Sunday, March 12, 2006
Special Topics

8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
MGMA.06 v #10
Measures to Action: Preparing Your Practice
for Pay for Performance

9:00 a.m. – Noon
MINI-COURSE #103
Hands-on Workshop for Facilitating Lifestyle Changes

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
SPECIAL SESSION #402
Late-Breaking Clinical Trials

Noon – 2:00 p.m.
SPECIAL SESSION #404
32nd Annual Symposium for Directors of Adult
Cardiology Programs

12:15 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.
SPECIAL SESSION #403
Business Meeting of the College

2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
MINI-COURSE #108
Controversies in Cardiovascular Medications:
What to Do Today With NSAIDs, HRT and Nesiritide

2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
MINI-COURSE #110
The Importance of Basic Mechanisms of
Cardiovascular Aging for Managing the Elderly Patient

2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
SPECIAL SESSION #405
Late-Breaking Clinical Trials
 

Monday, March 13, 2006
Special Topics

7:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
SPECIAL SESSION #406
Late-Breaking Clinical Trials

7:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
BROWN-BAG BREAKFAST PANEL #509
Strategies for Providing High Quality of Care to
Patients Who Have Limited Financial Resources:
The Un and Underinsured

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
SPECIAL SESSION #407
Late-Breaking Clinical Trials

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
SPECIAL SESSION #408
Young Investigators Awards Competition:
Physiology, Pharmacology and Pathology

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
SYMPOSIUM #608
The Changing Face of Medicare: Pay for
Performance and Reimbursement

11:00 a.m. – Noon
SPECIAL SESSION #409
37th Annual Louis F. Bishop Lecture

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
SPECIAL SESSION #410
Young Investigators Awards Competition:
Molecular and Cellular Cardiology

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
SYMPOSIUM #612A
Concept Cardiology

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
SYMPOSIUM #614
Joint International Symposium With National
Cardiovascular Societies: Advances in Multimodality
Cardiovascular Imaging

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
SYMPOSIUM #617
Integrative Cardiology: Evidence Based Applications
of Traditional Systems of Natural Medicine and the
Heart-Mind Connection

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
MEET THE EXPERTS #224
Opportunities for Care Team Members
Within the American College of Cardiology

12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
BROWN-BAG LUNCHTIME PANEL #309
Health Plan Hot Topics and Trends:
From the Payer’s Perspective

12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
BROWN-BAG LUNCHTIME PANEL #311
Women in Cardiology Committee

2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
SPECIAL SESSION #411
Late-Breaking Clinicals Trials

2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
SPECIAL SESSION #412
Health Policy Reform Session

2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
SPECIAL SESSION #413
Young Investigators Awards Competition: Clinical
Investigators – Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery

2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
SYMPOSIUM #628
Cardiology in the News

2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
SYMPOSIUM #629
Joint Symposium: European Society of Cardiology/
American College of Cardiology

2:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
SPECIAL SESSION #417
Fellows in Training Forum:
Career Options in Pediatric Cardiology

3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
MEET THE EXPERTS #240
Women in Cardiology: Thriving and Leading

4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
SPECIAL SESSION #414
Late-Breaking Clinical Trials

4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
SPECIAL SESSION #415
Functional Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation

4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
SYMPOSIUM #636
Sesion Conjunta con la Sociedad Interamericana
de Cardiologia/Sociedad Espanola de Cardiologia/
American College of Cardiology...Problemas
Relevantes en Cardiologia 2006

4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
SYMPOSIUM #642
Connect the Docs: Integrating the Healthcare
Enterprise (IHE) Initiative in Cardiology and Improving
Patient Care While Reducing Costs! Really!

6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
SPECIAL SESSION #416
55th Annual Convocation
 

Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Special Topics

7:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
BROWN-BAG BREAKFAST PANEL #520
Are Guidelines Guiding Us?

7:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
SYMPOSIUM #650
Where Are We With Genetic Screening?

8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
MEET THE EXPERTS #248
Writing the Publication for FIT’s, CCA’s and Young
Academic Cardiologists

8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
SPECIAL SESSION #419
5th Annual American College of Cardiology
International Lecture

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
SPECIAL SESSION #418
Late-Breaking Clinical Trials

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
SYMPOSIUM #655
What to Do When the Evidence Conflicts? From
Coronary Artery Bypass Graft, Percutaneous Coronary
Intervention, Hormone Replacement Therapy to
Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
CORE CURRICULUM #712
Cardiovascular Care During Pregnancy

10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
MEET THE EXPERTS #255
Approach to End of Life Care

11:00 a.m. – Noon
SPECIAL SESSION #420
i2 for Me, Too!: Controversies in Interventional
Cardiology

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
SPECIAL SESSION #421
Late-Breaking Clinical Trials

12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
BROWN-BAG LUNCHTIME PANEL #320
Innovative Models and Physicians and Mid-Level
Providers in Cardiology Practice

2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
SPECIAL SESSION #422
ACC.06 and i2 Summit 2006
Late-Breaking Clinical Trials

2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
SYMPOSIUM #669
Patient Centered Imaging

2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
SYMPOSIUM #673
Medical Malpractice in Cardiovascular Medicine

4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
SPECIAL SESSION #423
ACC.06 and i2 Summit 2006 Meeting Highlights