The 5th Annual Dartmouth Conference on Advances in Heart Failure
Monday, May 18, 2009
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Dear Colleagues:
Heart Failure is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in adults affecting five million patients in the United States. Evidence based therapies have been shown to improve clinical outcomes. 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 these patients.
We would like to invite you to attend our 5th Annual Dartmouth Conference on Heart Failure: “Heart Failure- From Prevention to Intervention” to be held at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, on Monday, May 18, 2009. This year we have distinguished physician and nursing faculty who will focus on pathophysiology, prevention, heart failure with valvular heart disease, and special topics in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and cancer-related heart disease. There will be ample time for discussion and collaboration. Break out work sessions have been designed to focus on the more practical aspects of heart failure management for physicians and nurses.
It is important for providers to understand not only timely diagnosis and evidence based therapy, but also the need to partner with all members of the health care team in order to provide optimal care. The complexity of heart failure diagnosis and management makes it a perfect prototypical chronic disease for a collaborative multidisciplinary approach.
This program should be of interest to cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, internists/hospitalists, family practice and emergency room physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses and other health care providers interested in the care of heart failure patients.
We accept registration on-line at http://ccehs1.dartmouth-hitchcock.org, or by mail/fax. As in previous courses, we encourage you to register early as there is limited seating and enrollment.
Alan Kono, MD, FACC
Virginia Beggs, ARNP
Co-Course Directors
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:
VIRGINIA BEGGS, ARNP, MSc (Co-Course Director) - Nurse Practitioner, Advanced
Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy Program, Section of Cardiology*
PETER C. BLOCK, MD, FACC - Professor of Internal Medicine, Emory University School
of Medicine, Atlanta, GA; Director, Clinical Trials Office and Director, Interventional
Research, Andreas Gruentzig Research Center, Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA
SUSAN P. D’ANNA, ARNP - Nurse Practitioner, Electophysiology, Section of
Cardiology*
ANECITA FADOL, PhD, RN, FNP - Department of Cardiology, M.D. Anderson Cancer
Center, Houston, TX
MICHELE GILBERT RN, MSN, APN, C, CCRN, CNN - Education Coordinator, Heart
Failure and Pulmonary Hypertension Program, Hackensack University Medical
Center, Hackensack, NJ
MICHAEL M. GIVERTZ, MD - Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical
School, Cambridge, MA; Medical Director, Heart Transplant and Circulatory Assist
Program, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
MARK L. GREENBERG, MD - Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine^;
Director, Clinical Electrophysiology and Pacing and Director, Clinical Cardiac
Electrophysiology Training Program, Section of Cardiology*
JOHN E. JAYNE, MD - Assistant Professor of Medicine^; Director, Interventional
Fellowship Program*
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 (Co-Course Director) - Assistant Professor of Medicine
(Section of Cardiology)^; Director, Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy
Program and Director, Cardiovascular Critical Care Unit*
DANIEL J. LENIHAN, MD - Professor of Cardiology, University of Texas, Houston, TX;
Director of Clinical Research and Associate Director, Heart and Lung Center, M.D.
Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
DANIEL LEVY, MD - Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School,
Cambridge, MA; Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,
Boston, MA
MARTIN MARON, MD - Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of
Medicine, Boston, MA; Director, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center and Co-
Director, Cardiac MRI and CT Division of Cardiology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA
PATRICK M. MCCARTHY, MD - Heller-Sacks Professor of Surgery, Northwestern
University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago IL; Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic
Surgery and Co-Director, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, Northwestern Memorial
Hospital, Chicaco, IL
PATRICK T. O’GARA, MD - Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School,
Cambridge, MA; Vice Chairman, Clinical Affairs, Department of Medicine, Brigham
and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
*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.
