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06/14/2024

2024 OAPA Annual Conference - CME #9

Saturday, September 28, 2024, from 9-10 a.m.


When Failure is Not an Option: The Advances of Stage D Heart Failure

Presented by Deepak Sharma, PA-C, Mayo Clinic

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify the causes and stages of Heart Failure
  • Define when to refer patients to Advanced Heart Failure
  • Recognize the various escalation of therapy in cardiogenic shock
  • Determine Criteria for Heart Transplant & Left Ventricle Assist Device (LVAD)
  • Identify relative and absolute "contraindications" in regards to advanced therapies

Speaker Biography:

 
Deepak SharmaDeepak Sharma is a graduate from Ohio University PA program. He moved to Phoenix, Arizona to pursue an Advanced Heart Failure & Heart Transplant PA Fellowship at Mayo Clinic. He was hired on as staff and now runs the outpatient Heart Failure multidisciplinary clinic which includes managing patients with advanced stage heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, and cardiac amyloidosis. In addition to outpatient medicine, he practices transplant cardiology on inpatient service taking care of heart transplant patients. Deepak is the Associate Program Director for the Advanced Heart Failure & Heart Transplant PA fellowship and has recognition of Instructor in Medicine at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science.

 

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