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UBC CPD: 19th Hot Topics in Cardiology
February 11, 2023 @ 8:30 am - 6:00 pm
$49 – $139
The 19th Hot Topics in Cardiology Virtual Conference, hosted by the UBC Division of Cardiology, brings together experts in the field to provide updates and review cardiology topics of interest to the busy practitioner. Topics include imaging for stable chest pain, prescribing exercise for cardiac patients, environmental cardiology, women’s heart health, pregnancy and cardiac disease plus more!
AGENDA
8:30 Welcome & Opening Remarks | Dr. Krish Ramanathan
8:40 Heart Failure Overview | Dr. Margot Davis
9:15 Move to breakouts
9:20 A) How to Achieve GDMT in HFpEF | Dr. Simone Cowan & Dr. Elizabeth Swiggum OR B) When Should We Consider Palliation? Dr. Michael Slawnych
9:40 Move to next plenary
9:45 Paradigm Shift in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy | Dr. Kevin Ong
10:05 Session Summary | Dr. Walter Chow
10:10 Refreshment Break & Exhibits
10:20 Understanding AF | Dr. Jason Andrade
10:55 Move to breakouts
11:00 A) Understanding Ablation: The Who & the How Dr. Shanta Chakrabarti OR B) Review of ECGs / Holters Dr. Zachary Laksmann
11:20 Move to next plenary
11:25 Left Atrial Appendage Closure | Dr. Jacqueline Saw
11:45 Session Summary | Speaker TBC
11:50 Lunch Break & Exhibits
12:35 Approaches to Stabilized CAD: 5 New Concepts in the Last 5 Years |Dr. Thomas Roston
12:55 Indigenous Health | Harmony Johnson
1:15 Planetary Health | Dr. Matthew Bennett
1:35 New Frontiers in Valvular Heart Disease | Dr. John Webb
1:55 Session Summary | Dr. Daniel Ngui
2:05 Refreshment Break & Exhibits
2:15 Top 5 Trials in CV Medicine | Dr. Ken Gin
2:40 Medication Affordability: Struggles & Solutions | Kimi Minhas & Dr. Lynn Straatman
3:05 Optimal Management of the PAD Patient | Dr. Darryl Wan
3:30 Children Are Not Small Adults! A Pediatric Cardiologist’s Perspective | Dr. Shubhayan Sanatani
3:55 Refreshment Break & Exhibits
4:05 Geriatric Cardiology | Dr. Rudy Chow
4:25 Outpatient Management of COVID-19 | Dr. Krish Ramanathan
4:45 Lp(a): What You Need to Know in 2023 | Dr. Liam Brunham
5:05 Management of Pulmonary Hypertension | Dr. Nathan Brunner
5:25 Now for Something Completely Different…CMPA | Dr. Victor F. Huckell
5:45 Closing Remarks | Dr Krish Ramanathan
Target Audience: family physicians, internists, cardiologists, nurse practitioners, nurses, residents & students.
Up to 7.5 Mainpro+/MOC Section 1 credits
More information: https://ubccpd.ca | cpd.info@ubc.ca.