Assessment of the Right Heart: Integrative Approaches to Uncovering Right Heart Function

Moderators:

• Aaron Waxman, MD, PhD, Director, Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program, Cardiovascular Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care, Brigham & Women's Hospital.
• Phillip Joseph, MD, Pulmonary and Critical Care physician, Assistant Professor; Associate Director, Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program, Yale School of Medicine.

Dynamic Assessment of Right Ventricle-Pulmonary Artery Coupling: Application of Invasive CPET – David Systrom, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Right Ventricular Load and Function: Assessing the Impact of Left Heart Function on the Right Side – Luke Howard, MA, DPhil, FRCP, Professor of Practice (Respiratory), Imperial College London; Consultant Pulmonologist, Hammersmith Hospital, London

Imaging Approaches to the Right Heart: Echo vs. cMR – Anne Marie Valente, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Assessing RV Remodeling with PET in Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension – Marcelo DiCarli, MD, Professor of Radiology and Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Executive Director, CV Imaging and Chief, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Panel Discussion

Left Ventricle and the Meaning of Ventricular Interdependence – Mandeep R. Mehra, MD, MSc, FRCP (London), Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Executive Director, Center for Advanced Heart Disease, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

By the end of the session the participant will be able to:

• Describe the unique structure and function of the right ventricle (RV), with focus on anatomical and embryological differences between the RV and left ventricle (LV)
• Discuss the importance of RV and pulmonary arterial coupling and its role in RV function and RV failure
• Describe RV adaptation and maladaptation in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and the effectiveness and adequacy of current therapies used in management of PAH
• Given a patient case, formulate a management approach that takes into account RV structure, function, and maladaptation

ACCME Activity #202288279

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through ScientiaCME. ScientiaCME is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation: ScientiaCME designates this educational activity for a maximum of 3.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

ABIM MOC Recognition Statement: Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 3.25 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) 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 ABIM MOC credit.

ABIM MOC Credit Type: Medical Knowledge

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• Moderator: Aaron Waxman, MD, PhD: Researcher, United Therapeutics
• Moderator: Phillip Joseph, MD: Paid Consultant – United Therapeutics
• Luke Howard, MA, Phil: Advisor – Janssen, MSD, Bayer, Gossamer Bio; Speaker –Janssen, MSD, Bayer; Research Grants – Janssen
• Mandeep R. Mehra, MD: Consultant – Abbott, Bayer, Portola, Mesoblast, NuPulse, Medtronic, FineHeart, Janssen, Triple Gene, Roivant, Baim Institute for Clinical Research, Leviticus
• Marcelo F. Di Carli, MD: Research Grant – Gilead Sciences, Spectrum Dynamics

Individuals with no conflicts of interest to disclose:

• Content reviewer: Charles J Turck, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP, President, ScientiaCME
• Anne Marie Valente, MD
• David Systrom, MD

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• Take the Pre-Test (optional). Completion of the pre-test will help us evaluate the knowedge gained by participating in this CME activity.
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• Minimum participation threshold: Take the post-test. A score of 70% or higher is required to pass and proceed to the activity evaluation.
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