Jacinthe Boulet, MD CM, FRCPC, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Jerry Estep, MD, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
Mónica Gilbert, MD, Clinica Guayaquil, Guayas, Ecuador
Eileen Hsich, MD, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
Michelle Kittleson, MD, PhD. Cedars Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Ivan Knezevic, MD, PhD, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Jon Kobashigawa, MD, Cedars Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Marco Masetti, MD, PhD, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Sonia Mirabet Perez, MD, Hospital Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain
Eyal Nachum, MD, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
Diyar Saeed, MD, PhD, Leipzig Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany
Maxime Tremblay-Gravel, MD, MSc, Montréal Heart Institute, Montréal, Canada
Lori West, MD, DPhil, Alberta Transplant Institute, Edmonton, AB, Canada

This course is designed to meeting the practitioner’s education need for a targeted review of clinical knowledge and essential professional skills to facilitate best practice of surgical and medical aspects involved in the care of patients with heart failure, cardiac transplantation, and mechanical circulatory support devices.

This course is primarily designed to be of benefit for health care professionals who are in the early stages of their careers or who are in training, or who are part of a new program, or who desire an update on the current state of the field and deepen their knowledge, skills and abilities according to the highest quality standards.

At the conclusion of this meeting, participants will have improved competence and professional performance in their ability to:

1. Discuss the general concepts, definitions and management principles of patients with heart failure.
2. Apply the general concepts, indications, contraindications and management principles of patients who are evaluated for and receive cardiac transplant.
3. Recall the general concepts, indications, contraindications and management principles of patients who are evaluated for and receive mechanical circulatory support devices.

Physicians
Accreditation Statement – The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation Statement – ISHLT designates this live activity for a maximum of 7.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses and Pharmacists
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Amedco LLC and International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation. Amedco LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Nurses (ANCC) Credit Designation Statement – Amedco LLC designates this activity for a maximum of 7.00 ANCC contact hours.

Pharmacists (ACPE) Credit Designation Statement – Amedco LLC designates this activity for a maximum of 7.00 knowledge-based CPE contact hours.

NOTE to Pharmacists: The only official Statement of Credit is the one you pull from CPE Monitor. You must request your certificate within 30 days of your participation in the activity to meet the deadline for submission to CPE Monitor.