CardioExchange Archive

March 29th, 2012

Final Note from ACC: Insights on Board (Re)Certification

John Ryan, MD

A CardioExchange event takes some of the mystery and anxiety out of the board certification process.

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March 24th, 2012

Whither Conferences? Searching for the South by Southwest Passage

John Ryan, MD

While our conferences shrink, events that put the attendee at the center are growing. What the ACC and AHA learn from the likes of South by Southwest?

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March 22nd, 2012

ACC 2012 at Chicago: Hosting the World

John Ryan, MD

Chicago is a wonderful city for meetings, and the ACC should be a great learning experience. Here’s how to get the most out of the experience.

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December 22nd, 2011

A New Brave New World? Impact of Technology on Fellowship Training

John Ryan, MD

Last week, CardioMEMS failed to get approval from an FDA advisory panel for treating heart failure based on uncertainty regarding the benefit;  the advisory panel also raised concerns about study bias. This intracardiac device measures pulmonary artery pressures that clinicians can use (in addition to other clinical signals, such as weight gain) to select therapies […]

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November 18th, 2011

AHA.11 Concludes and Our Fellows Reflect

CardioExchange Editors, Staff, Eiman Jahangir, MD, John Ryan, MD, Amit Shah, MD, MSCR and Reva Balakrishnan, MD, MPH

Several Cardiology Fellows who are attending AHA.11 this week are blogging together on CardioExchange.  The Fellows include Revathi Balakrishnan, Eiman Jahangir, John Ryan (moderator), and Amit Shah. Read the previous post here. This is their final post. See their complete coverage at the bottom of this post and in this review of our AHA coverage. Readers, were […]

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November 16th, 2011

POWER to the People

John Ryan, MD

Several Cardiology Fellows who are attending AHA.11 this week are blogging together on CardioExchange.  The Fellows include Revathi Balakrishnan, Eiman Jahangir, John Ryan (moderator), and Amit Shah. Read the previous post here. Check back often to learn about the biggest buzz in Orlando. Tuesday, I heard the presentation of the Practice-Based Opportunities for Weight Reduction (POWER) trial, […]

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November 15th, 2011

MI FREE: A Free Lunch for Patients and Insurers Alike?

John Ryan, MD

Removing copays increased adherence, decreased events, and saved the sponsoring insurance company a tidy sum. So are the issues with insurance-sponsored studies different from those with pharmaceutical-sponsored ones?

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November 13th, 2011

What Will Keep Me Coming Back to AHA?

John Ryan, MD

A special seminar dedicated to emerging concepts of the right ventricle is exemplary of the kind of content that makes AHA worth the journey.

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November 13th, 2011

Part of the System

John Ryan, MD

Several Cardiology Fellows who are attending AHA.11 this week are blogging together on CardioExchange.  The Fellows include Revathi Balakrishnan, Eiman Jahangir, John Ryan (moderator), and Amit Shah. Read the previous post here. Check back often to learn about the biggest buzz in Orlando. The first AHA meeting that I went to was three years ago. It was […]

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November 12th, 2011

AHA.11: An Orlando Eating Tour

John Ryan, MD

As at previous major cardiology meetings, CardioExchange has fellows from around the country blogging about their experiences at the Scientific Sessions at the AHA. Revathi Balakrishnan, first-year fellow at NYU; Eiman Jahangir, third-year fellow from Vanderbilt; Amit Shah, second-year fellow at Emory; and John Ryan, third-year fellow at University of Chicago will be sharing us with […]

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