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Cardiology Update 2006
May 20 – June 3, 2006
Detailed Conference Agenda

Please Note: Out of respect for your fellow delegates, please arrive at least 5 minutes prior to each
session. The sessions will start on time.
Saturday May 20, 2006
Dover, England

2:00 – 4:00
Conference Registration

Sunday May 21, 2006
At Sea

8:30 – 8:45
Welcome: Day 1 - Your hosts will outline the CME program for the day.

8:45 - 9:35
Look Before Your Leap - Dr. Stuart Smith
In his first Traditional Medicine session, Dr. Smith will help with understanding the nuances
of Evidence-based Cardiology in Primary Care.

9:35 – 9:45
Question & Answer Session/Break

9:45 – 10:35 A Physician’s Financial Health in the 21st Century – Greg Hilderman
In his first session, Greg will look at the impact of taxation on a Physician and his/her
practice.
10:35 – 10:45 Question & Answer Session/Break
10:45 – 11:35 Physician’s Health – better than patients? – Dr. Olaf Aasland
Dr. Aasland will give a historical and comparative overview of physician health in his first
session. Health Physicians’ – healthy patients?
11:35 – 11:45 Question & Answer Session
11:45 – 1:00 Lunch

Detailed Agenda – CME May 20 – June 3, 2006
Sunday May 21, 2006 Continued
1:00 – 1:50 Medical Office Time Management – Dr. Benjamin Burko
In his first session, Dr. Burko will discuss how to create time (where there seems to be none)
and use this time to either see more patients, or enhance the quality of each patient visit or
create more free-time as well as practical techniques to achieve these objectives. In addition,
innovative sources of practice revenue shall be explored.
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1:50 – 2:00 Question & Answer Session/Break / break

2:00 – 2:50
Is Doctoring dangerous to your health? – Dr. Olaf Aasland
In his second session, Dr. Aasland will discuss stress, coping and social support along with
the modern patient-doctor relationship. He will also discuss physician health with emphasis
on status and gender differences and how medical errors affect the doctors’ work and lives.
2:50 – 3:00 Question & Answer Session

Monday May 22, 2006
Oslo, Norway

2:15 – 2:30
Welcome: Day 2 - Your hosts will outline the CME program for the day.

2:30 - 3:20
Unhappy Doctors – Dr. Olaf Aasland
Dr. Aasland will review recent literature on physician suicide as well as mental health and
burnout .

3:20 – 3:30
Question & Answer Session/Break

3:30 – 4:20 Dr. Dollar vs. Dr. Sen$e – Greg Hilderman
Greg will do a financial comparison of an incorporated Physician vs. a non-incorporated Physician
4:20 – 4:30
Question & Answer Session/Break

4:30 – 5:20 Privacy and Personal Health Information – Part 1 – Peter Everett
To begin, Peter Everett will review the issue of Privacy and the Practice of Medicine, discuss the Personal Information and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and the application in provincial context. He will give an overview of the Ten Principles of the CSA Model Code for the Personal Protection of Information for discussion in following sessions. 5:20 – 5:30
Question & Answer Session/Break
Detailed Agenda – CME May 20 – June 3, 2006

Tuesday May 23, 2006
At Sea

8:30 – 8:45
Welcome: Day 3 - Your hosts will outline the CME program for the day.

8:45 – 9:35
Cardiovascular Disease - Dr. Stuart Smith
In his this session, Dr. Smith will review different strategies for primary and secondary
prevention.
9:35 – 9:45
Question & Answer Session/Break

9:45 – 10:35 The Dragon and The Eagle: World Economic Order In the 21st Century
Greg Hilderman
A review of current and topical investment strategies for the 21st century.
10:35 – 10:45 Question & Answer Session/Break
10:45 – 11:35 Ten Ways to Create Efficiency in Your Office: You Can Start Today!
Dr. Benjamin Burko
Dr. Burko will discuss the benefits of running an efficient office and will teach techniques to
become more efficient in the practice of medicine and running of your office.
11:35 – 11:45 Question & Answer Session
11:45 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 1:50 What Can We Learn from Sick Doctors’ Narratives? – Dr. Olaf Aasland
In his last session, Dr. Aasland will describe a Norwegian project based on 88 narratives from
doctors who got seriously ill and then he present some advise about how to manage the
doctor-doctor and the doctor-patient role.
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1:50 – 2:00 Question & Answer Session/Break / break

2:00 – 2:50
Privacy and Personal Health Information – Part 2 – Peter Everett
Peter will continue discussing privacy and the practice of medicine with a review of Principle 3 of the
Ten Principles as discussed in his initial session.

2:50 – 3:00 Question & Answer Session

Detailed Agenda – CME May 20 – June 3, 2006
Tuesday May 23, 2006 Continued
3:00 – 4:30
Journal Club #1 – Management of “Delirium Cordis”: Another Myth
shot down or is it? – Dr. Stuart Smith
Dr. Smith will present for critical appraisal and discussion, ‘A Comparison of Rate Control and
Rhythm Control in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation’; the ‘Atrial Fibrillation Follow-up Investigation of
Rhythm Management (AFFIRM) Investigators’, ‘Atrial Fibrillation— Rhythm or Rate Control’,
‘Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure — Five More Years’and ‘Editorials and Management of Atrial
Fibrillation - Radical Reform or Modest Modification?’.
Wednesday May 24, 2006
Stockholm, Sweden

6:30 - 8:00
Journal Club #2 – Aggressive Lipid Therapy: All Benefit and No Risk???
Dr. Stuart Smith
Dr. Smith will represent for critical appraisal and discussion, “Intensive Lipid Lowering with
Atorvastatin in Patients with Stable Coronary Disease”, “Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol in
Patients with Stable Coronary Heart Disease — Is It Time to Shift Our Goals?” , and “Intensive Lipid
Lowering with Atorvastatin in Coronary Disease”.
Thursday May 25, 2006
Helsinki, Finland

6:15 – 6:30
Welcome: Day 5 - Your hosts will outline the CME program.

6:30 – 7:20
Alternatives in Medicine – A Historical Perspective
Dr. Dag Viljen Poleszynski
In his first session, Dr. Poleszynski will discuss how present day medicine has evolved since
time immemorial and the cyclical nature of dominant treatment modalities.

7:20 – 7:30
Question & Answer Session

Friday May 26, 2006
St. Petersburg, Russia

Saturday May 27, 2006
St. Petersburg, Russia

6:00 – 7:30
Journal Club #3 – “One Size Fits All”: Is it Time for an Aspirin-
Clopidogrel Polypill? - Dr. Stuart Smith
Dr. Smith will facilitate an open forum to discuss the articles, “Clopidogrel and Aspirin versus
Aspirin Alone for the Prevention of Atherothrombotic Events” and “The Charisma of
Subgroups and the Subgroups of CHARISMA”.

Detailed Agenda – CME May 20 – June 3, 2006
Sunday May 28, 2006
Tallin Estonia

5:15 – 5:30
Welcome: Day 8 - Your hosts will outline the CME program.

5:30 - 6:20
Our Paleolithic Heritage and Implications for Health and Disease
Dr. Dag Viljen Poleszynski
In his second session, Dr. Poleszynski will discuss how genetic traits have evolved through
the interaction of the human genome with the environment and how the ultimate basis for
most diet-related disease has resulted from evolutionary discordance between our ancient
genome and “new” foods.

6:20 – 6:30
Question & Answer Session

Monday May 29, 2006
At Sea

8:30 – 8:45
Welcome: Day 9 - Your hosts will outline the CME program for the day.

8:45 - 9:35
Controversies in Atrial Fibrillation: Relevant Issues for the Primary Care
Practitioner - Dr. Stuart Smith
In this session, Dr. Smith will identify the ongoing controversies in the management of atrial
fibrillation and introduce new terminology for the “clinical” classification of atrial fibrillation.
He will also review the current evidence and opinion for each of the management related
controversies for atrial fibrillation.
9:35 – 9:45
Question & Answer Session/Break

9:45 – 10:35 The Weston Price Studies of Traditional vs. Modernized Life-Style
Dr. Dag Viljen Poleszynski
In this session, Dr. Poleszynski discuss how genetic traits have evolved through the interaction of the
human genome with the environment and how the ultimate basis for most diet-related disease has
resulted from evolutionary discordance between our ancient genome and ‘new’ foods.
10:35 – 10:45 Question & Answer Session/Break
10:45 – 11:35 Privacy and Personal Health Information – Part 3 – Peter Everett
With the continuation of his presentation, Peter Everett will review and discuss Principles 4 - 10 of the
Ten Principles in his first session.
11:35 – 11:45 Question & Answer Session
11:45 – 1:00 Lunch

Detailed Agenda – CME May 20 – June 3, 2006 Monday May 29, 2006 Continued
1:00 – 1:50 Cardiovascular Imaging for Coronary Artery Disease: Is it Time to say
“Good-bye” to Coronary Angiography? – Dr. Stuart Smith
In this session, Dr. Smith will discuss the two major categories for cardiac testing and
introduce several of the new modalities for non-invasive “anatomical imaging”. He will also
discuss the potential advantages and limitations of some of the new non invasive techniques
for “anatomical imaging” in comparison with the gold standard “coronary angiography”.
1:50 – 2:00 Question & Answer Session

2:00 – 2:50 Optimal Nutrition with High-fat Diets? - Dr. Dag Viljen Poleszynski
In his second session, Dr. Poleszynski will discuss the history of high-fat / low-carbohydrate nutrition,
with examples from 1825 to the present. The rationale behind high-fat nutrition, clinical experience
and controlled studies.
2:50 – 3:00 Question & Answer Session/Break
3:00 – 3:50 Personal Time Management – Dr. Benjamin Burko
In this session, Dr. Burko will discuss how to analyze your own work-style in a critical
fashion. “Time wasting” activities (both overt and covert) will be identified for elimination.
The formal discipline of project management for the purpose of bringing about effective
change will be introduced…
3:50 – 4:00 Question & Answer Session
Tuesday May 30, 2006
Warnemunde, Germany

Wednesday May 31, 2006
Copenhagen, Denmark

8:30 – 8:45 Welcome: Day 11- Your hosts will outline the CME program for the day.
8:45 – 9:35 “Aging Issues in Cardiology – Dr. Stuart Smith
In this session, learn whether Coronary Revascularization is a realistic option for your elderly
patient or not.

9:35 – 9:45
Question & Answer Session/Break

9:45 – 10:35 Casualty of Heart and Cardiovascular Disease
Dr. Dag Viljen Poleszynski
In this session, Dr. Poleszynski will review the different theories for heart disease and the rationale
behind them.

10:35 – 10:45 Question & Answer Session/Break

Detailed Agenda – CME May 20 – June 3, 2006 Wednesday May 33, 2006 Continued
10:45 – 11:35 Workshop – An Orthomolecular/Evolutionary Approach to Maintaining
Health and Treating Illness - Dr. Dag Viljen Poleszynski
In this interactive session, Dr. Poleszynski will present why evolutionary principles should underlie
medical treatment and the implications for choice of treatment modalities.

11:35 – 11:45 Question & Answer Session
Thursday June 1, 2006
Helsingborg, Sweden

8:30 – 12:30 Local Content: Modern Myths About Cholesterol and Diet
Dr. Uffe Ravnskov & Dr. Peter Nilsson This lecture will focus on modern myths about Cholesterol and Diet as well as a review of the
Malmö Diet and Cancer Study data on dietary fat and the prospective risk of CVD.
Please note: This is an on shore lecture, at the University of Lund.

6:00 – 7:30
Journal Club #4 – The Trials and Tribulations of Spironolactone: From
Clinical Trial to the Community – Dr. Stuart Smith
Facilitated by Dr. Smith, this open forum will discuss the articles, “The effect of spironolactone on
morbidity and mortality in patients with severe heart failure”, “Treatment of Heart Failure
with Spironolactone — Trial and Tribulations” and “Rates of Hyperkalemia after Publication
of the Randomized Aldactone Evaluation Study”.
Friday June 2, 2006
At Sea

8:30 – 8:45
Welcome: Day 13 - Your hosts will outline the CME program for the day.

8:45 - 9:35
The Future of Medical Practice Management – Dr. Benjamin Burko
In his final session, Dr. Burko will discuss rules-based scheduling, electronic document
management, e-prescribing, automated billing and patient self-serve appointments, check-in
and payments.
9:35 – 9:45
Question & Answer Session/Break

9:45 – 10:35 Managing Heart Failure in Clinical Practice: Practical Perspectives on
an Evolving Problem – Dr. Stuart Smith
In his last session, Dr. Smith will introduce a new perspective on the definite of “heart failure” and
review the cornerstone therapies while outlining some of the new therapies for heart therapy.
10:35 – 10:45 Question & Answer Session/Break
10:45 – 11:35 Privacy and Personal Health Information – Part 4 – Peter Everett
Case study discussions in perspective of the Ten Principles.

11:35 – 11:45 Question & Answer Session
Detailed Agenda – CME May 20 – June 3, 2006
Friday June 2, 2006 Continued
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 1:50 Workshop – Traditional Medicine - Dr. Stuart Smith
In this interactive session, Dr. Smith will present a potpourri of Cardiology: “Cardiology Pearls” for
the Primary Care Practitioner. He will also review a number of common clinical problems and
questions that arise in the office when dealing cardiac patients.

1:50 – 2:00 Question & Answer Session
2:00 – 2:15
Closing Remarks
Detailed Agenda – CME May 20 – June 3, 2006

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