Courage and Innovation Symposium 2020: Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation at the University of Chicago

Chicago, IL US
February 29, 2020
This activity is structured as a comprehensive educational symposium striving to educate clinicians, physician trainees, nurses, and other healthcare professionals across a wide range of specialties in the application of innovative therapies for cardiovascular disease. The distinguished faculty for this event includes many of the foremost clinicians at the University of Chicago Heart and Vascular Center as well as internationally recognized guest faculty. Through focused didactics, panel discussion, case studies, and interactive dialogue, participants will gain both broad perspective and detailed insights into medical and surgical therapies for complex cardiovascular disease.
 

Target Audience

This activity is designed for clinicians, physician trainees, nurses, and other healthcare professionals across a wide range of specialties in the application of innovative therapies for cardiovascular disease.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:
  • Describe how to manage the advanced heart failure patient in the outpatient setting;
  • Identify the current diagnostic and management strategies for the common and uncommon cardiomyopathies;
  • Discuss the latest scientific evidence and guidelines in acute mechanical circulatory support and cardiac transplantation;
  • Evaluate the role of molecular monitoring for rejection in cardiac transplantation;
  • Identify strategies for the optimal care of post-transplant patients using evidence-based guidelines;
  • State current practice strategies of advanced practice providers in the care of heart failure patients.
Additional information
ACGME/ABMS Core Competencies: 
Patient Care and Procedural Skills
Medical Knowledge
Practice-based Learning and Improvement
Interpersonal and Communication Skills
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Meeting Achievements
CME Coordinator Contact Email: 
[email protected]
CME Coordinator Contact Phone: 
219-465-1115
Summary
Event starts: 
02/29/2020 - 7:35am
Event ends: 
02/29/2020 - 1:30pm
Activity opens: 
02/29/2020
Activity expires: 
05/29/2020
Part of: 
Courage and Innovation Symposium 2020: Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation at the University of Chicago
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University of Chicago Ida Noyes Hall
1212 E 59th St.
1st Floor
Chicago, IL 60637
United States
American Board of Internal Medicine MOC Part II Credit
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 5.25 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

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