1:00 PM – 7:00 PM

“Heart Failure Programs: Everything You Wanted to Know But Didn’t Know Where to Ask.”

10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Registration

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

Concurrent Sponsored Workshops

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Concurrent Sponsored Workshops

4:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Opening Session

4:00 PM – 4:45 PM

State of the Art of Self Management in Heart Failure Barbara J.Riegel, DNSc, RN, FAAN, FAHA

4:45 PM - 5:30 PM

The Future of Heart Failure Management: Reasoned or Rationed?
Lynne Warner Stevenson, MD, FACC

5:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Grand Opening Reception
Presidential Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
Exhibits Open

7:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Registration

7:00 AM – 8:00 AM

Concurrent Sponsored Symposia

8:10 AM – 8:15 AM

Welcome Remarks

8:15 AM – 9:30 AM

Presidential Address and Awards
Raising the Bar in Heart Failure Care: It's Our Duty and Responsibility!
Robin Trupp, PhD (c), MSN, ACNP, BC, CCRN, CCRC

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM

Break

9:45 AM -10:45 AM

Concurrent Sessions 1

Cornerstones: Understanding Cardiac Remodeling
Mariann R Piano, PhD.

Advanced: To Infinity and Beyond: Long-Term, Multi-Year Support of Ventricular Assist Device Patients
Renee L Lassinger, RN, MSN, CCRN, ANP-BC, APRN

Global: Research Presentations
Moderator: Terry Lennie, PhD

Skills Lab I: Basics of Heart Failure Assessment with Sim Man Joan E King, PhD RNC,ACNP,ANP

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Concurrent Sessions 2

Cornerstones: Applying the Guidelines
Marc Silver, MD

Advanced: From Rare to Everywhere: Identifying, Differentiating and Treating Pulmonary Arterial and Pulmonary Venous Hypertension
Mickey Gilbert, MSN, NP-C, CCRN, CNN

Global: Research Presentations
Moderator: Terry Lennie, PhD

Skills Lab II: Basics of Auscultation or Heart Sounds
Joan E King, PhD, RNC,ACNP,ANP

12:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Lunch/Exhibits/Simulations

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Concurrent Sessions 3

Cornerstones: Alphabet Soup of Lab Results/Case Studies
Marc Silver, MD.

Advanced: Incorporating Remote Monitoring Devices Into the Management Of Heart Failure
Jill Repoley, MSN, CRNP

Global: Heart Failure and Cancer: Challenges and Complexities
Anecita Fadol, PhD, RN, FNP

Skills Lab I: Basics of Heart Failure Assessment with Sim Man Joan King, PhD, RNC, ACNP, ANP

3:45 PM – 4:45 PM

Concurrent Sessions 4

Cornerstones: Acute HF Exacerbation: How to Recognize It, Who’s At Risk,
What to Do?
Mitchell Saltzberg, MD, FACC

Advanced: Update on Peripartum Cardiomyopathy
Kismet Rasmussen, MS,RN, BC, FNP, FAHA

Global: Developing a Heart Failure Program
Lisa Rathman, RN, MSN, ANP

Skills Lab II: Basics of Auscultation or Heart Sounds
Joan E King, PhD, RNC,ACNP,ANP

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Sponsored Dinner Presentations

7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Late Night Networking
Poster Presentations, Special Interest Groups, and dessert

7:00 PM – 7:30 PM

Poster Presentations.

7:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Special Interest Groups (SIGs).

7:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Registration

7:15 AM – 8:15 AM

Concurrent Sponsored Symposia

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM

AAHFN Business Meeting, Induction of New Officers and Research Awards

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Fulfilling the Possibilities
Sue Wingate, RN, DNSc

10:00 AM – 10:15 AM

Break

10:15 AM – 11:15 AM

Concurrent Sessions 5

Cornerstones: Heart Transplantation: What Every Heart Failure Nurse Needs to Know
Beth T Davidson, DNP, ACNP-BC, CCRN
Terri Allison Donaldson, MN, ACNP

Advanced: Heart Failure Palliative Care: Advanced Heart Failure Management
Erin K Donaho, RN, BSN

Global: Benefits of the Relaxation Response: Does it Work in Heart Failure
Herbert Benson, MD

11:30 PM – 12:30 PM

Concurrent Sessions 6

Cornerstones: Optimizing the Delivery of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT)
Nancy L Bonnett, RN, MSN, APN-C

Advanced: Understanding the Mechanism and Treatment of Cardiorenal Syndrome
Mitchell T. Saltzberg, MD, FACC

Global: Fatigue and Heart Failure
Cheryl Westlake, RN, PhD, APRN-BC, PN

12:30 AM – 2:30 PM

Lunch/Exhibits/Simulations

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Concurrent Sessions 7

Cornerstones: Understanding and Managing Diastolic Heart Failure
To Be Announced

Advanced: Bittersweet: Diabetes and Systolic Heart Failure
Mary C Langford, ACNP, CDE

Global: Achieving Best Quality of Care in Heart Failure
Nancy M. Albert, PhD, CCNS, CCRN, CAN-BC, FAHA, FCCM

3:45 PM – 4:45 PM

Closing Session: The Future of Heart Failure
Clyde W. Yancy, MD.

6:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Dinner Social
(Tentative)