UPMC Heart Valve Symposium 2025

April 12, 2025

The UPMC Heart Valve Symposium will provide an immersive and interactive experience into one of the most rapidly advancing and exciting spaces in cardiovascular medicine and surgery—heart valve disease.  Experts from the UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute will explore the continuum of structural heart disease from diagnosis to work-up to intervention, with a focus on the lifelong management of heart valve disease.  Interactive didactic, panel discussions, and moderated broadcast of 4 live structural heart cases will provide a deep dive into the latest advancements and best-practice management strategies, including the cutting-edge of transcatheter and endovascular heart valve repair and replacement, minimally invasive and robotic-assisted valve surgery, and advanced imaging techniques.  This course will also look to what the future has in store—novel technologies, therapies, and clinical trials.  All members of the multi-disciplinary heart team, current and future, are invited to join us as we do a deep dive into heart valve disease!

Target Audience

The UPMC Heart Valve Symposium is designed for primary care and family medicine practitioners, internists, non-invasive cardiologists, interventional cardiologists, anesthesiologists, cardiac surgeons, advanced practice providers, nurses, research, administration, quality and data professionals, medical students, residents, and fellows and all other members of the heart team.

Learning Objectives

• Increase understanding of screening, diagnosis, and prognosis of aortic, mitral, and tricuspid valvular heart disease in various patient populations.

• Explore advanced modalities utilized to image the aortic, mitral, and tricuspid heart valves.

• Increase knowledge of medical therapies and transcatheter and/or surgical interventions for treatment of heart valve disease, and the risks and benefits of the      different therapeutic options.

• Enhance understanding of importance of multi-disciplinary approach to treatment of structural heart disease.

• Recognize impact of social determinants of health on structural heart disease outcomes.

• Conduct a deep dive into technical aspects of transcatheter and surgical interventions to manage aortic, mitral, and tricuspid heart valve disease.

• Explore landmark, recent and upcoming clinical trials, and their impact on the field of interventional cardiology and cardiac surgery.

• Explore complex and challenging cases in structural heart disease patients and tactics and techniques for management.

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 0.00 AAPA Category I CME
  • 0.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 0.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 0.00 Attendance
Course opens: 
11/05/2024
Course expires: 
07/31/2025
Event starts: 
04/12/2025 - 7:30am EDT
Event ends: 
04/12/2025 - 3:16pm EDT
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Herberman Conference Center at UPMC Shadyside
Pittsburgh, PA 15232
United States

Course Directors:

Ibrahim Sultan, MD
Professor and Chief, Division of Cardiac Surgery
Executive Vice Chair, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Surgical Director, UPMC Center for Heart Valve Disease
Director, UPMC Center for Thoracic Aortic Disease
UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute

 
A.J. Conrad Smith, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Associate Chief, Diversity, and Inclusion, Division of Cardiology
Medical Director, UPMC Center for Heart Valve Disease
Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, UPMC Presbyterian
UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute

  
Hemal Gada, MD, MBA
President, Heart and Vascular Institute, UPMC Central PA
Medical Director, Structural Heart Program
UPMC Central PA
UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute

This activity is approved for the following credit: AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™, ANCC, and AAPA Category 1 CME. Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Available Credit

  • 0.00 AAPA Category I CME
  • 0.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 0.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 0.00 Attendance
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