2026 Annual Meeting: Valley of the Sun Heart Symposium

Bringing together all health systems and private practice Cardiologists in Arizona to improve knowledge, patient care, and outcomes.

Target Audience

This activity is designed for an audience of Cardiologists, PAs, NPs, all members of the Cardiac care team.

Learning Objectives

  • Improve my treatment of heart failure patients in an effort to improve patient outcomes for renal disease.
  • Integrate into practice the use of inflammatory markers in the diagnosis, treatment and management of CAD.
  • Improve screening of patients for risk of heart disease to improve the management and treatment of patients at risk for CV disease.
  • Integrate data/research for appropriateness criteria as it relates to CCT and CMRI into their practice.

Commercial Support
There is no commercial support for this activity.

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 8.50 AANP Contact Hours

    Nurse Practitioners

    This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Accreditation Standards of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) through the joint providership of AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare and .  AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is accredited by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners as an approved provider of nurse practitioner continuing education. Provider number: 030803. This activity is approved for 8.50 contact hour(s) (which includes 0.00 hour(s) of pharmacology).

  • 8.50 MOC_ABIM Medical Knowledge

    Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 8.50 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

  • 8.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

    Physicians
    AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 8.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • 8.50 Attendance

    Credits: 8.50

Course opens: 
05/08/2026
Course expires: 
12/31/2026
Cost:
$0.00
Rating: 
0
May 8 - 9, 2026 in Chandler, AZ
United States

All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.

Disclosures
It is the policy of AKH Inc. to ensure independence, balance, objectivity, scientific rigor, and integrity in all of its continuing education activities. The author must disclose to the participants any significant relationships with ineligible companies whose products or devices may be mentioned in the activity or with the commercial supporter of this continuing education activity. Identified conflicts of interest are mitigated by AKH prior to accreditation of the activity. AKH planners and reviewers have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Disclosure of Unlabeled Use and Investigational Product
This educational activity may include discussion of uses of agents that are investigational and/or unapproved by the FDA. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.

Disclaimer
This course is designed solely to provide the healthcare professional with information to assist in his/her practice and professional development and is not to be considered a diagnostic tool to replace professional advice or treatment. The course serves as a general guide to the healthcare professional, and therefore, cannot be considered as giving legal, nursing, medical, or other professional advice in specific cases. AKH Inc. specifically disclaim responsibility for any adverse consequences resulting directly or indirectly from information in the course, for undetected error, or through participants misunderstanding of the content.

Reviewer(s)

Dorothy Caputo, MA BSN RN

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Bernadette Maker, MSN, APRN-BC, NP-C

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.
Speaker, Instructor, Faculty(s)

Orazio Amabile

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Ambar Andrade

has a financial relationship (Consultant) with BridgeBio;.
has a financial relationship (Advisor) with Alnylam ;.
has a financial relationship (Speaker) with Zoll;.

Modesto Colon Rodriguez

has a financial relationship (Consultant) with Terrumo ;.

William Cotts

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Shirin Doroudgar

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Hao Fang, MD, FACS

has a financial relationship (Consultant) with Abbott;.

Philip Gideon

has a financial relationship (Speaker) with Philips;.

Ankur Gupta, MD PhD

has a financial relationship (Consultant) with Abbott;.
has a financial relationship (Consultant) with Shockwave Medical;.

Mathew Hutchinson, MD, FACC, FHRS

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Praneeth Katrapati

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Jamal Mahar, MD, MEd

has a financial relationship (Speaker) with Bristol Myer Squibb;.
has a financial relationship (Speaker) with Cytokinetics;.
has a financial relationship (Advisor) with CareDx;.

Paul Mahoney, Board Certification in Cardiovascular Disease, Interventional Cardiology

has a financial relationship (Consultant) with Boston Scientific;.
has a financial relationship (Consultant) with Edwards Lifesciences;.
has a financial relationship (Consultant) with Medtronic;.
has a financial relationship (Consultant) with Abbott;.

Belia Mendez, AGACNP-BC, CCK

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Tabitha Moe, MD, FACC

has a financial relationship (Speaker) with Boehringer Ingelheim ;.

F Mookadam, MD FRCPC FACC Msc Health research

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Sanjiv Narayan, MD PhD

has a financial relationship (Consultant) with Uptodate;.
has a financial relationship (Ownership interest) with Lifesignals.ai;.
has a financial relationship (Individual stocks and stock options) with PhysCade;.

Emily Rapstine

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Vanessa Rhodes, ACNPC-AG, CCK AACC

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Therese Sargent

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Marc Silver, Marc A. Silver, MD, FACC, FHFSA

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Siddharth Singh

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Paul Sorajja, MD

has a financial relationship (Consultant) with Abbott;.
has a financial relationship (Consultant) with Medtronic;.
has a financial relationship (Consultant) with 4C Medical;.
has a financial relationship (Consultant) with Boston Scientific;.
has a financial relationship (Consultant) with VDYNE;.
has a financial relationship (Consultant) with Valcare;.

Ajay Srivastava

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Wilber Su

has a financial relationship (Consultant) with Boston Scientific;.
has a financial relationship (Consultant) with Synaptic Medical;.

Anusha Sunkara

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Roderick Tung, MD

has a financial relationship (Speaker) with Medtronic;.
has a financial relationship (Speaker) with Abbott;.
has a financial relationship (Speaker) with Boston Scientific;.
has a financial relationship (Speaker) with Biotronik;.

william Van Decker

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

J. Peter Weiss, MD, MSc

has a financial relationship (Consultant) with Stereotaxis;.
has a financial relationship (Consultant) with Abbott;.
has a financial relationship (Royalties or patent beneficiary) with Circa Scientific;.
has a financial relationship (Royalties or patent beneficiary) with Synaptic;.
has a financial relationship (Consultant) with Biotronik;.

Michael Zawaneh, MD

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare and Arizona Chapter, American College of Cardiology. AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

 

Physicians
AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare designates this live activity for a maximum of 8.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

 

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 8.5 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

 

 

Nurse Practitioners
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Accreditation Standards of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) through the joint providership of AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare and Arizona Chapter, American College of Cardiology.  AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is accredited by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners as an approved provider of nurse practitioner continuing education. Provider number: 030803. This activity is approved for 8.5 contact hour(s) (which includes 8.5 hour(s) of pharmacology).

Available Credit

  • 8.50 AANP Contact Hours

    Nurse Practitioners

    This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Accreditation Standards of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) through the joint providership of AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare and .  AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is accredited by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners as an approved provider of nurse practitioner continuing education. Provider number: 030803. This activity is approved for 8.50 contact hour(s) (which includes 0.00 hour(s) of pharmacology).

  • 8.50 MOC_ABIM Medical Knowledge

    Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 8.50 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

  • 8.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

    Physicians
    AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 8.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • 8.50 Attendance

    Credits: 8.50

Price

Cost:
$0.00
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