Below is a list of speakers for the 2008 conference.

• Dr. Paul Armstrong
• Dr. Renzo Cecere
• Dr. Heidi Connolly
• Dr. Derek Exner
• Dr.David Fitchett
• Dr. Jacques Genest
• Dr. Bernard Gersh
• Dr. W. Peter Klinke
• Dr. Peter Liu
• Dr. Allan Ross
• Dr. Jean Rouleau
• Dr. Peter Sleight
• Dr. J. Wayne Warnica
• Dr. Robert Welsh

Additional faculty are now being confirmed.

These are some of the highlights for the 24th Annual Cardiovascular Conference Lake Louise:

• PFO and Stroke: Guilt by Association
• Medical and Surgical Treatment of Stable Angina: Do We Have the Courage?
• Recent ACS Guidelines and Implications for Practice
• Systems Approach to STEMI
• Rescue PCI in STEMI: Outcomes and Evidence Re-visited
• Alcohol and Heart Disease
• Pros and Cons of Drug Eluting Stents
• VAD and Transplantation for End Stage Heart Failure
• Diastolic Heart Failure
• Identification and Management of Atrial and Ventricular Septal Defects in the Adult
• Resynchronization Therapy for Severe Heart Failure
• Medical Management for Chronic Heart Failure
• Bariaric Surgery and Other Treatments for Obesity
• Cardiac Cell Therapy - “Are Cells Really Necessary?”
• Global Burden of Coronary Artery Disease

The conference evaluation for ACC Lake Louise 2007 is in. Here are some highlights of what last year’s attendees had to say:

What are the strong points of this conference?

• Breadth of topics; high calibre of speakers; time schedule; location.
• Broad topics, lots of time to ski.
• Clear practical and useful information. Excellent speakers.
• Ease of attending lectures, location, and food.
• Excellent time distributution between business and leisure
• Excellent venue. Excellent program.
• Generally relevant topics.
• Location of conference, calibre of speakers
• Location, speakers.
• Location/hotel/satellite symposiums
• Lots of interesting approached to the topics.
• On time, good speakers, good topics
• Overall excellent
• Program organization exceptional
• Relevant topics for the most part for the cardiologist and noncardiologist. Concise.
• Since I am an ER Physician session on ACS, BNP were very useful; bleeding in ACS.
• Small, personalized conference with good educational program
• The good lectures, the schedule
• The length of the talks was great.
• Up to date, accurate scientific information.
• Very topical presentations - all my burning questions answered
• Wonderful lectures, gorgeous location.
• CSS workshop and breakout session

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Below is the list of 2007’s Annual Cardivascular Conference presenters and presentations. For more information about a talk or to view the supplemental materials from a presentation, click on the name of the physician below.

Dr. Todd Jeffrey Anderson
1. New Imaging Modalities for Risk Assessment
2. Angina in Women with Normal Coronary Arteries: Not as Benign as We Though

Dr. Paul W. Armstrong
1. Acute Myocardial Infarction is an Inflammatory Disease
2. NSAIDs and Cardiac Patients: Can we Balance Risk with Benefits?

Dr. Malcolm Arnold
1. Diastolic Heart Failure: Diagnosis and Treatment

Dr. Charles Bruce
1. Controversial Cases in Aortic Stenosis

Dr. Alex J. Chase
1. MORTAL Study: Mortality Benefit of Trans-Radial Anioplasty

Dr. Eric Cohen
1. Do Drug Eluting Stents Increase Cardiac Deaths?
2. PCI vs. CABG: The Impact of Drug-Eluting Stents

Dr. Jacques Genest Jr.
1. High Density Lipoproteins: The Next Target
2. Hold the (Gene) Chips: Genetics in the Prevention of CAD

Dr. Bernard J. Gersh
1. The Role of Ischemia in Sudden Cardiac Death: Implications for Coronary Revascularization

Dr. Christopher Granger
1. New Anti-Thrombotic Therapy in ACS: Practice Implications
2. Bleeding and Transfusions in ACS

Dr. Debra Isaac
1. B-Type Natriuretic Peptide in Heart Failure Management

Dr. Allan M. Ross
1. Management of STEMI in the Elderly

Dr. Jean L. Rouleau
1. ACE Inhibitors for Everyone? I Think Not

Dr. Robert C. Welsh
1. Pre-Hospital Screening and Critical Care Pathways for STEMI

Dr. John G. Webb
1. Percutaneous Transfemoral and Trans Apical Aortic Valve Replacement and Transvenous Mitral Annuloplasty for Severe Mitral Regurgitation

Biography
Professor of Medicine, University of Calgary
Chief, Division of Cardiology, Libin Cardiovascular Institute, Foothills Medical Centre
Senior Scholar of the Alberta Heritage Foundation For Medical Research

Final Degrees
M.D., 1985, University of Calgary,

1. Residency in Internal Medicine, 1985 - 1988, Foothills Hospital, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2. Clinical Fellowship in Cardiology, 1988 - 1990, Foothills Hospital, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
3. Interventional Fellowship in Cardiology, 1990 - 1991, Foothills Hospital, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
4. Research Fellowship, 1991 - 1994, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

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Biography:

Paul Armstrong is University Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Director of the Canadian VIGOUR Centre (Virtual Coordinating Centre for Global Collaborative Cardiovascular Research).

Dr. Armstrong’s investigative career has developed around congestive heart failure and acute coronary syndromes. He frequently serves as visiting professor and is the author, or co-author, of over 400 peer reviewed publications, a member of a number of international editorial boards, advisory groups and consults widely on health science matters.

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Biography

Malcolm Arnold, MD, FRCP, FRCP Edin, FRCPC, FACP, FACC received his medical degree from Queen’s University, Belfast and received further postgraduate training in Harvard Medical School, Boston. Presently he is staff cardiologist at London Health Sciences Centre, University Hospital, London, Ontario and Professor of Medicine, Physiology & Pharmacology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. He holds the position of Director of Research Affairs for the Division of Cardiology and is Program Leader, Circulation Group, Lawson Health Research Institute. He is chair of the Canadian CHF Clinics Network and currently chairs the Canadian Cardiovascular Society Heart Failure Consensus Conference Panels. He has received the UWO Faculty of Medicine Dean’s Award of Excellence for both Research and Education. Dr. Arnold’s particular areas of research interest are the therapeutic management of patients with heart failure, changes in the sympathetic nervous system and vasculature in patients with heart failure, and in the prevention of ischemic heart disease, and the translation of clinical trials into clinical practice. He is author of 28 book chapters, theses, and reviews, and has published over 170 manuscripts, over 220 abstracts, and over 120 medical education papers and teaching programs.

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Biography

Charles Bruce was born in South Africa and completed Medical School and Internal Medicine training at the University of Cape Town. He is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine and Consultant Cardiologist at Mayo Clinic. He enjoys clinical cardiology, working in the Valvular Heart Disease and Marfan’s Sndrome clinics as well as echocardiography laboratory and is interest in new applications of echocardiography. He is a Fellow of the College of Physicians of South Africa, American College of Cardiology, and American Society of Echocardiography. He is married to a dermatologist and has two teenage daughters and a son. He enjoys gardening, spending time with his family, and skiing.

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Biography

From the County of Kent in England, Alex Chase studied medicine at St John’s College, Oxford University with clinical studies at St Bartholomew’s Hospital (”Barts”), London graduating in 1993. During his specialist training in interventional cardiology he undertook a PhD in the mechanisms underlying atherosclerotic plaque rupture as a British Heart Foundation Scholar for which he was awarded the Young Investigator’s Award at the European Society of Cardiology in 2001. His other published research interests include the pleiotrophic effects of statins and inflammation in atherosclerosis. In 2005 he won the first Boston Scientific International Fellowship to focus on radial access angioplasty at the Victoria Heart Institute Foundation where he undertook the MORTAL study presented here. He is currently an interventional cardiologist in Bristol, UK.

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Biography

Dr. Eric Cohen is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, and a cardiologist at Sunnybrook & Women’s College Health Sciences Centre, where he is the Director of Invasive Cardiology and the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory.

He has been actively involved with the Cardiac Care Network of Ontario for several years. He holds the position of Medical Officer and is also Chair of the Clinical Services Committee. Dr. Cohen has chaired several CCN panels, most recently the target setting consensus panel (2004), and the panel on invasive cardiology (2001). He remains actively involved in clinical research related to interventional cardiology, and has authored or co-authored more than 60 peer reviewed publications.

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Biography

Jacques Genest is Professor of Medicine and Head of Cardiology, McGill University. MD McGill University 1980; residency in Internal Medicine at McGill and cardiology fellowship at Tufts University in 1984-6. Post-doctoral studies at Tufts University in lipoprotein metabolism and molecular genetics from 1986-90. Research interests are genetics and biogenesis of high-density lipoproteins (HDL).

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Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Consultant in Cardiovascular Diseases and Internal Medicine, and Associate Chair of Academic Affairs and Faculty Development in the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases.

His past positions include The W. Proctor Harvey Teaching Professor of Cardiology and Chief of the Division of Cardiology at Georgetown University Medical Center. Dr. Gersh received his MB, ChB, from the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He received his Doctor of Philosophy Degree from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Dr. Gersh is a Fellow of the South African College of Physicians and Royal College of Physicians in the United Kingdom as well as a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, and the American Heart Association.

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Biography

Dr. Chris Granger is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Cardiac Care Unit at Duke University Medical Center.

Dr. Granger received his BA in 1980 and graduated Cum Laude from Middlebury College in 1980. He received his MD from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in 1984. He continued his medical training at the University of Colorado, where he completed an internship and residency in Internal Medicine. He received the housestaff teaching award and served as Chief Resident. Dr. Granger then proceeded to Duke University where he completed his Fellowship in Cardiology in 1990, when he joined the faculty staff in the Division of Cardiology. Dr. Granger is a Diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine as well as being Cardiovascular Board Certified. Dr. Granger is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and of the European Society of Cardiology.

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Biography

Dr. Debra Isaac started her career in Health Care as a registered nurse, working as a staff nurse and nurse educator in Intensive Care and Cardiac Intensive Care Units in Winnipeg and Calgary. She obtained her MD degree and completed residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Calgary. She then completed a fellowship in Cardiology at Northwestern University in Chicago, and has done further clinical and research fellowships in Echocardiography, Heart Failure, and Cardiac Transplantation. She is currently an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at University of Calgary, Director of Cardiac Transplant at the Foothills Medical Centre, and Medical Director of the Echocardiography Lab at the Rockyview Hospital. She runs a clinical heart failure research program at the Heritage Medical Research Clinic, University of Calgary.

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Biography

Allan M Ross, MD, FACC, FACP was born in New York City. He graduated From Northwestern University (BA) and Chicago Med. (MD). His internal medicine and cardiology training was at George Washington U., U. of Colorado and Yale University. His Faculty positions have been at Yale and George Washington University. At the latter he served as Director of the Cardiology Division from 1978 to 1994. His present position is Professor of Medicine Emeritus (cardiology).

Dr. Ross’ investigative career has focused on acute coronary syndromes. Amongst trials he designed, managed or served on executive committees are TIMI 1 and 2, GUSTO 1 (designed and managed the angiographic substudy) and PACT. Presently he is Co-Chairman and US Principal
Investigator for ASSENT 4-PCI.

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Biography

Named dean of the faculty of medicine of the University of Montreal in June 2003, Dr. Rouleau has first obtained his MD (cum laude) from the University of Ottawa in 1974 and obtained his FRCPC in Internal Medicine and in Cardiology following his training at McGill University. He won the McLaughlin Research Fellowship to the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the University of California at San Francisco and returned to Canada where he held a number of key positions in Medicine, Cardiology, Physiology and Pharmacology at McGill University, Montreal General Hospital, University of Montreal, University of Sherbrooke and the Montreal Heart Institute.

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Biography

Robert Welsh is an Associate Professor and academic Interventional Cardiologist at the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton. He is the Co-director of the University of Alberta Chest Pain Program, which he initiated and designed in collaboration with Dr. Brian Holroyd (Chief, Emergency Medicine). He is Director of the University of Alberta Cardiology Residency Training Program. He is chair of Vital Heart Response; a regional reperfusion program for early treatment of STEMI patients.

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Biography

Clinical professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Director of cardiac catheterization and interventional cardiology at St. Pau’s Hospital, Vancouver. Research interests include percutaneous management of valvular heart disease, myocardial infarction, shock and new device development. Vancouver currently has the largest and broadest percutaneous valve experience. Active clinical programs include transarterial and transapical aortic and pulmonary valve implantation as well as conventional valvuloplasty and paravalvular leak closure. More experimental clinical mitral programs include annular stenting, suture plication and edge-to-edge repair procedures.

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The Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise is pleased to offer the following discounted room rates for attendees of the 24th Annual Cardiovascular Conference Lake Louise.  The rates do not include applicable taxes nor parking which is $17 per vehicle per night.

Fairmont (max 2 person)   Single $277   Double $319
Fairmont (Lakeview) (max 2 person) Single $322  Double $364
Deluxe Single $322 Double $364
Deluxe (Lakeview) Single $377 Double $419
Junior Suite (Mountainside) Single $377 Double $419
Junior Suite (Lakeview) Single $437 Double $479
One-Bedroom Suite (Mountainside) Single $482 Double $524
One-Bedroom Suite (Lakeview) Single $583 Double $625
Fairmont Gold from Single $427 Double $469

Additional Room Occupants:
Adults $67.00 per day
Children 6 - 18 years $29.00 per day
Children 5 years and under are complimentary

Special reduced car rental rates for ACC Lake Louise delegates are available through Avis. Please click the logo below to be taken to the specials webpage. Using the discount code on this page will automatically qualify you for reduced rates.