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The 53rd Annual Samuel D. Plotkin Cardiovascular Symposium
Overview
Fees related to this program may be donated to the Foundation as a contribution to benefit the Heart & Vascular department continuing education activity.
Goal:
The goal of this educational activity is to provide an opportunity for a multidisciplinary learning environment to update best practices on important cardiovascular topics in order to improve the armamentarium of all providers with evidence based, up to date guidelines on treating complex cardiovascular patients.
Provided by:
Baystate Health Heart and Vascular Division & Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education.
Target Audience
This course was designed for cardiologists, hospitalists, primary care physicians, physician assistants, emergency medicine physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses.
Learning Objectives
After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:
- Objective(s) for Left Atrial Appendage Closure Devices
- Updates in Vascular Surgery
Aneurysmal disease- Define and recognize the role for expanded patient selection and criteria for management of routine AAA repair.
- Recognize the role for complex repair in patients who have multiple medical comorbidities that were otherwise excluded from endovascular repair.
- Describe the role of a multi-disciplinary approach for contemporary AAA evaluation, repair, and post-operative management.
Dissection disease - Define and describe the evolution in reporting and management of aortic dissection.
- Explain the need for the innovation in technique with aortic dissection repair.
- Describe the role of contemporary dissection repair in aortic remodeling.
- ECMO for Physiologically Difficult Airway
- Define the physiologically difficult airway both theoretically and clinically by providing clinical scenarios and patient populations at risk for having it.
- Explain why anesthetic induction and intubation with positive-pressure ventilation can be deleterious in patients with a physiologically difficult airway.
- Describe the role for pre-intubation ECMO in select patients with a physiologically difficult airway.
- Objective(s) for TAVR Explant
- Objective(s) Updates in Conduction System Pacing
- Objective(s) Renal Denervation
- Updates in Durable Mechanical Circulatory Support (LVADs)
- Review the latest clinical outcomes and trends in LVAD therapy.
- Discuss improvements in LVADs.
- Compare LVAD outcomes to heart transplantation
- Address adverse events and patient selection.
- Highlight the evolving role of LVADs in younger patients.
- Discuss the future of LVADs
- Objectives(s) Quality and Safety at Baystate Medical Center
Program
7:30 | Registration |
8:00 | Welcome Speech |
| 8:08 | Introduction Siavash Saadat, MD |
8:10 | Left Atrial Appendage Closure Devices |
8:40 | Update in Vascular Surgery |
9:10 | "ECNOI for the Physiologically Difficult Airway" |
| 9:40 | Break |
| 10:00 | TAVR Explant Ashraf Sabe, MD |
10:30 | Updates in EP |
11:00 | Renal Denervation |
11:30 | Updates in Durable Mechanical Circulatory Support (LVADs) |
12:00 | Lunch / Southampton Room |
1:30 | Perioperative Management of the Cardiac Surgery Patient |
2:30 | Quality and Safety at Baystate Medical Center |
3:00 | Closing Remarks / Recap / Questions |
3:15 | Conference Adjourned |
Venue
Faculty
FACULTY
Nathan Airhart, MD, MPH
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Baystate Medical Center
Jonathan Chinea, DO
Emergency & Critical Care Medicine
UMass Chan Medical School - Baystate
Department of Cardiac Surgery
Baystate Medical Center
Frederick Conlin, MD, FASE, FASA
Assistant Professor of Medicine
UMass Chan Medical School - Baystate
Faculty Anesthesiologist/Chief Cardiac Anesthesia
Baystate Health
Cheryl Crisafi, MSN, RN, CNL
Nurse Coordinator, Cardiac Surgery
Baystate Health Heart & Vascular Program
Kyle Gobeil, DO, MSc
Cardiac Electrophysiologist
Baystate Medical Center
Andrew Goldsweig, MD, MS
Associate Professor
UMass Chan Medical School - Baystate
Director, Cardiovascular Clinical Research
Baystate Medical Center
Speaker, Consultant - Philips
Harry Hoar III, MD, FAAP
Assistant Professor
UMass Chan Medical School - Baystate
Medical Director of Quality Assurance
Baystate Medical Center
Spencer Hodgins, MD
Assistant Professor
Nephrologist
UMass Chan Medical School - Baystate
Baystate Medical Center
Mohammed Irfan Ali, MD, PHD
Vascular Surgeon
St. George's University
Baystate Medical Center
Stephanie Lagoy, DNP, AGACNP-BC, CCRN
Adjunct Clinical Elms DNP Program
Our Lady of the Elms
Heart & Vascular Surgical Advanced Practice Supervisor
Baystate Medical Center
Jamel Ortoleva, MD
Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologist and Intensivist,
Boston Medical Center, Baystate Medical Center
Associate Professor
Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine
Ashraf Sabe, MD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Surgical Director of Structural Valve Program
Associate Program Director, Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency
Clerkship Director, Harvard Medical School
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Stocks - Moderna
Adam Vaughan, MSPAS, PA-C
Cardiac Surgery Physician Assistant
Baystate Medical Center
PLANNERS
Program Director
Siavash Saadat, MD
Cardiac Surgeon
Assistant Professor
UMass Chan Medical School - Baystate
Sheila Shoemaker, MS, ACNP
Director, Heart & Vascular Interventional, EP, Cath
and BMP Ambulatory Practices
Baystate Medical Center
Adam Vaughan, MSPAS, PA-C
Cardiac Surgery
Physician Assistant
Baystate Medical Center
Joanne Whyland
Executive Assistant
Heart & Vascular Division
Baystate Health
Name of Individual | Individual's Role in Activity | Financial Relationship Disclosure | Discussion of |
|---|---|---|---|
Siavash Saadat, MD | Director, Planning Committee Member | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Sheila Shoemaker, MS, ACNP | Planning Committee Member | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
Adam Vaughan, MSPAS, PA-C | Planning Committee Member | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
Joanne Whyland | Planning Committee Member | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
Nathan Airhart, MD, MPH | Speaker | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Jonathan Chinea, DO | Speaker | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
Frederick Conlin, MD, FASE, FASA | Speaker | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
Cheryl Crisafi, MSN, RN, CNL | Speaker | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Kyle Gobeil, DO, MSc | Speaker | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
Andrew Goldsweig, MD, MS, FACC, FSCAI, FSVM, RPVI | Speaker | Philips - Speaker, Consultant | No |
| Harry Hoar III, MD, FAAP | Speaker | NO relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Spencer Hodgins, MD | Speaker | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
Mohammed Irfan Ali, MD, PhD | Speaker | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Stephanie Lagoy, DNP, AGACNP-BC, CCRN | Speaker | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Jamel Ortoleva, MD | Speaker | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Ashraf Sabe, MD | Speaker | Stocks - Moderna | No |
| Adam Vaughan, MSPAS, PA-C | Speaker | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
Faculty Disclosure
The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education (CE) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options. Any relevant financial relationships are mitigated prior to the educational activity.
*Andrew Goldsweig, MD, MS - Speaker & Consultant for Philips
*Ashraf Sabe, MD - Stocks with Moderna
None of the other planners or faculty for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Accreditation
In support of improving patient care, Baystate Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Physicians
Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 5.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nurses
Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 5.0 contact hour(s). Nurses should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Physician Assistants
Baystate Health has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 5.0 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team and learners will receive 5.0 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.
Available Credit
- 5.00 AAPA Category 1 CME creditBaystate Health has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 5.00 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PA’s should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
- 5.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 5.00 ANCC Contact Hours
- 5.00 IPCE Credit Hour(s)
Exhibitors
All vendors/sponsors registering to exhibit are required to complete the our 2025 Exhibitor Letter of Agreement. If interested in exhibiting or support this program, please complete the Exhibitor Letter of Agreement here.
Register/Take course
- Each participant must register themselves for the program.
We appreciate your business and sincerely wish to meet your educational needs. We understand that the schedule of a busy professional, like yourself, is subject to change. Therefore, we have included information about our refund/cancellation policies for your convenience below.
Cancellation:
If you must cancel, telephone Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education at 413-322-4242 and follow your call with a written/email request.
Specific Aids or Services:
Please call Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education at 413-322-4242 if, under the Americans with Disabilities Act, you require specific aids or services during your visit to this continuing education program.