ASPC announces program for annual Congress on CVD Prevention
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The American Society for Preventive Cardiology announced details of a full program of events to be held at the annual Congress on CVD Prevention, scheduled in 2023 for July 19-23 at the Live! By Loews hotel in Arlington, Texas.
The scientific sessions will be held Friday, July 21, through Sunday, July 23. Two preconference courses are offered July 19 and July 20, including the in-depth Preventive Cardiology Experts Course which is returning live to the stage after only being available via on demand in 2022 and the Imaging MasterClass which is back for a second year by popular demand.
Features of the 2023 expanded program include diverse content with many international experts joining the program for the first time, plus four honorees in the field of prevention, as well as a record number of abstracts in the poster hall.
The four ASPC awardees include:
- The Honorary Fellow Award will be presented to Emelia Benjamin, MD, ScM, from Boston University School of Medicine. Benjamin’s Honorary Fellow Award lecture is entitled "The Imperative to Focus on the Prevention of Atrial Fibrillation.”
- The Pioneer in Prevention Award will be presented to Laurence Sperling, MD, from Emory University and the CDC’s Million Hearts program. Sperling’s Award lecture is entitled “My Journey in Heart Disease Prevention: Gratitude from the Heart.”
- The Nanette Wenger Award will be presented to Janet Wright, MD, director of the CDC’s Division of Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention.
- The Joseph Stokes III, MD Award will be presented to William Roberts, MD, from Baylor University and former Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Cardiology for 40 years.
ASPC will honor these awardees during the opening session on Friday, July 21.
The last session of the opening day will feature a panel of global leaders discussing and defining what preventive cardiology is and what it should be. Ana Abreu, MD, PhD, (Lisbon) will be representing the European Society of Cardiology’s preventive cardiology community, known as the European Association of Preventive Cardiology, offering the European perspective. John Mancini, MD, (British Columbia) will be representing the Canadian perspective and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society. ASPC Treasurer David Maron, MD, FASPC, (Stanford) will be representing the United States’ perspective for the ASPC.
Healio is an official media partner of the ASPC Congress on CVD Prevention and will be reporting live from this year’s meeting.
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The detailed program agenda and registration information can be found at www.aspconline.org/2023Congress.
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