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: 
  • 11.00 AANP
  • 11.00 ABIM Medical Knowledge
  • 11.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 11.00 Attendance
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.

Speaker, Instructor, Faculty(s)

Vanessa Rhodes, ACNPC-AG, CCK AACC

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 11.0 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 11.0 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 pending approval for up to 11.0 contact hour(s) of accredited education.

Available Credit

  • 11.00 AANP
  • 11.00 ABIM Medical Knowledge
  • 11.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 11.00 Attendance

Price

Cost:
$0.00
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