17th Annual Joint Meeting of the NC/SC Chapters ACC October 1-3, 2010 Wild Dunes Resort Isle of Palms, South Carolina Jointly sponsored by Carolinas Healthcare Systems/Charlotte AHEC and the South Carolina Chapter of the American College of Cardiology REGISTER SECURELY ONLINE OR PRINT REGISTRATION FORM CONFERENCE BROCHURE - click here. The South Carolina Chapter of the ACC is proud to once again host the Joint Meeting of the North Carolina and South Carolina Chapters at Wild Dunes Resort on the Isle of Palms in South Carolina. The 17th annual meeting is approved for 7.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. The program will kick off with a series of talks on the impact of current health care reform on cardiology practices. This will focus on national and regional issues of importance to physicians and patient care. The remainder of the conference will use a novel interactive case-based format to explore a variety of common clinical conditions. Short clinical case scenarios will be presented to the attendees. They will then be given an opportunity to answer a series of clinical questions electronically directed at the key issues of the case. The tabulated audience responses will be immediately reviewed in order to share as a group the various approaches to clinical management. Following this, there will be focused commentary presented by the expert panelist. These nationally recognized experts will give short reviews highlighting the key issues generated by each case. General topics will include management of atrial fibrillation, management of valvular heart disease, diastolic heart failure, noninvasive evaluation and treatment of coronary disease and the invasive management of coronary disease. We are confident this case based approach will be informative, clinically relevant and ensure lively interaction between the attendees and the expert panelists. Program Co-chairs: Michael R. Gold, MD, PhD, FACC ~ MUSC Peter L. Zwerner, MD, FACC ~ MUSC   EXHIBITOR & SPONSORSHIP INFORMATION - click here.   We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of our 2009 Annual Joint Meeting Supporters & Exhibitors (companies in blue have confirmed participation in 2010 - thank you!) Platinum Supporters ELA Medical Gold Supporters AstraZeneca Sanofi-Aventis Silver Supporters Abbott Laboratories Abiomed Actelion Astellas Pharma US, Inc. Berekley HeartLab Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Boston Scientific Cardiac Assist, Inc. Cardio Dynamics CardioNet Consolidated Planning Cordis Corporation Daiichi Sankyo Pharmaceuticals Datascope Corporation eCardio Diagnostics Gilead Sciences Lilly USA, LLC MAG Mutual Insurance Company The Medicines Company Medrad Interventional/ Possis Medtronic Merck/ Schering-Plough Novartis Pfizer Philips Remote Cardiac Services SC JUA & SCPCF Schering Corporation Siemens Healthcare St. Jude Medical Takeda Pharmaceuticals TeraRecon, Inc. TyRx Inc. Wells Fargo Advisors Zoll LifeCor And joining us this year... MAQUET Cardiovascular Z-Medica