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Monday, May 19, 2008
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Heart Failure continues to be a major cause of morbidity and mortality in adults: it affects five million patients every year in the United States. Evidence based therapies have been shown to improve clinical outcomes and there is a critical need for physicians and nurses to understand both standard and emerging therapies as well as develop strategies of care delivery to help better manage this complex disease.
Our 4th Annual Dartmouth Conference on Heart Failure: “Exploring New Frontiers in Treatment and Management” was held at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH on Monday, May 19, 2008. This year we had distinguished physician and nursing faculty who focused on new and emerging therapies in the treatment and management of heart failure. A range of topics was covered, including a review of our understanding of heart failure pathophysiology, diastolic heart failure diagnosis and management, optimizing the care of the patient and the use of devices, and the growing fields of cell and gene therapy,mechanical support devices, and pharmacogenomics. There was ample time for discussion. Break-out work sessions were designed to focus on the more practical aspects of heart failure management for physicians and nurses.
It is important for physicians to understand not only pathophysiology and evidence based therapy, but also the need to partner with non-physician health care providers to help deliver effective care. The complexity of heart failure diagnosis and management makes it a perfect prototypical chronic disease for a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach.
The multidisciplinary program was useful to interest to cardiologists, internists,
hospitalists, emergency room physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and
nurses involved in the care of heart failure patients.
Alan Kono, MD, FACC
Course Director
More Information about the Symposium:
Target audience: cardiologists, internists, family practitioners, advance practice nurses, and nurses interested in the treatment of heart failure
Topics:
See On-line brochure to view detailed topics at the conference
Faculty:
NANCY ALBERT, PhD, CCNS, CCRN, CNA - Director, Nursing Research and Innovation
and CNS, Kaufman Center for Heart Failure, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
TIMOTHY BEAVER, MD - Associate Professor of Medicine, Section of Cardiology^
VIRGINIA BEGGS, ARNP, MSc - Nurse Practitioner, Advanced Heart Failure
and Cardiomyopathy Program, Section of Cardiology*
JOHN V. CONTE, MD - Associate Director, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Director,
Heart and Lung Transplantation, and Associate Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins
Hospital, Baltimore, MD
JOAN DOODY, ARNP, MS - Nurse Practitioner, Heart Failure and Transplant Program,
Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
SHERRY DUVENECK, RN, BSN, CMC - Continuing Care Manager for Heart
Failure & Pulmonary Hypertension, Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic*
ETHAN FRUECHTE, MD - Fellow-in-Training, Section of Cardiology*
ROGER J. HAJJAR, MD - Professor of Medicine/Cardiology and Gene and Cell
Medicine; Director of the Cardiovascular Research Center, The Zena and Michael A.
Wiener Cardiovascular Institute and The Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Center for
Cardiovascular Health, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY
PETER HOLZBERGER, MD - Associate Professor of Medicine (Section of Cardiology)^
KATHRYN KAMINSKI, RN, MS, CCM - Continuing Care Manager, Heart Failure and
Pulmonary Hypertension*
ARNOLD M. KATZ, MD - Professor of Medicine Emeritus, University of Connecticut
School of Medicine, Storrs, CT; Visiting Professor of Medicine and Physiology^
ALAN KONO, MD, FACC (Course Director) - Assistant Professor of Medicine (Section
of Cardiology)^; Director, Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy Program*
LIONEL D. LEWIS, MA, MB BCh, MD, FRCP - Professor of Medicine (Section of
Cardiology) and Pharmacology and Toxicology^
WILLIAM C. LITTLE, MD - Chief, Cardiology Section, McMichael Professor and Vice-
Chair, Department of Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-
Salem, NC
DOUGLAS MANN, MD, FACC, FACP - Chief, Section of Cardiology and Professor
of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine; Director, Winters Center for Heart Failure
Research, Baylor Heart Institute, Houston, TX
MASAHIRO MURAKAMI, MD, PhD - Instructor of Medicine (Section of Cardiology)
and Research Associate in Medicine^
DANIEL O’ROURKE, MD - Assistant Professor of Medicine*
ANTHONY ROSENZWEIG, MD - Director, Cardiovascular Research; Associate Chief of
Cardiology, Division of Cardiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard
Medical School, Cambridge, MA
MARC JAY SEMIGRAN, MD - Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical
School, Cambridge, MA; Director, Cardiac Transplant/Heart Failure Program,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
NICHOLAS W. SHWORAK, MD, PhD - Associate Professor of Medicine and Director,
Ultrasound Biomicroscopy Core^; Angiogenesis Research Center; Section of
Cardiology, Department of Medicine*
MICHAEL SIMONS, MD - Professor of Medicine (Section of Cardiology) and
Pharmacology and Toxicology^; Section Chief, Cardiology*
MARGARET SULLIVAN, ARNP, MSN - Nurse Practitioner, Cardiomyopathy and Heart
Failure Clinic*
DANIELA CALIOPIA TIRZIU, PhD – Instructor in Medicine^; Angiogenesis Research
Center*
ROBIN J. TRUPP, PhD(c), MSN, ACNP, BC, CCRN, CCRC, FAHA - PhD Candidate
in Nursing, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; President of The American
Association of Heart Failure Nurses
Kc WRIGHT, MS, RD, LD - Clinical Dietician, Cardiology Clinic, Advanced Heart Failure
and Cardiomyopathy Program*
*Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
^Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH
View the Symposium Brochure On-line
View Symposium Lectures On-Line
For more information or to enroll, please contact Maybe Potter at 603-653-1524 in the Center for Continuing Education in the the Health Sciences. To learn more about the heart failure program at DHMC, visit the DHMC Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy Program page.
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