Cardiac Update

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Cardiac Update - Agenda
Friday, April 9, 2010 | Four Seasons Vancouver - Park Ballroom
Co-Chairs: Victor Huckell, and Anatoly Langer, MD

Diabetes Forum - Agenda
Saturday, April 10, 2010 | Four Seasons Vancouver - Park Ballroom
Chair: Lawrence Leiter, MD

08:20	Welcome
Management of Cardiovascular Risk in Your Office
08:30	Aspirin in Diabetes: Recommended by guidelines without support from data	Anatoly Langer, MD
08:50	Protect What Counts	Alnoor Abdulla, MD
09:10	Treatment Inertia: An educational program	Victor Huckell, MD
09:30	The Heart Failure Update:Diagnosis, management and tough decisions in your office	Andrew Ignaszewski, MD
09:50	Panel Discussion and Q & A with Audience Response System	ALL FACULTY
10:20	Break
Innovation in Risk Stratification and Management of Risk Factors
10:40	GRIP: Getting guidelines rolled into practice	Victor Huckell, MD
11:20	The Very Slow and the Very Fast: Work up of arrhythmia in your office	Graham Wong, MD
11:40	Closing the Care Gap in Cardiovascular Risk Reduction	Anatoly Langer, MD
12:00	Panel Discussion and Q & A with Audience Response System	ALL FACULTY
12:30	Lunch
New Targets in Outpatient Practice (Interactive session with Audience Response System)
13:20	Management of CVD in Your Office · BP lowering: From stroke risk to optimal therapy · Heart age and overall risk · Guidelines based management	Anatoly Langer, MD
14:10	Management of AF in Your Office · Contemporary management of AF in your office · CHADS and recommendations	Anatoly Langer, MD
15:00	Close

07:30	Registration and Delegate Breakfast
08:30	Introduction	Lawrence Leiter, MD
Treatment Recommendations on Diabetes Management
08:40	Timing and Tailoring: Tackling the challenges of type 2 diabetes in your daily practice: The need for early and aggressive management	Keith Dawson, MD
09:00	Clinical Management of T2DM: Avoiding the complications hypoglycemia	Ehud Ur, MD
09:20	Insulin in Type 2 Diabetes: Bedtime and Beyond	Maureen Clement, MD
09:40	New Canadian Dyslipidemia Guidelines: Take Home Messages	Lawrence Leiter, MD
10:00	Panel Discussion and Q & A with Audience Response System	ALL FACULTY
10:30	Nutrition Break
Challenges in Achieving Metabolic Targets
10:50	The Role of ARB's in Diabetes and Kidney Disease	Greg Bondy, MD
11:10	Multiple Risk Factor Management in Patients with Diabetes	Ehud Ur, MD
11:30	Tips and Pearls in Gestational Diabetes	Sharon Kozak, BSN, CDE
11:50	Effects of Lifestyle Modifications on T2DM: Tips for the busy office	Alissa Zentner, MD
12:10	Panel Discussion and Q & A with Audience Response System	ALL FACULTY
12:40	Lunch
Managing Diabetes in Your Office
13:30	Case-Based Discussion
	Case Presentations	Lawrence Leiter, MD
14:40	Panel Discussion and Q & A with Audience Response System	Maureen Clement, MD Ehud Ur, MD Alissa Zentner, MD
15:00	Close

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As an organization accredited to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians by the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools (CACMS), the UBC Division of Continuing Professional Development designates this educational program as meeting the accreditation criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada for up to 5.5 Mainpro-M1 credits. This program 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. This program has been reviewed and approved by UBC Division of Continuing Professional Development. Each physician should claim only those credits he/she actually spent in the activity.