Cardiac Care in Pregnancy: Safeguarding Hearts and Babies

Chicago, IL US
September 17, 2024
Elevate Maternal Heart Health—Join Us to Make a Lasting Impact
 
Join this dynamic event where cardiologists, maternal-fetal specialists, anesthesiologists, and primary care clinicians come together to advance women's cardiovascular care. Engage with leading experts to enhance your skills in identifying, referring, and managing cardiovascular conditions before, during, and after pregnancy, and be part of a movement to improve maternal health outcomes.

Target Audience

This activity is designed for healthcare professionals specializing in obstetrics, maternal-fetal medicine, cardiology, and primary care.

Learning Objectives

After this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Recall the current best practices to treat peripartum cardiomyopathy during the peripartum period;
  • Recognize symptoms and findings of peripartum cardiomyopathy;
  • Identify management strategy for following pregnancies with heart failure closely and planning for all stages, including labor and delivery and postpartum;
  • State how to assess the risk of subsequent pregnancy in women with a history of peripartum cardiomyopathy;
  • Discuss the role of preconception counseling for women with Marfan’s syndrome and other aortopathies contemplating pregnancy;
  • Describe the best practices for surveillance and management of pregnancies with aortopathies through the entire peripartum period.
Additional information
ACGME/ABMS Core Competencies: 
Patient Care and Procedural Skills
Medical Knowledge
Practice-based Learning and Improvement
For more information, please contact:
CME Coordinator Contact Name: 
Trisha Hill
CME Coordinator Contact Email: 
bra6384@bsd.uchicago.edu
CME Coordinator Contact Phone: 
773-702-1842

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Summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.75 Participation
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The University of Chicago reserves the right to cancel or postpone this conference due to unforeseen circumstances. In the unlikely event this activity must be cancelled or postponed, the registration fee will be refunded; however, The University of Chicago is not responsible for any related costs, charges, or expenses to participants, including fees assessed by airline/travel/lodging agencies.
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO FACULTY
  Michael Earing, MD
  Professor of Pediatrics
  Professor of Medicine
  Division Director, Pediatric Cardiology, Chicagoland Children's Health Alliance
  Medical Director, Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Chicagoland Children's Health Alliance
  Chief, Pediatric Cardiology
 
  Hena Patel, MD
  Assistant Professor of Medicine

 
 
 
 
Disclosure Declarations
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone in a position to control the content of an education activity to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible companies. This includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if a financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company during the past 24 months, and the content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship. Mechanisms are in place to identify and mitigate any relevant financial relationships prior to the start of the activity.

Additionally, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires Authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration at first mention and where appropriate in the content.
Physician Credit
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
 
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
Other Participant Credit
Other participants will receive a Certificate of Participation. For information on the applicability and acceptance of Certificates of Participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME, please consult your professional licensing board.
 
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