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FCVC Innovation Webinar Series
The Frankel Cardiovascular Center (FCVC) and Fast Forward Medical Innovation (FFMI) are excited to announce the launch of the 2024 FCVC Innovation Webinar Series. This webinar series aims to educate our community on topics of interest regarding cardiovascular innovation, encourage innovative thinking, and connect the community with resources to help further the advancement of ideas.
Webinar 1: The Future of Cardiovascular Medicine
David McManus, MD, Professor and Chair of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School
Jag Singh, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Friday, January 5, 2024, from 9:00 - 10:00 AM (EST)
Webinar 2: Digital Medicine for Management in Atrial Fibrillation
Hamid Ghanbari, MD, PhD, Co-Chair of Innovation, FCVC Innovation Program and Assistant Professor, Cardiac Electrophysiologist at the University of Michigan
Wednesday, January 17, 2024, from 12:00 – 1:00 PM (EST)
Webinar 3: Using Digital Health Technologies in Cardiovascular Innovation
Jessica Golbus, MD, Clinical Instructor, Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Michigan
Wednesday, February 7, 2024, from 12:00 – 1:00 PM (EST)
Mobile health technologies have been increasingly used in healthcare for the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular diseases. This session will highlight recent studies that used mHealth technology for prognostication, diagnosis, and treatment in patients with cardiovascular diseases. A particular emphasis of this talk will be on the use of mobile health technologies to deliver just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs), a novel intervention design that uses contextual information from mobile devices to provide at the moment to support to users. The session will provide two examples of recently deployed JITAIs targeting two cardiovascular disease populations including the VALENTINE Study, a JITAI delivered to participants enrolled in cardiac rehabilitation, and the myBPmyLife study, a JITAI delivered to participants with hypertension.
Webinar 4: Advancing Healthcare Delivery System Redesign Through Team Innovation and Implementation Science
Catherine Lau, MD, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Caring Wisely Program at UCSF Health
Wednesday, February 14, 2024, 12:00 – 1:00 PM (EST)
Improving the value of healthcare is an imperative goal for health systems across the country. Successful interventions to catalyze healthcare system redesign are more likely to be successful if front-line providers are engaged in the problem-solving process. For over a decade, the Caring Wisely program at UCSF Health has done just that, partnering with inter-professional front-line healthcare providers and providing them with the coaching and resources needed to design, innovate, implement, measure, and sustain changes to improve quality outcomes and reduce costs for the health system. This talk will provide an overview of Caring Wisely, specifically highlighting how implementation science, Lean, and human-centered design experts collaborate to bring innovation to life and provide examples of recent Caring Wisely projects and their impact on patients, healthcare teams, and costs.
Webinar 5: Organ Preservation, More Than Just a Phase
Paul Tang, MD, PhD, Vice Chair for Research in Cardiovascular Research and Associate Professor of Surgery at the Mayo Clinic
Tuesday, February 20, 2024, 12:00 - 1:00 PM (EST)
Dr. Tang will discuss the phenomenon of liquid-liquid phase separation on augmenting harmful processes mediated molecular signaling during organ preservation. Furthermore, strategies to mitigate this process will be explored.
Webinar 6: Investment Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine
Kenneth Nelson, Partner at MedTech Advantage Fund
Wednesday, March 20, 2024, 12:00 - 1:00 PM (EST)
Webinar 7: FDA Regulation of Cardiovascular Medical Devices
Aneesh Deoras, MS, Assistant Director for Cardiac Ablation, Mapping, and Imaging Devices at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Office of Cardiovascular Devices, Division of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Diagnostics, and Monitoring Devices
Dinesh Puppala, MS, RAC, Regulatory Affairs Lead at Google
Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 12:00 - 1:00 PM (EST)