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 will take place on October 4th, 2008 at the New York Athletic Club. The current theme of this year's presentation is Cardiology 2008: The Science of Quality Care. Topics include: ACC Perspective: Quality Issues for Cardiology; Evaluation and Management of Pulmonary Artery Hypertension; Lessons Learned from the COURAGE Trial; An Update on Recent Studies of Coronary Stenting in New York. Hundreds of physicians and surgeons attend these programs each year.

The Eleventh Annual New York Cardiac Center Lecture, The Emerging New Era of Mechanical Support of the Failing Heart was held on December 7, 2007 at Uris Auditorium-New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center, in New York City. The guest lecturer was Eric A. Rose, MD, FACC, Johnson and Johnson Professor of Surgery, Surgeon-in-Chief; Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Director Surgical Service.

The 34th Annual Arvilla Berger Lecture was held in Rochester, New York on March 20, 2007. The speaker was Kim A. Eagle, MD. Dr. Eagle is Albion Walter Hewlett Professor of Internal Medicine; Chief, Clinical Cardiovascular Medicine; and Director, Cardiovascular Center at the University of Michigan. Dr. Eagle's lecture was entitled, Preoperative Evaluation of the Non-Cardiac Patient; State of the Art.

The New York Cardiac Center thanks Harry C. Obadashian, Jr, MD, President of the New York State Chapter of the American College of Cardiology, Paul Kligfield, MD, 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. We congratulate board member Michael J. Wolk, MD on his election as Executive Vice President, of the NYCC.

New Programs in the Education of Research Scientists

The New York Cardiac Center has decided to continue a series of annual 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 this spring with the awarding again of two grants. The first award of 2007 is to Jeptha Curtis, MD of Yale University School of Medicine for his proposal entitled Drug Eluting Stents and Late Stent Thrombosis: Estimating Risk and Enhancing Shared Decision Making. The second award goes 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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