American College of Cardiology

3rd Annual The Heart of Women’s Health

Co-sponsored by:

Program Directors: Rita F. Redberg, MD, MSc, FACC, FAHA and Suzanne Hughes, MSN, RN

January 30 - 31, 2009
JW Marriott
Atlanta, Georgia

Friday, January 30, 2009

1:10 p.m.       What’s the Deal with Vitamin D?
Dr. Wallis

1:55 p.m.       Psychosocial Issues and CVD Risk
Dr. Vaccarino

3:00 p.m.       Reducing D2B in the Real World: From Symptom Onset to Open Artery
Dr. Parkosewich

3:45 p.m.       Strategies to Optimize Secondary Prevention in Women
Ms. Hughes

4:30 p.m.       How Far Have We Come with the Campaign to Raise Awareness in Women?
Dr. Wenger

Saturday, January 31, 2009

7:55 a.m.       HDL: More than Just a Number
Dr. Taylor

8:40 a.m.       Pregnancy Complications: Gestational Diabetes, Hypertension, Pre-eclampsia: What Do These Tell Us about CVD Risk?
Dr. England

9:45 a.m.       The Middle-aged Woman with Hypertension and Diabetes
Dr. Ferdinand

10:30 a.m.       The Elderly Female Patient with Heart Failure
Dr. Wenger

11:15 a.m.       Community-based CVD Risk Reduction Programs: What Have We Learned?
Ms. Poindexter

11:45 a.m.       Device Therapy in Women
Dr. Hernandez

12:15 p.m.       Lunch Keynote Speaker
Health Education Should Not Be Left to the Media – But It Is
Dr. Martin

1:30 p.m.       Providing Practical Evidence-based Nutrition Advice for Your Cardiac Patients: A Guide for Physicians and Nurses
Ms. Ohlson

2:00 p.m.       CVD Screening Initiatives: Should We Measure Disease or Should We Measure Risk? File 1 - Dr. Redberg

         CVD Screening Initiatives: Should We Measure Disease or Should We Measure Risk? File 2 - Dr. Taylor