Agenda
Advances in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention: Understanding the Latest in Medications, Lifestyle, and Risk Factor Reduction
- 12:30 p.m. Registration and Vendor Visits
- 1:00 - 1:05 p.m. Welcome
- 1:05 - 1:55 p.m. Dr. Dean Ornish: An Update on the Evidence Behind Lifestyle Medicine
- 1:55 - 2:05 p.m. Q&A
- 2:05 - 2:50 p.m. Dr. Andrew Freeman – Paradigm Shifts: Understanding and Applying the Latest Lipid Guidelines
- 2:50 - 2:55 p.m. Q&A
- 2:55 - 3:15 p.m. Vendor Break
- 3:15 - 4:00 p.m. Dr. Robert Vogel: The Perfect Lifestyle to Prevent CV Disease (and Death)
- 4:00 - 4:05 p.m. Q&A
- 4:05 - 4:15 p.m. Food Setup & Vendor Break
- 4:15 - 4:35 p.m. Chef Justin Cucci (Edible Beats) Owner of Root Down, Linger and Vital Root: Plant-based Cooking Demonstration and Tasting
- 4:35 - 5:30 p.m. Tasting and vendors
Learnings
- What simple changes in diet can improve heart health
- What the optimal amount of physical activity is to reduce cardiac events
- Discover why will lifestyle medicine soon be the key to reimbursement in medicine
- How stress really worsen heart disease
- Whether we should eat more like hunter/gatherers to improve health?
- Whether we should still aim for an LDL of 70, or did we change that altogether?!
- The ACC/AHA lipid treatment guidelines are totally different than ever before – learn what changes are important to reduce your patient's CVD risk