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2009 Corporate-Supported Symposia Wed, Oct. 7, 2009 | Thurs, Oct. 8, 2009 | Fri, Oct. 9, 2009 | Sat, Oct. 10, 2009


Wednesday, October 7, 2009

6:00pm – 8:00pm
DINNER SYMPOSIUM

Advances in Peptide Hormone Therapy: Implications for Obesity, Diabetes, and Cardiometabolic Risk Management

Louis Aronne, MD; Harold Lebovitz, MD; Carol Wysham, MD

Supported by an educational grant from Amylin


Thursday, October 8, 2009

6:30am - 8:00am BREAKFAST SYMPOSIUM

High Dose Insulin Therapy for Patients with T2DM and Severe Insulin Resistance:
Comprehensive Clinical Update and Expert Recommendations

Lawrence Blonde, MD; Wendy Lane, MD; Jay Skyler, MD

Supported by an educational grant from Eli Lilly and Company

6:30am – 8:00am
BREAKFAST SYMPOSIUM

Hypertension and CV Risk Reduction: The Role of New Generation Beta Blockade

Thomas Giles, MD; R. Preston Mason, PhD; Raymond Townsend, MD

Supported by an educational grant from Forest Laboratories
12:00pm – 1:45pm
LUNCH SYMPOSIUM

Advances in the Clinical Management of Obesity:
Implications of Therapies in Late-Stage Development

Caroline Apovian, MD; Louis Aronne, MD; Kenneth Fujioka, MD


Supported by an educational grant from Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc.

12:00pm – 1:45pm
LUNCH SYMPOSIUM

Advances in Dual Anti-Platelet Therapy:
Optimizing Anti-Thrombotic Therapy in Patients with ACS


Jeffrey Anderson, MD; Christopher Cannon, MD; Marc Sabatine, MD

Supported by an educational grant from Daiichi Sankyo, Inc.
and Eli Lilly and Company

6:30pm – 8:30pm
DINNER SYMPOSIUM

Glucose Control and Beyond: The Multiple Roles of Incretin Therapy in the Management of Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiometabolic Risk

Lawrence Blonde, MD; Richard Pratley, MD; Bernard Zinman, MD

Supported by an educational grant from Novo Nordisk


Friday, October 9, 2009

6:30am - 8:00am BREAKFAST SYMPOSIUM

Targeting the Endothelin Pathway: Novel Strategies to Delay Disease Progression and Improve Outcomes in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Michael Landzberg, MD; Ioana Preston, MD; Jeffrey Sager, MD

Supported by an educational grant from Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.

6:30am – 8:00am
BREAKFAST SYMPOSIUM

The Emerging Role of Biomarker Panel Assays in Diabetes Prevention:
Identifying High-Risk Patients Before It's Too Late


Richard Bergman, PhD; Ralph DeFronzo, MD; Darren McGuire, MD;
Jay Skyler, MD, MACP


Supported by an educational grant from Tethys Bioscience
12:15pm – 1:45pm
LUNCH SYMPOSIUM

New Treatment Paradigms for Comprehensive Cardiometabolic Risk Reduction:
The Role of GLP-1 Receptor Agonists in the Management of T2DM, Obesity, Hypertension and Dyslipidemia


Ralph DeFronzo, MD; David Kendall, MD; Anne Peters, MD

Supported by an educational grant from Amylin/Lilly

12:15pm – 1:45pm
LUNCH SYMPOSIUM

Clinical Dilemmas in Managing the Hypertensive Patient with Osteoarthritis

Michael Farkouh, MD; Alan Gradman, MD; R. Preston Mason, PhD; William White, MD

Supported by an educational grant from NicOx, Inc.

6:00pm – 8:00pm
DINNER SYMPOSIUM

Global Cardiometabolic Risk Reduction: Targeting the Multiple Mechanisms Underlying Type 2 Diabetes, Dyslipidemia, and Hypertension

Om Ganda, MD; Ronald Goldberg, MD; Joseph Izzo Jr, MD; Suzanne Oparil, MD


Supported by an educational grant from Daiichi Sankyo, Inc.


Saturday, October 10, 2009

6:30am - 8:00am

BREAKFAST SYMPOSIUM

Oral Anti-Hyperglycemic Therapy and Cardiovascular Risk Reduction: Yes It Is Possible!

Robert Cooper, MD; Ralph DeFronzo, MD; J. Michael Gaziano, MD;
Jay Skyler, MD, MACP


Supported by an educational grant from VeroScience

12:00pm – 2:00pm
LUNCH SYMPOSIUM

The Convergence of Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease

Faculty Program Director:
Donna Polk, MD, MPH
Jeffrey Kuvin, MD


Sponsored by the American College of Cardiology Foundation
Supported by Takeda Pharmaceuticals of North America and sanofi-aventis U.S.

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