Cardiovascular Nursing Symposium General Sessions
The General Sessions of the Cardiovascular Nursing Symposium is a two-day virtual event that will cover the latest topics in cardiovascular disease prevention and management. Earn 9.25 CE contact hours, including 1.25 pharmacology when you register for this event.
This is the second event in the 2021 Cardiovascular Nursing Symposium.
Registration is available separately or together for the Pharmacology Course, General Session, and/or the Skill Building Workshop.
| THURSDAY, APRIL 8 - GENERAL SESSIONS | |
| 3.75 CE contact hours | |
| 8:00 AM CT | Welcome |
| 8:15 AM CT | Amgen, Inc. Disease State Theater Topic: Dyslipidemia |
| 9:00 AM CT | Virtual Posters Break |
| 9:15 AM CT | Opening Keynote: CVD Prevention and Management: Top 5 Trials of 2020/2021 Karol Watson, MD |
| 10:15 AM CT | COVID-19 and CVD: What have we learned? Yvonne Commodore Mensah RN, PhD |
| 11:00 AM CT | Virtual Exhibit Hall and Posters Break |
| 11:15 AM CT | Oral Poster Presentations |
| 11:45 AM CT | Telehealth and Virtual Patient Care: Best Practices Kelli Garber MSN, APRN, PPCNP-BC |
| 12:30 PM CT | Virtual Exhibit Hall and Posters Break |
| 1:00 PM CT | Esperion Therapeutics Product Theater An Approach to Managing Lipids: Oral, Nonstatin Therapies for Lowering LDL-C |
| 1:45 PM CT | Honorary Fellow Keynote: Challenge of CVD Risk Reduction in Racial and Ethnic Minorities Keith Ferdinand MD |
| 2:30 PM CT | Awards Ceremony |
| 2:45 PM CT | Virtual Exhibit Hall Open |
| FRIDAY, APRIL 9 - GENERAL SESSIONS | |
| 3.75 CE contact hours, including 1.0 pharmacology | |
| 8:00 AM CT | Welcome |
| 8:15 AM CT | The Treatment of Heart Failure in 2021; New Discoveries & New Data Time to Change the Paradigm Clyde W. Yancy, MD, MSc, MACC, FAHA MACP, HFSA |
| 9:00 AM CT | Virtual Posters Break |
| 9:15 AM CT | Managing Stable Coronary Artery Disease: Invasive vs Conservative Approach David Maron MD |
| 9:45 AM CT | Can Stenting Prevent MI in Stable CHD? William Fearon MD |
| 10:15 AM CT | Cases: Lifestyle, Medication and Intervention to Manage Stable CHD David Maron, MD and William Fearon, MD |
| 10:45 AM CT | Virtual Exhibit Hall and Posters Break |
| 11:00 PM CT | Best Practices in Stroke Prevention: Risk Factor Management or Surgery? Thomas Brott MD |
| 11:45 PM CT | Substance Abuse and Cardiovascular Disease Mariann Piano, RN, PhD |
| 12:30 PM CT | Virtual Exhibit Hall and Posters Break |
| 1:00 PM CT | Amgen, Inc. Product Theater Topics: Dyslipidemia Jan Mcalister, NP |
| 1:45 PM CT | Closing Keynote: Fearless Soul: The Call to Nursing and the Courage to Stay Elizabeth Ann Robinson, PhD, RN, CNS |
| 2:45 PM CT | Virtual Exhibit Hall Open |