Continuing Education and Professional Development

University of Tennessee Medical Center Heart Lung Vascular Institute and

the University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine

Present:

28th Annual Heart Lung Vascular Update for the Primary Care Provider

November 22, 2024

Bridgewater Place
205 Bridgewater Road
Knoxville, TN

All registration questions should be referred to the UT Conference Center at (865) 974-0280 or Conferences@utk.edu

Course Overview

Care of patients with cardiac, pulmonary, and vascular disease is complex with oft-changing guidelines and best practices. Primary care providers need access to updated guidelines on the care of patients they see in practice every day. For example, there are currently new guidelines and recommendations for patients with hypertension, stroke, and COPD. This conference will offer healthcare providers the necessary data to improve patient care while learning cost-effective measures for patients with cardiac, vascular, and pulmonary diseases.

Course Objectives

After this program, the participants should be able to:

Evaluate and treat patients with hypertension
Recognize sports cardiology and how it applies to the primary care population
Manage patients with recent TIA/stroke and identify appropriate evaluation/treatment
Manage preoperative risk assessment in patients with/without cardiac and pulmonary disease
Recognize patients with atrial fibrillation and apply new guidelines
Evaluate and treat patients with common pulmonary diseases such as COPD, cough, and pulmonary nodules

Registration Fees

Fees include all program sessions, access to online program materials, continuing education credit, breakfast, breaks, lunch on Friday, and parking at the Bridgewater Place.

Early Bird	October 25
$200	$250

Accreditation

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine and the University of Tennessee Medical Center Heart Lung Vascular Institute. The University of Tennessee College of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians

Education Credits

The University of Tennessee College of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 7 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to:

-7 MOC points in the American Board of Thoracic Surgery's Maintenance of Certification program; and

-7 MOC points in the American Board of Surgery's (ABS) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.

It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABTS or ABS MOC credit.

PAs, NPs, and Nurses: Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, and Nurses may use these credit hours toward certification renewal. This credit is acceptable by the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA), the American Nurses Credentialing Association (ANCC), and the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP).

Disclosures

There is no minimum threshold for financial disclosures; individuals must disclose all financial relationships, regardless of the amount, with ineligible companies within the past 24 months. Individuals must disclose regardless of their view of the relevance of the relationship to the education. Companies that are ineligible to be accredited in the ACCME System (ineligible companies) are those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.

The UT Graduate School of Medicine Office of Continuing Education and Professional Development and the Co-Course Directors have taken appropriate steps to mitigate relationships before the individuals assume their roles. CME Planning Staff have no actual or potential conflicts of interest with the content of the conference.