Registration for the 15th Congress has closed, you will need to register onsite in Orlando, FL.

Join Us At The Society of Chest Pain Centers'
15th Congress

Are you prepared for the changes expected to impact hospitals in 2012 and beyond? Are you looking for how to apply clinical evidence to the management of cardiovascular disease? Or how to implement best practices to enhance the new payment methodology of Value-based Purchasing: Quality, Cost, and Patient Satisfaction? Look no further than the 15th Congress. This conference is the premier educational forum for cardiovascular healthcare providers. Our goal is to provide up-to-the-minute education and training in health care transformation and in the disease management of acute coronary syndrome (ACS), heart failure (HF), atrial fibrillation (A-fib), and observation medicine, along with current trends and optimal approaches to the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of these diseases.

Breaking News on Congress:

We are pleased to announce that we have just added the two esteemed keynote speakers, John M. O'Brien, PharmD, MPH and Judy Hannan, RN, MPH, who will be speaking about "Million Hearts," a national campaign to reduce death by heart attack.

Educational Pre-Conference Workshops:

• Chest Pain Center & Critical Access Hospital Chest Pain Accreditation
• Heart Failure Accreditation
• Atrial Fibrillation Certification
• Chest Pain Coordinator Certification Boot Camp
• ECG Boot Camp
• STEMI Boot Camp

Educational Programs within the Conference include:

• The Future Focus of Disease Management in the U.S.
• Million Hearts Campaign
• Recent Research: Oral Abstract Presentations
• STEMI 2012: Evolving Partnerships in STEMI Systems of Care
• Tales from the Trenches: Challenges Faced by Cardiovascular Nurses
• Observation Medicine
• Hot Topics in ACS Disease Management
• Hot Topics in Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure
• Transitions of Care
• Ask-the-Experts - Controversies in Post-Cardiac Arrest Care: Who do we Cool? Who Needs a Cath? When do we Pull the Plug? Do we Really Need Centers of Resuscitation?
• Case Studies - Patient, Heart Failure, CPC Accreditation Successes
• Evolution of a Statewide Cardiac and Stroke Program...It Should be in Your Future
• Developing High Quality STEMI Systems of Care

Who Should Attend?

Cardiologists, emergency physicians, nurses, ED managers, cardiac program managers, EMS personnel, quality improvement managers, internists, consultants, hospitalists, hospital executives and nursing executives.