President's Message

August 2021

Dear PaACC Chapter Colleagues,

I hope you have been having a wonderful, relaxing summer including some down time with family and friends. Your PaACC and its leaders have been hard at work planning chapter events for the late Summer and Fall which I wanted to feature today.

• The CVTeam section will be kicking off another season of their Journal Club, accompanied by continued education units, titled “Wine, Cheese, and Heart Disease”, on September 21 at 7:00pm on Zoom.  The first session will be focused on the manuscript “Myosin Inhibition in Patients With Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Referred for Septal Reduction Therapy” recently published in JACC, and will feature PaACC members as expert discussants. Click here for more information and to register.

• The PaACC and the NY Chapter of the ACC will be concluding their successful four-part workshop series on Handling Microaggressions, Bias, and Toxicity with a session on “Developing Allies and Advocating for Change”– register here for the workshop occurring on August 31 at 5:00pm on Zoom.

• We are excited to announce the PaACC will again be participating in the Mid-Atlantic Capital Cardiology Symposium (MACCS), occurring on November 19 - 20 at Heart House in Washington, DC! The symposium is a fantastic opportunity for learning and networking with members of the cardiovascular community from across the mid-Atlantic region. This year, it will also include a forum for Fellows-in-Training (FIT) to learn about a variety of non-clinical competencies and as well as the FIT Jeopardy competition. Click here for more details.

• Finally – the ACC’s Legislative Conference will be taking place in Washington, DC from October 16-18. The Legislative Conference is a phenomenal event and offers the opportunity to hear from ACC leaders, staff and other experts on health policy issues affecting patients and the profession, while also providing an important opportunity to speak directly with members of Congress and their staff. Please save the date and register here – PaACC always has a strong showing for this conference and we hope to see many of you in DC this year.

Please continue to visit our website at www.pcacc.org, follow us on Twitter @PAChapterACC, and reach out any time via president@pcacc.org with questions, ideas, needs or if you would like to get involved in PaACC activities.

President, PaACC

Governor, Eastern PA

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