Workshop: 1.00pm - 4.00pm.
Afternoon tea is provided.
Join Professor Gerry Wilkins for an engaging and practical workshop designed for general practitioners with challenging heart failure patients, focusing on the latest guidelines and newly available therapies for managing chronic heart failure. Improve patient outcomes and quality of life by workshopping common challenges in initiating and optimizing guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) and safely uptitrating medications to maximum tolerated doses.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own complex cases to discuss with expert Professor Wilkins, enhancing confidence and providing real solutions for multimorbid heart failure patients.
This interactive workshop offers hands-on case studies, personalized advice from a leading heart failure specialist, and opportunities for peer collaboration, ensuring you leave with practical strategies to implement in your clinical practice next Monday and beyond.
Cost:
- Registration fee (add-on to Symposium registration) - $345
- Registration fee Friday only participants (not part of Symposium) - $365
This workshop has been endorsed and approved for professional development by The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners (2.5 hrs, 5 points), and the College of Nurses Aotearoa NZ for 2.5 professional development hours.
Presenter
Gerry Wilkins
Gerry is currently Professor of Medicine, Otago University and Consultant Cardiologist at Dunedin and Mercy Hospitals.
He was involved in the earliest use of coronary angioplasty in New Zealand in 1981-1984. He has continued a pioneering interest in vascular intervention and has been involved in the introduction of many new techniques, devices and trials, including the first use of coronary stents in NZ.
This workshop is supported by
