Update in Clinical Cardiology

Continuing Education

Vector image of heart inside left chest above images of keyboard and Boston indicating both online and in person

October 14 - 16, 2026

Course Schedule

Top clinician-educators at Harvard Medical School and Mass General Brigham present updates for state-of-the-art cardiology evaluation, treatment, procedures, and the management of challenging cases. This comprehensive CME program offers the choice to participate either in person in Boston or live online.

Live Online or In Person

Choose your learning experience:

» ATTEND ONLINE for LIVE STREAMING education and online Q&A with faculty.

» ATTEND IN PERSON in Boston, MA at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel. Faculty provide dedicated time for Q&A with participants.

Fairmont Copley Plaza
138 St. James Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts

$865 Save with early registration

Save $100. The tuition listed above is for physicians; see the course fee table for pricing for other health professionals. To ensure your participation at the lowest possible cost, early registration is strongly recommended.

Fee increases to $965 after September 20, 2026

Continuing Education

Earn up to:

» 26.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

» 26.75 ABIM MOC points

» 26.75 ANCC contact hours

» 26.75 ECME Credits^®

Commensurate credits through the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada

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3 Days

This intensive course, which is among the highest-rated Harvard Medical School CME courses, presents the most up-to-date, evidence-based approaches to clinical cardiology.

Overview

The Comprehensive Clinical Cardiology Update

Evaluation • Treatment • Patient Care • Procedures • Challenging Cases
Update in Clinical Cardiology will be held on October 14 – 16, 2026. You have the option to attend either online as the course is live streamed or in person in Boston, MA.

Update in Clinical Cardiology provides comprehensive updates for state-of-the-art care and guidance to incorporate them into daily practice to optimize patient outcomes. Coverage includes:

Coronary Artery Disease
Diabetes and Obesity
Valvular Heart Disease
Heart Failure (reduced and preserved ejection fraction)
Cardiomyopathies
Dyslipidemia
Hypertension
Exercise and Cardiovascular Benefits
Atrial Fibrillation
Supraventricular Tachycardia
Ventricular Arrhythmias
Thoracic Aortic Disease
Pericarditis
Peripheral Arterial Disease
Renal Artery Stenosis
Renal Artery Denervation
Pulmonary Embolism and Venous Thromboembolism
Cardio-Oncology
Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Cardiac Critical Care
Ischemia with Non-Obstructive Coronary Arteries (INOCA)
Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD)
Cardiac Biomarkers
Heart Disease in Pregnancy
Sports Cardiology
Pulmonary Hypertension
Endocarditis

The faculty is assembled from the best clinician-educators at Harvard Medical School and Mass General Brigham and is designed to deliver the highest quality educational experience:

Teaching practical, effective clinical reasoning and approaches that enable you to practice state-of-the-art clinical cardiology
Allowing ample time for participants to interact with faculty and to pose and get answers to your specific questions, including Q&A sessions and case-based panel discussions
Providing the latest information in an engaging manner and clinically usable context so that you have knowledge you can “take home” and immediately apply to patient care

2026 PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

Management of obesity and diabetes for improved cardiovascular health outcomes
Use of GLP-1 agonists and SGLT2 inhibitors
Acute coronary syndrome guidelines writing committee chair, Dr. Michelle O’Donoghue, presents answers to your questions about the new guidelines for diagnosis and treatment
New clinical trials: data findings, updates, and implications for daily practice
Novel transcatheter and structural treatment options: important updates for the management of valvular disease
Optimized approaches to heart failure and cardiomyopathies, including hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and cardiac amyloidosis
Advances in electrical devices and mechanical support
Complex coronary artery disease management in the cath lab with novel diagnostic and revascularization techniques
Keynote talk from leading clinical trialist Dr. Marc Sabatine, reviewing the landscape of cardiovascular clinical trials

In addition to being presented live in person and streamed live online, all sessions will be recorded and placed in the online course library, enabling registrants to view them at their convenience. Recordings will be available for viewing for 90 days after the conclusion of the course. All live streaming and recorded sessions are eligible for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and other relevant credits, up to the approved maximum. (Note: Evaluations must be completed within 30 days in order to receive CME credit.)

Developed and Offered By:

Continuing Education courses are developed by faculty from Harvard Medical School's teaching hospitals and accredited by Harvard Medical School. This course is offered by Mass General Brigham.

Continuing Education

Who Should Participate

Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Registered Nurses, Pharmacists, and Fellows from the following specialties:

Cardiology
Vascular Medicine
Internal Medicine
Family Medicine
Geriatrics
Surgery
Hospital Medicine
Critical Care and Trauma
Emergency Medicine
Anesthesiology

Obesity Medicine
This program provides updates on obesity medicine in cardiovascular practice, including:

Updates on anti-obesity medications in cardiovascular practice
Anti-obesity medications in heart failure
Lifestyle interventions

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Cardiovascular clinical trials in 2026
Percutaneous valvular interventions
Advances in amyloidosis and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy management
Updates on INOCA

Schedule

This program is among the highest-rated Harvard Medical School CME courses.

All agenda sessions are in Eastern Time.

Please note that program changes/substitutions may be made without notice.

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Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Day 1

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Thursday, October 15, 2026

Day 2

Thursday, October 15, 2026

Friday, October 16, 2026

Day 3

Friday, October 16, 2026

Attend Online or In Person

The 2026 program offers participants two ways to attend. You can choose either option when you register:

ONLINE for live streaming education
IN PERSON in Boston, MA at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel

BOTH OPTIONS provide participants with:

Recordings of all sessions, which will be made available for 90 days following the conclusion of this program.
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and other relevant credits. All live (in-person and streaming) and recorded sessions are eligible for these credits. (Note: Evaluations must be completed within 30 days of the conclusion of the course to receive CME credit.)
The chance to pose your specific questions to course faculty.
Flexibility to change your attendance preference. Should your circumstances change after you have registered, you have the ability to change from one attendance option to the other up until two weeks before the program begins.

CLOSED CAPTIONING AND MULTILINGUAL TRANSLATION

Live streaming participants can activate the closed captioning feature of the video platform to have the lectures captioned for them in real time.
We also offer a special multilingual feature: the closed captions are available in languages other than English. (Please note: Translations are A.I. generated, and 100% accuracy is not guaranteed. For the most accurate content, please view in the original English.) For a list of available languages, click here.

In-Person Venue

Fairmont Copley Plaza
138 St. James Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts
+1 617-267-5300

This luxury downtown Boston landmark hotel has been a symbol of the city’s rich history and offers top-notch accommodations and amenities. Located within the heart of Boston, Fairmont Copley Plaza is an easy walk to many of the city’s historic sites, shopping, museums, and restaurants.

Fairmont Copley Plaza has reserved a block of discounted rooms for course participants.

To reserve your room:

Online: To reserve your room online, please use this dedicated reservation link.
By phone: If you are calling the hotel rather than using the dedicated link above to request a discounted room, please call 1-866-540-4417 or 800-441-1414 and be sure to specify that you are enrolled in Update in Clinical Cardiology.

Important to note:

The number of discounted rooms is limited.
Discounted rooms are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
The discounted room rate is only available until September 21, 2026, or until the block sells out.

Faculty

Course Directors

Rory B. Weiner

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Mass General Brigham

Emily S. Lau

MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Co-Director, Women’s Heart Health Program
Mass General Brigham

Harvard Medical School

Brian Bergmark, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Ron Blankstein, MD, Professor of Medicine

Jenifer M. Brown, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine

David A. D’Alessandro, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery

Doreen DeFaria Yeh, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine

Akshay S. Desai, MD, Professor of Medicine

Douglas Drachman, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine

David M. Dudzinski, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Akl Fahed, MD, Instructor in Medicine

Naomi D. Fisher, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine

Hanna Gaggin, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Michael M. Givertz, MD, Professor of Medicine

David A. Gross, MD, PhD, Instructor in Medicine

James Sawalla Guseh, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine

E. Kevin Heist, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine

Eric M. Isselbacher, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine

Farouc A. Jaffer, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine

James L. Januzzi, MD, Hutter Family Professor of Medicine

Sunil Kapur, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Shaan Khurshid, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Neal Lakdawala, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Emily Lau, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Christopher Learn, MD, Instructor in Medicine

Gregory D. Lewis, MD, Professor of Medicine

Rajeev Malhotra, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine

Moussa C. Mansour, MD, Professor of Medicine

Pradeep Natarajan, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine

Caitlin O’Callaghan Reen, NP, Clinical Lead and Coordinator for Strategic Programmatic Initiatives in Structural Heart Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital

Michelle L. O'Donoghue, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine

Patrick T. O’Gara, MD, Professor of Medicine

Michael Osborne, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Jonathan Passeri, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Nilay K. Patel, MD, Instructor in Medicine

Gregory Piazza, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine

Kenneth Rosenfield, MD, Lecturer on Medicine

Jacqueline Ruckel, CNP

Marc S. Sabatine, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine

Jonathan Salik, MD, MS, Instructor in Medicine

Amy Sarma, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Nandita S. Scott, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Jagmeet P. Singh, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine

Ada Stefanescu Schmidt, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Garrick C. Stewart, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Katie Morganti Stewart, CNP, MS, Clinical Lead and Coordinator of Programmatic Initiatives in Cardiovascular Performance, Massachusetts General Hospital

Yee-Ping Sun, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Usha B. Tedrow, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine

Albree Tower-Rader, MD, Instructor in Medicine

Muthiah Vaduganathan, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Rory B. Weiner, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine

Alison S. Witkin, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Evin Yucel, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Daniel Zlotoff, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Course Fees

Registration Details

Registrations for Harvard Medical School CME programs are made via our secure online registration system. At the end of the registration process, a $10 non-refundable processing fee will be added to your registration.

Upon receipt of your paid registration, an email confirmation will be sent to you. Be sure to include an email address that you check frequently. Your email address is used for critical information, including registration confirmation, evaluation, and certificate. Please do not make non-refundable travel arrangements until you have received an email confirming your paid registration.

Please review the cancellation policy.

Early Registration Deadline: September 20, 2026

Role	Course Fee	Early Registration Course Fee
Physician (MD/DO)	$965	$865
Nurse (RN/APRN)	$865	$765
PA	$865	$765
Resident/Fellow	$775	$675
Allied Health Professional / Other	$865	$765

Your tuition includes an online, downloadable syllabus.

All sessions will be recorded as they are live streamed and placed in the online course video library, so that registrants can review them at their convenience. The video library will be available to all registrants for 90 days after the conclusion of the course.

For our in-person attendees, continental breakfast will be offered each morning, tea and coffee will be available at morning breaks, and light refreshments will be available in the late afternoon.

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Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, Harvard Medical School is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physicians

Badge for Jointly Accredited Provider with Commendation Interprofessional Continuing Education

The Harvard Medical School designates this live activity for a maximum of 26.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurse Practitioners and Registered Nurses

Harvard Medical School designates this live activity for a maximum of 26.75 ANCC contact hours.

American Board of Internal Medicine

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 58.50 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

Physician Assistants

The National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) states that AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ are acceptable for continuing medical education requirements for recertification. We would also suggest that learners check with their state licensing board to ensure they accept reciprocity with AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for re-licensure.

European Accreditation

The American Medical Association (AMA) has an agreement of mutual recognition of continuing medical education (CME) credit with the European Union of Medical Specialties (UEMS). Additional information regarding this agreement may be found on the European Union of Medical Specialties website.

Canadian Accreditation

The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada recognizes conferences and workshops held outside of Canada that are developed by a university, academy, hospital, specialty society or college as accredited group learning activities.

Competencies

IOM Competencies

This course is designed to meet the following Institute of Medicine Core Competencies:

Apply Quality Improvement
Work in Interdisciplinary Teams
Employ Evidence-Based Practice
Provide Patient-Centered Care
Utilize Informatics

ABMS/ACGME Competencies

This course is designed to meet the following American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) / Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Educational (ACGME) competencies:

Patient Care and Procedural Skills
Medical Knowledge
Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
Systems-Based Practice
Interpersonal and Communication Skills

Disclaimer & Disclosure

Disclaimer Policy

CME activities accredited by Harvard Medical School are offered solely for educational purposes and do not constitute any form of certification of competency. Practitioners should always consult additional sources of information and exercise their best professional judgment before making clinical decisions of any kind.

Note: AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ is calculated based on submission of a preliminary agenda and may be subject to change.

Disclosure

In accord with the disclosure policy of the Medical School as well as standards set forth by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), course planners, speakers, and content reviewers have been asked to disclose any relationships they have to companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. In addition, faculty have been asked to list any off-label uses of pharmaceuticals and/or devices for investigational or non-FDA approved purposes that they plan to discuss.

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Program Topics

Clinical Practice

Update in Clinical Cardiology

On This Page

Overview

The Comprehensive Clinical Cardiology Update

Developed and Offered By:

Who Should Participate

Schedule

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Introduction

Cardiovascular Prevention

The 2026 Dyslipidemia Guidelines: What Changed, What Didn't, What You'll Do Monday Morning

Q&A Session

Obesity and Cardiometabolic Disease: The New Core of Cardiovascular Prevention

Q&A Session

Practical Hypertension Management After the 2025 Update

Q&A Session

CV Prevention Case-Based Panel Discussion

Ischemic Heart Disease

From Door to Discharge: Contemporary ACS Management

Q&A Session

Stable CAD: Medicate, Dilate, Operate

Q&A Session

Personalizing DAPT After PCI and ACS

Q&A Session

Heart Team Case-Based Panel Discussion

Valvular Disease

The New Aortic Stenosis Playbook: Imaging, Symptoms and Intervention Pathways

Q&A Session

Aortic Regurgitation in Practice: Imaging, LV Thresholds, and When to Refer

Q&A Session

Mitral Regurgitation in 2026: Choosing Repair, TEER, or Surgery

Q&A Session

Valvular Case-Based Panel Discussion

Self-Paced Study

INOCA/ANOCA

Novel Techniques in the Cath Lab

SCAD

Tricuspid Valve Disease

Mitral Stenosis

Thursday, October 15, 2026

Introduction

Heart Failure

Beyond the Four GDMT Pillars: Contemporary HFrEF Management

Q&A Session

From Inotropes to Transplant: Practical Advanced Therapy Pathways

Q&A Session

HFpEF Demystified: Diagnosis, Decongestion, and Disease Modification

Q&A Session

Heart Failure Case-Based Panel Discussion

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in 2026: Contemporary Diagnosis, Risk Stratification, and Treatment

Q&A Session

Cardiac Amyloidosis in 2026: Find It, Type It, and Treat It

Q&A Session

Adolph M. Hutter, Jr., MD, Keynote Lecture

Endpoints and Evidence: Biomarkers, Clinical Trials, and the Path to Impact

Q&A Session

Electrophysiology

Atrial Fibrillation in the Wild: Practical Management in the Clinic and Hospital

Q&A Session

Stroke Prevention Update: Antithrombotics, LAAO, and High-Risk Scenarios

Q&A Session

Ventricular Tachycardia in 2026: Substrate, Shocks, and the Modern Ablation Era

Q&A Session

Right Patient, Right Device: Pacemakers, ICDs, and CRT—How to Choose?

Q&A Session

Arrhythmia Case-Based Panel Discussion

Self-Paced Study

Cardiac Sarcoidosis

Critical Care in 2026

CPET 101

Wearables

Supraventricular Arrhythmias

Friday, October 16, 2026

Introduction

Imaging

Imaging in Ischemic Heart Disease: Functional Testing

Q&A Session

Imaging in Ischemic Heart Disease: Coronary CT Angiography

Q&A Session

Imaging Case-Based Panel Discussion