Accreditation

Claiming Credits and CME Certificate Fulfillment

VT 2022 is CME-accredited for in-person and virtual attendees.

At the conclusion of VT 2022, an email will be issued that provides direct access to the post-activity CME form to claim credits for attendance. Additionally, the Claim CME Credit form will be accessible directly on conference website.

1 CME Certificate is supplied electronically for the cumulative CME Credits earned commensurate with the extent of participation within VT 2022 as an attendee.

Target Audience

The VT Symposium has been developed to meet the educational needs of electrophysiologists, cardiologists, and other physicians and associated professionals with an interest in the pathophysiology and management of ventricular arrhythmias.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this Symposium, participants will be able to:

• Review new information on the basic pathophysiology of ventricular arrhythmias
• Evaluate current management strategies used for the care of ventricular arrhythmias in various disease states, including nonpharmacological therapies such as implantable devices and catheter ablation techniques.
• Discuss strategies to improve treatment outcomes in patients with ventricular arrhythmias and structural heart disease, including new techniques and technologies
• Discuss the current status and future role of device therapy in the management of sudden cardiac death and heart failure
• Discuss the role of new techniques for VT substrate assessment, including functional scar imaging, intraprocedural MRI, and high-density mapping
• Perform risk stratification for sudden death and treatment, including VF ablation, in patients with VF due to various substrates and syndromes
• Identify the challenges related to the treatment of PVCs and idiopathic VT
• Describe the science critical to the understanding and treatment of ventricular arrhythmias, including,
• the role of the autonomic nervous system in ventricular arrhythmogenesis, and the anatomic substrate for ventricular tachycardia (VT)
• Describe the status of ongoing multicenter VT-related trials and discuss future directions and questions to be answered

Activity Goal

This activity is designed to address the following core and team competencies:
Patient care, medical knowledge, practice-based learning and improvement, interprofessional collaboration, and roles and responsibilities.

Accreditation Statement

To support the improvement of patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by MediaSphere Medical and Ciné-Med. Ciné-Med 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 health-care team.

CME Credit Designation

This activity is designed to address the following ABMS/IOM competencies: Patient Care, Medical Knowledge, and Practice-based Learning.

This activity is being planned and implemented by MediaSphere Medical and Ciné-Med.

Ciné-Med is 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 health care team.

Physicians: Ciné-Med designates this live activity for a maximum of 19 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.

Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses: Ciné-Med provides 19 Contact Hour for Nurses.

*The VT Symposium is CME-accredited for both in-person and virtual attendees.

Disclosure Policy

MediaSphere Medical and Ciné-Med adheres to accreditation requirements concerning industry support of continuing medical education. Speakers are required to openly disclose any limitations of data and/or any discussion of any off-label, experimental, or investigational uses of drugs or devices in their presentations. Speakers will disclose any relationships at the beginning of their presentations.
All MediaSphere Medical and Ciné-Med employees in control of content have indicated that they have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.

It is the policy of MediaSphere Medical and Ciné-Med to ensure balance, independent objectivity, and scientific rigor in all its supported educational programs. All faculty members participating in educational activities are required to disclose to the program audience any real of apparent conflicts of interest held within the past 12 months.

MediaSphere Medical and Ciné-Med implement a mechanism to identify and resolve all conflicts of interest prior to delivering the educational activity to learners.

Non-Endorsement Statement

MediaSphere Medical and Ciné-Med verify that sound education principles have been demonstrated in the development of this educational offering as evidenced by the review of its objectives, teaching plan, faculty, and activity evaluation process. MediaSphere Medical and Ciné-Med does not endorse or support the actual opinions or material content as presented by the speaker(s) and/or sponsoring organization.

Host and Sponsoring Institutions

The Mount Sinai Hospital and Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Commercial Support

The VT Symposium is supported in part through educational grants from our Industry Partners. Recognition of commercial support is provided on the Industry Partners web page, and will be announced during the time of the conference.

Organizer and Joint-Proivder

MediaSphere Medical LLC