CSCC Webinar Lectureship on Cardiovascular Disease
Thursday February 13, 2014
08:30 BC/09:30 AB & SK/10:30 MB/11:30 ON & QC/12:30 NS & NB/13:00 NL
Sponsored by
Cardiovascular Biomarkers
Speaker:
Dr. Alan S. Maisel
Professor of Medicine UCSD
Director CCU and Heart Failure Program, San Diego VA Medical Center
There is no charge to attend this lecture but it is necessary to register
This talk will review the role of biomarkers in heart disease. The main focus will be on diagnosis of heart failure, screening for heart dysfunction, risk stratification of patients and finally, guiding of treatment.
At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:
1) Understand how biomarkers can be used to diagnose heart failure;
2) Understand the caveats on bnp and ntprobnp use;
3) Understand biomarkers in risk stratification;
4) Understand how biomarkers will be used to titrate medical treatment.
Dr. Alan S Maisel graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School, received his internal medicine training at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, and completed a cardiology fellowship at the University of California, San Diego.
Dr. Maisel is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He is the Director of the Coronary Care Unit and Heart Failure Program at the VA San Diego Healthcare System in La Jolla, California. Dr. Maisel is active on the faculty at UCSD where he has won numerous teaching awards.
.Dr Maisel is considered one of the world’s experts on cardiac biomarkers and has over 300 scientific publications. He has authored several ground-breaking publications that have paved the way for development of diagnostic tools for patients with congestive heart failure. In particular, he was the leading investigator on studies that brought the use of BNP into clinical practice.
Dr Maisel is also a writer of medical fiction. His first novel, Bedside Manners was optioned to Warner Brothers. His second novel, Brain Chicane, is about a young and idealistic physician working at the premier multiple-organ transplant hospital in Chicago where he investigates overdose cases that are not totally kosher.
Dr Maisel is an associate editor of the Journal of the American College Cardiology. He is also co-founder of a mitochondrial drug company and a biomarker discovery company.
He helps raise five children and gave up on sleep five years ago.