The partnership allows both CMHC and ABC to increase awareness surrounding the prevention, diagnosis, and management of cardiometabolic risk. As the largest multidisciplinary conference solely focused on the management of cardiometabolic risk, coupled with the prevention of cardiovascular and metabolic disease, CMHC’s 12th Annual Cardiometabolic Health Congress—taking place from October 4-7 in Boston—offers today’s healthcare…
President Trump is nominating Dr. Jerome Adams for surgeon general of the United States Public Health Service. Adams is currently Indiana’s state health commissioner and was appointed to the post by Vice President Pence during his time as the state’s governor.
ABC has endorsed the reintroduction of federal legislation that would expand access to cardiac rehabilitation by allowing physician assistants, nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists to supervise cardiac, intensive cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation programs. Cardiac rehabilitation is an essential component of a patient’s recovery from a heart attack, heart surgery or for the management of heart failure. Expanding access…
The Roundtable has released its Summary Recommendations on Addressing Disparities in Contemporary Care of the Minority Patient with Valvular Heart Disease. Valvular heart disease (VHD) is a degenerative condition characterized by improper heart valve functioning, either due to stenosis (narrowing of the heart valve) or regurgitation (leaky heart valve). For several years, the standard of…
Olakunle Akinboboye, MD, MBA, FACC, MPH, FACP is the first African American to be appointed chairman of the Cardiovascular Disease Board of the American Board of Internal Medicine, the apex organization that maintains oversight on the training and certification of all cardiologists in the United States. In this interview, Dr. Akinboboye speaks on how he achieved this…