Exhibitor Information

Annual Meeting of the Florida Chapter ACC

Where Science Meets Patient Care

August 9 - 11, 2024 | Lake Buena Vista, FL

Activity Overview

The cardiovascular team is an intricate part of any successful CV care setting, care givers must be up to date on the latest therapies and technologies.

Target Audience

This activity is designed for an audience of physicians, nurses, pharmacists, physician assistants and nurse practitioners who treat and manage cardiovascular diseases.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of the educational activity, participants should be able to:

• Assessing how congenital heart disease impacts pregnancy.
• Defining the issues that impact women in the field of cardiology and how the issues influence the care setting.
• Evaluate recent trials and their results in order to distinguish applicability to the care setting.
• Interpret the expanding indications for TAVR, evaluating the possible outcomes.
• Assess the new therapies for treatment of HCM.
• Analyze how the changes in the cardiovascular care model will influence the care setting.
• Assess new digital devices for Afib and determine if they are appropriate.
• Recognize the emerging field of cardiogenetics and identify patient care continuums.
• Explain the overlap between cardiology and oncology and assess best practices.
• Demonstrate understanding of challenges in congenital heart disease of long-term care solutions.
• Evaluate recent trials and their results in order to distinguish applicability to the care setting.
• Evaluate research presentations in order to distinguish applicability to the care setting.
• Explain the newest advances in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
• Recognize genetic arrhythmic syndrome.

Criteria for Success

Certificates of completion will be awarded based on the participant's attendance.  A certificate of completion will be available upon completion of an online evaluation/claim credit form available at:

akhcme.com/FLACC

Please claim your credit by 8/30/2024.

If you have questions about this CE activity, please contact AKH Inc at JGoldman@akhcme.com.

CE credit provided by AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare. 

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare and the Florida Chapter, 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.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 8.25 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

Nurses

Credit being awarded: 8.25 ANCC contact hours

Pharmacists

AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare designates this continuing education activity for 8.25 contact hours.

Physician Associate

AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare has been authorized by the American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 8.25 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

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 the Florida Chapter, American College of Cardiology.  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 4.0 hour(s) of pharmacology).

Commercial Support

There is no commercial support for this activity.

Disclosures

It is the policy of AKH Inc. to ensure independence, balance, objectivity, scientific rigor, and integrity in all of its continuing education activities. The author must disclose to the participants any significant relationships with ineligible companies whose products or devices may be mentioned in the activity or with the commercial supporter of this continuing education activity. Identified conflicts of interest are mitigated by AKH prior to accreditation of the activity. AKH planners and reviewers have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.

DISCLOSURES
Name	Relationship	Commercial Interest
Luis Afonso, MD (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Mohammad Al-Ani, MD, FACC (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Carlos Alfonso, MD, FACC (activity director)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Courtney B. Allen, PA-C (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Shone Almeida, MD (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Mohammed Alomar, MD, FACC (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Amit Badiye, MD, FACC (faculty)	Speaker	Bristol Myers Squibb
Shantelle Bartra, APRN, AACC (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Cathie Biga, MSN, FACC (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Sherry-Ann Brown, MD, PhD, FACC (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Ryan Brunetti, MD (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Katelyn Bruno, PhD, FHFSA, FACC (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Daniel Burkhoff MD, PhD (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Jennifer Co-Vu, MD, FACC (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
John-Anthony Coppola, MD, FAAP (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Joshua Culberson, BS (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Geetanjali Dang, MD, MS, FACC, FASE (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Darcy Diago, MD (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Paul DiGiorgi, MD, FACS (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Craig E. Fleishman, MD, FACC, FPICS, FASE (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Shengyi Fu, MD (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Yan Gong, PhD (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Joshua Lampert, MD, FACC (faculty)	Consultant	Viz.ai
Kyla Lara-Breitinger, MD, MS (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Dae Hyun Lee, MD (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Juan Lopez-Mattei, MD, FACC (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Sri Mandava, MD (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Shant Manoushagian, MD (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Stefan Milutinovic, MD (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Raul Mitrani, MD, FACC (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Luis Molinary-Jimenez, MD (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Sophia Navajas Urioste, MD (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Julian Palomino Doza, MD, MRes, PhD (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Michelle S. Parvatiyar, PhD (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Deepak Kumar Pasupula, MBBS, MPH	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Jorge Penalver, MD, FACC (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Vuha Reddi, MD (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Diego Sadler, MD, FACC (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Joshua Saef, MD, MSc, FACC (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Rhea Sancassani, MD, FACC (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Carlos Vergara Sanchez, MD (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Monica Sanford, DNP, AG-ACNP (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Jay Schneider, MD, PhD (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Blanca Miranda Serrano, MD, CEO (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
James J. Thompson, MD (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Dhiran Verghese, MD (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Eric H. Yang, MD, FACC, FASE, FAHA (faculty)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN - VP, Healthcare Continuing Education and Operations	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Bernadette Makar, MSN, APRN-BC, NP-C (planner/reviewer)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Dorothy Duffy, RPh (planner/reviewer)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
Michele Bielarski, RN (planner/reviewer)	N/A	Nothing to disclose
AKH Inc Staff and Planners	N/A	Nothing to disclose
FL ACC Staff and Planners	N/A	Nothing to disclose
All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.

Disclosure of Unlabeled Use and Investigational Product

This educational activity may include discussion of uses of agents that are investigational and/or unapproved by the FDA. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.

Disclaimer

This course is designed solely to provide the healthcare professional with information to assist in his/her practice and professional development and is not to be considered a diagnostic tool to replace professional advice or treatment. The course serves as a general guide to the healthcare professional, and therefore, cannot be considered as giving legal, nursing, medical, or other professional advice in specific cases. AKH Inc. specifically disclaim responsibility for any adverse consequences resulting directly or indirectly from information in the course, for undetected error, or through participants misunderstanding of the content.

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