President's Message
Christopher J. Cooper, MD, FACC |
Dear Colleague,
I hope that you will join me at the Ohio-ACC 24th Annual Meeting on Saturday, October 11, at the Hilton Columbus at Easton. You can register here.
One of the highlights of the meeting is the 3rd Annual Dr. Richard P. Lewis Memorial Lecture. It is a true honor to welcome featured guest lecturer Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, MACC whose lecture is entitled Cardiovascular Disease to Health: The Journey of the High-Risk Plaque. Dr. Fuster is a world renowned cardiologist and educator. He is the JACC editor-in-chief and serves several roles at Mount Sinai, including Physician-in-Chief, The Mount Sinai Medical Center, Director of the Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute and the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Center for Cardiovascular Health, and the Richard Gorlin, MD/Heart Research Foundation Professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
In addition, ACC past president William Zoghbi, MD, MACC will present. Robert Barcelona, PharmD, BCPS, Matthew Eisen, MD and Lindsey Federle, PharmD, BCPS will share a practical how-to on treating patients with new anticoagulants. I will be covering the controversial topic of the JNC-8 Hypertension Guidelines. Of course, the research from our Ohio fellows in training will be highlighted at the poster session and oral competition. The afternoon session will be an in-depth, interactive, fast-paced session to cover general cardiology, electrophysiology and interventional cardiology utilizing an audience response system. The session will save you hours of preparation time and provide you with the opportunity to earn 10 MOC points. Even if you do not need MOC points, this interactive session will be a valuable review led by Alex J. Auseon, DO, FACC, William R. Colyer, Jr., MD, FACC, William R. Lewis, MD, FACC.
Please register today for this important meeting.
Feel free to contact me at christopher.cooper@utoledo.edu.
Sincerely,
Christopher J. Cooper MD, FACC
President, Ohio Chapter of the ACC
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| Ohio-ACC Members in Washington, DC | 
More than thirty Ohio-ACC members joined a record number of cardiovascular professionals (nearly 400, including approximately 100 Fellows in Training and 80 CV Team members) in Washington, DC, for ACC's 2014 Legislative Conference. This year's conference centered on the many ways the ACC is leading the way in transforming care. Here are photos of our Ohio colleagues.
Members headed to Capitol Hill to meet directly with their legislators. In their meetings, ACC members shared examples of how the College is leading the transformation of care and urged Congress to work with the ACC to develop a quality driven health care system, ensure practice stability and secure the future of cardiovascular care. With a plethora of challenges facing health care providers, ACC members were able to provide first-hand perspectives of how decisions made in Washington impact practices and patients across the country. Hot topics on the Hill included Sustainable Growth Rate repeal, In-Office Ancillary Services Exception preservation, increased research and graduate medical education funding, incentivizing the use of clinical data registries and improving access for Medicaid children with complex medical problems.
Take a look at the full set of messages that members took to congressional offices.
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| Congratulations to Our New Board of Trustees Members | |
Congratulations to the following individuals who were recently elected to the Ohio-ACC Board of Trustees:
Cardiovascular Surgical Position
Thomas A. Schwann, MD, MBA, FACC
Pediatric Cardiologist Position
Christopher P. Learn, MD, FACC
District 1 - CWRU/MetroHealth
Catherine C. Fallick, MD, FACC
District 1 - Cleveland Clinic
Daniel J. Cantillon, MD, FACC (2nd term)
District 2
Samer J. Khouri, MD, fACC
District 3
Tyler L. Taigen, MD
District 4
Anne R. Albers, MD, PhD, RVT, FACC
District 5
John W. Lynch III, MD, FACC (2nd term)
District 6
John L. Jefferies, MD, FACC (2nd term)
Special thanks to outgoing board members:
William R. Colyer, Jr., MD, FACC
Michael S. Firstenberg, MD, FACC
Sanjay Gandhi, MD, FACC
Timothy M. Hoffman, MD, FACC
David R. Richards, DO, FACC
Kevin H. Silver, MD, FACC
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| NOW LIVE: ACC's College-Wide Mentoring Program |  The new ACC College-Wide mentoring program is now live at http://www.cardiosource.org/mentoring t hanks to the efforts of the Early Career Professional council, staff, and Health-E-Careers. All mentors are needed - not just academic, but private practice, researchers, and every other type of cardiologist and cardiothoracic surgeons. Early career professionals are looking for folks to learn from that may not be available from their own institution, and as such, we need you. Please visit http://www.cardiosource.org/mentoring to sign up. Early career members, please sign up as mentees. Once a critical mass is reached, the program will commence in matching mentors to mentees based on a scoring algorithm, taking region, gender, speciality, etc. in to account to ensure the best possible matches. The system will eventually be able to shepherd, evaluate, and allow changes in mentorship sessions and participants. |
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ACC Launches Public Hospital Profiles and Hospital Search Tool
| The ACC has launched a public-facing hospital database and search tool that enables patients to find and compare hospitals in their area based on the cardiac services they provide and important information related to the care they give. Now, all hospitals participating in the NCDR have a Hospital Profile on CardioSmart.org, the ACC's patient education and empowerment website. Through these profiles, patients, caregivers and other stakeholders are able to search hospitals based on specific criteria (location, hospital name, services provided) and learn about every participating hospital's quality measurement efforts through the NCDR. The establishment of Hospital Profiles ensures that patients receive credible information about hospitals participating in the NCDR. For more information about this effort, visit NCDR.com. To find your hospital's profile, visit CardioSmart.org/FindaHospital.
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Take a look at the ACC FITsontheGo!
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Are you treating patients with congenital heart disease?
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| Save the Date | |
OH-ACC Legislative Day
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Columbus, OH
OH-ACC 2015 Spring Summit
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
The Ritz-Carlton, Cleveland
ACC Legislative Conference
October 18-20, 2015
Washington, DC
OH-ACC 25th Annual Meeting &
Richard Lewis Memorial Lecture
Saturday, October 31, 2015
The Columbus Hilton at Easton
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