Program
All meetings are on the Convention Level unless otherwise noted.
Wednesday, June 24, 2015 – Day 1
Begin/End Time Function Meeting Room
Noon – 5:00 pm Attendee Arrival – Registration – Badge pick-up Events Center
Noon – 5:00 pm Social time and Visit Exhibitors Exhibits Center
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm First Timers/Buddy Orientation
Lynn Frierson, Conference Program Chair
Great Hall Center 3:15 pm - 5:15 pm Mended Hearts, Inc. Board of Directors meeting
All attendees are welcome to this open board meeting!
Lobby Level Cloister North/ South
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Welcome Reception and Entertainment Great Hall North
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Welcome Dinner / Hats off to Our Heroes!
Thursday, June 25, 2015 – Day 2
Begin/End Time: Function Meeting Room
7:00 am – 7:30 am Morning Walk, Jim Oldfield, Walk Leader, Pontiac, Michigan Chapter 230
Meet in Hotel Lobby 8: 00 am – 9:15 am Coffee and Muffins Regional Meetings – Please attend your
region’s individual program:
Central Region Mid-Atlantic Region Midwest Region Northeast Region Rocky Mountain Region Southern Region Southwest Region Western Region
Convention Center: Events Center A/B Events Center C/D Events Center C1/D1 Events Center E/G1 Events Center F/G Events Center H/I Lobby Level: Cloister North Lobby Level Cloister South
9:30 am –10:30 am Annual Meeting General Session Great Hall North
11:15 am – 1:15 pm Luncheon – “Living with Heart Failure”
A joint program of Mended Hearts and American College of Cardiology CardioSmart
Great Hall North
1:45 pm – 2:45 pm Two Concurrent Workshops
A – Chapter Building/Member Recruiting & Engaging Ron Manriquez, Lakewood, California Chapter 149
B – Ask the Pharmacist a Question / Medication Adherence Sarah Spinler, PharmD, Professor of Clinical Pharmacy Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, Philadelphia
Orlando-based Pharmacy school students/Q & A
Great Hall Center
Scotland
2:45 pm – 3:00 pm Break/Member Networking Event Center
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Two Concurrent Workshops repeat
A – Chapter Building/Member Recruiting and Engaging Ron Manriquez, Lakewood, California Chapter 149
B – Ask the Pharmacist a Question / Medication Adherence Sarah Spinler, PharmD, Professor of Clinical Pharmacy Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, Philadelphia
Orlando Pharmacy program students
Great Hall Center
Scotland
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Mended Hearts/Mended Little Hearts RD & ARD Training Session Regional Directors, MH & MLH Assistant Regional Directors Lynn Berringer, Vice President
Patrick Farrant, Vice President-elect
Great Hall West
Friday, June 26, 2015 – Day 3
Begin/End Time: Function Meeting Room
7:00 am – 7:30 am Morning Walk, Jim Oldfield, Walk Leader, Pontiac, Michigan Chapter 230
Meet in Hotel Lobby
7:30 am – 8:15 am Coffee – Member Networking Events Center
8:30 am – 9:30 am MH & MLH General Session: Inspiring Volunteer Leadership!
Pamela Landwirth, President, Give Kids the World
Great Hall North/Center
9:30 am – 9:45 am Break Great Hall
Assembly Center 9:45 am – 10:45 am General Session
C - Twenty Tried and True Ways to Spice Up Your Chapter! Cathy Byington, Midwest Regional Director/President, Sioux Falls, South Dakota Chapter 214
Great Hall North/Center
10:45 am – 11:00 am Break Great Hall
Assembly Center 11:00 am – 11:45 am General Session:
D – Lifestyle Changes After a Heart Event
Pradip Jamnadas, MD, MBBS, FACC, FSCAI, FCP, FACP Interventional Cardiologist, Cardiovascular
Interventions, P.A. Orlando, Florida
Great Hall North/Center
11:45 am – 1:45 pm Lunch On Your Own 1:45 pm – 2:45 pm Two Concurrent Workshops
E – Recruit, Train, Retain!
Fredonia B Williams, Ed. D., National Visiting Chair, Huntsville, Alabama Chapter 260
F – Partnering with Hospitals to reduce Readmissions! Julie Lietaert, RN, and Joyce Reid, RN
Cardiovascular Institute, Memorial Regional Hospital, Hollywood, Florida
Great Hall North
Great Hall Center
2:45 pm – 3:00 pm Break Great Hall
Assembly Center 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Two Concurrent Workshops repeat
E – Recruit, Train, Retain!
Fredonia B Williams, Ed.D., National Visiting Chair, Huntsville, Alabama Chapter 260
F – Partnering with Hospitals to reduce Readmissions! Julie Lietaert, RN, and Joyce Reid, RN
Cardiovascular Institute, Memorial Regional Hospital, Hollywood, Florida
Great Hall North
Great Hall Center
Saturday, June 27, 2015 – Day 4
Begin/End Time: Function
7:00 am – 8:30 am Invitation only: Corporate Advisory Council, Sponsors, Board Breakfast
Oxford
7:00 am – 7:30 am Morning Walk, Jim Oldfield, Walk Leader, Pontiac, Michigan Chapter 230
Meet in Hotel Lobby
8:30 am – 9:00 am Coffee – Member Networking Events Center
8:30 am – 9:00 am Symposium Registration & Packet Pick-up
All Conference attendees complimentary; open to public Visit Exhibitors
Great Hall
Registration Booth
9:00 am – 2:15 pm Patient Symposium – see separate program for all
conference attendees
“Empowering Heart Patients and Caregivers”
Great Hall North/Center
2:15 pm Symposium Adjournment
2:30 pm – 3:45 pm Newbie Graduation, Lynn Frierson, Program Chair Great Hall
North/Center
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Reception Great Hall
North/Center
6:30 pm Awards Banquet & Board Installation Great Hall
North/Center
Saturday evening Conference Adjournment
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Begin/End Time: Function Meeting Room
7:30 am – 9:00 am Breakfast meeting, 2015-17 Board of Directors only Lobby Level: Oxford
Symposium
Empowering Heart Patients & Caregivers
Saturday June 27, 2015
9:00 am – 2:15 pm (includes light lunch)
Convention Level: Great Hall North/Center
Buena Vista Palace
Orlando, Florida
8:30 – 9:00 am - Coffee / Peer Networking
9:00 am – Welcome & Introductions, Fredonia B. Williams, Ed.D.,
Master of Ceremonies and Mended Hearts Southern Regional Director, Huntsville, AL
9:05 am- Managing Cholesterol and Lipids
Ralph Vicari, MD, FACC, FNLA
Vice President, Foundation of the National Lipid Association Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
University of Central Florida College of Medicine Melbourne, FL
Diplomate, American Board of Clinical Lipidology
9:30 am – Heart Failure Symptoms and Treatments
10:00 am – 10:30 am– Break & Visit Exhibits
10:30 am – Hypertension & Heart Disease Kim Allan Williams, Sr., MD, FACC
President, American College of Cardiology
James B. Herrick Professor and Chief of Cardiology Division, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL Dr. Williams received his undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago, followed by medical school at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine residency at Emory University, and overlapping fellowships in cardiology, clinical pharmacology, and nuclear medicine at the University of Chicago. He is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases, nuclear medicine, nuclear cardiology and cardiovascular computed tomography. In 2013, Williams assumed the position of James B. Herrick Professor and chief of the division of cardiology at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL. Williams has served on numerous committees and boards at the national level, including the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC), the American Heart Association, the American Medical Association (AMA), the Certifying Board of Nuclear Cardiology, the Certifying Board of Cardiac Computed Tomography, the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography and the Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC).
11:00 am – Latest Innovations & Therapies in Interventional Cardiology James C. Blankenship, MD, MSc, FSCAI
President, The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Director, Department of Cardiology, Geisinger Medical Center,
Danville, Pennsylvania
Dr. Blankenship is a practicing interventional cardiologist at Geisinger Medical Center and is the director of the Geisinger Cardiology Department and catheterization laboratories. He is an adjunct professor of medicine at Temple University Medical College and has authored or co-authored over 200 scientific abstracts and publications.
11:30 am – Coronary Artery Disease and Angina J. Jeffrey Marshall, MD, FACC, FSCAI
Medical Director, Cardiac Catheterization Lab, Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville, GA.
Dr. Marshall has achieved many distinctions and awards in his medical profession from cardiac research, to Editor-in-Chief of "Seconds Count", an educational website for patients. He was the former President of SCAI (The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions), and spearheaded the angioplasty and acute MI (STEMI) programs at Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC). His clinical interests include peripheral, carotid and coronary interventional procedures and research in these areas. Dr. Marshall is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, and Interventional Cardiology.
12:00 noon – Panel Discussion/ Q & A – All Experts & Audience
12:45 pm - Light Lunch/Peer-to-Peer Networking Gus Littlefield, President, Mended Hearts, Inc.
“Stroke: The Reality” Video (12 minutes)
1:45 pm –Clinical Trial Opportunities – Does it Fit for Me?
Kwabena Ayesu, MD,
Internist, Central Florida Regional Hospital, Orlando, FL 2:15 pm –Closing Remarks Dr. Fredonia B Williams, Symposium Adjournment
A special thank you to the following sponsors for making this conference symposium possible:
