For Fellows-in-Training, ACC.08 offers unparalleled educational and career opportunities. Choose from a vast array of educational sessions guided only by your personal interests and plans for the future. Ground your learning in the fundamentals, then explore the latest in diagnosis and therapy. Listen to debates on controversies of the day, then cast your vote for the winner. Put your iPod to work sharpening your skills in cardiac auscultation with Heart Songs. Try new procedures using hands-on simulated learning techniques in the new Knowledge Exchange Center on the expo floor.

You’ll find it all at ACC.08. Not only is there programming tailored just for FITs—the Fellows Bootcamp for interventionalists and non-interventionalists, the FIT Forum, career planning sessions for FITs, just to name a few—there are spotlight sessions, symposia, clinical focus sessions, meet the experts sessions, brown bag lunches, case reviews, abstract presentations, poster sessions, and more. Learn from the best clinicians in the world. Share your ideas with renowned cardiology thought leaders. Expand your personal network by getting to know peers from training programs across the country.

It’s all waiting for you at ACC.08.

NEW! Fellows Imaging Bootcamp 2008
Tuesday, April 1
8 a.m. - 2:45 p.m.

You’ll leave this all-day intensive bootcamp with sure footing in the fundamentals of cardiac imaging, including:

• The nuts and bolts of cardiac CT
• Magnetic resonance imaging: Top ten indications
• Basic physics of nuclear cardiology
• Clinical uses of cardiac MR and nuclear cardiology: Case-based demonstrations
• The reliable echocardiogram
• Careers, reimbursement, and the future of imaging

Cardiac Arrhythmias
EP 2008 Spotlight

• Diagnosis and management of primary electrical disease
• Cardiac resynchronization therapy
• Atrial fibrillation: Update 2008

• Troubleshooting pacemakers and ICDs
• Sudden cardiac death in the young athlete
• Syncope: Evaluation and management

Cardiac Function and Heart Failure
ClinCard 2008 Spotlight
Heart failure by the cases

• Best inotropes, best vasodilators, indications for biopsy
• Cardiorenal syndrome, prognosis, when to consider RRT
• How to evaluate viability and candidacy for surgery

• Risk stratification of the heart failure patient
• Hemodynamic assessment in heart failure

Imaging and Diagnostic Testing
Integrated Imaging 2008 Spotlight

• Nuclear and CT imaging: Technology, protocols, patient selection, and daily challenges
• Challenging case studies in echocardiography and MRI
• Complementary imaging in clinical decision-making
• Controversies in cardiac imaging
• Imaging experts unplugged: Select cases on appropriateness, quality, and payer perspectives

• Joint ACC/European Society of Cardiology symposium: How to identify asymptomatic high-risk patients using nuclear imaging, echo, MRI, and CT
• Stress testing in the era of CT angiography
• Multimodality myocardial function assessment
• Viability assessment: Hear it from the experts
• Imaging for HOCM in 2008: Guidelines, techniques, and new 3-D echo generation and analysis
• What’s new in the imaging of valvular heart disease?

Myocardial Ischemia and Infarction
ClinCard 2008 Spotlight
Acute coronary syndromes

• Lytic and adjunctive Rx
• Regionalization of STEMI care: The case for quality
• Is ischemia-guided therapy sufficient?
• Is invasive therapy still preferred?

• ACC/AHA Guidelines Update: Unstable Angina and NSTEMI
• NEW! You-Que: Do you have pressing questions about the guidelines? Submit a video clip of yourself and our international all-star line-up of speakers may answer your question at ACC.08.
• Late stent thrombosis for the noninterventional cardiologist
• Evaluation of chest pain in the emergency department
• Getting more from the electrocardiogram

Quality of Care & Outcomes Assessment
Quality 2008 Spotlight: Practice Innovation: Driving Revenue, Quality and Value

• Top five recommendations on improving healthcare
• Future payment models

More ACC.08 Highlights

• Quality in cardiovascular imaging
• Guidelines controversies on perioperative cardiovascular evaluation before noncardiac surgery 

Vascular Disease, Hypertension and Prevention
VHP 2008 Spotlight
Great debates in vascular medicine: You decide who wins, using our audience response system!

• Interventional treatment for iliofemoral DVT?
• Should pulse pressure guide antihypertensive therapy?
• Treatment goals for hypertriglyceridemia?
• Preclinical screening for patients at intermediate CHD risk?
• Statins for all patients at increased CHD risk?

• Contemporary issues in systolic hypertension
• Hypertensive heart disease with diastolic dysfunction
• Current strategies in management of hyperlipidemia
• Nuts and bolts of pulmonary arterial hypertension
• Incorporating vascular medicine into a cardiology practice

Valvular Heart Disease
ClinCard 2008 Spotlight
Asymptomatic valvular heart disease

• Severe aortic stenosis
• Severe mitral regurgitation
• Surgery vs. watchful waiting

• New guidelines for antibiotic prophylaxis
• Mitral regurgitation: Treatment options in 2008

Plus Register for The SCAI Annual Scientific Sessions in Partnership with ACC i2 Summit and you also get:

Fellows Interventional Bootcamp
Back by Popular Demand!
For third-year cardiology fellows entering an interventional fellowship in 2008

Monday, March 29
1 – 5 p.m.

• Arterial access: Getting the right start
• Wires and balloons: Case-based demonstrations
• Choosing the correct guiding catheter
• Doing your first PCI
• Case reviews on the basics

Tuesday, April 1
9 a.m. – 1 p.m.

• PCI pharmacology 101: The important stuff
• Borderline lesions: Role of FFR and IVUS
• PCI complications
• What makes a great interventional fellow?

• Cardiac Cath Handbook Live: Full-day session on hemodynamics
• Live interventional cases from around the world
• Late breakers, case reviews, oral abstracts, and debates daily
• Hands-on simulation near the Expo Interventional Pavilion—sign-up for slots onsite