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