Yancy to receive award, present Honorary Fellowship Lecture at ASPC summit
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Clyde Yancy, MD, MSc, FASPC, is being honored as the 2021 recipient of the Honorary Fellow of the ASPC Award at the American Society for Preventive Cardiology Virtual Summit on CVD Prevention, to be held July 23 to 25.
This award is given each year to an individual who has made extraordinary contributions to the field of preventive cardiology through groundbreaking research, exemplary clinical care and/or excellence in education.
Yancy concomitantly serves as chief of cardiology and vice dean of diversity and inclusion at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and associate director of the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He holds the Magerstadt Endowed Professor of Medicine Chair and holds an appointment as professor of medical social sciences. His research interests include HF, clinical guideline generation, outcomes sciences, personalized medicine and health care disparities. He has published more than 500 peer-reviewed publications and is one of the most highly cited authors.
For his Honorary Fellowship Lecture, Yancy will discuss: A New Kind of Prevention – Reducing Cardiovascular Health Disparities at the Community and Individual Level.
Other distinguished lectures during the ASPC 2021 Virtual Summit on CVD Prevention include:
On Friday, July 23, the Keynote Lecture: Evolution of The ABC’s Of Primary & Secondary
Prevention of CVD will be presented by Cardiology Today Prevention Section Editor Roger Blumenthal, MD, FASPC, The Kenneth Jay Pollin Professor of Cardiology, professor of medicine and director of Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease.
Also on July 23, Suzanne Oparil, MD, distinguished professor of medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, will present the Leaders in Medicine Lecture in which she will discuss hypertension as the future CVD prevention.
On Saturday, July 24, JoAnn E. Manson, MD, MPH, DrPH, professor of medicine and the Michael and Lee Bell Professor of Women’s Health at Harvard Medical School, professor in the department of epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and chief of the division of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, will present the Nanette K. Wenger, MD Lecture discussing the VITAL Trial: How VITAL are Vitamin D and Omega-3s for Cardiometabolic Health.
On Sunday, July 25, Nathan Wong, PhD, MPH, FASPC, will receive the 2021 Joseph Stokes III, MD Award, given to an individual each year for honoring their lifetime achievement in preventive cardiology. He will present his lecture on the Evolution of Preventive Cardiology – Framingham and Beyond.
The event will take place virtually, July 23 to 25, with an emphasis on inclusiveness and the care for all at risk for CVD. The ASPC Virtual Summit agenda will also include many other topics in the broad field that is preventive cardiology and provide up to 15.5 CE/MOC/AAPA credits. Topics include CAC vs. Biomarkers Debate, Ischemic Heart Disease, The Great Diet Debate, Preventing Heart Failure, Atrial Fibrillation, Management and Treatment of PAD, Practical Applications of New Prevention Therapies, Practical Strategies in Practice, and Prevention in Special Populations.
Join the conversation by registering for the ASPC Virtual Summit and interact through the live chat with world-renowned thought leaders and gain real-world perspective on how to translate current CVD prevention research into effective treatment strategies for clinical practice. Presentations will be available on-demand from Aug. 6 to Dec. 6.
Healio is a media partner of the ASPC Virtual Summit on CVD Prevention. The Healio team will provide coverage from the meeting, including reports on the sessions above and more. Follow along at this link and on Twitter at @CardiologyToday. For more information on ASPC, visit www.aspconline.org.