Featured Sessions & Events

KEYNOTE SESSIONS

“Intravascular Ultrasound Insights into the Regression and Progression of Coronary Atherosclerosis”

Wednesday, October 5, 2016 • 4:10 - 5:00pm

Steven E. Nissen, MD, MACC

Chairman, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Cleveland Clinic
Professor of Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH

“The value of a technique, in part, is if it can show you what is likely to work and not likely to work,” according to Dr. Steven E. Nissen, Chairman, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. In his keynote presentation, Intravascular Ultrasound Insights into the Regression and Progression of Coronary Atherosclerosis, Dr. Nissen will discuss...

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“Triglycerides on the Rise: Should We Swap Seats on the Seesaw?”

Thursday, October 6, 2016 • 9:15 - 9:45am

Peter Libby, MD

Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Cardiovascular Specialist
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, MA

Although we may be entering an era of waning cardiovascular risk attributable to LDL cholesterol, the recurrent event rate even with the best of current therapies remains unacceptably high...

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“Update and Clinical Implications of the SPRINT Trial”

Friday, October 7, 2016 • 8:05 - 8:40am

Suzanne Oparil, MD

Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Professor of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology
Director, Vascular Biology & Hypertension Program
Division of Cardiovascular Disease
Department of Medicine
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL

The SPRINT trial created both excitement and controversy in the medical community when it was realized aggressive blood pressure lowering to a target of 120 mmHg resulted in...

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“The Gut Microbiome as a Modifier of Insulin Resistance and Metabolic Syndrome”

Friday, October 7, 2016 • 1:10 - 1:45pm

C. Ronald Kahn, MD

Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Chief Academic Officer
Joslin Diabetes Center
Boston, MA

It is known that diabetes, obesity, and metabolic syndrome are the result of gene/environment interactions but a newly recognized component of the gene/environment interaction is...

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“Obesity Fat Distribution and Cardiovascular Risk”

Saturday, October 8, 2016 • 8:10 - 9:00am

Subodh Verma, MD, PhD, FRCSC

Cardiac Surgeon, St. Michael’s Hospital
Scientist, Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science
Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital
Professor of Surgery and Pharmacology & Toxicology
University of Toronto
Canada Research Chair in Atherosclerosis

The ever-increasing obesity epidemic has placed that risk factor at the front of cardiovascular disease risk assessment and management. But specifically, how does body fat distribution impact...

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