CME Accreditation and Designation
The Cardiovascular Research Foundation is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Cardiovascular Research Foundation designates this educational activity for a maximum of 53.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
One contact hour equals 60 minutes of learning time. This does not include Breakfast Meetings, Evening Symposia, or other specialty programs such as Hands on Hearts.
Documentation of awarded credit is provided for registered attendees in exchange for completed activity evaluations. Certificates of attendance are provided to all registered attendees.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this symposium, participants should be able to:
- Understand the results from important clinical trials and evidence-based medicine to guide management of patients with atherosclerosis and structural heart disease
- Incorporate new interventional technologies and procedures into the care of patients with complex coronary and endovascular disease
- Integrate advances in diagnostic evaluation and therapeutics to patients with carotid and peripheral arterial disease
- Describe appropriate pharmacologic management in the care of patients undergoing diagnostic arteriography and interventional therapies before, during, and after catheterization
- Identify new interventional technologies and propose appropriate applications to patients with cardiovascular disease
Target Audience
This symposium is designed for interventional cardiologists, radiologists, clinical cardiologists, basic scientists, vascular medicine specialists, surgeons, nurses, cath lab technicians, and other health care professionals with a special interest in the field of interventional and vascular medicine.
Activity Evaluation
Online evaluation will address content, presentation, possible bias, and future educational needs.
Disclosure Statement
It is the policy of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all of its sponsored educational programs. Commercial support from industry does not influence educational content, faculty selection, and/or faculty presentations, and, therefore, does not compromise the scientific integrity of the educational activity.
Discussion of off-label product usage and/or off-label product use during live or taped cases is made at the sole discretion of the faculty and is not endorsed by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation or the program directors for this activity.
Faculty participating in continuing medical education activities sponsored by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation are required to disclose to the program audience any real or apparent conflict of interest related to the content of their presentation(s). Faculty not complying with this policy are not permitted to participate in this activity.
Program Sponsorship
This symposium is sponsored by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation.
Program Support
This symposium is partially funded through educational grants from commercial supporters. The Cardiovascular Research Foundation ensures that its programs are educational and meet the needs of the target audience.
To support this endeavor, the directors and co-directors of TCT create organizational and scientific committees to assist in educational content development and content oversight for live cases, concurrent sessions, case reviews, abstract sessions, practical workshops, and scientific symposia. These sessions are developed without influence from commercial supporters.
