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Hutter Family Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Physician, Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital; Senior Cardiometabolic Faculty, Baim Institute for Clinical Research, Boston, Massachusetts
Vice Chief for Academic Affairs, InovaHeart and Vascular Institute; Director of Chest Pain Unit and Cardiovascular Phase I Unit, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, Virginia; Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
Professor of Medicine; Director, Coronary Care Unit, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
Memorial Medical Center, Heart Failure Disease Management Program, Springfield, Illinois; University of Illinois Chicago College of Nursing
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This activity is intended for cardiologists, primary care providers (PCPs), emergency medicine physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, and all clinicians interested in patients living with heart failure (HF).
The goal of this activity is to improve clinicians’ clinical inertia related to the use of lab tests, and, in particular, biomarker-guided therapy in patients with HF.
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As an organization accredited by the ACCME, Medscape, LLC, requires everyone who is in a position to control the content of an education activity to disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest. The ACCME defines "relevant financial relationships" as financial relationships in any amount, occurring within the past 12 months, including financial relationships of a spouse or life partner, that could create a conflict of interest.
Medscape, LLC, encourages Authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration, at first mention and where appropriate in the content.
Hutter Family Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Physician, Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital; Senior Cardiometabolic Faculty, Baim Institute for Clinical Research, Boston, Massachusetts
Vice Chief for Academic Affairs, InovaHeart and Vascular Institute; Director of Chest Pain Unit and Cardiovascular Phase I Unit, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, Virginia; Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
Professor of Medicine; Director, Coronary Care Unit, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
Memorial Medical Center, Heart Failure Disease Management Program, Springfield, Illinois; University of Illinois Chicago College of Nursing
This activity has been peer reviewed and the reviewer has disclosed the following relevant financial relationships:
|Served as advisor or consultant for: Abbott Laboratories; Heartware; Medtronic, Inc.; Thoratec Corporation
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CME / ABIM MOC / CE Released: 12/17/2017
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