Featured Workshops

Novel Anticoagulants Workshop

Saturday, June 4
8:00 a.m.-Noon
Register at the SVM Registraiton Desk at the Meeting
Seaport Hotel, One Seaport Lane, Boston, Mass.

How these new medications, both in class and indication, fit appropriately into our armamentarium remains unclear. SVM has created this session to communicate the pharmacology, how the drugs should be used in venous thromboembolism and atrial fibrillation, the impact on hospital P&T committees and how the new agents will affect anticoagulation clinics.This is a stem-to-stern course on these new agents. This session presents speakers who are the leaders of the major clinical trials and nationally known experts in thrombosis.

This workshop is ideal for pharmacists, NPs, PAs, as well as physicians.

This workshop is included with your annual meeting registration or register for the workshop only for $75.

Workshop Program

Pharmacology of the new agents

TBA

New Therapies in Atrial Fibrillation

Jonathan Halperin, MD, FSVM, The Cardiovascular Institute

New Directions in Venous Thromboembolism

Samuel Z. Goldhaber, MD, FSVM, Brigham & Women's Hospital

Case Discussions: (Panel of 3)

Jerry Bartholomew, MD, FSVM, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Robert D. McBane, MD, FSVM, Mayo Clinic
Matthew T. Rondina, MD, University of Utah Health Sciences Center

Impact of novel agents on a hospital's budget and anticoagulation service

Julie K. Atay, PharmD, MBA, Brigham & Women's Hospital

The P&T committee response to the $10/day pill, locally and nationally

John Fanikos, PharmD, MBA, Brigham & Women's Hospital

Panel discussion/audience Q & A

Jerry Bartholomew, MD, FSVM, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Accreditation for Pharmacists -- Novel Anticoagulant Workshop
TG Medical Education, LLC is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This activity provides 4 hours (0.4 CEUs) of continuing pharmacy education credit.


Antiplatelet Therapy Workshop

Friday, June 3,
10:20 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.

A targeted session on antiplatlet therapy will bring practitioners up to date.  It will begin with a discussion of the biology of the platelet in atherosclerosis, whether patients with peripheral artery disease should be treated with aspirin, discuss whether genetic testing should be employed with antiplatlet agents, and bring everyone up to date in point-of-care platelet inhibition testing.  These talks will be given by leaders in the field, a master class for cardiovascular physicians, NPs, and PAs in antiplatelet therapy in 2011.

This workshop is included with your annual meeting registration.

Workshop Program

Inflammation and Platelets in Atherothrombosis

Peter Libby, MD, Brigham & Women's Hospital

Should PAD Patients Routinely Be Treated with Asprin?

William R. Hiatt, MD, FSVM, CPC Clinical Research

Genetics and Platelet Inhibition:
Ready for Primetime?

Marc Sabatine, MD, MPH, Brigham & Women's Hospital

Point of Care Platelet Reactivity Testing: 2011

Deepak Bhatt, MD, Brigham & Women's Hospital