MER Cardiology & Pulmonology for Primary Care 2025

MER Cardiology & Pulmonology for Primary Care 2025 (The Omni Grove Park Inn)

CARDIOLOGY & PULMONOLOGY FOR PRIMARY CARE
Asheville, NC – The Omni Grove Park Inn
May 9 – 11, 2025

Agenda & Learning Objectives

The conference aimed to provide primary care practitioners with up-to-date, evidence-based information on cardiology and pulmonology topics commonly encountered in clinical practice. The sessions were designed to enhance clinical decision-making and patient care strategies

Target Audience

This program is targeted to office-based primary care providers and other health professionals
with updates in primary care medicine

Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program, participants should be better able to:

• – Describe the work-up, risk assessment and test selection of patients with suspected CAD
• – Describe current diagnostic approaches and the role of drug therapy to the patient with acute chest
  pain
• – Describe current diagnostic and treatment approaches to arrhythmias and atrial fibrilation
• – Utilize case-based learning to develop treatment plans for cardiovascular conditions
• – Diagnose and manage patients with asthma
• – Design treatment strategies reflective of current evidence-based medicine for common respiratory
  infections
• – Describe the current therapeutic management of COPD
• – Discuss diagnosis and screening strategies as well as treatment plans for lung nodules and lung
  cancer
• – Implement treatment strategies reflective of recent guidelines and current evidence based medicine
  for heart failure
• – Perform a cardiovascular workup
• – Explain current concepts in the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension
• – Discuss strategies to diagnose and treat aortic stenosis and mitral valve disease in the primary care
  setting