ASPC congress to highlight all aspects of CVD prevention
Click Here to Manage Email Alerts
Key takeaways:
- The 2023 American Society of Preventive Cardiology Congress takes place Friday through Sunday in Arlington, Texas.
- The congress includes lectures from international faculty, debates and networking opportunities.
The American Society for Preventive Cardiology Congress on CVD Prevention will be held Friday through Sunday and will emphasize inclusiveness by focusing on the “care of one and all” at risk for CVD.
The American Society for Preventive Cardiology (ASPC) Congress, which touts an expanded program this year, takes place in Arlington, Texas, and includes lectures from national and international faculty, as well as several debates, more than 70 accepted abstracts and opportunities for networking with leaders in the field.
“This is our biggest ASPC Congress yet,” Michael D. Shapiro, DO, the Fred M. Parrish Professor of Cardiology and Molecular Medicine and director of the Center for Prevention and Cardiovascular Disease at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and president-elect of the ASPC, told Healio. “We now have a full Friday, a full Saturday and half day of programming Sunday. We have much more content, because there is so much to cover in this field and there is growing enthusiasm among attendees.”
The ASPC is the only professional society in the United States that is wholly dedicated to prevention of CVD, Shapiro said during an interview.
“The ASPC looks at all the risk factors involved in CVD and the ways we can intervene, both with medical therapy and other interventions, to reduce risk,” Shapiro said. “It is not partitioned in one area or another; it is global.”
Martha Gulati, MD, MS, FACC, FAHA, FASPC, associate director of the Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center, director of preventive cardiology at Cedars-Sinai and president of the ASPC, said congress organizers made a concerted effort to respond to what ASPC members are asking for.
“We want to provide the most current updates in prevention that are clinically relevant but also exciting to our community — and our community has grown dramatically since the pandemic,” Gulati said during an interview. “This will be our biggest meeting.”
Meeting highlights include:
- Keynote lectures this year include the Honorary Fellow Award Lecture, titled “The Imperative to Focus on the Prevention of Atrial Fibrillation,” with Emelia Benjamin, MD, ScM; the Pioneer in Prevention Award Lecture, titled “My Journey in Heart Disease Prevention: Gratitude from the Heart,” with Larry Sperling, MD, FASPC; and the Nanette Wenger Award Lecture by Janet Wright, MD.
- What is preventive cardiology? On Friday beginning at 4:35 p.m. CDT, three faculty members will provide European, U.S. and Canadian perspectives on what preventive cardiology is, followed by a discussion panel. “Preventive cardiology is less intuitive to people than, say, interventional cardiology or HF,” Shapiro said. “What does it mean to say you are a preventive cardiologist, and do you even need to be a cardiologist to say you are a preventive cardiologist? This is a topic we have not broached before.”
- Debating challenges in preventive cardiology: This year’s program includes a session devoted to three debates on Saturday beginning at 9 a.m. CDT, including whether to use coronary artery calcium testing in familial hypercholesterolemia, whether to order a polygenic risk score or a CAC scan for better risk assessment, and whether omega-3 fatty acids still have a role in preventing CV events.
- Cutting-edge prevention trials: On Sunday at 8 a.m. CDT, there will be a session devoted to ongoing trials in preventive cardiology, including VA-IMPACT, PREVENTABLE and CAC-PREVENTABLE and SURPASS-CVOT. “Usually, you just hear the results of trials. Here, we will highlight three trials that may be practice-changing that are still going on, from the principal investigators themselves,” Shapiro said.
- Networking opportunities include early career abstract presentations beginning Saturday at 11 a.m. CDT, plus a dedicated session for fellows in training and early career attendees to meet with established cardiologists and mentors in the field of preventive cardiology.
“We are very sensitive to the issue that we need to get young people excited about our field,” Shapiro said. “We want to give them every opportunity to learn what it means to be a preventive cardiologist and why it is the best field to be in. All trainees have no membership fee and the congress is offered at a steeply discounted rate for trainees. We try to make them feel welcome.”
Healio is an official media partner of the ASPC Congress 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.
Reference:
- ASPC 2023 Congress on CVD Prevention. www.aspconline.org/2023congress. Accessed July 18, 2023.
Collapse
Healio Interviews
Click Here to Manage Email Alerts