
2023 ACC-Massachusetts Annual Meeting: Saturday, April 1, 2023
7:30 a.m. Registration Opens; Breakfast – Exhibit Hall
7:50 a.m. Welcome – Colleen Harrington, MD, FACC - Chapter Governor

8:00 – 9:00 a.m. Independent CME Program: State of the Art Antithrombotic Therapies for Coronary and Peripheral Atherosclerosis with Christian Ruff,MD, MPH - Director, General Cardiology, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School; Senior Investigator, TIMI Group
9:00 – 9:10 a.m. FIT Case Study with Ayelet Shapira-Daniels, MD - Boston Medical Center
9:10 – 9:55 a.m. Cardiovascular Care of the Transgender Patient with C. Streed Jr MD, MPH, FACP - Assistant Professor
of Medicine Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston University Aram V. Chobanian & Edward Avedisian School of Medicine; Research Lead, Center for Transgender Medicine & Surgery, Boston Medical Center

10:00 - 10:15 a.m. Break - Exhibit Hall

10:15 – 10:25 a.m. FIT Case Study with Leah Kosyakovsky, MD - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
10:25 – 11:10 a.m. The Role of Biomarkers and GDMT in Heart Failure with James Januzzi, MD, FACC - Director, Dennis and Marilyn Barry Fellowship in Cardiology Research; Massachusetts General Hospital

11:10 – 11:20 a.m. FIT Case Study with Rohan Parikh, MD - Lahey Hospital
11:20 - 12:05 p.m. Climate Change and Cardiovascular Care with Special Guest Speaker Jamal S. Rana, MD, PhD, FACC - Chief of Cardiology; Kaiser Permanente’s Oakland Medical Center; Immediate Past President - American College of Cardiology, California Chapter

12:05 – 12:15 p.m. FIT Case Study with Sean Murphy, MD - Massachusetts General Hospital
12:15 – 1:00 p.m. The Diagnosis and Management of Aortic Disease with Eric M. Isselbacher, M.D., M.Sc. - Edmund N. Ansin Endowed Chair In Healthcare Transformation; Director, Healthcare Transformation Lab; Co-Director, MGH Thoracic Aortic Center, Massachusetts General Hospital

1:15 p.m. Lunch Program: FIT Oral Presentation Competition
Top Finalists from the 2023 ACC-Mass FIT Poster Competition will present at the ACC-Mass Annual Meeting.
This program is applying for Continuing Medical Education for up to 4.75 CE hours.
*Agenda subject to change.