The Magic of Mentorship
This post was authored by Andrew M. Freeman, MD, FACC, immediate past chair of the ACC’s Early Career Section. Doesn’t it feel good to be taken under some bigwig’s wing and be guided on a path that...
View ArticleACC Board Issues Guidance on Next Steps in MOC Effort
This post was authored by ACC President Kim Allan Williams Sr., MD, FACC. Each August the ACC’s Board of Trustees comes together for a mid-year check-in on College activities and progress towards...
View ArticleMOC Update: ABIM Provides Further Details on MOC Part II/CME Collaboration
This post was authored by William J. Oetgen, MD, MBA, FACC, executive vice president for ACC’s Science, Education and Quality. In April, the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) announced plans...
View ArticleFDA Hot Topics: Two Novel Drug Approvals, User Fee Act Reauthorization and...
This post was authored by Richard J. Kovacs, MD, FACC, member of ACC’s Board of Trustees. It’s been a busy summer for U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) news. Several key decisions made by the...
View ArticleIs It Really Statin Intolerance? ACC’s New App Helps Clinicians Decide
This post was authored by Kim Birtcher, MS, PharmD, AACC, chair of the ACC’s LDL: Address the Risk Oversight Workgroup. The benefits of statin therapy in reducing the morbidity and mortality associated...
View ArticleSunday Highlights Video From ESC Congress 2015
Keith A. A. Fox, MB, ChB, FACC, and Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH, FACC, discuss the Sunday meeting highlights from ESC Congress 2015, including the IMPROVE-IT trial, the LEADLESS II trial and the CIRCUS...
View ArticleESC Congress: A Forum For International Collaboration Around CVD
This post was authored by Richard A. Chazal, MD, FACC, president-elect of the ACC. The annual European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress not only provides opportunities to learn about the latest...
View ArticleGlobal Meeting on Prevention of CVD Addresses the Shared Challenges of “25 x 25”
This post was authored by John Gordon Harold, MD, MACC, past president of the ACC. I had the honor of representing the ACC at the “Global Meeting on Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease to Address the...
View ArticleMonday Highlights Video From ESC Congress 2015
Keith A. A. Fox, MB, ChB, FACC, and Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH, FACC, discuss the Monday meeting highlights from ESC Congress 2015, including the PATHWAY 2 and PATHWAY 3 trials, the OPTIDUAL trial and...
View ArticleTuesday Highlights Video From ESC Congress 2015
Keith A. A. Fox, MB, ChB, FACC, and Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH, FACC, discuss the Tuesday meeting highlights from ESC Congress 2015, including the MATRIX trial and the ODYSSEY trial. View full ESC...
View ArticleCholesterol Education Month: Patient and Clinician Resources
This post was authored by Martha Gulati, MD, MS, FACC, editor-in-chief of ACC’s CardioSmart. Despite advances in medical technology and cardiovascular disease (CVD) treatment, one of the biggest risk...
View ArticleA Call to Action: Pediatric Cardiac Care and the Global Health Agenda
This post was authored by Kathy Jenkins, MD, MPH, FACC, immediate past chair of the ACC’s Adult Congenital and Pediatric Cardiology Section; professor of pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; senior vice...
View ArticleLandmark NIH Study Finds Intensive BP Management May Save Lives
More intensive management of high blood pressure (BP) may significantly reduce the rates of cardiovascular disease as well as the risk of death in patients 50 years and older with high BP, according to...
View ArticleSports Cardiology 101: The Porta Potty
This post was authored by Aaron L. Baggish, MD, FACC, member of ACC’s Sports and Exercise Cardiology Section Leadership Council. Providing competent cardiovascular care to athletes requires two basic...
View ArticleACC Response to ABIM Report on Vision For Certification and MOC Programs in 2020
The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) today released a report entitled “A Vision for Certification in Internal Medicine in 2020,” that was drafted to inform the reshaping of ABIM’s...
View ArticleACC Think Tank Brings Together Experts to Discuss Combination Therapy and...
This post was authored by Christie M. Ballantyne, MD, FACC, chair and moderator of the ACC’s LDL: Address the Risk Think Tank, and Kim Birtcher, MS, PharmD, AACC, chair of the ACC’s LDL: Address the...
View ArticleACC Celebrates World Heart Day With Healthy Heart Choices
This post was authored by John Gordon Harold, MD, MACC, past president of the ACC, and Gerard Martin, MD, FACC, chair of the Population Health Policy and Health Promotion Committee. On Sept. 29, we...
View ArticleDefining Optimal Governance: A Key Priority for ACC’s BOT
The ACC has experienced significant growth and change over the last decade. Much of this growth has come in response to changes in the health care environment, as well as changes to member...
View ArticleRunning After a Scarce Commodity: Is it Time to Think Outside the Box?
This article was authored by Nisha A. Gilotra, MD, a fellow in training (FIT) at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and an editorial fellow for the FIT Section page on ACC.org. It’s 3:30 in the morning....
View ArticleNational Health IT Week: Why Interoperability Matters
This post was authored by James E. Tcheng, MD, FACC, chair of the ACC’s Informatics and Health Information Technology Task Force. National Health IT Week, Oct. 5-9, is an opportunity to discuss how...
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