Athlete’s heart, sudden death and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Join us on the beautiful Stanford campus for two days of stimulating talks, enthusiastic discussion and vigorous debate.

TOPICS

The athlete’s heart: physiologic demands, cardiac remodeling and the risk of sports
International perspectives and strategies for screening athletes
Modern management of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Assessing and managing risk of sudden cardiac death
Cardiovascular genetics: what the practitioner needs to know

SPEAKERS

Barry Maron, MD, Director, Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation
Antonio Pelliccia, MD, Director, Institute of Sports Medicine, Rome, Italy
Gary Balady, MD, Professor of Medicine, Boston University
Sharlene Day, MD, Director, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Clinic, University of Michigan
Jonathan Drezner, MD, Associate Professor, University of Washington
Perry Elliot, FRCP, Senior Lecturer, The Heart Hospital, London, UK
Mark Estes III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Tufts University
Victor Froelicher, MD, Professor of Medicine, Stanford University
Carolyn Ho, MD, Brigham and Women's Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston
Jonathan Myers, PhD, Clinical Professor of Medicine, Stanford University
Paul Thompson, MD, Director, Division of Cardiology, University of Connecticut
Paul Wang, MD, Director of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, Stanford University

AGENDA

DINNER
Friday June 26, Four Seasons Hotel featuring celebrity guest speaker

Poster Session recently added.  Please contact Terra Coakley at (650) 725-6186 or tcoakley@stanford.edu for criteria.  Send poster abstracts to tcoakley@stanford.edu by Friday, June 12, 2009.

Course Director:  Euan Ashley, MRCP, FACC, FESC, Director, Stanford Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center