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    • 20 Jan 2024
    • Grand Bohemian Hotel, Birmingham, AL
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    2024 ALACC Winter Conference

    Saturday, January 20, 2024

    Grand Bohemian Hotel - Birmingham, Alabama

    Click here to reserve a hotel room at the discounted conference rate.

    AGENDA

    6:30 - 7:30 a.m.  Registration, Strolling Breakfast in Exhibit Hall

    7:30 - 7:35 a.m.  Welcome with Education Co-Chairs Hussein Abu Daya, MD and Harish Doppalapudi, MBBS, FACC

    7:35 - 8:20 a.m.  Health Equity in Cardiovascular Medicine with Paul Douglass, MD, MACC, FSCAI -  Wellstar Health System Board of Trustees, Executive Committee;  Wellstar Medical Group, Center for Cardiovascular Care; Clinical Assistant Professor (Cardiology), Morehouse School of Medicine; Deputy Editor, Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Advances; Chair, American College of Cardiology Health Equity Task Force

    8:20 - 9:15 a.m.  American College of Cardiology Sports and Exercise Cardiology Section Lecture: Sudden Cardiac Death and Athletic Heart with Samir Saba, MD, FACC, FHRS -  Professor of Medicine;  Chief, Division of Cardiology;  Co-Director, UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute;  Harry S. Tack Chair, School of Medicine;  Professor in Clinical and Translational Science - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

    9:15 - 10:00 a.m.  Culinary Medicine: An Essential Ingredient to Improving Patient Outcomes with Jennifer Clem, MD - Associate Professor, Department of Family, Internal and Rural Medicine, College of Community Health Sciences, The University of Alabama

    10:00 - 10:15 a.m.  Break: Exhibit Hall

    10:15 – 12:15 p.m.  Heart Failure Management Panel

    10:15 -10:45 a.m.   Heart Failure in 2023 with Kenneth Burnham, MD - Cardiovascular Associates, Mobile, AL

    10:45 - 11:15 a.m.  Multidisciplinary Approach To HF Management –Jennifer Sasser, DNP, CRNP, ACNP-BC, CHFN - University of Alabama at Birmingham

    11:15 - 11:45 a.m.  HF Medications: A Pharmacology Perspective with Mary Martin McGill, PharmD, BCCP - Birmingham VA Healthcare System

    11:45 - 12:15 p.m.  Discussion

    12:15 - 1:00 p.m.  Lunch Program: The Ami Iskandrian Young Investigator Abstract Poster Competition

    Women in Cardiology (WIC) Lunch

    1:00 – 2:00 p.m.  

    Fellows in Training Jeopardy Competition with Jeopardy with Christopher Malozzi, DO and Riem Hawi, MD

    2:00 – 4:00 p.m. 

    Aortic Disease Management - Moderated by Hussein Abu Daya, MD - University of Alabama at Birmingham

    2:00 - 2:30 p.m.  Aortic Aneurysm – Kyle Eudailey, MD - University of Alabama at Birmingham

    2:30 - 3:00 p.m. Aortic Dissection – Sasha Still, MD - University of Alabama at Birmingham

    3:00 - 3:30 p.m.  Complex Aortic Cases - James Davies, MD - UAB Cardiovascular Institute

    4:00 – 4:05 p.m. Break: Exhibit Hall

    4:05 – 5:05 p.m. 

    Challenging ECGs - Audience Participation Session with Harish Doppalapudi, MBBS, FACC - University of Alabama at Birmingham


    Accreditation

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

    Nurses: Credit being awarded: 8.25 ANCC contact hours

    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 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 4.5 hour(s) of pharmacology).


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    • Atlanta, GA


    • 31 May 2024
    • 2 Jun 2024
    • The Lodge at Gulf State Park, Gulf Shores, AL


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    2024 ALACC Annual Meeting: 

    May 31 - June 2, 2024 

    The Lodge at Gulf State Park, Gulf Shores, Alabama



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