Progress in the Treatment of Cardiovascular Diseases: 2008
CME Credit Available
Co-Chairs

Marc Cohen, MD, FACC
Director, Division of Cardiology
Director, Cardiovascular Diseases Fellowship
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
Newark, NJ

Gary J. Rogal, MD, FACC
Chief of Cardiology
Saint Barnabas Health Care System
Livingston, NJ

Craig R. Saunders, MD, FACS
Chairman, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Saint Barnabas Health Care System
Livingston, NJ
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Quality Initiatives in New Jersey: The Cardiology Report Card
Case Study: Hybrid Approach to Congenital Heart Disease
Case Study: 87 YO Female ASD
Case Study: First in New Jersey: Percutaneous VSD Closure
New & Evolving Stent Technology
Case Study: Complex Coronary Disease
Case Study: Young Woman with Acute MI and PFO
Update on AFib, ATHENA Trial
Lipids and Lipid Lowering Agents in the CV Patient. Are Patients Scared of Therapy?/The Impact of Diabetes Cardiovascular Disease
Smoking Cessation: A Model for Success
Case Study: Takayasu’s Related Aortic Stenosis
Acute Coronary Syndromes: Antithrombin Strategies
Antiplatelet Strategies in ACS: New and Future Agents
Performance Improvement and Dietary Compliance in Heart Failure Management
Case Study: Severe Pulmonary Hypertension
Advances in Pulmonary Hypertension
Lung Transplantation