Target Audience

Practitioners interested in learning more about advances in the understanding of the pathophysiology and treatment of patients with pulmonary hypertension.

Cardiologists, respirologists, thoracic surgeons, rheumatologists, internists.

Goals

  • Learn to evaluate pulmonary hypertension in the older patient
  • Review the current approach for the assessment of PH
  • Update knowledge in the potential role of radiology for PH
  • Describe recent advances in the medical management of PH
  • Determine the current surgical options for PH.

Objectives

  • Participants will be able to explain the role of radiology in the evaluation of PH participants
  • Integrate an understanding of physiological concepts into the management of patients with PH participants
  • Able to to evaluate the surgical options for PH

INTERNATIONAL GUEST FACULTY

Marius M. Hoeper, MD
Professor of Medicine
Hannover Medical School
Dept. of Respiratory Medicine
Hannover, Germany

Dr. Franz Robert P. Frantz MD
Director, Mayo Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic
Director, Cardiovascular Studies Unit
Associate Professor of Medicine
Cardiovascular Diseases and Internal Medicine
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

COURSE DIRECTORS

Marc de Perrot, MD, MSc
Division of Thoracic,
Toronto General Hospital
Associate Professor of Surgery,
University of Toronto
John Granton, MD FRCP
Division of Respirology,
Mount Sinai Hospital,
and Women’s College Hospital
Associate Prof. Medicine,
Faculty of Medicine
University of Toronto