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ForwardUPMC Heart Valve Symposium 2026
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 2 live structural heart cases will provide a deep dive into the latest advancements and best-practice management strategies, including the cutting-edge of transcatheter 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
Nurse
Nurse Practitioner
Physician
Physician Assistant
Learning Objectives
The UPMC Heart Valve Symposium intends to fulfill the following learning objectives:
• Increase understanding of screening, diagnosis, and treatment of aortic, mitral, and tricuspid valvular heart disease in various patient populations.
• Understand advanced modalities to image aortic, mitral, and tricuspid heart valves.
• Increase knowledge of medical therapies and transcatheter and/or surgical interventions for treatment of valvular heart disease, and the risks and benefits of the different therapeutic options.
• Enhance understanding of importance of the multi-disciplinary heart team 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 heart valve disease
• Explore complex and challenging cases in structural heart disease patients and tactics and techniques for management.
In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh 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.
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.
Successful completion of this CME activity enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME requirements of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.
Successful completion of this CME activity enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME requirements of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery’s Maintenance of Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABTS credit.