2025 Fall Conference
September 12-14, 2025

Announcing the Academy of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary 2024 Fall Conference to be held Friday evening September 12, 2025– Sunday lunch, September 14, 2025, at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

 

 

 Call for Speakers

If you are interested in submitting a proposal, please complete the following link by midnight on November 15, 2024. 

Honorarium will be $200 per 90-minute session and there will NOT be additional funding for travel.  Speakers will receive complimentary registration for the day they are speaking.

Speaker Proposal Form

We are currently requesting submissions for speaker sessions. Recommended content level should be Intermediate to Advanced.

Per the Membership poll in 2022, members are requesting more education in the following topics:

Heart Failure:

Heart Failure including Advanced HF, new meds and treatment for HF and HF guidelines implementation into practice

Advanced heart failure management with emphasis on arrhythmias, pulmonary hypertension

Heart Failure - treatment, new technology, PT best practice 

Mechanical Circulatory Support:

Mechanical Circulatory Support including VADs, Impella, IABP, CRT, ECMO and mobility with these devices

MCS - intro to devices, PT implications, and best practice (emphasis on ECMO, VADs) 

ECMO resources Heart Failure COPD

Cardiac/Pulmonary Rehab:

PT involvement in Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation: role and importance in these programs, how to market and promote these programs, and billing practices. 

Cardiac Rehab and Pulmonary rehab – billing, telehealth, and diagnoses best practice

Treatment and care for chronic heart and pulmonary conditions\

ECG:

ECG interpretation, lab value interpretation, lines and tubes courses designed for educators on newest technologies in cardiovascular equipment

ECG - interpretation to practice implications 

Research:

New Technology/DME for Monitoring/IMT/Research, etc.

Update on current cardiopulmonary research

Bridging research to clinical practice, or how to get started in research. 

Research - how to do, to how to get more involved, to how to integrate into practice

Teaching CVP:

CVP teaching and mentoring 

Teaching and Mentoring for CVP Students and Residents

Information about preparing & mentoring entry level practitioners for critically ill patients

Pulmonary HTN

Pediatrics:

Hospital based post-op protocols for infants and pediatric patients’ s/p cardiac surgery (CHD, staged surgeries, transplant) including scar mobilization.

PICS:

Management of the ventilator patient including settings, Airway management, mobility, and PICS

PICS – what to look for/screen for

Management of the ventilator patient including settings, Airway management, mobility, and PICS

ICU Best Practice:

Teaching and Mentoring for CVP Students and Residents, how to make the ICU "less scary"

How to establish mentoring in your ICU  

ICU best practice - mechanical ventilation, early mobility, PICS ID and understanding continuum 

Pulmonary best practice, cardiology best practice, and ICU best practice/CPG’s

Telehealth

Use of telehealth in CVP populations

Telehealth and/or other options for cardiac or pulmonary rehab including billing

Telehealth for cardiac and pulmonary rehab, Individual and groups.  

Value-based PT focused on:

COPD

PAD/VTE 

Speaker Proposal Form