美国心脏病学会(ACC)在2015年长城国际心血管病学大会上有四个联合会议。第一次会议将于2015年10月30日星期五下午2:00召开，会议重点为电生理。FACC会员kousik Krishnan博士将介绍“左心耳封闭装置–关上中风之门？”FACC会员Anne B. Curtis 博士，FACC将介绍“预防心房颤动卒中的新治疗方法”。FACC会员ACC主席Kim Williams博士将于中国的专家共同主持此次会议。
“心血管疾病预防”会议将在电生理会议后，下午4:00召开。这个会议将由FACC会员Anthony DeMaria博士主持；FACC会员Vera Bittner博士解说盐与高血压；FACC会员Cathleen Noel Bairey Merz解读新的JNC-8指南。
ACC@GWICC将在2015年10月31日下午2:00 举办 “介入治疗” 联席会议。Aaron Kugelmass将为开幕式就 “导管室设计与管理”进行演讲。另外，FACC会员John Rumsfeld博士介绍“PCI和TAVR登记注册：新技术质量性能评估”。会议将由FACC会员Douglas Weaver博士与中国的介入专家主持。
一场题为 “在减少心血管死亡率近年来老年人”的会议将在2015年10月31日下午4:00召开。Nanette Wenger将作为共同会议主持对急性冠脉综合征进行探讨。FACC会员Anne Curtis博士将针对心房颤动进行探讨。
出席大会嘉宾：
Kousik Krishnan, M.D., FACC, FHRS
Rush University Medical Center
About 100 publications.
Anne B. Curtis, MD
Charles and Mary Bauer Professor and Chair
UB Distinguished Professor
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY, USA
Past President, Heart Rhythm Society
More than 285 publications.
W. Douglas Weaver, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Past President, American College of Cardiology
Research interests; Dr. Weaver has over 300 publications in the area of cute and chronic interventions in acute coronary syndromes. He has served on numerous multi-national steering clinical trial committees and data and safety monitoring committees evaluating new therapeutics for improving outcomes in patients with coronary artery disease, devices interventions, and treatments to prevent sudden cardiac death. His current activities are in better understanding the role of mitochondrial diseases in causing several clinical disorders and physical disability.
JOHN S. RUMSFELD, MD, PhD, FACC
Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Chief Science Officer and Chair, American College of Cardiology National Cardiovascular Data
Registries (NCDR)
National Director of Cardiology, U.S. Veterans Health Administration
More than 200 publications.
Anthony N. DeMaria, M.D
Associate Dean, Outreach and External Relations
University of California, San Diego
More than 700 publications
Vera A. Bittner, MD, MSPH
Dr. Bittner is Professor of Medicine and Section Head of General Cardiology, Prevention and Imaging in the Division of Cardiovascular Disease at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is Medical Director of the Coronary Care Unit and the Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Program and serves as UAB Hospital Quality Officer and as a member of the Institutional Provider Integration Network. She has served in leadership roles in the American College of Cardiology, National Lipid Association, American Heart Association, and the American Association for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation. She has published more than 250 peer-reviewed articles, scientific statements, editorials, reviews and book chapters with a focus on cardiovascular disease prevention and cardiovascular disease in women.
Kim Allan Williams, MD, FACC, FASNC, FAHA
Dr. Kim Allan Williams was born and raised in inner-city Chicago, and attended the College of The University of Chicago (1971 - 1975), followed by the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine (1975-1979), internal medicine residency at Emory University (1979-1982), and overlapping fellowships in Cardiology at the University of Chicago (1982-1985), Clinical Pharmacology (1984-1985), and Nuclear Medicine (1984-1986). He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, Nuclear Medicine, Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiovascular Computed Tomography.
Dr. Williams joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1986, specializing in clinical cardiology, nuclear medicine and nuclear cardiology. He served as Professor of Medicine and Radiology and Director of Nuclear Cardiology at The University of Chicago School of Medicine until 2010. Among numerous awards and honors for his teaching in the medical school, residencies and fellowships, he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha in 2008.
In 2010, he became the Dorothy Susan Timmis Endowed Professor of Medicine and Radiologyand Chairman of the Division of Cardiology at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, MI. At Wayne State, he has started the Urban Cardiology Initiative – a program of education of physicians on disparities in healthcare, primary school education on cardiovascular health andcommunity health screening in inner city Detroit. In November, 2013 he returned to Chicago as the James B. Herrick Endowed Professor of Medicine and Cardiology at Rush University Medical Center.
C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD, FACC, FAHA
Women's Guild Endowed Chair in Women's Health Director, Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center Director, Linda Joy Pollin Women's Heart Health Program Director, Preventive Cardiac Center Professor of Medicine Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute.
