2022 HFSA AHFTC Board Review

Content:

Day 1
Session 1 : Cardiac Transplantation
-Welcome and HFSA Introduction
Akshay Desai, MD, MPH, FHFSA
John Barnes, HFSA CEO

-Advanced Heart Failure: Defining the Phenotype and
Patient Selection for Advanced Therapies (with LIVE
Q&A)
Nancy Sweitzer, MD, PhD, FHFSA

-Immunology: The Basics, PRA, Sensitization,
Crossmatch( PDF)
Sean Pinney, MD

LIVE Q&A:
-Managing Immunosuppression and Drugs
-Heart Transplant, Clinical Outcomes and Complications
Michelle Kittleson, MD, PhD

-Heart Transplant, Clinical Outcomes and Complications
Michelle Kittleson, MD, PhD

Day 2
-Welcome and Introductions (LIVE)
Akshay Desai, MD, MPH, FHFSA

SESSION II: Key Issues in HF Management (Part I)

-Hemodynamics in HF II (with LIVE Q&A)
James C. Fang, MD, FHFSA

-Optimal Medical Therapy for HFrEF (1)
Mark Drazner, MD, MSc, FHFSA

-Optimal Medical Therapy for HFrEF (2)
Mark Drazner, MD, MSc, FHFSA

-LIVE Q&A:
-Optimal Medical Therapy for HFrEF
Mark Drazner, MD, MSc, FHFSA

-HFpEF: Epidemiology, Risk Factors, Diagnosis,
Management – for the boards (with LIVE Q&A)
Sanjiv Shah, MD

SESSION II: Key Issues in HF Management (Part II)
-Management of the Hospitalized HF Patient
Maria Rosa Costanzo, MD

-Pulmonary Hypertension – Therapy (with LIVE Q&A)
Jonathan Rich, MD, FHFSA

-Management of Common Arrhythmias – Atrial Fib and
Flutter
Roderick Tung, MD

-LIVE Q&A:
-Management of Common Arrhythmias I – Atrial Fib and
Flutter
-Management of Common Arrhythmias II
Roderick Tung, MD

-Device Therapy in Heart Failure I – Sudden Death
Prevention
Wendy Tzou, MD, FACC, FHRS

-Device Therapy in Heart Failure II – CRT
Wendy Tzou, MD, FACC, FHRS

-LIVE Q&A:
-Device Therapy in Heart Failure I – Sudden Death
Prevention
-Device Therapy in Heart Failure II – CRT
Wendy Tzou, MD, FACC, FHRS

SESSION II: Key Issues in HF Management (Part III)

-Management of Comorbidities in Heart Failure – Iron
Deficiencies/Anemia (with LIVE Q&A)
Maria Rosa Costanzo, MD

-Cardio Renal Failure Interactions in Heart Failure
(with LIVE Q&A)
Jeff Testani, MD, MTR

SESSION III: Specific Heart Failure Syndromes

-Specific Etiologies of HF I: Common Etiologies – CAD,
ETOH, Peripartum, Myocarditis (with LIVE Q&A)
Akshay Desai, MD, MPH, FHFSA

-Specific Etiologies of HF II: Inherited HF syndromes
including HCM, ARVC, and LVNC (with LIVE Q&A)
Jane Wilcox, MD, MSc, FHFSA

-Specific Etiologies of HF III: Infiltrative Disorders
and Restrictive Cardiomyopathy – Amyloidosis,
Sarcoidosis, Hemochromatosis, Fabry (with LIVE Q&A)
Sanjiv Shah, MD

-Q&A Faculty Panel – Day 2

Q&A Faculty Panel
Program Co-Chairs

Day 3

-Welcome and Introductions (LIVE)
Akshay Desai, MD, MPH, FHFSA

SESSION IV: Shock/MCS

-Cardiogenic Shock Management (with LIVE Q&A)
Nancy Sweitzer, MD, PhD, FHFSA

-MCS I: Durable MCS Devices and Outcomes (with LIVE
Q&A)
Joseph Rogers, MD

-MCS II: Temporary Support Devices and ECMO for the
Boards
Jennifer Cowger, MD, MS

-LIVE Q&A

MCS IV: Interactive Shock and Device Management (Note:
Live Session)
Daniel Burkhoff, MD, PhD
Jennifer Cowger, MD, MS
Joseph Rogers, MD
Nancy Sweitzer, MD, PhD, FHFSA

SESSION V: Special Topics in HF

-Assessment of Functional Capacity including
Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing (with LIVE Q&A)
Gregory Lewis, MD

-Healthcare Disparities in HF (with LIVE Q&A)
Khadijah Breathett, MD, MS, FACC, FAHA, FHFSA

-Issues in Chronic HF Disease Management – Biomarkers,
Remote Monitoring, Lifestyle Interventions (with LIVE
Q&A)
Akshay Desai, MD, MPH, FHFSA

-Management of Left Sided Valvular Heart Disease in
Heart Failure including Functional MR, Low Gradient AS
(with LIVE Q&A)
Jane Wilcox, MD, MSc, FHFSA

-Adult Congenital Heart Disease for the HF Specialist
(with LIVE Q&A)
Eric Krieger, MD

Q&A Faculty Panel – Day 3

-Q&A Faculty Panel

Program Co-Chairs

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Heart Failure Fundamentals

-Heart Failure Epidemiology and Risk Factors
-Pathophysiology I: Cellular and Energetic onsideration
-Pathophysiology II: Hemodynamic, Structural, and
Neurohormonal Considerations
-Diagnosis and Clinical Assessment
-Cardio-Oncology for the Heart Failure Boards
– Clinico-Pathologic Correlates in Heart Failure Images
for the Heart Failure Boards
-Statistics for the HF Board
-Hemodynamics in Heart Failure
-Pulmonary (arterial) hypertension:Classification and
Evaluation
-Comorbidities in Heart Failure: Focus on Diabetes and
COPD
-RV Failure and TR Management
-Management of Comorbidities in Heart Failure – Sleep
Disorder