THE NEW YORK CARDIAC CENTER

Clinical Education

One of the primary goals of the New York Cardiac Center is to provide a vehicle for cardiologists to keep up with the latest information available in their specialty. To accomplish this goal, we provide, in association with the New York Chapter of the American College of Cardiology and the New York Cardiological Society, a series of programs for Continuing Medical Education in the cardiological specialties. Surveying developments in the medical sciences allows for the identification of those areas, which have particular relevance to cardiovascular disease. This information is then used as a basis for programs that emphasize advances in medical science and practice.

Accreditation for these programs is by the Medical Society of New York (MSSNY). Physicians who attend these programs can receive credit towards the American Medical Association Physicians Recognition Award (AMA/PRA).

According to Peter F. Cohn, M.D., Past President of the New York Chapter of the American College of Cardiology, their association with the NYCC… "is crucial to our ability to provide practicing physicians and surgeons … with the most current information on the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease. … The first in a series of this year's presentations, The 80th Annual Scientific Session of the New York Cardiological Society was held on October 3rd, 2009 at the New York Athletic Club. The theme of this year's presentation was Cardiology 2009: The Practice and Science of Quality Care. Topics included: ACC Perspective: Quality of Care and the Government; Appropriate Use Criteria and Payer Advocacy; Panel: The Current State of Health Reform; Emerging Insights in Cardiology (presentations). Attendance was high and attendee evaluations were extremely positive.

The Thirteenth Annual New York Cardiac Center Lecture, Cardiac Risk in Non Cardiac Surgery was held on October 27, 2009 at Stony Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook, NY. The guest lecturer was Lee Goldman, MD, MPH. Dr. Goldman is EVP and Dean, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY.

The 37th Annual Arvilla Berger Lecture was held in Rochester, New York on March 2, 2010. The speaker was Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD, Hershey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Chairman, Department of Medicine, Physician-in-Chief, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA. His talk was entitled Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Newer Concepts in Pathobiology and Treatment.

The New York Cardiac Center thanks Harry C. Obadashian, Jr, MD, President of the New York State Chapter of the American College of Cardiology, Andrew VanTosh, MD, FACC President of The New York Cardiological Society, Inc. and Nancy Weiner, MPH, Executive Director, for their work in securing the speakers and in conducting these presentations.

New Programs in the Education of Research Scientists

The New York Cardiac Center has funded a series of grants in cooperation with New York Metropolitan Area Medical Schools. The purpose of these grants is to encourage junior faculty at these institutions to establish careers in academic medicine and research. A call for research proposals was issued early in 2005 and the response was exhilarating. Although only one grant was initially planned to be funded, the final scoring by the grants evaluation committee resulted in a tie for first place between two of the proposals. The Board of Governors decided to fund both of these investigations. The winners were Harmony R. Reynolds, MD of NYU School of Medicine, whose proposal was entitled Carotid Ultrasound to Determine the Etiology of Heart Failure and Rakesh K. Mishra, MD of Weill-Cornell Medical College, whose proposal was entitled Echocardiographic Predictors of Response to Biventricular Pacing in Patients with Heart Failure and Right Ventricular Pacemakers.

The second in this series of grants was completed last spring. The award went to Gila Perk, MD of New York University School of Medicine for her proposal known as Non Doppler Two Dimensional Strain Imaging for Evaluation of Left Ventricular Dyssynchrony.

The NYCC Board of Governors wishes to thank all of the investigators who submitted proposals and sends its special congratulations to the winners.

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