TARGET AUDIENCE
This conference is intended for practicing cardiologists, fellows in training, nurses, pharmacists and other members of the cardiac care team in the Middle East region.

CONFERENCE OVERALL GOAL
The overall goal of this conference is to examine emerging trends and evidence-based strategies as well as contemporary best practices resulting in guideline-driven, practical cardiovascular prevention and management for patients with cardiovascular disease.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Demonstrate appropriate interpretation of cardiovascular guidelines and diagnostic strategies needed in daily practice.
• Identify the latest strategies in multi-modality imaging such as echo and CMRI.
• Describe the best practices in the treatment of patients with heart failure.
• Identify prevention strategies for cardiovascular disease including managing diabetes and hypercholesterolemia.
• Apply the latest evidence to the evaluation, medical management and surgical treatment of patients with valvular heart disease.
• Evaluate current treatment strategies in the investigation and management of coronary artery disease.
• Identify best practices for the management of patients with atrial and ventricular arrhythmias.

Registration for ACC Middle East 2022 Together With 13th Emirates Cardiac Society Congress is now open!

This conference will be taking place in-person at the Intercontinental Hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Visit https://ecs-acc.com/register/ for more details on each registration type and to register today!

Registration includes full access to the conference with engaging scientific sessions, abstracts, challenging clinical case discussions, an interactive learning lab, expo and more!

Registration Rates

Don't miss our opening plenary, Role of Imagenomics in Enhancing Cardiovascular Health Throughout the Lifespan, presented by Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, MACC as well as our other plenaries on:

• Top Takeaways From the Latest Guidelines: Chest Pain and Coronary Revascularization
• The Highlights of the 2022 ACC/AHA/HFSA Guidelines For Management of Heart Failure
• Lipid Lowering Therapy Beyond Statins
• Artificial Intelligence in Cardiology

ACC Leadership Development Program
The American College of Cardiology's Leadership Development Program offers a half-day intensive workshop that addresses various skills and knowledge in cardiovascular leadership. The program design provides you with a broad understanding of leadership styles and skills. This program addresses diverse perspectives on critical leadership challenges while also providing an awareness of concepts and techniques relevant to leading effectively within one's own healthcare institution. The ACC often draws upon those who complete this program for future leadership roles within the College.

This interactive program provides attendees with insight into their country's healthcare and leadership challenges. The program serves as a platform for emerging leaders in the cardiovascular community to gain a deeper understanding of the varied challenges facing the College's ever-growing international community. By connecting these emerging leaders, the program facilitates the building of professional relationships and creates new opportunities for collaboration that defy geographical distance.

This program will be held as a pre-conference opportunity on Thursday, 6 October, 2022.

In-Training Fellow Exam
The ACC In-Training Exam features over 140 case-based questions and is an opportunity for Fellows and practicing physicians to take an objective assessment of their cardiology knowledge. The exam allows participants to identify knowledge gaps that may require further learning and provides final reports on scores related to specific cardiology topic areas such as arrythmias, coronary artery disease and heart failure, as well as a study guide.

This program will be held as a pre-conference opportunity on Thursday, 6 October, 2022.

Experience hands-on training, interactive case discussions, and more in the Interactive Learning Lab! This unique educational opportunity puts new technology in your hands and offers a selection of stations to augment learning that takes place in the traditional session rooms.

Hands-On Echo Simulation
This hands-on workshop uses a live model and an echo simulator to obtain basic 2D echo images. It provides intensive repetition of echo images to improve image recognition in a short time frame and gives CV team members an appreciation for normal cardiac anatomy by 2D echo. Attendees can also obtain their own images on a live model under expert guidance.

Challenging Clinical Case Discussions
Join subject matter experts in engaging discussions on real life cases submitted by attendees. These sessions will offer high interactivity for participants using an open Q&A forum.

Personalized Skills Area (iPads)
Learn at your leisure and sharpen your core cardiology skills with Heart Songs and ECG Drill & Practice. These modules provide a uniquely dynamic learning opportunity you won't want to miss!

Heart Songs 5
Research reveals that cardiologists fail to identify more than half of basic murmurs and about 35 percent of advanced murmurs when challenged at a major medical meeting, but skills improved after a 90-minute Heart Songs training session. Heart Songs 5 provides you with everything you need to effortlessly improve your cardiac auscultation skills! Heart Songs 5 will help you:

• Prepare for the cardiac exam of the future by learning the complementary role of handheld echo in the bedside detection of heart sounds. Heart Songs 5 includes basic, intermediate, expert, and adult congenital murmurs, plus images of phonocardiograms, CT scans and videos of color Doppler echocardiograms. These visual enhancements will facilitate your understanding and mastery of many heart murmurs/sounds.
• Master cardiac auscultation by reviewing the auditory characteristics and handheld echo findings of each heart sound.

First, pick a track and assess your baseline skills by taking a confidential pretest. Then simply view videos featuring classic heart murmurs accompanied by phonocardiograms and color Doppler echoes. Each video includes hundreds of repetitions of its murmur, and studies show that simple repetition is all you need to master a new sound. Watch the videos as many times as necessary to see a significant improvement on your posttest scores (most people need to watch 2 to 4 times). Each Heart Songs track takes approximately 30 minutes to complete, and sessions are self-paced.

Heart Songs makes sure you know what your stethoscope is telling you!

ECG Drill & Practice
Improve your ECG interpretation skills with ECG Drill & Practice. This program reviews key findings in clinical electrocardiography and contains a self-assessment ECG test, featuring the format and answer options similar to those of the ABIM's certifying examination in cardiovascular disease. It's a great resource for anyone preparing for initial Board certification in CV disease and for anyone looking to hone their ECG interpretation skills.

Three convenient modes let you use this product in whatever way best meets your needs.

• Learn Mode: Teaches you how to recognize & differentiate ECGs across the topics above.
• Drill & Practice Mode: Shows you ECG "flash cards" that you can practice interpreting. Turn each card over to see the answer and explanation.
• Perform Mode: Practice interpreting ECGs using the ABIM's interpretation list. Receive detailed commentary on how your answer compares to the experts'.

Brush up on a core cardiology skill with ECG Drill & Practice's 100+ ECGs and expert insight!

Join ACC Middle East chapter teams – each made up of three Fellows in Training (FITs) – as they test their clinical knowledge during the FIT Jeopardy sessions at ACC Middle East 2022 Together With 13th Emirates Cardiac Society Congress!

FIT Jeopardy is a friendly competition that promotes a healthy rivalry between ACC international chapters, fosters FIT engagement within the chapters, and provides educational value to the contestants and audience. Participants will be quizzed on a variety of topics ranging from imaging, prevention, and interventional cardiology in an unconventional manner. There will be a panel of judges and chairs to moderate the competition.

Three ACC Middle East chapter teams will compete at ACC Middle East 2022 Together With 13th Emirates Cardiac Society Congress and the winning team will compete at the ACC.23/WCC competition in New Orleans!

CONFERENCE CHAIRS

	Khaled M. Ziada, MD, FACC Chief Academic Officer, Cardiovascular Interventions Co-Director, Coronary Artery Disease Center Department of Cardiovascular Medicine Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH, USA
	Wael A. Almahmeed, MD, FACC Consultant Cardiologist Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi Clinical Associate Professor, UAE University Adjunct Staff, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

VICE CHAIRS

	Juwairia Al Ali, MD Vice President, Emirates Cardiac Society Consultant Cardiologist Rashid Hospital Dubai, United Arab Emirates
	Tarek Helmy, MD, FACC Professor and Chief of Cardiology Louisiana State University School of Medicine in Shreveport Co-director of the Heart and Vascular Institute Ochsner LSU Health Science Center Shreveport, LA, USA

PLANNING COMMITTEE

	Abdullah Shehab, MD, MMEd, PhD, FACC Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine Editor in Chief, New Emirates Medical Journal Vice President, Gulf Intervention Society Vice President, Emirates Cardiac Society Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
	Ahmed Bafadel, MD Cardiac Imaging and Consultant Cardiologist Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
	Alison L. Bailey MD, FACC Chief, Centennial Heart at Parkridge Physician Director, HCA Healthcare Chattanooga, TN, USA
	Arif Al-Nooryani, MD Consultant Interventional Cardiologist Chief Executive Officer & Head of Cardiology Al-Qassimi Hospital Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
	Biykem Bozkurt, MD, PhD, FACC, FACP, FHFSA The Mary and Gordon Cain Chair and Professor of Medicine Associate Provost of Faculty Affairs, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development Director, Winters Center for Heart Failure Research Assoc. Director, Cardiovascular Research Institute Vice-Chair of Medicine Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX, USA
	Feras Bader, MD, MS, FACC, FHFSA Clinical Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University Chairman, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine Director, Section of Heart Failure and Transplant Heart & Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
	Firas Albadarin, MD, FACC Consultant Cardiologist Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
	Julia H. Indik MD PhD, FACC Professor of Medicine Flinn Foundation and American Heart Association Endowed Chair in Electrophysiology Director, Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Program at the University of Arizona, Tucson Sarver Heart Center Department of Medicine University of Arizona College of Medicine Tucson, AZ, USA
	Mohamed El Harari, MRCP, FRCP Consultant Cardiologist Tawam Hospital Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
	Nooshin Bazargani, MD, FRCP (Edin.) Consultant Cardiologist Dubai Hospital Dubai, United Arab Emirates
	Obaid Aljassim, MD Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon Mediclinic City Hospital Dubai, United Arab Emirates
	Salem Al-Kaabi, MBBS, FRCP(C), CCDS Consultant Interventional Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist Zayed Military Hospital Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
	Scott M. Lilly, MD, PhD, FACC Associate Professor Medical Director of Structural Heart Disease Division of Cardiology The Ohio State University Columbus, OH, USA
	Wael A. Jaber, MD, FACC Professor of Medicine Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University The Fuad Jubran Endowed Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine Medical Director, CV Imaging Core Laboratories Head, Center of Advanced Ischemic Heart Disease Robert and Suzanne Tomsich Department of Cardiovascular Medicine Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH, USA

Thank you for your interest in submitting an abstract to ACC Middle East 2022 Together With 13th Emirates Cardiac Society Congress.

The abstract submission site is now closed. Acceptance notifications will be sent out by Friday, 29 July, 2022. For any questions regarding your submission, please contact Robin Young at ryoung@acc.org.

Thank you for your interest in submitting a case to ACC Middle East 2022 Together With 13th Emirates Cardiac Society Congress.

The case submission site is now closed. Acceptance notifications will be sent out by Friday, 29 July, 2022. For any questions regarding your submission, please contact Robin Young at ryoung@acc.org.