{"id":33496,"date":"2021-05-08T12:53:46","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T17:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=33496"},"modified":"2021-05-10T10:16:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T15:16:40","slug":"medtronic-acc-symposium-adam-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2021\/05\/08\/medtronic-acc-symposium-adam-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Medtronic Invites Patient Advocate to Speak at ACC Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On behalf of our global heart valve community, I want to thank <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medtronic.com\/us-en\/patients\/treatments-therapies\/transcatheter-aortic-valve-replacement\/about\/tavr-heart-valve.html\">Medtronic<\/a>, one of the world&#8217;s largest medical companies and a leading heart valve manufacturer, for the special invitation to speak at the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/accscientificsession.acc.org\/\">American College of Cardiology&#8217;s 70th Annual Scientific Session &amp; Expo<\/a>!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33515\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/medtronic-acc-symposium.jpg\" alt=\"Medtronic ACC Symposium with Adam Pick\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really fantastic to see that Medtronic wants to integrate our <strong>new patient research<\/strong> in this very important discussion about heart valve treatment.<\/p>\n<p>As you may know, the ACC is a leading educational association comprised of 54,000+ members including physicians, registered nurses and many other experts. In our community, the ACC is applauded and recognized for managing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/guidelines-shared-decision-making\/\">heart valve disease treatment guidelines<\/a> along with the American Heart Association.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>An Honor to Present Our New Patient Research<\/h2>\n<p>Needless to say, it is a great honor to be invited to speak at the ACC meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, I have been asked to participate in a unique symposium titled, &#8220;A Practical Approach to Shared Decision-Making When Treating Heart Valve Disease&#8221;, on Sunday, May 16 at 3:45pm EST.\u00a0 During the symposium, the panel of several heart valve experts will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clarify how shared decision-making relates to heart valve disease treatment<\/li>\n<li>Provide actionable insights and resources to reinforce shared decision-making concepts<\/li>\n<li>Share examples of how these practices can impact patients<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I really appreciate how Medtronic and the ACC are working together to provide patients a unique opportunity to be heard within the context of shared decision-making for valvular treatment.<\/p>\n<p>And&#8230; Thanks to our recent survey &#8211; which received 2,000+ patient responses in just 4 days &#8211; I will have some insightful new findings to present during the symposium.<\/p>\n<p>Related Articles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/guidelines-shared-decision-making\/\">New ACC\/AHA Guidelines Reinforce Shared Decision-Making<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/medtronic-active-living-patient-survey\">HeartValveSurgery.com Shares Active Living Survey Results<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2020\/07\/15\/medtronic\/\">Medtronic Joins HeartValveSurgery.com Community!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adams-updates"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33496"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33542,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33496\/revisions\/33542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}