Faculty

Program Director and Moderator
	Vivek Reddy, MD Director of Cardiac Arrhythmia Services The Mount Sinai Hospital and the Mount Sinai Health System The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Professor of Medicine in Cardiac Electrophysiology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, NY, USA
Presenters and Panelists
	Prof. Ben Freedman, MBBS, PhD Director External Affairs and Group Leader Heart Rhythm & Stroke Group Sydney’s Heart Research Institute Honorary Professor of Cardiology Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney Sydney, Australia
	Matt Janik, MD, FACC Wilmington Health Associates Wilmington, NC, USA
	Assoc. Prof. Keitaro Senoo, MD Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine Department of Cardiac Arrhythmia Research and Innovation Kyoto, Japan

CME Accreditation

Activity Goal
This activity is designed to address the following core and team competencies:
Patient care, medical knowledge, practice-based learning and improvement, interprofessional collaboration, and roles and responsibilities.

Target Audience
This educational activity has been designed for Electrophysiologists, Cardiologists, Fellows-in-Training, and other Physician Groups and Allied Healthcare Professionals.

Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this educational activity, participants will be able to:

• Examine the co-existence between atrial fibrillation and hypertension, as well as prevalence, risk factors, and complications.
• Assess hypertension management for Afib prevention, rhythm control, heart failure and stroke prevention.
• Discuss the potential impact of new screening tools for early Afib detection, including its recurrence post ablation.  

Accreditation Statement
To support the improvement of patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by MediaSphere Medical and Ciné-Med. Ciné-Med is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the health-care team.

Ciné-Med designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA CATEGORY 1 Credit(s)™ for Physicians. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Ciné-Med designates this activity for 1.5 Contact Hours for Nurses.

Disclosure Policy
MediaSphere Medical and Ciné-Med adheres to accreditation requirements concerning industry support of continuing medical education. Speakers are required to openly disclose any limitations of data and/or any discussion of any off-label, experimental, or investigational uses of drugs or devices in their presentations. Speakers will disclose any relationships at the beginning of their presentations.

All MediaSphere Medical and Ciné-Med employees in control of content have indicated that they have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.

It is the policy of MediaSphere Medical and Ciné-Med to ensure balance, independent objectivity, and scientific rigor in all its supported educational programs. All faculty members participating in educational activities are required to disclose to the program audience any real of apparent conflicts of interest held within the past 12 months.

MediaSphere Medical and Ciné-Med implement a mechanism to identify and resolve all conflicts of interest prior to delivering the educational activity to learners.

Non-Endorsement Statement
MediaSphere Medical and Ciné-Med verify that sound education principles have been demonstrated in the development of this educational offering as evidenced by the review of its objectives, teaching plan, faculty, and activity evaluation process. MediaSphere Medical and Ciné-Med does not endorse or support the actual opinions or material content as presented by the speaker(s) and/or sponsoring organization.

Commercial Support
This activity is supported through educational grant from Omron Healthcare, Inc.

Joint Providership:
MediaSphere Medical, LLC and Ciné-Med