Heart Care Education Foundation is pleased to present:

STATE OF THE  HEART   2007

Sunday September 23, 2007    5:30-9:30 pm
Sunset Cruise Aboard the Odyssey II 
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Chicago's Navy Pier,
            Odyssey II    Topaz Deck

Physicians...
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FACULTY:

D. Kyle Hogarth, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine,
University of Chicago
Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine

Christopher Bane, M.D.
Interventional Cardiology
Heart Care Centers of Illinois

Charles Kinder  M.D., F.A.C.C.
Director, Heart Rhythm Program
Heart Care Centers of Illinois
 

Joshua Socolow, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Director, Cardiac MR Program
Heart Care Centers of Illinois

  5:30–6:00 p.m.  Timely boarding and registration aboard the Odyssey II at Navy Pier
  6:00–6:30 p.m.  Opening Remarks, Refreshments
  6:30–7:00 p.m.  Smoking Cessation... New Strategies for Success
  7:00–7:30 p.m.  Plavix Use and Drug Eluting Stents:  Prevention of Late Stent Thrombosis
  7:30–8:00 p.m.  Intermission
  8:00–8:30 p.m.  Syncope... New Guidelines for Evaluation & Therapy:
                                       Who Needs a Heart Rhythm Specialist Referral?
  8:30–9:00 p.m.  Cardiac MRI- Next Generation Imaging... How to Use it Today

   Dinner will be served from 7 to 8:30PM on the Topaz deck

Stavros Maragos, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Director, Heart Care Education Foundation

Joshua Socolow, M.D., F.A.C.C.
CME Program Associate Director
Heart Care Education Foundation

SYMPOSIUM OVERVIEW:

The State of the Heart 2007 symposium is designed to provide a forum to discuss and review the most recent advances in interventional, pharmacologic, and clinical management of patients with cardiovascular disease.

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:

After participating in this program, physicians should be able to:

"Smoking Cessation... New Strategies for Success"

• Increase opportunities to provide smoking cessation guidance and treatment.
• Improve understanding of the chronic condition of nicotine addiction.
• Examine therapeutic strategies to aid patients with quitting.

"Plavix Use & Drug Eluting Stents: Prevention of Late Stent Thrombosis"

• Explain the difference between bare metal and drug eluting stents, including which situations are optimal for drug eluting stents.
• List the predictors of In-stent restenosis, as well as understand the clinical challenge in treating In-stent restenosis.
• Describe the impact of recent clinical trials on the use of percutaneous coronary intervention and specifically on the use of drug eluting stents.
• Compare the health care costs of drug eluting stents versus bare metal stents, including post procedure antiplatelet therapy and reintervention costs.

"Syncope... New Guidelines for Evaluation & Therapy"

• Identify the implications of the newly revised syncope guidelines.
• Distinguish when to refer the syncope patient to a heart rhythm expert.
• List the newly revised sudden death syndromes.

"Cardiac MRI- Next generation imaging. How to use it today"

• Describe the role of cardiac MRI in assessing cardiac structure and function.
• Compare the patterns of gadolinium enhancement in ischemic and nonischemic cardiomyopathy.
• Compare MRI and echocardiography for the evaluation of intracardiac thrombi.

Program content, evaluation of presentation, screening for bias, and assessing future needs will be addressed by questionnaire.

PROGRAM SUPPORT:

State of the Heart 2007 is supported in part by educational grants from:

• Guidant
• Boston Scientific

DISCLOSURE:

It is the policy of the Heart Care Education Foundation to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all sponsored educational programs. All faculty participating in continuing medical educational activities sponsored by the Heart Care Education Foundation are required to disclose to the program audience any real or apparent conflict of interest related to the content of their presentations. Faculty are also required to disclose any investigational product(s) in their presentation(s) and/or those that are not yet labeled for the use under discussion. Faculty not complying with this policy are ineligible to participate in this activity.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

The target audience for this activity consists of cardiologists, internists, and family practitioners interested in or involved with the management of patients with cardiovascular disease.

ACCREDITATION: Heart Care Education Foundation is accredited by the Illinois State Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians. This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the policies of the Illinois State Medical Society through the sponsorship of the Heart Care Education Foundation.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credit

Heart Care Education Foundation designates this educational activity for a maximum of 4 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

ACTIVITY FEE:

There is no fee to attend this CME event

REGISTRATION: