ACC's Cardiovascular Summit kicks off tomorrow in Orlando, FL, bringing together top experts and nearly 400 cardiovascular professionals to discuss and review innovative, relevant cardiovascular management and leadership strategies.

The meeting, directed by Howard T. Walpole Jr., MD, MBA, FACC, along with ACC Past President Pamela Douglas, MD, MACC, and ACC Board of Trustee Member Cathleen Biga, MSN, RN, will feature educational sessions prioritizing novel approaches for better care, smarter spending, workforce wellness and patient satisfaction, all key elements of the Quadruple Aim.

"Successful cardiovascular care requires dedication to the practice, and flexibility in a field that is continuously changing," Biga said. "The Cardiovascular Summit aims to provide the full clinician care team with the skills to achieve best business practices and strengthen day-to-day health care delivery outcomes, regardless of practice setting."

Keynote speakers, designed to encourage innovative approaches to daily challenges in leadership, medicine and more, include:

• Tasha Eurich, PhD, founder of the Eurich Group
• Cheryl Pegus, MD, MPH, appointed director of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Innovation at NYU Langone Medical Center
• Jim McKenna, leadership coach
• Michael Chernew, professor at Harvard Medical School
• Simon Kos, MBBS, BS (Med), MBA, chief medical officer and senior director at Microsoft

The ACC will also host a joint plenary session, "Heart Teams: Partnering for Success" with the presidents of several cardiology subspecialty societies, including the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, American Society of Echocardiography, Heart Rhythm Society and Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions.

Additionally, a wide array of posters highlighting novel approaches to improving patient outcomes in the hospitals and outpatient setting will be featured. Among the highlights:

• A Heart Care Navigation Team Improves Acute Myocardial Infarction Care and Outcomes
• Structured Utilization of Multiple ACC Clinical Apps at the Point of Care Significantly Improves Quality of Care in Angina Patients: One Year Results from the Florida Cardiovascular Quality Network
• AMI Readmissions Reduction Program: "Never Discharge a Patient"
• A Nurse Navigator-Drive Program to Increase Palliative Care Referrals for Advanced Heart Failure Patients
• Same Day PCI Discharge

Follow @Cardiology on Twitter and ACC on Facebook for live coverage from the meeting. Use the hashtag #CVSummit. Keep up with all of the news coverage at ACC.org/CVSummit.

Clinical Topics: Cardiovascular Care Team, Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathies, Invasive Cardiovascular Angiography and Intervention, Noninvasive Imaging, Acute Heart Failure, Interventions and Imaging, Angiography, Echocardiography/Ultrasound, Nuclear Imaging

Keywords: CV Summit, Outpatients, Palliative Care, Patient Satisfaction, Leadership, Patient Readmission, Echocardiography, Angina Pectoris, Heart Failure, Myocardial Infarction, Referral and Consultation, Angiography, Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

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