“This activity is jointly sponsored by Saint Joseph’s Translational Research Institute and Medical Education Collaborative (MEC). MEC is a non-profit organization that has been certifying quality educational activities since 1988.”

Purpose Statement
The participants will learn the principles of exercise physiology and how to apply this information to clinical diagnostic tests to better understand the causes of exercise intolerance in patients and to then diagnosis the causes of these symptoms.

Target Audience
Physicians, Physician’s Assistants, Nurses and Nurse Practitioners.

Learning Objectives
Explain how cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) can assist in identifying patients with exercise-induced ischemia, macrovascular and microvascular.

Explain how correlating CPET and echocardiogram data can be used to diagnose systolic and diastolic heart failure at earlier stage of the disease process to improve patient care.

Differentiate cardiac from pulmonary causes of dyspnea.

Explain the complex genotype/phenotype interactions as they relate to coronary heart disease and understand the diagnostic role and clinical utility of genotyping.

Discuss ways to improve prevention, early diagnosis and risk reduction in cardiovascular disease in women through effective management.

Explain how addressing ischemia at the cellular level, by improving the metabolic needs of the cardiac muscle, can improve the symptoms of angina pectoris.

Accreditation Statements

Physicians
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of Medical Education Collaborative, Inc. (MEC) and Saint Joseph’s Translational Research Institute. The Medical Education Collaborative, Inc is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Medical Education Collaborative designates this educational activity for a maximum of 6.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses
Medical Education Collaborative (MEC) is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

This continuing nursing education activity for 6.25 hrs contact hour(s) is provided by MEC.

Instructions for Credit:
This will be a live didactic activity with Q & A sessions. To receive credit participants will have to attend at least one 60 minutes session and provide an evaluation form and credit application.

Commercial Support
“This program is supported by an educational grant from CV Therapeutics and Met-test”