiothoracic surgeons from Cleveland Clinic and Great Neck (N.Y.)-based Northwell Health, which is affiliated with the Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine.

“We’ve assembled a world-class faculty to discuss and debate critical contemporary topics in cardiovascular medicine, including the addition of extremely important topics like cardiovascular risk assessment in women,” says course co-director Lars Svensson, MD, PhD, Chairman of Cleveland Clinic’s Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart & Vascular Institute.

He is co-directing the course with Rajiv Jauhar, MD, Chief of Cardiology, North Shore University Hospital, and Alan Hartman, MD, Senior Vice President and Executive Director, Cardiothoracic Services, Northwell Health.

The directors have designed the daylong event to address high-interest questions and controversies in focused clusters of 15- and 30-minute presentations and panel discussions across five broad topical sessions:

• Prevention 360: Strategies for Managing Cardiovascular Risk Factors
• Mending the Failing Heart
• Ischemic Heart Disease
• Structural Heart Disease
• Heart Rhythm 2017

Sample presentation titles include:

• “Exercise After Heart Attack: The Forgotten ‘Pill’”
• “Radial Angioplasty: An Outpatient Procedure?”
• “Are Leadless Pacemakers Ready for Prime Time?”
• “SAVR vs. TAVR: What We’ve Learned and Where We Think We’re Going”

“These and other talks will highlight innovative technologies and therapeutics to stimulate vigorous discussion, with the goal of improving cardiac outcomes,” says Dr. Jauhar of Northwell’s North Shore University Hospital.

For more information or to register, click here.

This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.