CME webinar: Heart Failure and Success in Medication Optimization (recorded)

Feb. 2024Education/Webinars

This recorded webinar will educate providers on:

Updated classifications and definitions of heart failure per the 2022 AHA/ACC/HFSA Guidelines for Management of Heart Failure.
Current guidelines for directed medical therapies.
Practical components of initiating and uptitrating heart failure medications.
Case studies from Medication Optimization Clinic.

Presenters:

Gavin W Hickey, MD, Assistant Professor at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Medical Director, VAD Program, UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute; Program Director, UPMC Advanced Heart Failure/Transplant and Pulmonary Hypertension Fellowship Program
Jennifer Kliner, CRNP, Supervisor, UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute, Advanced Heart Failure and Pulmonary Hypertension Program; Regional Director, Heart Failure Medication Optimization Clinics; Program Coordinator, Comprehensive Pulmonary Hypertension

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