Third Annual Cardiovascular Symposium - Catholic Health System

Third Annual Catholic Health
Cardiovascular Symposium
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Center for the Arts
University at Buffalo
1103 Center for the Arts
Buffalo, NY 14260
Postmark registration due by September 9, 2011.
Third Annual
Cardiovascular
Symposium
Saturday, September 17, 2011
7:30 am to 3:00 pm
(Check-in starts at 6:45 am)
Center for the Arts
University at Buffalo
To register, detach this registration form, complete the
required information on the other side and return this form
with your $25 payment in the postage-paid envelope provided.
This fee is refundable up to two weeks before the symposium;
non-refundable after that date.
Missed the registration deadline?
Call 716-828-2748 to see if seating is still available.
DON’T DELAY! Limited seating.
Postmark registration due by SEPTEMBER 9, 2011.

Third Annual Cardiovascular Symposium
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Center for the Arts l University at Buffalo
1103 Center for the Arts, Buffalo, NY 14260
This program is limited to 300 people and is open to physicians, mid-level practitioners/
allied health professionals, medical students and fellows, as well as critical care nurses
and managers involved in the care of cardiovascular patients. Registration begins at
6:45 am. The program runs from 7:30 am to 3:00 pm. Lunch will be served.
Postmark registration due by September 9, 2011.
Detach the registration form (far right panel) and return with your $25 payment in the
postage-paid envelope provided. This fee is refundable up to two weeks before the
symposium; non-refundable after that date. Missed the registration deadline? Call
716-828-2748 to see if seating is still available.
CME Accreditation
This program has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas
and Policies of the Accreditation Council for CME (ACCME) through joint sponsorship
with the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the
Mercy Hospital Heart Center.
The University at Buffalo is accredited by the ACCME to sponsor CME for physicians.
The UB School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences designates this educational activity for
a maximum of 6 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM . Physicians should only claim credit
commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Educational Objectives
By the end of this activity participants will be able to:
1. Identify patients at risk for CHF in primary care practices, appreciate the subtlety in CHF patient
presentations, initiate an appropriate CHF patient work-up and therapy, and understand the role of
CHF specialty referrals
2. Describe the association of sleep disorders with heart disease and CHF, and review the effects of
heart disease and CHF on sleep
3. Review device options in symptomatic HF patients, discern appropriateness of implantation in
HF patients, and explain Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT)
4. Identify kidney failure in patients with CHF, and manage CHF patients with kidney failure
5. List pros and cons of rate vs. rhythm control in Atrial Fibrillation (A-fib) patients
6. Recognize optimum cardiac medications required for diabetic patients
7. Describe the future of the Artificial Heart Program and transplantation (including VAD)
8. Update on the current status of minimally invasive coronary bypass and totally endoscopic
coronary bypass, and describe the complexity of the minimally invasive platform for valve surgery
and its use in robotic valve surgery
9. Introduce concepts and descriptions of the Affordable Care Act, formulate an idea of the Affordable
Care Act’s implications on physicians and hospital systems, illustrate an acute/post-acute approach
to Accountable Care, and evaluate a case study for Congestive Heart Failure Management within
the context of an Accountable Care Organization
Hear from the area’s leaders in cardiovascular care:
Introductions
Joseph Gelormini, MD, FACC, Medical Director,
Cardiovascular Service Line, Catholic Health
SalvATore Calandra, MD, Director, Interventional
Cardiology, Mercy Hospital of Buffalo
7:30 - 8:00 am Managing CHF in your PCMH
Aravind Herle, MD, Chief, Division of Cardiology, Mercy
Hospital of Buffalo
8:00 - 8:30 am Sleep and Heart
Alexander Gelfer, MD
8:30 - 9:00 am Role of Electrophysiology in Managing the Heart Failure Patient
iRFAn Khan, MD, Director of Electrophysiology, Mercy
Hospital of Buffalo
9:00 - 9:15 am Beverage Break
9:15 - 9:45 am Acute Cardio-Renal Syndrome
Prashnat Pendyala, MD
9:45 - 10:15 am Heart Rate Control vs. Cardioversion
Rob Wall, MD
10:15 - 10:45 am Diabetes and Heart Health
Toni Spinaris, DO
10:45 - 11:15 am Panel Discussion/Questions with Morning Presenters
11:15 - 12:30 pm Lunch Break
12:30 - 1:30 pm Keynote Address: Heart Transplants
H. Todd Massey, MD, Surgical Director, Program in Heart
Failure and Transplantation, Director, Artificial Heart Program,
and Associate Professor of Cardiac Surgery, University of
Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
1:30 - 2:15 pm Minimally Invasive Surgery - Why, When, How and the Role of
the daVinci ® Robot
John Bell-Thomson, MD, MBA, Chairman, Department of
Cardiothoracic Surgery, Mercy Hospital of Buffalo
2:15 - 3:00 pm Health Reform and Accountable Care: What Does the Future
Hold? (includes a case study for chronic disease management)
Michael Edbauer, DO, Medical Director, Catholic Medical
Partners, and Jason Jankowiak, MBA, Vice President,
Cardiovascular Service Line, Catholic Health
Registration Form - Third Annual Catholic Health
Cardiovascular Symposium
Saturday, September 17, 2011
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Detach this registration form, complete the required information and return this form
with your $25 payment in the postage-paid envelope provided. Credit card registrations
may be faxed to 716-828-3456. This fee is refundable up to two weeks before the
symposium; non-refundable after that date.
POSTmark regiSTrATiON due no later than SEPTEmBEr 9, 2011.
Missed the registration deadline? Call 716-828-2748 to see if seating is still available.
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