ACC.09 and i2 Summit 2009 offer Fellows in Training unparalleled educational and career opportunities. You’ll have the opportunity to see more, do more and learn more with the most innovative information in the world of clinical cardiology!

Come to Orlando and learn from the best clinicians in the world. Choose from a wide array of educational sessions, guided only by your personal interests and plans for the future. Not only is there programming tailored just for FITs — two Fellows Bootcamps, the FIT Forum and career planning sessions for FITs, just to name a few — there is a wide range of Spotlight sessions, symposia, Meet the Experts sessions, lunchtime case reviews, abstract presentations and poster sessions — all with programming of interest to FITs.

Ground your learning in the fundamentals, then explore the latest in diagnosis and therapy. You’ll find breaking news on scientific advances and new technology, as well as practical approaches to common clinical problems. Listen to debates on the controversies of the day, then cast your vote for the winner. Put your iPod to work sharpening your skills in cardiac auscultation. Try new procedures using hands-on simulated learning techniques.

ACC.09 and i2 Summit focus on you and your professional development. Expand your personal network by getting to know fellow FITs from across the country. Share your experiences with your peers and gain new perspective on all the opportunities cardiology has to offer. Tailor each day to your individual needs. Concentrate on one career path or sample from an unprecedented array of educational and networking opportunities. Either way, you will come away with new skills and new insight into your future.

Throughout ACC.09 and i2 Summit, the focus is on knowledge, breakthroughs and outcomes — and you can have it all! All cardiology, all in one place!

ACC.09 Fellows Imaging Bootcamp
Tuesday, March 31
8:30 a.m. – 1:15 p.m.

Detection of Coronary Artery Disease

• Cardiac CT and CAD
• Nuclear perfusion imaging to detect CAD
• Exercise and dobutamine echo in the assessment of CAD
• Evaluation of asymptomatic CAD: Coronary calcium and intimal medial thickening

Assessment of Left Ventricular Function

• 2D and 3D echo
• Cardiac MR and CT for the assessment of both LV and RV function
• Gated SPECT/PET for the assessment of LV function
• Cardiac CT and MR for the assessment of diseases of the aorta

Assessment of Myocardial Viability

• Dobutamine stress and nuclear techniques: Thallium 201 and PET
• Cardiac MR and myocardial viability
• Future applications of imaging in cardiovascular diseases

ACC.09 Symposia, Meet the Experts, Lunch with the Experts and more
Enjoy educational sessions from our learning pathways that take your clinical skills to the next level.

Cardiac Arrhythmia

• Stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation: Is left atrial appendage closure a feasible alternative to anticoagulation?
• Update in cardiac resynchronization therapy
• Managing arrhythmias in the ICU: What general cardiologists need to know
• Management of VT/VF storm
• Advanced ECG interpretation
• EP 2009 Spotlight
• Atrial fibrillation ablation: Who are the candidates? What can we expect of outcomes and complications? The future of AF therapy — drugs vs. ablation

 Cardiac Function and Heart failure

• How to manage right ventricular failure
• Update on diastolic heart failure
• Acute cardiogenic shock: Which drugs, which devices?
• ClinCard 2009 Spotlight
• Heart failure: Diuretic and vasodilator therapy — best practices
• Heart failure: Ultrafiltration, inotropes, invasive monitoring

 Congenital Cardiology Solutions

• Adult congenital heart disease for the general cardiology community
• Advances in cardiopulmonary support
• CCS.09 Spotlight
• Hypoplastic left heart syndrome: Fetal interventions, hybrid palliation

 General Cardiology: Hypertension, Prevention and Lipids

• Is stenting the preferred treatment for renal arterial disease in hypertension?
• Preoperative cardiac evaluation: What is cardiac clearance and why is the term still used?
• How do different forms of anesthesia play a role in pre-op evaluation?
• Does every adult pre-op patient need an imaging study?
• Does revascularization really prevent perioperative cardiac events?
• The risk behind left ventricular hypertrophy
• VHP 2009 Spotlight
• Great debates in prevention: Statins and the source of their benefit, maximizing statin therapy, combination therapy, strategies to raise HDL

 Imaging and Diagnostic Testing

• Cost-effective approaches to cardiovascular imaging
• Advances in CT, SPECT, PET, echo and MRI
• Is there a role for imaging in the risk assessment of asymptomatic individuals?
• Integrated Imaging 2009 Spotlight
• Case studies: Nonobstructive high-risk plaque, 3D stress echo, ischemic chest pain in the ER, at-risk and infarcted myocardium, myocardial salvage post-PCI, no-reperfusion post-PCI, and in-stent restenosis

 Myocardial Ischemia and Infarction

• Managing multivessel coronary artery disease: So many choices
• Management of STEMI complications
• Antithrombin therapy for NSTE ACS: Deciphering the guidelines
• ClinCard 2009 Spotlight
• STEMI with cardiogenic shock: Risk factors, time course, differential diagnosis, treatment, intra-aortic balloon pump, PVADs

Quality of Care and Outcomes Assessment

• The quality of PCI: Are we measuring the right things?
• Controversies in heart failure quality of care

Valvular Heart Disease

• Atrial fibrillation and valvular heart disease
• Timing of valve intervention

Vascular Disease

• Noninvasive imaging for diagnosis and surveillance of the thoracic aorta
• Abdominal aortic aneurysm: Stent vs. surgery
• MR angiography vs. CT angiography vs. duplex ultrasound in the periphery: Which is best and when?
• Cell therapy for peripheral arterial disease: Status update

Cardiology Core Curriculum

This intensive program features an all-star line-up of speakers and a comprehensive review of the fundamentals of all major areas of cardiology, including:

• Cardiac Catheterization: Focus on hemodynamics
• Echocardiography: Indications, evaluation of LV function, valvular disease, plus Read with the Experts
• Nuclear Cardiology: Indications, protocols, viability studies, plus Read with the Experts
• General Cardiology: Preoperative risk stratification, stress testing, interventional cardiology for non-interventionalists, preventive cardiology, stable angina, ACS, medical therapy vs. PCI, valvular heart disease, peripheral vascular disease, including carotid and cerebrovascular disease
• Congenital Heart Disease: Simple and complex
• Heart Failure: Guidelines management of systolic and diastolic heart failure, end-stage disease, pulmonary hypertension
• Electrophysiology: Atrial fibrillation and SVTs, sudden cardiac death, device therapy

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