Athletes Heart, Sudden Death, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy - a professional meeting Stanford

This academic program has been arranged to discuss the current understanding of The athlete’s heart: physiologic demands, cardiac remodeling and the risk of sports, International perspectives and strategies for screening athletes • Modern management of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy Assessing and managing risk of sudden cardiac death • Cardiovascular genetics: what the practitioner needs to know. Target audiance includes: Physicans, Nurses, Researchers and interested lay people.

TOPICS

The athlete’s heart: physiologic demands, cardiac remodeling and the risk of sports

International perspectives and strategies for screening athletes • Modern management of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy Assessing and managing risk of sudden cardiac death • Cardiovascular genetics: what the practitioner needs to know.

DINNER

Friday June 26

Four Seasons Hotel featuring celebrity guest speaker

Course director: Euan Ashley, MRCP, DPhil, FACC, FESC, Director, Stanford Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center

SPACE IS LIMITED. PRE-REGISTRATION IS RECOMMENDED.

Contact Terra Coakley (tcoakley@stanford.edu or 650.725.6186)

hcm.stanfordhospital.com

Stanford University

Falk Research Building

300 Pasteur Drive

Stanford, CA 94305-5406

SPEAKERS

Barry Maron, MD, Director, Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation

Antonio Pelliccia, MD, Director, Institute of Sports Medicine, Rome, Italy

Gary Balady, MD, Professor of Medicine, Boston University

Sharlene Day, MD, Director, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Clinic, University of Michigan

Jonathan Drezner, MD, Associate Professor, University of Washington

Perry Elliot, FRCP, Senior Lecturer, The Heart Hospital, London, UK

Mark Estes III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Tufts University

Victor Froelicher, MD, Professor of Medicine, Stanford University

Carolyn Ho, MD, Director, Cardiovascular Genetics Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston

Jonathan Myers, PhD, Clinical Professor of Medicine, Stanford University

Paul Thompson, MD, Director, Division of Cardiology, University of Connecticut

Paul Wang, MD, Director of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, Stanford University