American College of Cardiovascular Virtual Summit – Feb 17-19, 2022

Conference features three days of plenary sessions, mini-intensives, workshops and access to on-demand content

American College of Cardiology’s Cardiovascular Summit Virtual (CV Summit) will feature three days of live content on Feb. 17-19, 2022, providing opportunities for the entire CV team to learn from multi-dimensional education courses on CV management and leadership strategies.

Course director Bo Walpole, MD, FACC, and course co-directors Cathleen Biga, MSN, RN, FACC, and Geoffrey Rose, MD, FACC, have designed CV Summit for members of all practices—private, integrated and academic—to discover innovative approaches to patient care and clinician experience in the areas of: managing rapid change, transforming cardiovascular care, optimizing the clinician experience, navigating health care economics and enhancing the academic agenda. Participants will learn to employ leadership strategies that foster collaboration, teamwork, diversity and inclusivity, along with best practices to sustain workforce well-being, key elements of a value-based practice environment and much more.

Participants will also be able to join Biga and select faculty for a pre-conference workshop on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 6:30-8:00 p.m. ET to discuss “Building Your Foundation for the Cardiovascular Summit.”

Live Sessions Include:

  • How to Fix Healthcare
  • Planning for the Inevitable: Workforce and Patient Access Challenges
  • Culture Change: Professionalism, Anti-Bullying, and Harassment – What Do You Do at Your Institution to Approach These Challenges?
  • Health Care Systems, Employed Cardiovascular Physicians, and Independent Practices: Challenges and Opportunities

Posters

The following abstracts are a selection of the posters being presented. All ACC Cardiovascular Summit abstracts are embargoed until Monday, Feb. 14, 2022, at 9 a.m. ET.

  • Improving Blood Pressure Management Through Blood Pressure Recheck Compliance
  • Reducing Patient Blood Pressure Using the Hypertension Bootcamp Approach with Remote Patient Monitoring
  • Enhanced External Counterpulsation Improves Outcomes in Patients with Long COVID
  • Association Between Erectile Dysfunction, Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Coronary Artery Disease: Role of Exercise Stress Testing and International Index of Erectile Function Questionnaire
  • Improving Emergency Medical Services First Medical Contact to Primary Coronary Intervention Time

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