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Friday, December 8
7:00 Breakfast
8:00- 8:20 Opening remarks
8:20- 9:05 Keynote Address- Genetics of Stroke: Getting up Close and Personal
Guillaume Paré MD, MSc, FRCPC
9:10-10:55 Plenary 1 – Heart Disease in Special Populations
Heart Interventions in Older Patients - Filtering For Frailty
Allen Huang MDCM, FRCPC, FACP, FACP
Heart Disease and Pregnancy - The Top 3 Things You Need to Know
Samuel Siu MD
Heart Disease, Athletes and the Weekend Warrior
Aaron Baggish MD
10:55-11:20 Nutrition Break
11:20-12:50 Concurrent Sessions F1
F1-01: Acute Stroke and Early Management
Jennifer Mandzia MD, PhD, FRCPC
F1-02: Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage
Ashkan Shoamanesh MD, FRCPC
F1-03: Managing Diabetes in 2017 – What to Add, When and Why?
Maria Wolfs MD, MHSc, FRCPC
F1-04: An Update on Sleep Apnea
Douglas Bradley BA, MD
F1-05: Athlete’s Workshop
Aaron Baggish MD
F1-06: Practical Management of NOACs
John Eikelboom MBBS, MSc
12:50 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Concurrent Sessions F2
F2-07: Driving and the Heart and Stroke Patient
Catherine Ballyk MD, FRCPC
Elke Hilgendag OT
F2-08: Cardiac Rhythm Devices: Pacemakers, ILR ICD, CRT: What's Out There and What Should I Know?
William McIntyre MD, FRCPC
F2-09: Indigenous Health and Cultural Safety
Darlene Kitty, MD, CCFP
Sheldon Tobe MD, MScCH (HPTE), FRCPC, FACP, FAS
F2-10: Palliative Care for the Heart and Stroke Patient
Jeff Myers MD, MSEd, CCFP (PC)
F2-11: The 3 Minute Neurological Exam Demystified
W.J. Oczkowski MD, FRCPC
F2-12: Keeping Your Patient out of the Hospital by Preventing a Second Stroke
Grant Stotts MD, FRCPC
15:30-15:55 Nutrition Break
15:55-17:40 Plenary 2 – Stroke in Women
Migraines and Stroke
Christine Lay MD, FRCP, FAHS
Hormone Replacement Therapy and Stroke
Cheryl Jaigobin MD, MSc
Pregnancy and Stroke
Rick Swartz MD, PhD
Saturday, December 9
7:00 Breakfast
8:00-9:45 Plenary 3 – Therapeutic Update
New Trials and Controversies in Hypertension
Eva Lonn MD, MSc, FRCPC
Optimizing Cholesterol Lowering Therapy in Patients with Statin Muscle Complaints
Robert Rosenson MD, FACC, FACP, FAHA, FESC
Diabetes Management in 2017: The Tides Are Turning
Catherine Yu MD, FRCPC, MHSc
9:45-10:10 Nutrition break
10:10-11:40 Concurrent sessions S3
S3-13: Lipids: Looking Forward to 2018
Robert Hegele MD, FRCPC, FACP, FAHA, FCAHS, FCCS
S3-14: Managing Atrial Fibrillation: Beyond Anticoagulation
Peter Leong-Sit MD, MSc, FRCPC, FHRS
S3-15: Addressing Challenges in Heart Failure Management
Stuart J. Smith MD, FRCPC
Maureen Leyser RNEC, BScN, MN - NP
S3-16: A Case-Based Approach to ECGs
Lorne Gula MD, FRCPC
Damian Redfearn MB, ChB, MRCPI, FRCPC
S3-17: Management of Patients with TIA
Cheryl Jaigobin MD, FRCPC, MSc
S3-18: Interpretation and Common Pitfalls of Neurovascular Imaging
Kanjana Perera MD, FRCPC
11:40-13:10 Closing Lunch & Learn - Digital Health and Patient Self-Care of Chronic Illness
Joseph Cafazzo PhD, PEng