Harvard Medical School, Department of Continuing Education

3rd Annual
ECGs in Clinical Practice:
Pearls and Pitfalls

July 11–12, 2009 • Westin Boston Waterfront, Boston, MA

 Course Info


COURSE DIRECTORS

Ary L. Goldberger, MD, Peter J. Zimetbaum, MD, and Mark E. Josephson, MD

OFFERED BY

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Department of Medicine



A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTORS



Dear Colleague,

As a frontline practitioner, you face many ECG‑reading issues that directly impact your patients’ care on a day‑to‑day basis. We have designed this course with your needs in mind.

This year we offer a new lecture format with dual track programs for entry/intermediate‑level as well as more advanced topics. The core curriculum now also includes pediatric ECGs.

We encourage you to attend this conference with leading ECG specialists who have long experience in teaching ECG. The program below outlines the topics we have assembled to achieve our objectives.

We look forward to seeing you in July!

Sincerely,

Ary L. Goldberger, MD., Peter J. Zimetbaum, MD, and Mark E. Josephson, MD


Over 90% of the course participants rated this course as "superior" or "above average" as compared to other postgraduate courses.

Participants cited in particular its attention to practical issues in patient management with frequent inclusion of well‑chosen case illustrations‑as well as ample opportunity for interaction with the faculty.


PEDIATRIC PRESENTATION!

We are excited to announce that Pediatrics is now part of this program.

DUAL TRACK PROGRAMS!

You will have the option to choose entry‑level and intermediate‑level as well as the advanced afternoon program when registering.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

  • Electrophysiologists
  • Pediatric Cardiology
  • General internists
  • Family practice
  • Primary care practitioners
  • Cardiologists
  • Anesthesiologists
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Nursing
  • Nurse practitioners
  • Physician assistants
  • Residents & Fellows
  • Critical care and pulmonary Specialist
  • Pediatric caregivers
  • Hospitalists
  • ECG Technicians

Last update 04.20.09

COMMENTS FROM PARTICIPANTS

  • Very detailed program from start to finish great examples used
  • Incredibly knowledgeable and experienced presenters
  • Course was not only superb but the speakers were engaging at all times
  • Course syllabus is an extremely valuable resource
  • Content of program was superb excellent ECG tracings
  • The best HMS CME program I have attended!

Attendance Limited

For questions, please call: (617)‑667‑4267 or e‑mail: kjohnso3@bidmc.harvard.edu



ACCREDITATION

Harvard Medical School is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Harvard Medical School designates this educational activity for a maximum of 10.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

ECGs in Clinical Practice has been approved for 10.25 contact hours by the Alliance of Cardiovascular Professionals.

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE*

ECGS IN CLINICAL PRACTICE: PEARLS AND PITFALLS
The Westin Boston Waterfront
July 11, 2009 - Day 1
7:30 ‑ 8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
Core Curriculum I
8:30 ‑ 9:15 Basic Principles: Physiology, Vectors, Leads and Measurements
9:15 ‑ 10:00 Normal Variants, Artifacts and Lead Misplacements
10:00 ‑ 10:30 Tall and Wide: Hypertrophy, IVCD and Related Patterns
10:30 ‑ 10:45 Refreshment Break
10:45 ‑ 11:30 Myocardial Ischemia and Infarction 1: Basic Concepts; DDx of Q waves, ST deviations and T Wave Changes
11:30 ‑ 12:15 Myocardial Ischemia and Infarction 2: Localization of Infarcts and Culprit Arteries
12:15 ‑ 1:00 Pediatric Diagnoses: The ECG in Children and Patients with Congenital Heart Defects
1:00 ‑ 2:00 Lunch on your own
DAY 1 AFTERNOON
Choose one:
Track 1: Entry Level / Intermediate Arrhythmia
2:00 ‑ 2:30 ABCs of EP Procedures
2:30 ‑ 3:00 Slow, Fast and Erratic rhythms
3:00 ‑ 3:15 Refreshment Break
3:15 ‑ 3:45 Exercise Arrhythmias
3:45 ‑ 4:30 Exploring Unknowns
Track 2: Advanced Electrophysiology
2:00 ‑ 2:30 Bradycardias: Blocks and Broken clocks
2:30 ‑ 3:00 PSVTs
3:00 ‑ 3:15 Refreshment Break
3:15 ‑ 3:45 Wolff‑Parkinson‑White: Pre‑excitation variants
3:45 ‑ 4:30 Arrhythmia Challenges
July 12, 2009 - Day 2
7:30 ‑ 8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
Core Curriculum II
8:30 ‑ 9:15 Arial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter: ECG Findings and Clinical Implications
9:15 ‑ 10:00 Ventricular Arrhythmias and Markers of Sudden Cardiac Risk: QT Prolongation Syndromes; Brugada Patterns; Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathies; Arrhythmogenic RV Cardiomyopathy
10:00 ‑ 10:30 Electrolyte Abnormalities and Drug Effects/Toxicities
10:30 ‑ 10:45 Refreshment Break
10:45 ‑ 11:15 Recognizing Pacemaker Patterns, Pacemaker Malfunction, and Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICDs)
11:15 ‑ 11:45 ECG Common Pitfalls and Pratfalls
11:45 ‑ 12:30 ECG Unknowns

*Please note: Program changes/substitutions may be made without notice.



REGISTRATION INFORMATION


Please see our other ECG course:

Course Number #2914059

Physicians $650 (USD)
Residents*, Fellows in Training* and Allied Health Professionals: $350 (USD)
* A letter of verification from Department Chair must accompany registration form/payment for a reduced fee for Residents/ Fellows in Training.

PAYMENT INFORMATION

All foreign payments must be made by a draft on a United States Bank or by Visa or MasterCard.

If paying by CHECK, please make payable to Harvard Medical School and mail with completed registration form to Harvard Medical School‑Department of Continuing Education, PO Box 825, Boston, MA 02117‑0825.

If paying by credit card, please register online.

Telephone or mail‑in registration with credit card payment is not accepted.

Inquiries about registration should be directed to the above address, made by phone: (617) 384‑8600, Monday ‑ Friday, 10 AM to 4 PM (EST), or by email: hms‑cme@hms.harvard.edu

Upon receipt of registration a confirmation will be mailed to the address listed on the form.

For other questions regarding this course, please contact Kathy Johnson, Course Administrator, at 617‑667‑4267 or by email at kjohnso3@bidmc.harvard.edu

TUITION REFUND POLICY

A handling fee of $60 is deducted for cancellation. Refund requests must be received by mail or fax one week prior to the course. No refunds will be made thereafter.


COURSE LOCATION

Westin Boston Westin Boston Waterfront
425 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210
TEL: 617‑532‑4600
www.westinbostonwaterfront.com

You may also make your hotel reservation online at www.starwoodmeeting.com/Book/bethisreal

Last update 05.26.09

Explore the exciting city of Boston from the new AAA Four Diamond Westin Boston Waterfront. The Westin Boston Waterfront is located less than three miles from Logan International Airport and easily accessible to all tourist attractions in Boston. The Westin is the perfect place to view the beautiful waterfront in July!

IN AND AROUND BOSTON

Known as America's Walking City, Boston is home to many historic sites that date back to the American Revolution. You will accessible to everything Boston has to offer including family attractions such as the New England Aquarium, Science Museum and the Boston Children’s Museum. Other area attractions include the shops at Prudential and Copley Place Mall, Newbury Street, the fashionable Back Bay, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Duck Tours, The Freedom Trail, Beacon Hill, Boston Common and Swan Boats to name just a few and Visitors to Boston are encouraged to stroll the Freedom Trail, a 2.5‑mile red brick walking trail that passes sixteen nationally significant historic sites. The Freedom Trail begins at Boston Common and ends at Bunker Hill, near the Charlestown Navy Yard and the home of the USS Constitution, the oldest commissioned ship afloat in the world.

Sail Boston 2009

Tall Ships are in Boston! July 8‑13, 2009

Greet the return of the Tall Ship fleet for Sail Boston 2009! The trans‑Atlantic regatta will start in Vigo, Spain from where the fleet will race to Tenerife in the Canary Islands, en route to Hamilton, Bermuda. The fleet will then race to Charleston, South Carolina before racing to Boston, Massachusetts for Sail Boston 2009. The fleet will then continue north to Halifax, Canada, before racing back across the North Atlantic to finish in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

The five‑day Sail Boston festival will begin with the Grand Parade of Sail into Boston Harbor, continue with a crew and cadet parade through the downtown streets of Boston, exciting harbor tours, shopping, music, entertainment and the best cuisine in New England. Vessels will dock in the emerging Seaport District, Fan Pier Basin, Rowes Wharf and at the historic wharfs of the North End and Charlestown. For more information on the Tall Ships, visit: www.sailboston.com

TRAVEL

Please do not make non-refundable airline reservations until you have been confirmed into your course. You can make your airline reservation by calling: the HMS Travel Desk toll free 1‑877‑4HARVMD (1‑877‑442‑7863) Monday ‑ Friday 9 am ‑ 8 pm (EST). From outside the U.S., Canada and Virgin Islands, please call 617‑559‑3764.

Last update 03.19.09



Course #2914059

Please see our other ECG course: October 17, 2009 ABCs of ECGs: Back to Basics for Frontline Clinicians

Ask A Question!

We invite attendees to send questions for course faculty in advance. Submit a question to Dr. Goldberger via email and we will do our best to provide the answers during the course.

You may also discuss program content with the Course Director, Ary L. Goldberger, MD, by emailing agoldber@bidmc.harvard.edu

Meet the Faculty

Ary L. Goldberger, MDAry L. Goldberger, MD, is Professor of Medicine of Harvard Medical School and Director of the Margret and H.A. Rey Institute for Nonlinear Dynamics in Physiology and Medicine (http://reylab.bidmc.harvard.edu). Dr. Goldberger is also Associate Director, Division of Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology at Beth Israel Medical Center, Boston, MA and a member of the Cardiovascular Division at BIDMC. He has a longstanding commitment to medical education and is the single-author of two standard textbooks on electrocardiography, which have been translated into multiple languages. Dr. Goldberger and his colleagues have developed the most extensive, free teaching resource for electrocardiography on the Internet: ECG Wave-Maven (http://ecg.bidmc.harvard.edu). He is course director of a number of top-rated Harvard Medical School CME courses on ECG analysis for frontline clinicians. His research is in the cutting edge and interdisciplinary areas of complex and nonlinear systems and he is founding and current Program Director of the NIH-sponsored Research Resource for Complex Physiologic Signals ( http://www.physionet.org). He is also an Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar in Aging.

Peter J. Zimetbaum, MDPeter J. Zimetbaum, MD is a clinical electrophysiologist. He is the Clinical Director of Cardiology and Director of the Morse Cardiac intensive Care Unit at The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Director of the ECG and Arrhythmia Core Laboratory at the Harvard Clinical Research Institute. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School.

>Mark E. Josephson, MDMark E. Josephson, MD is the Herman Dana Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Harvard-Thorndike Electrophysiology Institute and Arrhythmia Services. He is also Chief of the Division of Cardiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA. Dr. Josephson is a renowned pioneer in the understanding of arrhythmia pathophysiology and new techniques of diagnosis and treatment.
He has authored a landmark text (Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, 4th edition, Lippincott 2008). Ongoing work includes studies towards further understanding of the pathophysiology and substrate for arrhythmias, defining and characterizing reentrant circuits with particular attention to explaining mechanisms of tachycardia termination, the mechanisms of antiarrhythmic effects of pharmacologic agents and the development of techniques (non-invasive and invasive) to predict sudden death. Dr. Josephson has worked extensively in the development and clinical evaluation of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators, and has ongoing clinical studies evaluating new experimental devices.
In 2001, Dr. Josephson was awarded the NASPE Pioneer Award and the NASPE Fellowship Training Award.

Ernest V. Gervino, Sc.D., FACSM Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director, Clinical Physiology Laboratory, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Director, Harvard Clinical Research Institute ETT Core Lab, Boston, MA

William H. Maisel, M.D. Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director, Pacemaker & ICD Service, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

Alexei Shvilkin, M.D. Director of Research, ECG and Arrhythmia Core Laboratory, Harvard Clinical Research Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

Edward P. Walsh, M.D. Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Cardiology, Chief, Electrophysiology Division, Senior Associate in Cardiology, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA

 

 
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