Friday, November 12, 2004

DCRI, DUMC Host New Clinical Medicine Series
By Julie McKeel

Peter Berger, MD

On Wednesday morning, November 17, Dr. Peter Berger, Director, Interventional Cardiology, DUMC and DCRI, will host the first program in the new Duke Clinical Medicine Series: Cardiac Cath Lab Conference.

The DCRI with Duke University Medical Center is presenting the series and televising it at hospitals around the country through existing satellite and cable networks. The conference is also being presented on theheart.org, where site visitors can have access to the entire program within a week after the live program. Continuing medical education (CME) credits are available for either method of participation.

This will become a nearly weekly event beginning in January 2005. The topics will be those of greatest interest to catheterization laboratory personnel, featuring a different visiting speaker each week. The conferences will begin at 7 AM on Wednesdays and be rebroadcasted several times throughout the week so that hospitals in different time zones can watch it at convenient times. Thus far, 240 hospitals have registered, with 1 to 10 physicians per site.

This Wednesday’s program will feature Dr. David R. Holmes, Jr., of the Mayo Clinic. His topic is titled: “Interventional Cardiology: Past, Present, and Future.”

Typically, the hour-long conference will be case-based. A case will be presented for the first 3 to 5 minutes, followed by a 30- to 35-minute period of didactic lecture relevant to the case given by the visiting speaker with comments from Dr. Berger about elements of the lecture. The last segment of the program will be used to respond to questions that viewers submit by email or telephone (voiced by an interventional fellow at Duke).

Future Programs

December 1, 2004
    Guest faculty: Stephen G. Ellis, MD, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
    Topic: Drug-eluting Stents

December 8, 2004
    Guest faculty: Ted Feldman, MD, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
    Topic: Percutaneous Valve Replacement

December 15, 2004
    Guest faculty: Rick A. Nishimura, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
    Topic: Septal Ablation for Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy: How and For Whom

CME Credit

CME provided by Duke Office of Continuing Medical Education: 1 hour Category 1 PRA credit per 1 hour program.