2016 ISHLT Academy Core Competencies in Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Medicine
26 April, 2016 7:50 a.m. to 5:15 p.m.
Washington, DC, USA
The educational goals of this activity are to provide a concise review of clinical knowledge and essential professional skills to facilitate best practice of surgical and medical aspects involved in the care of patients with advanced heart failure. While all members are invited to enroll, this course is primarily designed to be of benefit for clinicians and allied professionals who are in the early stages of their careers or who are in training, are part of a new program or desire an update on the current state of the field.
Scientific ProgramAcademy Chairs
Teresa De Marco, MD, FACCAcademy Chair
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA USA
Frances Johnson, MDAcademy Co-Chair
University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics
Iowa City, IA USA
Andrew Kao, MDAcademy Co-Chair
St. Luke's Cardiovascular Consultant
Kansas City, MO USA
Geetha Bhat, MD, PhD, Advocate Christ Medical Center, Chicago, IL USA
Maria Rosa Costanzo, MD, Midwest Heart Specialists-Advocate Medical, Naperville, IL USA
Teresa De Marco, MD, FACC, Univesity of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA USA
James Fang, MD, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, UT USA
Lee Goldberg, MD, MPH, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA
Marco Guazzi, MD, PhD, IRCC Pol San Donato, Milan, Italy
Finn Gustafsson, MD, PhD, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
Frances Johnson, MD, University of Iowa Hospital & Clinics, Iowa City, IA USA
Andrew Kao, MD, St. Luke's Cardiovascular Consultant, Kansas City, MO USA
JoAnn Lindenfeld, MD, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN USA
Peter Macdonald, MD, PhD, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, NSW Australia
Deborah Meyers, MD, FRACP, FACC, Texas Heart Institute, Houston, TX USA
Paul Mohacsi, MD, Swiss Cardiovascular Center, Bern, Switzerland
Francis Pagani, MD, PhD, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI USA
Luciano Potena, MD, PhD, University of Bologna, Italy
Heather J. Ross, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON Canada
Stuart Russell, MD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD USA
Jean Luc Vachiery, MD, Erasme University Hospital – UBL, Brussels, Belgium