REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED FOR THIS SATURDAY'S CONFERENCE
2024 ALACC Winter Conference
Saturday, January 20, 2024
Grand Bohemian Hotel - Birmingham, Alabama
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AGENDA
6:30 - 7:30 a.m. Registration, Strolling Breakfast in Exhibit Hall
7:30 - 7:35 a.m. Welcome with Education Co-Chairs Hussein Abu Daya, MD and Harish Doppalapudi, MBBS, FACC
7:35 - 8:20 a.m. Health Equity in Cardiovascular Medicine with Paul Douglass, MD, MACC, FSCAI - Wellstar Health System Board of Trustees, Executive Committee; Wellstar Medical Group, Center for Cardiovascular Care; Clinical Assistant Professor (Cardiology), Morehouse School of Medicine; Deputy Editor, Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Advances; Chair, American College of Cardiology Health Equity Task Force
8:20 - 9:15 a.m. American College of Cardiology Sports and Exercise Cardiology Section Lecture: Sudden Cardiac Death and the Athletic Heart with Samir Saba, MD, FACC, FHRS - Professor of Medicine; Chief, Division of Cardiology; Co-Director, UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute; Harry S. Tack Chair, School of Medicine; Professor in Clinical and Translational Science - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
9:15 - 10:00 a.m. Culinary Medicine: An Essential Ingredient to Improving Patient Outcomes with Jennifer Clem, MD - Associate Professor, Department of Family, Internal and Rural Medicine, College of Community Health Sciences, The University of Alabama
10:00 - 10:15 a.m. Break: Exhibit Hall
10:15 – 12:15 p.m. Heart Failure Management Panel
10:15 -10:45 a.m. Heart Failure in 2023 with Kenneth Burnham, MD - Cardiovascular Associates, Mobile, AL
10:45 - 11:15 a.m. Multidisciplinary Approach To HF Management –Jennifer Sasser, DNP, CRNP, ACNP-BC, CHFN - University of Alabama at Birmingham
11:15 - 11:45 a.m. HF Medications: A Pharmacology Perspective with Mary Martin McGill, PharmD, BCCP - Birmingham VA Healthcare System
11:45 - 12:15 p.m. Discussion
12:15 - 1:00 p.m. Lunch Program: The Ami Iskandrian Young Investigator Abstract Poster Competition
Women in Cardiology (WIC) Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Fellows in Training Jeopardy Competition with Christopher Malozzi, DO and Riem Hawi, MD
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Aortic Disease Management - Moderated by Hussein Abu Daya, MD - University of Alabama at Birmingham
2:00 - 2:30 p.m. Aortic Aneurysm Update and Future Considerations – Kyle Eudailey, MD - University of Alabama at Birmingham
2:30 - 3:00 p.m. Aortic Dissection: Evaluation, Management, and the Cardiologist– Sasha Still, MD - University of Alabama at Birmingham
3:00 - 3:30 p.m. Complex Aortic Surgery Cases - James Davies, MD - UAB Cardiovascular Institute
3:30 - 3:45 p.m. Discussion
3:45 – 4:00 p.m. Break: Exhibit Hall
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Challenging ECGs - Audience Participation Session with Harish Doppalapudi, MBBS, FACC - University of Alabama at Birmingham
Accreditation
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare and Alabama Chapter of the American College of Cardiology. AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Physicians: AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare designates this live activity for a maximum of 8.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nurses: Credit being awarded: 8.25 ANCC contact hours
Nurse Practitioners: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Accreditation Standards of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) through the joint providership of AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare and AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is accredited by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners as an approved provider of nurse practitioner continuing education. Provider number: 030803. This activity is approved for 8.25 contact hour(s) (which includes 4.5 hour(s) of pharmacology).
