CME Program Detail...
Cardiology for the Community Clinician 2025
Date: Sat, Apr 5th, 2025
Time: 7:30 am - 12:00 pm
Location: Other
Statement of Need:
Heart disease remains the most common cause of death in men and women in the United States. Remarkable advances in cardiovascular medicine and technology evolve at rapid pace and directly affect clinical guidelines. Physicians and allied health professionals require continuous updates on the most recent guidelines in order to offer their patients innovative treatment. In a busy clinical practice, it can be a challenge to stay abreast with the most recent advances and guidelines. This program will provide physicians and allied health professionals with the latest guidelines that are clinically relevant in cardiovascular medicine. Program attendees will have a unique opportunity to review challenging clinical cases and ask questions in a group setting.
Target Audience:
Primary care physicians, cardiologists, fellows, residents, medical students, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, and all cardiac health care providers.
Reema Bhatt, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
Director, Advanced Heart Failure Cardiology
NewYork-Presbyterian Queens
NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
Ali Haider, M.D., FACC, FSCAI
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
Attending Interventional and Structural Cardiologist
NewYork-Presbyterian Queens
Joon-Hyuk Kim, MD, FACC, FHRS
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
Attending Cardiac Electrophysiologist
NewYork-Presbyterian Queens
Amrita Krishnamurthy, M.D., FACC
Diplomate of the American Board of Clinical Lipidology
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
Charles A. Mack, M.D., FACS
Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Weill Cornell Medicine
Director, Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit
NewYork-Presbyterian Queens
Robert M. Minutello, M.D.
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Lab
Director of Structural Heart Disease
NewYork-Presbyterian Queens
Alexander Volodarskiy, M.D., FACC
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
Director, Echocardiography & Cardiac Computed Tomography
NewYork-Presbyterian Queens
Ningxin Wan M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
Attending Advanced Heart Failure Cardiologist
NewYork-Presbyterian Queens
Disclosures: None
Dave Ramnauth, M.D.
**The event will take place at Terrace on the Park
Address: 52-11 111th Street, Corona, NY 11368
> Explain the role of calcium scoring in primary prevention & cholesterol management.
> Recognize the role of coronary CCTA in evaluation chest pain & coronary artery disease.
> Understand the basics of mitral valve pathologies, and when to intervene.
> Understand the basics of aortic valve pathologies, and when to intervene.
> Review the optimal use of guideline directed medical therapy according to latest guidelines for heart failure.
> Outline individualize use of guideline directed medical therapy in the context of other underlying comorbidities.
> Explain why rhythm control is associated with improve outcomes compared to rate control.
> Identify why the earlier rhythm control is started, the more likely it is to be effective.
> Recognize the benefits of multiple arterial grafting (MAG).
> Identify the contraindications of multiple arterial grafting (MAG).
> Determine how to select the appropriate statin therapy to achieve target LDL for primary and secondary prevention of ASCVD.
> Learn how to utilize non-statin medications for lipid lowering.
> Recognize that along with significant pharmacological advancements, device-based therapies have shown efficacy in heart failure management.
> Explain the proper patient risk stratification and phenotyping can allow for the integration of novel device therapies to improve outcomes.
7:30am Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:00am Introduction
8:15am Updates Cardiac CT and Its Current Clinical Applications. (Queens)
CT First: A Window into Heart Health
Alexander Volodarskiy, M.D., FACC
8:45am Mitral and Aortic Valve Interventional Therapies (Queens)
Pioneering Progress: TAVR, TEE and the Future of Valve Therapy
Robert M. Minutello, M.D. & Ali Haider, M.D., FACC, FSCAI
9:15am Updates in Systolic Heart Failure Management (Queens)
Something Old, Something New - Timeless Tales of GDMT
Ningxin Wan, M.D.
9:45am Update on the Management of Afib (Queens)
Fibs About A-Fib: Setting the Record Straight on Rhythm Control
Joon-Hyuk Kim, M.D., FACC, FHRS
10:00am Multiple Arterial Grafts for Isolated Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting & Brief Mention of the Pertinent Clinical Trials in Cardiac Surgery that are Underway at NYP-Queens
Multiple Arterial Conduits During Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG)
Charles A. Mack, M.D., FACS
10:30am Lipids (Weill Cornell)
How Low Can You Go? Guide to Lipid Lowering Medications
Amrita Krishnamurthy, M.D., FACC
11:00am Updates Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (Queens)
Beyond GDMT: Insights into Device Based Therapy for Heart Failure
Reema Bhatt, M.D.
12:00pm Lunch
Accreditation
NewYork Presbyterian/Queens is accredited by the Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
NewYork Presbyterian/Queens designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 3.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure Statement
The Medical Society of The State of New York relies upon planners and faculty participants in its CME activities to provide educational information that is objective and free of bias. In this spirit and in accordance with the guidelines of MSSNY, CPME and the ACCME, all speakers and planners for CME activities must disclose any relevant financial relationships with
commercial interests whose products, devices or services may be discussed in the content of a CME activity, that might be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest. Any discussion of investigational or unlabeled uses of a product will be identified.
Symposium
Department: Medicine
Specialty: Internal Medicine
Subspecialty: Cardiovascular Disease
CME Credit Hours: 3.0
Event Sponsors:
NYPQ CME
Doctor Fee: 50.00
Nurse Fee: 25.00
Other Attendee Fee: 25.00
Registration Required:
Registration Deadline: Sat, Apr 5th, 2025
