Cardiac Update Agenda The Westin Prince Toronto Hotel | Saturday, November 15th, 2008
07:30
Registration and Delegate Breakfast
08:20
Welcome
Anatoly Langer, MD
08:30
Management of Cardiovascular Risk in Your Office
Managing Risk Factors to Prevent CHF, CVA and Mortality
Subodh Verma, MD
08:50
RAAS as a Target for CV Protection: ACE vs ARB
Milan Gupta, MD
09:10
AF, CVA, CHF, Post MI: Coumadin, ASA, clopidogrel or combination?
Anatoly Langer, MD
09:30
Multiple Organs, Multiple Risks: Understanding microvascular disease in diabetes
Sheldon Tobe, MD
09:50
Panel Discussion and Q & A
All Faculty
10:20
Break
10:40
Global Risk Management Navigating Through the Evidence Base Minefield:
The challenges of knowledge translation in a world of rapid scientific discovery!
Peter Lin, MD
11:05
Smoking Cessation in the 21st Century
Andrew McIvor, MD
11:25
The Optimal Duration of Treatment for Antiplatelet Therapy: One year or indefinitely?
Milan Gupta, MD
11:45
Q & A and Panel Discussion
ALL FACULTY
12:25
LUNCH
13:20
New Targets in Outpatient Practice
The Need for Combination Therapy in High-Risk Dyslipidemia Management
David Fitchett, MD
13:40
Innovations in Hypertension Management
Anil Gupta, MD
14:00
The Future of Inflammatory
Biomarkers in Cardiovascular Disease Management
Subodh Verma,
MD
14:20
Optimizing Cardio Protection in High Risk Patients
Milan Gupta, MD
14:40
Hypertension and Diabetes: The dangerous duo
David Fitchett, MD
14:55
Panel Discussion and Q & A
ALL FACULTY
15:00
Close
This program meets the accreditation criteria of The College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been accredited for up to 5.5 Mainpro-M1 credits. This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, approved by the University of Toronto (5.5 Section 1 credits).