12:45-1:25 p.m.
Registration & Exhibits

1:25 p.m.
Welcome and Introductions
Laxmi Mehta, MD, FACC and Anna Broz, RN, MSN, CNP, AACC
Committee/Speaker Disclosures & Acknowledgments

1:30-2:30 p.m.
Palliative/Hospice Care in Advanced/End-stage Cardiac Disease: When Is It Okay to Stop?
Ellin F. Gafford, MD and Melanie T. Gura, RN, MSN, CNS, CCDS, AACC
Gafford handout,  Gura handout

2:30-3:30 p.m.
Syncope: Evaluation and Evolution
Fredrick J. Jaeger, DO
Jaeger handout

3:30-4:00 p.m.
Break

4:00-5:00 p.m.
Clinically Significant Cardiovascular Drug Interactions and Adverse Effects
Michael A. Militello, PharmD
Militello handout

5:00-6:00 p.m.
Prolonged QT Syndromes: Congenital and Acquired
Elizabeth S. Kaufman, MD, FACC
Kaufman handout

51st Annual Carl J. Wiggers Memorial Lecture

6:00-7:00 p.m.
Registration and Reception

7:00 p.m.
Dinner

7:45 p.m. – 9:15 p.m.
51st Annual Carl J. Wiggers Memorial Lecture
Heart Failure 2014: It’s No Longer about Failure
Clyde W. Yancy, MD, MSc, FACC
Yancy handout

Appreciation is expressed to the following companies for providing educational grants:
Medtronic, Inc.
St. Jude Medical
Appreciation is expressed to the following companies for exhibiting at the meeting:
Actelion
Astellas Pharma, Inc.
AstraZeneca
Arbor Pharmaceuticals
Bayer Healthcare
BIOTRONIK
Boehringer-Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals
Bristol-Myers Squibb
CardioNet, a BioTelemetry Company
Daiichi Sankyo
Gilead Sciences (2)
Janssen Pharmaceuticals
Kaneka Pharma America
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.
Lantheus Medical Imaging
LifeWatch Services, Inc.
Lilly USA
Medtronic, Inc.
Mindray, N.A.
Otsuka America
Pfizer, Inc.
St. Jude Medical

Special thanks to Dr. Robert Mosteller for the photographs of the evening Wiggers Lecture activities.