Secondary Prevention: Lipids, Lifestyle, and the Power of Cardiac Rehab

Join us for Grand Rounds, Secondary Prevention: Lipids, Lifestyle, and the Power of Cardiac Rehab, an educational session focused on improving cardiovascular outcomes through evidence-based secondary prevention strategies. The presentation will highlight the importance of smoking cessation, blood pressure control, achieving recommended lipid targets, and increasing referral to and participation in cardiac rehabilitation.

Quinn Pack, MD, MSc, is a board-certified preventive and noninvasive cardiologist at Baystate Medical Center and an Associate Professor of Medicine and Healthcare Delivery and Population Sciences at UMass Chan Medical School–Baystate. Dr. Pack also serves as Medical Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Wellness at Baystate Medical Center. His clinical, academic, and research work focuses on cardiovascular prevention, cardiac rehabilitation, tobacco cessation, hypertension management, and improving the delivery of evidence-based care. As an experienced educator and NIH-funded principal investigator, Dr. Pack has contributed extensively to cardiovascular research and quality improvement initiatives aimed at translating clinical evidence into practice and improving patient outcomes.

Learning Objectives:

1. Confidently prescribe smoking cessation medications to hospitalized cardiac patients
2. Build better processes of care for hypertension control for all patients
3. Reframe very low LDL levels as an opportunity to reverse heart disease
4. Regularly refer and encourage all eligible patients to attend cardiac rehabilitation

Accreditation Statement:

Deborah Heart and Lung Center designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Deborah Heart and Lung Center is accredited by the Medical Society of New Jersey to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Disclosure Statement:

None of the planners, faculty, or the speaker, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.