Detailed Program Agendas Released for
Pre-conference Course and Scientific Sessions
KINGWOOD, Texas, June 4, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- The ASPC announces details of a full program of
events to be held at their annual Congress on Cardiovascular
Disease Prevention, scheduled for August
1-4, 2024, at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Salt Lake City, UT.
A new pre-conference MasterClass focused on lifestyle medicine
is being offered Thu., August 1 –
Hot Topics in Preventive Cardiology and Lifestyle
Medicine: Implications for Patient Counseling and
Management. This program is being Co-Chaired by Barry Franklin, PhD, FASPC and Heather Johnson, MD, MS, FASPC. They shared,
"Americans have a shorter life expectancy compared with residents
of almost all other high-income countries. We also have the
most expensive healthcare system in the world. It's simply not
sustainable! Accordingly, readily accessible preventive health
interventions should be a top priority. This unique and timely
Masterclass will address these issues – and more."
Features of the 2024 Scientific Sessions program include diverse
content with many international experts joining the program,
honorees in the field of prevention, and a record number of
abstracts in the poster hall!
The three ASPC honorees are:
- Honorary Fellow Award: Dr. Chris Cannon, Professor of Medicine at
Harvard University. His award lecture
will focus on "Lipid Lowering 2024 and Beyond".
- Nanette Wenger Award: Dr.
Noel Bairey Merz, Director of
the Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center at Cedars-Sinai Heart
Institute. She will present a lecture titled, "Where are We Now? –
From WISE to Chest Pain Guidelines and Improving CVD Care for
Women."
- Joseph Stokes III, MD Pioneer
in Prevention Award: Dr. Sergio Fazio, VP/Chair, Scientific Council,
Global Clinical Development at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and the
first Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Preventive
Cardiology. Dr. Fazio's award lecture topic is to be
announced.
ASPC is looking forward to honoring these awardees during the
opening session of the Congress on Friday,
August 2 from 8:00 – 9:30
AM.
Throughout the weekend, the Scientific Sessions will collaborate
with societies from around the globe, including:
- Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT)
- Korean Society of Lipid and Atherosclerosis (KSoLA)
- Korean Society of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention (KSCP)
- European Atherosclerosis Society (EAS)
Three rousing debates will be featured during Session 7 on
Saturday, August 3, from 9:00-11:00am:
- Reducing Residual CVD risk: Adding Colchicine vs.
Aggressive Lipid Lowering
- Mike Wilkinson, MD vs.
Daniel Soffer, MD
- CAC/CCTA is the Imaging Modality of Choice in Refining ASCVD
Risk in Primary Prevention
- Seamus Whelton, MD, MPH vs.
Matthew Budoff, MD, FASPC
- Lp(a) in Primary Prevention is Actionable Today
- Vera Bittner, MD vs. Roger
Blumenthal, MD, FASPC
Detailed program agendas for both the Congress on CVD Prevention
and the Lifestyle MasterClass are available at www.aspconline.org.
The ASPC's mission is to promote the prevention of
cardiovascular disease, advocate for the preservation of
cardiovascular health, and disseminate high-quality, evidence-based
information through the education of healthcare clinicians and
their patients.
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