Innovations in Cardiovascular Care Conference

Conference Zoom Address

https://christushealthvideo.zoom.us/j/92089738743

CME Accreditation Statements

South Coastal Area Health Education Center is accredited by the Texas Medical Association (TMA) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. South Coastal Area Health Education Center designates this educational activity for a maximum of 8 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. The South Coastal Area Health Education Center designates Burn out in the ICU educational activity for up to 1 hour ethic/physician responsibility credit, as required for physicians by the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners.

Nursing Approval Statement

CHRISTUS Spohn Ministry is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by Louisiana State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. LSNA Provider No. 4002073l. This activity provides up to 8 contact hours.

Radiology Technologist Statement

This conference program is accepted by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT), and approved for up to 8 hours of Category A CE credit by the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT).

Educational Grants

 

 

About the Conference

The Innovations in Cardiovascular Care Conference features a series of accomplished national speakers who will be educating primary care physicians, cardiologists, nurses and allied health professionals about some of the latest treatments and findings in cardiovascular care.  Our conference goal is to share ideas and information among providers on the advancements in cardiac health.

Download the Conference Brochure

Conference Dates

Saturday, October 10, 2020
8 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Zoom Presentation

Registration 

Register at ChristusSpohn.org/CardiacConference to reserve your seat and to receive education credits.

Registration Fees 

$50      Physicians, Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners
$25      CHRISTUS Physicians
$25      Non CHRISTUS Nursing/Radiology (RT)
Waived   CHRISTUS Spohn Associates (Nursing and Clinicians), Medical Residents

Register required at christusspohn.org/cardiacconference

Conference Committee Members

Srikanth Damaraju, M.D., FACC, FSCAI, Chairman
Interventional Cardiologist, Corpus Christi, TX

Shamim Badruddin-Mawji, M.D., FACC
Cardiologist, Corpus Christi, TX

Travis Taylor, M.D., FSCAI
Interventional Cardiologist, Corpus Christi, TX

Stephen Turner, M.D., FACC
Cardiologist, Corpus Christi, TX

Bonifacio Vega, II, MPA

Teri Cardenas, MBA	Randy Mitten, RN
Pat Clark, MSN, RN	Ramiro Medina, RT
Dawn Cramer	Michele Mora-Trevino, MA
Sandria George RN, BSN, MHA	Bonifacio Vega, II, MPA

 

CONFERENCE KEY NOTE SPEAKER

Venugopal Menon, MD, FACC, FAHA 
Dr.  Menon is a staff cardiologist in the Section of Cardiovascular Imaging and Director of the Coronary Care Unit in the Robert and Suzanne Tomsich Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, at the Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart & Vascular Institute at Cleveland Clinic. He is Director of the Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship Training Program at the Cleveland Clinic and Associate Director of the Cleveland Clinic Coordinating Center for Clinical Research (C5). He is a Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University.

Downloadable Cardiovascular Conference Schedule 2020

CHRISTUS Spohn Heart Institute’s Innovations in Cardiovascular Care Conference- SCHEDULE
8:00 am - 8:10 am	Osbert Blow, MD, PhD, FACS,  President & Chief Medical Officer,   CHRISTUS   Spohn Health System  Srikanth Damaraju, MD, FACC, FSCAI  5th Annual Innovations in Cardiac Care Chairman	Reflection/Introduction
8:10 am - 9:00 am	Venu Menon, MD -  Cleveland, Ohio  Section Head of Clinical Cardiology and Director of Cardiac Intensive Care   Unit at Cleveland Clinic	Shock: a Critical Care Crisis in the Age of COVID-19
9:00 am - 9:10 am	Shamim Badruddin-Mawji, MD, FACC, - Corpus Christi, Texas  Cardiologist	Case Directed Approach - ECHO innovations
9:10 am - 9: 45 am	Enrique Garcia-Sayan MD, FACC, FASE - Houston, Texas  Director of Echocardiography and Associate Chief of Cardiology at LBJ   General Houston	Innovations in Echocardiography
9:45 am – 10:00 a.m.	Q & A – Morning Session
10 am - 10:15 am	BREAK
10:15 am - 10: 18 am	Dr. Raymond Acebo – Family Medicine - Corpus Christi, Texas	Case Study - Valvular HD case
10:18 am - 10: 48 am	Raymond Stainback, MD - Houston, Texas  Section Chief, Noninvasive Cardiology, Texas Heart Institute At Baylor St.   Luke’s Medical Center	Red Flags in Echo Reports: When to Call the Cardiologist
10:48 am - 11:23 am	Subhash Banerjee, MD, FACC - Dallas, Texas  Professor at UT Southwestern Department of Internal Medicine and Chief   of Cardiology and Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at the   VA North Texas Health Care System	PVD - Approach to the Patient With Ischemic Limbs
11:23 am - 11:38 am	Lawrence Brenner, MD, FACC - Corpus Christi, Texas  Interventional Cardiologist	ACS Update
11:38 am - 11: 41 am	Rob Webster, MD – Family Medicine - Corpus Christi	Case Study – Syncope Case
11:41 am - 12:00 pm	Hans Moore, MD - Washington DC  Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, Washington DC Veterans Affairs   Medical Center Cardiology	Syncope - Approach for the Clinician
12:00 pm – 12:15 pm	Q & A – Lunch Session
12:15 pm - 12:45 pm	LUNCH
12:45 pm - 1:15 pm	Susan Wilansky, MD - Phoenix, Arizona  Cardiovascular & Metabolic Disease Specialist at the Mayo Clinic	The Venus Perspective Women and Heart Disease
1:15 pm - 1:20 pm	John E Schulze, MD – Family Medicine - Corpus Christ	Case Study - Adult congenital heart disease
1:20 pm - 1: 45 pm	Peter Ermis, MD - Houston, Texas  Assistant Professor of Pediatric and Medicine of Cardiology at Baylor   College of Medicine Texas Children’s Hospital	Adult Congenital Heart disease
1:45 pm - 2:00 pm	Travis Taylor, MD, FSCAI - Corpus Christi, Texas  Interventional Cardiologist	Hypertension in the Age of COVID-19
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm	Arthur Randolph Mielke, MD, MAJ (P), MC - San Antonio, Texas  Anesthesiologist, intensivist/ECMO Physician, Assistant Medical Director   ECMO Service, San Antonio Military Medical Center	ECMO - An Update for the Clinician
2:30 pm - 2:45 pm	Q & A – Afternoon Session
2:45 pm - 3:00 pm	BREAK
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm	Srikanth Damaraju, MD, FACC, FSCAI - Corpus Christi, Texas  Interventional Cardiologist, Coastal Cardiology	Cardiovascular Disease in the Age   of COVID-19 - Corpus Christi Edition
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Bindu Akkanti, MD, CMQ, FCCP - Houston, Texas   Associate Professor of Medicine, Medical Director, Pulmonary   Rehabilitation, Wellness Center, Medical Director, Heart Failure ICU, Heart   & Vascular Institute, UT Health’s McGovern School of Medicine	Pulmonary Hypertension: What Everyone Ought to Know
4:00 pm – 4:45 pm	Kay Guntupalli, MD, MACP - Houston, Texas   Professor and Chief, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Section,   Baylor College of Medicine	Burnout in the ICU (1 hours of CME Ethics)
4:45 pm- 5:00 pm	Q & A – Evening Session and Closing Remarks

Panel of Speakers

Bindu Akkanti, M.D., CMQ, FCCP - Houston, TX
Associate Professor of Medicine, Medical Director, Pulmonary
Rehabilitation, Wellness Center, Medical Director, Heart
Failure ICU, Heart & Vascular Institute, UT Health’s McGovern
School of Medicine

Shamim Badruddin-Mawji, M.D., FACC - Corpus Christi, TX
Cardiologist

Subhash Banerjee, M.D., FACC - Dallas, TX
Professor at UT Southwestern Department of Internal
Medicine and Chief of Cardiology and Director of the Cardiac
Catheterization Laboratory at the VA North Texas Texas Health
Care System

Lawrence Brenner, MD, FACC - Corpus Christi, TX
Interventional Cardiologist

Srikanth Damaraju, M.D., FACC, FSCAI - Corpus Christi, TX
Interventional Cardiologist

Peter Ermis, M.D. - Houston, TX
Assistant Professor of Pediatric and Medicine of Cardiology at
Baylor College of Medicine Texas Children’s Hospital

Enrique Garcia-Sayan, M.D., FACC, FASE - Houston, TX
Director of Echocardiography and Associate Chief of
Cardiology at LBJ General Houston

Kay Guntupalli, M.D., MACP - Houston, TX
Professor and Chief, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep
Medicine Section, Baylor College of Medicine

Venu Menon, M.D., FACC, FAHA – Cleveland, OH
Section Head of Clinical Cardiology and Director of Cardiac
Intensive Care Unit at Cleveland Clinic

Arthur R. Mielke, M.D., MAJ (P), MC - San Antonio, TX
Anesthesiologist, intensivist/ECMO Physician, Assistant
Medical Director ECMO Service, San Antonio Military
Medical Center

Hans Moore, M.D. - Washington DC
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, Washington DC Veterans
Affairs Medical Center Cardiology

Raymond Stainback, M.D. - Houston, TX
Section Chief, Noninvasive Cardiology, Texas Heart Institute at
Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center

Travis Taylor, M.D., FSCAI - Corpus Christi, TX
Interventional Cardiologist

Susan Wilansky, M.D. - Phoenix, AZ
Cardiovascular & Metabolic Disease Specialist at the Mayo Clinic