President's Messagemarch 2022
Dear PaACC Members: In a few short days, ACC’s 72nd Annual Scientific Session/World Congress of Cardiology (ACC.23/WCC) kicks off in New Orleans – vice-chaired this year by our own PaACC colleague and former PaACC governor/president Dr. Katie Berlacher, MD, MS, FACC! Whether or not you are in the Big Easy going from room-to-room for exciting presentations or seeing the social media accounts flooded with late-breaking clinical trials, it always exciting to see the new science in our incredible field and reconnect with colleagues. On that note, we will gather as a chapter at ACC.23 and hope many of you will join us: Date: Saturday, March 4th Q&C Hotel Bar (in the AC Autographic Collection Hotel) New Orleans, LA 70130 At ACC.23, we will also be celebrating longtime PaACC leader and member Paul N. Casale, MD, MPH, FACC who will be honored by the College as a 2023 Distinguished Awardee – he will be awarded the prestigious Master of the American College of Cardiology designation - congratulations Dr. Casale! Finally, it is a busy Spring coming up for PaACC – thank you to the many PaACC members working to organize the below events. Please mark your calendars and participate! Women in Cardiology Narratives in Medicine (West - Pittsburgh) Women in Cardiology Narratives in Medicine (East - Philadelphia) CVTeam Mid-Atlantic Clinical Analysis: Urgent Topics for Today’s Practice First Annual Mid-Atlantic Women in Cardiology Conference Hope to see you in New Orleans this weekend! Srinath Adusumalli, MD, MSHP, MBMI, FACC President, PaACC Governor, Eastern PA CONGRATS TO TOWER HEALTH!
The PaACC Jeopardy Team from Tower Health was in the Finals for ACC Jeopardy at ACC.23 in New Orleans and their final ranking was #3 out of 40 Chapters! Team members Doctors Oreoluwa Oladiran, Tuoyo Mene-Afejuku, Tayyab Waheed and Hamza Hafeez deserve our congratulations! Thanks for representing the Commonwealth of PA in such an excellent manner. Special thanks for the efforts of DME- Dr. Wei Du who was very supportive and provided remaining funding to add to the PaACC grants; the Associate Program Director Dr. Julian Diaz-Fraga who is a constant force and motivation for the program; and Ms. Jessica Martinez, program coordinator, who helped arrange Jeopardy try outs, and the trips to preliminary state rounds in Washington, D.C and the finals in NOLA. |
2022 ACC/AHA Guidelines for the Management of Aortic DiseaseDate: April 19 Time: 7:00pm Location: Zoom Additional information and registration are here. |