Statement of Need
CV disease is the leading cause of maternal mortality in the United States. Due to the burden of pre-existing CV disease and risk factors associated with advancing maternal age, maternal morbidity and mortality rates are rising. As treatment paradigms are shifting, there is a need to train members of the CV care team who do not specialize in cardio-obstetrics to ensure better diagnosis and treatment of people of child-bearing age. Cardio-Obstetrics Essentials: Team-Based Management of Cardiovascular Disease and Pregnancy offers the full CV care team necessary education in this field.

Goal
The overall goal is to improve both maternal and fetal outcomes by providing the CV care team with contemporary recommendations for the evaluation, clinical management, treatment, and risk stratification of people with, or at risk for, CV disease during pregnancy.

Target Audience
Members of the interprofessional CV care team who are seeking a basic to intermediate level of information on cardio-obstetrics.

Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this educational activity, participants should be able to:

• Identify physiologic changes in pregnancy and considerations for physical examination of pregnant people
• Apply the best management of CV diseases prior to conception, and during and after pregnancy
• Evaluate the indications and safety of multimodality imaging during pregnancy
• Explain CV medication safety during pregnancy and in lactating individuals, and contraceptive recommendations for people with, or at risk for, CV disease
• Implement optimal 4th trimester and long-term CV care for individuals who experience an adverse pregnancy outcome
• Develop competence in creating a multi-disciplinary delivery plan
• Identify and eliminate disparities to improve access to high-quality cardio-obstetrics care
• Review the importance of interprofessional team care in cardio-obstetrics

Chair

Kathryn Lindley, MD, FACC
Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute

Vice Chair

Natalie Bello, MD, MPH, FACC
Cedars-Sinai

Planning Committee

Kimberly Bollinger, CRNP, CCA
University of Pittsburgh Medical School

Doreen DeFaria-Yeh, MD, FACC
Mass General Brigham

Deirdre Mattina, MD, FACC
Cleveland Clinic

Lee B. Padove, MD, FACC
Northside Hospital Cardiovascular Care

Faculty

Natalie Bello, MD, MPH, FACC
Cedars Sinai Smidt Heart Institute

Snehal Bhatt, PharmD, BCPS
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Kimberly Bollinger, CRNP, CCA
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Emily Cooke, BCPS, PharmD
BJC Healthcare

Doreen DeFaria-Yeh, MD, FACC
Massachusetts General Hospital

Ersilia DeFilippis, MD
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Sami El-Dalati, MD
University of Kentucky

Parham Eshtehardi, MD, FACC, FAHA
Northside Hospital

Sarah Goldstein, MD
Yale School of Medicine

Jessica Grib
Patient Experience

William Grobman, MD, MBA
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Colleen Harrington, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital

Caroline Lee, MD, PhD
St. Louis Children's and Washington University Heart Center

Kathryn Lindley, MD, FACC
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Deirdre Mattina, MD, FACC
Cleveland Clinic

Thomas McLaren, MD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Emily Morris, MD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Lee B. Padove, MD, FACC
Northside Hospital

Ki Park, MD
University of Florida

Rachel Rodel, MD
University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine

Andrea Russo, MD, FACC, FHRS, FAHA
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University

John Saxon, MD
University of Virginia

Nathaniel Rosso Smilowitz, MD, MS, FACC
New York University School of Medicine

Jourdan Triebwasser, MD, MA, MFM
University of Michigan

Mary N. Walsh, MD
Ascension Medical Group - St Vincent Heart Center

Lynn Yee, MD, MPH, MFM
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Disclosure/Conflict of Interest Statement
As a provider 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), the American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF) must ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all of their directly provided or jointly provided/co-provided educational activities. Planners, presenters, and other contributors, in a position to control the content are required to disclose to the audience all relevant financial relationships he/she and/or his/her spouse or domestic partner may have, occurring within the past 24 months, with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients. When an unlabeled use of a commercial product or an investigational use not yet approved for any purpose is discussed during an educational activity, the contributor should disclose that the product is not labeled for the use under discussion or that the product is still investigational.

ACCF is committed to providing its learners with high-quality activities and materials that promote improvements and quality in health care and not a specific proprietary business or commercial interest. The intent of this disclosure is not to prevent participation in educational activities by persons with a financial or other relationship, but rather to provide learners with information on which they can make their own determination whether financial interests or relationships may influence the education activity.

ACCF assesses conflicts of interest (COI) with its faculty, planners, managers, staff and other individuals who are in a position to control the content of certified activities. All relevant potential conflicts of interest that are identified are thoroughly vetted by course directors, ACCF education staff, and members of the Accreditation Compliance Workgroup (ACWG) through a process that includes appropriate peer review for fair balance, scientific objectivity and validity, and patient care and safety recommendations.

ACCF has taken the necessary steps to ensure that all relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.

Please note ACCF staff and the ACWG members involved with this activity have nothing to disclose.

Physicians
This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

Physician Assistants
This activity has been approved for AAPA Category 1 CME credit.

Nurses
This activity has been approved for ANCC contact hours.

Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Information
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

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Registration Fees
Rate Type	Example Designations	Early (until 10/2/23)	Regular (10/3/23 – 12/15/23)
Physician Member	MD, DO (includes International Associate Member)	$229	$269
Non-Member Physician (and Industry Professional)	MD, DO	$329	$369
Member Reduced	PA, RN, NP, CNS, PharmD, FIT, CVT, Resident, Student, and Emeritus	$149	$199
Non-Member Reduced	PA, RN, NP, CNS, PharmD, FIT, CVT, Resident, Student, and Emeritus	$199	$229

International Members
We're pleased to offer select discounted rates to our international members. Please call Member Care at (800-253-4636, ext. 5603 or 202-375-6000, ext. 5603) to inquire.

Cancellations
Cancellation, substitution, or transfer to another course is allowed if written notification is received four weeks before a scheduled course. A full refund minus a $50 processing fee will be given for written notifications received fewer than four weeks before the first day of the course. No refund will be given for no-shows.

ACC reserves the right to cancel the course in the unlikely event of insufficient enrollment or other unforeseen circumstances. In the unlikely event the course is canceled, the College will refund the registration fee in full.