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.
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
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