Beyond Traditional Risk Scores: Imaging in CVD Prevention

This webinar will examine the evolving role of cardiovascular imaging in preventive care. Faculty will review the strengths and limitations of traditional risk prediction models and discuss how imaging modalities may improve risk classification, particularly in intermediate-risk patients. Evidence supporting coronary artery calcium scoring and plaque assessment will be presented, along with practical considerations for implementation in clinical practice.

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Lecturer

Dharmesh Patel, MD, FASPC, is a faculty member at the Stern Cardiovascular Center in Memphis, TN. He is the Director of the Stern Cardiovascular Lipid Clinic and is also Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation at Baptist Desoto Hospital in Southaven, Mississippi. He is the Governor-Elect for ACC for the state of Mississippi. He is Treasurer for the Southeast chapter of the National Lipid Association and a past National Board member of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology. He is board-certified in seven different disciplines, including by the American Board of Clinical Lipidology, and is a certification specialist in clinical hypertension for the American Society of Hypertension. He also serves as a Clinical Professor of Cardiology at the Baptist University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Memphis. Additionally, Dr. Patel is a past chairman of the American Heart Association Executive Leadership Committee, Memphis Division, and has served on the Southeast Board of Directors for the American Heart Association.

 He is the current President of PACH - Partnership to Advance Cardiovascular Care, a nonprofit advocacy organization.

Moderator

Michael J. Blaha, MD, MPH, is Professor of Cardiology and Epidemiology and presently serves as the Director of Clinical Research for the Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Director of the Cardiometabolic Clinic, and Program Director for the Preventive Cardiology Fellowship. His clinical interests include primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease, with emphasis on early intervention in patients with advanced subclinical atherosclerosis detected with cardiac computed tomography.

Dr. Blaha represents the 4th generation of physicians in his family. After earning a BS in pre-medical studies and classical civilization at the University of Notre Dame in 2001, Dr. Blaha went to Vanderbilt University, where in 2006 he received his MD as well as an MPH in clinical epidemiology and biostatistics. Dr. Blaha then completed his Internal Medicine residency in the Osler Medical Housestaff Training Program at Johns Hopkins in 2009, followed by a fellowship in Cardiology at Johns Hopkins in 2012. 

In 2018, Dr. Blaha received the Dr. Fred Brancati award at Johns Hopkins for excellence in mentoring.  He has mentored over 30 trainees, many of whom have gone on to hold prominent academic appointments.

In 2021, Dr. Blaha was named to the Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher List, representing the top 1% of the world’s researchers, and was first named to the Baltimore Magazine Best Doctors List.

In 2022, he received the Arthur S. Agatston Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Award.

Clinically, he practices as a preventive cardiologist specializing in cardiometabolic disease and cardiac CT interpretation.  His clinic specializes in patients with cardiometabolic disease and advanced subclinical atherosclerosis, and the focused use of an array of lifestyle and pharmacotherapies to mitigate that risk.

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