Program

PHYSICIAN PROGRAM TRACK

Cleveland Clinic Cardiorenal Update

Wednesday, May 9, 2012
1:00pm – 5:30pm
Course Director: Brian Stephany, MD, W.H. Wilson Tang MD, and Martin Schreiber MD

Target Audience:
Designed for nephrologists, cardiologists, and healthcare practitioners with an interest in cardio-renal disease.

Course Description:
This course is an interdisciplinary collaboration aiming to address the increasing challenges and concepts facing nephrologists and cardiologists with regard to the interplay between the heart failure syndrome and acute or chronic kidney disease. The goal is to provide a scientific forum to discuss the latest developments and future directions in pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management of concomitant cardiac and renal insufficiency

Course Objectives:
At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:

Define our current understanding of the pathophysiology of the cardio-renal syndrome.
Discuss lessons learned from past and recent major heart failure trials
Discuss the approaches to diagnosis and utilization of newer cardiac and renal markers to identify patients with cardio-renal syndrome.
Examine both the standard therapeutic approaches and innovative monitoring and treatment options for the cardio-renal syndrome patient.
Review future areas of research in the cardio-renal syndrome.

Agenda:

Time	Topic	Faculty
1:00pm – 1:05p	Welcome and Introductions	Brian Stephany, MD Martin Schreiber, MD
1:05pm – 1:40p	Pathophysiology/Neurohormonal Disturbances of Cardiorenal Syndrome/AKI	John Burnett, MD
1:40pm – 2:20pm	Lessons Learned from Major Heart Failure Trials	Randall Starling, MD, MPH
2:20pm – 3:00pm	Novel Monitoring Strategies for Heart Failure Patients	W.H. Wilson Tang, MD
3:00pm – 3:10pm	Break
3:10pm – 3:50p	Usual and Novel Biomarkers in Cardiorenal Syndrome	Uptal Patel, MD
3:50pm - 4:30pm	Extracorporeal Strategies to Treat Cardiorenal AKI and Their Consequences	Sevag Demirjian, MD
4:30pm - 5:10pm	Management of Cardiac Abnormalities	Eberhard Ritz, MD
5:10pm - 5:15pm	Summation	W.H. Wilson Tang, MD
5:15pm - 5:30pm	Questions and Answers	All Faculty

REQUIRED: Additional registration fee of $90 / $50 for fellows and residents ($175 when registering for the course only); includes syllabus, breakfast, boxed lunch, and CME/CE credits.