Heart Care Education Foundation is pleased to present:

CORONARY INTERVENTIONS 2003 AND
BEYOND

Sunday March 30, 2003  5:30-9 pm
The Peninsula Chicago
The Grand Ballroom
108 East Superior St. at Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois

Physicians...
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Heart Care Education Foundation
of Illinois

SPEAKERS:

Gregg Stone, M.D.
Director of Cardiovascular Research & Education
The Cardiovascular Research Foundation
Lennox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute
New York, NY

Charles A. Simonton III, M.D.
Medical Director, Cardiovascular Research Division
Carolinas Heart Institute
Charlotte, North Carolina

Jeffrey Moses, M.D.
Chief, Interventional Cardiology
Lennox Hill Hospital, New York, NY
Clinical Professor of Medicine
New York University School of Medicine
New York, NY

Antonio Colombo, M.D.
Director Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Columbus Hospital, Milan, Italy
Director Cardiac Catheterization Lab & Vascular Interventions
San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
Director Investigational Angioplasty
Lennox Hill Hospital, New York, NY

MODERATORS:

Joseph F. Stella, D.O., F.A.C.C.
Robert Iaffaldano, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Ronald Stella, M.D., F.A.C.C.

  5:30–6:30 p.m.  Registration- Reception and Cocktails- Dinner
  6:30–7:00 p.m.  Gregg Stone, M.D.  "Management of Acute MI in 2003 and Beyond"
  7:00–7:30 p.m.  Charles A. Simonton III, M.D.
          "Anticoagulation in the setting of PCI... Future Directions"
  8:00–8:30 p.m.  Jeffrey Moses, M.D.  "Brachytherapy... Is the Window Closing?"
  8:30–9:00 p.m.  Antonio Colombo, M.D. "Drug Eluting Stents: Where, When & Why"

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:

• Describe new modalities for treating acute coronary syndrome.
• Apply optimal anticoagulation for PCI in 2003 and beyond.
• Define the role of brachytherapy for treating instent restenosis.
• Describe differences in the types of drug-eluting stents
• Define when, where and why drug-eluting stents should be used over bare-metal stents.

SPONSORS:

Heart Care Centers of Illinois
Boston Scientific/Scimed
Cordis - Johnson & Johnson Company
Guidant
The Medicines Company
Eli Lilly and Company
Medtronic/Pacing & Defibrillator Division

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY:

Medtronic/Coronary Division
Pfizer
Mallinckrodt/Tyco Healthcare
Abbott/Vascular Devices
Sanofi

The Heart Care Education Foundation is accredited by the Illinois State Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians. This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the policies of the Illinois State Medical Society through the sponsorship of the Heart Care Education Foundation.

The Heart Care Education Foundation designates this educational activity for a maximum of 2.5 credits in Category I toward the AMA Physicians' Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

INTERNATIONAL ACCREDITATION:

This activity has met the criteria for the awarding of American Medical Association PRA Category 1 credit to non-US licensed physicians.

ACTIVITY FEE:

There is no fee to attend this CME event.

For more information or to register-

call: (708) 478-3600