The Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) returns to participate in the ACC Lake Louise community!

The 2008 CCS National Workshop Initiative, under the auspices of the CCS Heart Failure Consensus Conference Program, will be at ACC Lake Louise for a third consecutive year. Lake Louise provides the venue for the first of six case-based and highly interactive CCS workshop presentations in 2008. This year’s Lake Louise workshop is titled:

Clinical Conundrums in Heart Failure

Download the CCS Workshop Invitation [3.63 MB PDF].

CCS Workshop Schedule at Lake Louise
Tuesday, 18 March 2008

4:00 PM Welcome Reception and Introduction from the Chair
Robert McKelvie, MD PhD

4:35 Case 1: (Part One) Is It Myocarditis? Does It Matter?
(Part Two) Heart Failure: Restored Function, Now What?
Debra Lynne Isaac, BN MD

5:15 Case 2: The Sparkling Is for Champagne, Not the Myocardium: Managing Amyloid Heart Disease
Anique Ducharme, MD MSc

5:35 Case 3: Doxi Toxi, and Dropsy, HER-2 New: HF and Cancer Drugs
Justin Ezekowitz, MB

5:55 Closing Remarks from the Chair

The focus of the Clinical Conundrums in Heart Failure Workshop is on establishing benchmarks and ongoing improvements in the complex care of heart failure patients. CCS will also present its newly released 2008 Heart Failure Recommendations at Lake Louise.

CCS workshops are specially designed for health care professionals, physicians, trainees, nurses and pharmacists. Contributions by workshop participants have been–and continue to be–instrumental to CCS’s commitment to establishing, promoting and assessing evidence-based recommendations for the treatment of heart failure in Canada.

Please plan to participate in the CCS workshop at Lake Louise on Tuesday, March 18, 2008.

The complete conference program agenda is also available online.