2024 Ascension Saint Thomas Comprehensive Cardiovascular Update

Saturday, August 17, 2024, 7:35 AM - 5:15 PM, JW Marriott Nashville, Nashville, TN


AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (8.25 hours), ABIM MOC Part 2 (8.25 hours), ABTS CC (8.25 hours), Other Learner Participation Hours (8.25 hours)

Please join us at the beautiful JW Marriott in Nashville, Tennessee, for our annual comprehensive update on the latest innovations in cardiovascular care. This education is designed to meet the educational needs of general cardiologists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and other healthcare professionals who manage patients with cardiovascular disease. This conference will focus on Guideline-Based Care in the Modern World, more specifically, new guidelines, research, and state-of-the-art techniques for managing patients with cardiovascular disease. Sessions will include developments in cardiovascular surgery, electrophysiology, structural cardiology, vascular cardiology, coronary, imaging, heart failure, and preventive care.

1. Develop strategies to transform cardiovascular care to meet the quadruple aim of increased access to care, improved patient outcomes and experience, enhance healthcare value, and elevate care team professionalism and wellness.
2. Implement tactics that promote and reward care team engagement to transform care.
3. Implement the 3 pillars of AF management including stroke risk assessment, optimizing modifiable risk factors, and symptom management.
4. Identify patients who may benefit from rhythm control including catheter ablation strategies.
5. Analyze the new advancements made in LAAO (left atrial appendage occlusion) and identify appropriate candidates and what patients can expect during the procedure.
6. Implement guideline directed medical therapy in HFpEF patients.
7. Analyze the risk of death and truly poor long term prognosis of HFrEF patients.
8. Implement strategies to identify patients earlier in the disease process to not only improve long-term survival but increase likelihood of LV improvement/recovery as well as potentially catching patients earlier on their decline so that they may have all options available to extend life.
9. Analyze the latest trends and recommendations in treating aneurysm.
10. Recognize the breadth of surgical options for management of coronary artery disease.
11. Develop better understanding of novel procedures and postoperative management of coronary surgery patients.
12. Implement a quality improvement program to review practice use of new pharmacologic therapies.
13. Develop strategies on how to treat in-stent restenosis.
14. Develop strategies to appropriately screen, grade, and delineate underlying mechanisms of valvular diseases.
15. Analyze medical management vs. time to referral for structural heart intervention based on current guidelines.
16. Develop strategies to choose the best risk stratification method for evaluation of coronary artery disease based on individual patient's positive and negative predictive values.
17. Develop strategies to identify patients who are at increased risk of cardiovascular complications during pregnancy and beyond.
18. Enhance understanding of the role and benefits of SGLT2 inhibitors in heart failure.
19. Implement strategies to prevent the disabling consequences of lower extremity venous ulcers.
20. Identify which patients might benefit from renal denervation.

$275.00 Physician

$225.00 Other Learner (NP, PA, RN, Other)

$100.00 Resident/Fellow/Student

$0.00 UTHSC Resident/Fellow

$0.00 Ascension Saint Thomas Non-Physician Associate - If you are not able to attend, you must cancel your registration by Friday, August 2nd. If you do not cancel by August 2nd, you will be invoiced a fee of $50.00 to partially cover your JW Marriott meals and facility costs. If you wish to cancel, please email [email protected].

For any questions, please email [email protected].

To reserve a discounted room at the JW Marriott Nashville with the Ascension Saint Thomas room block, please visit the link below and make your reservation no later than July 18th. Registrants are responsible for making their own reservations. 

https://book.passkey.com/go/Ascension2024

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Ascension Saint Thomas is committed to providing CME that is balanced, objective, and evidence-based. In accordance with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, all individuals who have the opportunity to control content are required to disclose any financial relationships within the past 24 months with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Ascension Saint Thomas has established mechanisms to mitigate relevant financial relationships. Disclosure of relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies will be provided to learners prior to the activity.