Pulmonary Heart Disease and Remodeling

Moderators:

• Bradley A. Maron, MD, Associate Physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital
  Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Dr. Eileen Harder, MD, is a internal medicine specialist in Boston, MA. She currently practices at Brigham & Womens Hosp Emergency

How Does Pulmonary Disease Drive Pulmonary Vascular and Myocardial Remodeling? – Paul Hassoun, MD, Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University; Director, Pulmonary Hypertension, Program Johns Hopkins Hospital

How Does Left Heart Disease Drive Pulmonary Vascular and Right Ventricular Remodeling? – Stephan Rosenkranz, MD, Professor, University of Cologne; Doctor, University of Cologne Heart Center

How Does Congenital Heart Disease Drive Pulmonary Vascular Remodeling? – Mary Mullen, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Associate in Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital

Right Heart Disease in the Absence of Pulmonary or Left Heart Disease – Michael Givertz, MD, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Molecular Phenotyping of the Right Heart System: Is the Fog Starting to Clear? – Jane Leopold, MD, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director
Women’s Interventional Cardiology Health Initiative, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Panel Discussion

Interventional Approaches to the Failing Right Heart

ECMO as a Bridge – Paul M. Heerdt, MD, PhD, Professor of Anesthesiology & Director of Applied Hemodynamics, Yale New Haven Hospital and Yale School of Medicine

Chromic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension: Surgical, Medical, and Interventional Options for Treatment – Piotr Sobieszczyk, MD, Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Percutaneous Approaches to RV Support Now and in the Future – Steven P. Keller, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

Panel Discussion

By the end of the session the participant will be able to:

• Discuss the importance of RV and pulmonary arterial coupling and its role in RV function and RV failure
• Evaluate the current data regarding myocardial metabolism and RV function
• Describe RV adaptation and maladaptation in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and the effectiveness and adequacy of current therapies used in management of PAH
• Given a patient case, formulate a management approach that takes into account RV structure, function, and maladaptation

ACCME Activity #202288293

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through ScientiaCME. ScientiaCME is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation: ScientiaCME designates this educational activity for a maximum of 3.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

ABIM MOC Recognition Statement: Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 3.75 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

ABIM MOC Credit Type: Medical Knowledge

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• Moderator: Bradley A. Maron, MD: Steering Committee Member – Actelion; Investigator –Sponsored Research, Deerfield Corporation
• Paul Hassoun, MD: Paid Consultant – MS&D
• Paul M. Heerdt, MD, PhD: Paid consultant – Philips, BaudaxBio, Baxter
• Steven Keller, MD: Paid Consultant – Abiomed, Inc., X-COR Therapeutics, Inc., CBSET, Inc.; Advisor – Paragonix Technologies
• Jane A Leopold, MD: Research Funding – Aria CV, Astellas, Inc.; Consultant –Abbott Vascular; Speaker – United Therapeutics
• Stephan Rosenkranz, MD: Paid Consultant – Abbott, Acceleron, Actelion, Bayer, Janssen, MSD, Novartis, United Therapeutics, Vifor; Research Grants – Actelion, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Novartis, Janssen; Speaker – Actelion, Bayer, BMS, Ferrer, Janssen, MSD, Novartis, Pfizer, United Therapeutics, Vifor

Individuals with no conflicts of interest to disclose:

• Content reviewer: Charles J Turck, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP, President, ScientiaCME
• Moderator: Eileen Harder, MD
• Michael Givertz, MD
• Mary P. Mullen, MD, PhD
• Piotr Sobieszczyk, MD

• Read the learning objectives above
• Take the Pre-Test (optional). Completion of the pre-test will help us evaluate the knowedge gained by participating in this CME activity.
• View the online activity. You may view this is in more than one session, and may pause or repeat any portion of the presentation if you need to.
• Minimum participation threshold: Take the post-test. A score of 70% or higher is required to pass and proceed to the activity evaluation.
• Complete the activity evaluation and CME registration. A CE certificate will be emailed to you immediately.

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