17th Annual Heart Failure Symposium

Corporate Education

in joint-providership with the University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy

17th Annual Heart Failure Symposium

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

7:30 a.m. – 4:15 p.m.

To register, visit www.spartanburgregional.com/CEEvents (online registration closes after September 12),

or Direct Link: click here!

Click here for the Brochure

LOCATION: The Piedmont Club, 361 E. Main St., Spartanburg, South Carolina 29302

FEES: $130 for Pharmacists (Other professions are listed in the Brochure)

THE PIEDMONT CLUB DRESS CODE

Men: Gentlemen are required to wear a jacket at all times in all areas of the club. Ties are suggested, but not required.
Women: Suit (including business pantsuit), dress or blazer with skirt or tailored slacks, tailored pants with a blouse or sweater.
Prohibited: T-Shirts, sweatshirts, or other shirt without collar; athletic attire, tennis shoes, shorts, jeans (regardless of value), denim jackets, untucked shirts, and baseball caps.

PROGRAM LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

(For individual learning objectives, please click on the (+) next to the session you wish to view below).

Upon completion of this program, the participant will be able to:

Discuss Mobility Integrated Health-Community Paramedicine and the impact on clients with heart failure
Describe the role of palliative care and hospice in the continuum of heart failure management
Discuss new data for current drug classes for heart failure management
Recognize the benefit of using an implantable device in treating moderate to severe heart failure symptoms
Discuss the types and the medical management of cardiac amyloidosis
Describe culinary medicine and its benefits from employer, client, and community lenses
Demonstrate the use of cardiac rehabilitation as an integral part of the multidisciplinary approach in the management of clients with heart failure

AGENDA (schedule is subject to change)

7:30 - 7:55 am	Registration, Exhibits, Continental Breakfast
7:55 - 8:00 am	Welcome, Introduction
8:00 - 9:00 am	Meeting Heart Failure Patients Where They Are Jennifer Vigodsky, MSN, RN and Kristle Butler, NREMT-P, CP-C
9:00 - 10:00 am	Heart Failure & Palliative Care: The Intersection of Art & Medicine Jeffrey Walker, MD
10:00 - 10:15 am	Break, Exhibits, Networking
10:15 - 11:15 am	Medication Building Blocks for Turning Heart Failure into Heart Success Andrew Mardis, PharmD, BCCP, BCTXP, BCPS
11:15am - 12:15 pm	When Guideline Directed Medical Therapy (GDMT) is Not Enough – Heart Failure Management with Device Therapy Benjamin Vaccaro, MD
12:15 - 1:15 pm	Lunch (provided), Exhibits, Networking
1:15 - 2:15 pm	Amyloidosis: You Only Find What You Are Looking For James Ampadu, MD
2:15 - 2:30 pm	Break, Exhibits, Networking
2:30 - 3:15 pm	Culinary Medicine & Practice Transformation Kerri Stewart, RD, LD and Dawn Maddux, MPH, BSN, RN
3:15 - 4:00 pm	Cardiac Rehab and Heart Failure: Multidisciplinary Approach Stacie Snyder, MS, BSN, RN
4:00 - 4:15 pm	Wrap-up, Questions, Program Evaluation
4:15 pm	Adjourn

Date: Sep 27, 2023 07:30 AM - 04:15 PM

CE Hours

6.50

CE Units

0.650

Activity Type

Knowledge

Target Audience(s)

Pharmacists

Accreditation(s)

The University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

Co-Sponsor(s)

Requirements for CE Credit

Participants must check in with the front desk upon arrival and have attendance verified. Participants will receive credit for attending this program in its entirety and fully completing the associated evaluation. Failure to complete the evaluation within the specified time period (within 30 days of attendance) may result in loss of credit. The NABP CPE Monitor will reject any credit claimed greater than 60 days from the date of the program.

Participants must update their accounts to properly reflect their month and day of birth and their correct NABP E-Id. Failure to do so may result in loss of credit. Registration with a proper disclosure of your NABP E-Id is a requirement for receiving Continuing Pharmacy Education. To register with or look up your NABP E-Id, please click on the CPE Monitor logo below to be directed to their site:

Meeting Heart Failure Patients Where They Are

At the completion of this activity, the participant will be able to:

Discuss the purpose of the Heart Failure Clinic
Describe the role of a community paramedic
List the benefits of Spartanburg Medical Center (SMC) HF Clinic MIH-CP Program
Recognize the impact of MIH-CP on decreasing emergency center visits and hospital admission

Speaker(s)/Author(s)

Jennifer Vigodsky, RN, MSN Heart Failure Clinic Nurse Manager, Spartanburg Medical Center
Kristle Butler, NREMT-P, CP-C Community Paramedic, Spartanburg Medical Center

Activity Number

0062-9999-23-126-L04-P

Date: 09/27/23

Time: 08:00 AM - 09:00 AM

CE Hours

1.00

Heart Failure & Palliative Care: The Intersection of Art & Medicine

At the completion of this activity, the participant will be able to:

Describe palliative care and hospice in the context of heart failure
Identify when a patient with heart failure should receive palliative care
Discuss the evidence-based benefits of palliative care for heart failure patients
Identify when a patient with heart failure should receive hospice care

Speaker(s)/Author(s)

Jeffrey Walker, MD
Physician, Palliative Medicine, Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System

Activity Number

0062-9999-23-127-L01-P

Date: 09/27/23

Time: 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM

CE Hours

1.00

Medication Building Blocks for Turning Heart Failure into Heart Success

At the completion of this activity, the participant will be able to:

Review the key updates to the guidelines and other recent consensus statements related to medication management of patients with heart failure
Determine the potential role of novel therapies in the treatment of heart failure
Identify opportunities to optimize the initiation and titration of guideline-directed medical therapy in patients with heart failure
Given a patient case, select appropriate pharmacotherapy interventions in a patient with heart failure

Speaker(s)/Author(s)

B. Andrew Mardis, PharmD, BCPS
Clinical Pharmacist Advanced, Advanced Heart Health Center, Palmetto Health

Activity Number

0062-9999-23-128-L01-P

Date: 09/27/23

Time: 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

CE Hours

1.00

When Guideline Directed Medical Therapy (GDMT) is Not Enough - Heart Failure Management with Device Therapy

At the completion of this activity, the participant will be able to:

Discuss the management of cardiogenic shock with mechanical circulatory support
Describe the treatment of chronic heart failure with durable mechanical circulatory support
Recognize the outcomes of Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) therapy
Explain the treatment of CHF with novel device-based therapy

Speaker(s)/Author(s)

Benjamin Vaccaro, MD
Physician, Advanced Heart Failure & Transplantation, University of Pennsylvania

Activity Number

0062-9999-23-129-L01-P

Date: 09/27/23

Time: 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

CE Hours

1.00

Amyloidosis: You Only Find What You Are Looking For

At the completion of this activity, the participant will be able to:

Recognize the types of cardiac amyloidosis
Identify the patient populations at risk for cardiac amyloidosis
Discuss the diagnosis of cardiac amyloidosis
Discuss the medical management cardiac amyloidosis

Speaker(s)/Author(s)

James Ampadu, MD
LVAD Medical Director, Co-director of MCS/ECMO, Advanced Heart Failure Cardiologist, Prisma Health Richland; Clinical Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, University of South Carolina School of Medicine

Activity Number

0062-9999-23-130-L01-P

Date: 09/27/23

Time: 01:15 PM - 02:15 PM

CE Hours

1.00

Culinary Medicine & Practice Transformation

At the completion of this activity, the participant will be able to:

Describe culinary medicine and its benefits from clinical, patient, and community lenses
Identify ways to incorporate culinary medicine in a variety of healthcare settings
List resources for culinary medicine intervention

Speaker(s)/Author(s)

Dawn Maddux, MPH, BSN, RN Community Outreach Nurse & Patient Educator, Heart Resource Center
Kerri Stewart, RD, LD Registered Dietitian, Joe R. Utley Heart Resource Center, Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System

Activity Number

0062-9999-23-131-L01-P

Date: 09/27/23

Time: 02:30 PM - 03:15 PM

CE Hours

0.75

Cardiac Rehab and Heart Failure: Multidisciplinary Approach

At the completion of this activity, the participant will be able to:

Provide an overview of cardiac rehabilitation and the heart failure patient
Discuss the importance of a multidisciplinary approach in management of the heart failure patient
Review exercise as a tool to improve quality of life in the heart failure patient
Discuss improving heart failure outcomes by utilizing cardiac rehab performance measures

Speaker(s)/Author(s)

Stacie Snyder, MS, BSN, RN
Manager, Heart Wellness, Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System

Activity Number

0062-9999-23-132-L01-P

Date: 09/27/23

Time: 03:15 PM - 04:00 PM

CE Hours

0.75