Please note that this event is for healthcare professionals only.
Advances in cardiovascular medicine are revolutionizing how we care for patients, and the clinician faces challenges in applying transformative techniques to the individual patient. This course is designed to help clinicians translate important advances in cardiology to their practice.
Join moderator Lance S. Berger, MD, FACC and his expert speakers to learn about cutting edge issues in cardiovascular medicine.
Topics and Speakers
Moderated by Lance S. Berger, MD
- Cardio-Oncology 2019: Evaluation and Management of Cardiovascular Disease During and After Cancer Therapy – Jennifer Liu, MD
- Radiation and the Heart: New Strategies to Limit the Cardiotoxicity of Radiation Therapy – Jae Lee, MD, PhD
- Are We Snoring Ourselves to Death? The Impact of Sleep Apnea on Atrial Fibrillation, Hypertension, and Heart Failure – Samuel L. Krachman, DO
- New Options for Patients with Previously Untreatable Structural Heart Disease – Matthew Saybolt, MD
- Preventative Cardiology: Translating Population Health into Personalized Medicine – Robert Kayser, MD
Date: Saturday, February 23, 2019
Time: 7:30am – 12:30pm
Location: CentraState Healthcare System, Star and Barry Tobias Ambulatory Campus, Jack Aaronson Conference Center Auditorium
Target Audience: Primary Care Physicians, Cardiologists, Oncologists, Advanced Practice Nurses, Physician Assistants and Nurses. All other interested healthcare professionals are welcome to attend.
Sponsored By: CentraState Medical Center Department of Medical Education and Dr. James Matera, Chairperson of Medical Education
Breakfast will be served.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program, participants should be able to:
- Evaluate methods of monitoring and detecting cardiotoxicity
- Define the role of nursing in the cardio-oncology care team
- Describe the problem of translating population based studies to individualized patient treatment
- Identify evidence and guideline based preventative treatments for cardiovascular disease
- Compare emerging transcatheter options for the treatment of structural heart disease
- Describe the basic design of cardioprotective radiation treatment planning strategies
- Explain the link between obstructive sleep apnea and cardiovascular disease, including heart failure
Register Now
Space is limited, so register early. Online registration is required. This symposium is open to healthcare professionals only.
ÂFor additional information or if you have a disability that may require accommodations, please contact Christine Forbes, CME Coordinator at 732-294-2668 or cforbes@centrastate.com.
The CentraState Medical Center designates this live activity for a maximum of 4.5 AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. The CentraState Medical Center is accredited by the Medical Society of New Jersey to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Nursing contact hours will be awarded.
About the Speakers
Dr. Berger
Dr. Kayser
Dr. Krachman
Dr. Lee
Dr. Liu
Dr. Saybolt
Lancer Berger, MD, FACC
Dr. Berger served as the Chief of Cardiology at CentraState Medical Center from 2009 through 2018. He has been practicing since 1997, and has been a member of Monmouth Cardiology Associates since 2005. A graduate of the University of Rochester and the State University of New York Upstate Medical University, he completed his residency in Internal medicine at Montefiore Medical Center and his Fellowship at the Brown University School of Medicine.
In addition to his leadership role at CentraState, Dr. Berger has served as Medical Director for the Heart Failure Center and Echocardiography Laboratory at Jersey Shore University Medical Center. He has participated in several clinical trials in heart failure. His professional interests include heart failure, structural heart disease and cardiovascular imaging.
Recently, he has become interested in processes of care, emphasizing the translation of population health to personalized care. He has been actively involved in teaching residents, fellows and fellow health care providers since beginning his career. Establishing an annual cardiovascular symposium to bring transformative clinical ideas to our community has fulfilled a goal he established a decade ago.
Robert G. Kayser, MD, MBA, FACC, FSCAI
A Jersey shore native, Dr. Kayser grew up in Lakewood and graduated from Lakewood High in 1985. He received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY and was commissioned a lieutenant in the US Air Force in 1989. He spent the next three years as an explosive ordnance disposal officer with duty stations across the country as well as a tour of duty in Saudi Arabia during Desert Storm. During his service, Dr. Kayser was awarded the Air Force Commendation Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Air Force Achievement Medal, Nuclear Deterrence Operations Service Medial, National Defense Service Medal, Southwest Asia Campaign Medal and the Kuwait Liberation Medal. At the end of 1992, he left the Air Force and returned to upstate NY, where over the next five years, he worked as a paramedic and attended graduate school.
In 1997, he received an MBA in Health Systems Administration from Union College in Schenectady, NY. That same year he entered medical school at New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ. For his academic performance at NJMS, he was elected into Alpha Omega Alpha, the medical honor society, and in 2001 graduated with an MD degree. He completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA and his general and interventional cardiology fellowships at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. Upon completing fellowship, he decided to return home and joined Change of Heart Cardiology.
Dr. Kayser has published several peer reviewed articles in the medical literature and has presented research at major local, regional and national medical meetings. Dr. Kayser’s academic interests lie in the resuscitation sciences. His clinical interests are in the endovascular treatment of atherosclerosis in both the heart and peripheral vascular beds as well as general and consultative cardiology.
He currently serves as Chairman, Division of Endovascular Interventions for CentraState Medical Center, Freehold, NJ and is a member of the Cardiac Catheterization Quality Assurance Committee for Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune, NJ. He is a Core Assistant Professor of Medicine and Surgery with Seton Hall Medical School, a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine with Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and a certified Senior Aviation Medical Examiner for the Federal Aviation Administration. He is also a proud member of the New Jersey Air National Guard where he is a flight surgeon and Chief of Aerospace Medicine for the 108th Wing, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. He is married to Colleen, and has two sons named Brandon and Zachary.
Samuel Krachman, DO
Dr. Krachman obtained his BA in Biological Sciences from the University of California at Santa Barbara prior to obtaining his DO degree from A. T. Still University – Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in Missouri. He then completed his internal medicine residency at Metropolitan Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan, which is an affiliate hospital of Michigan State University.
Following his residency, Dr. Krachman completed a fellowship in pulmonary medicine, critical care medicine and sleep medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas.
For the past 26 years, Dr. Krachman has been a faculty member in the Department of Thoracic Medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University in Philadelphia where he is presently Professor of Medicine and the Director of the Sleep Disorders Center.
Dr. Krachman’s research has focused on the areas of sleep and congestive heart failure as well as sleep in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and has published extensively in these areas. He has also done research on positional obstructive sleep apnea.
Dr. Krachman has participated in a number of national clinical trials that have incorporated sub-studies in Sleep Medicine including the NIH funded National emphysema treatment trial (NETT) and the Long-term Oxygen Treatment Trial. He is an active member of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), American Thoracic Society (ATS) and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM).
Jae Y. Lee, MD, PhD
Dr. Lee obtained his BS in Biochemistry with highest distinction from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA, before attending the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI where he completed his doctoral thesis in cancer stem cell biology and was awarded combined MD and PhD degrees through the Medical Scientist Training Program. He has received several international travel awards to present his work at meetings of the International Society for Stem Cell Research. He then completed a residency in radiation oncology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, where he was named Chief Resident. He served as co-investigator on several clinical trials and studies utilizing advanced imaging to improve tumor control and treatment related side effects.
Dr. Lee has extensive clinical experience treating all body sites with the use of advanced image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT), intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), volumetric arc therapy (VMAT), stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) and brachytherapy. Dr. Lee also treats patients with proton beam radiation including with advanced pencil beam scanning (PBS) techniques. He has presented his research findings on prostate and head and neck malignancies at national scientific meetings and has authored numerous peer-reviewed journal articles in top journals.
Dr. Lee’s professional memberships include the American Brachytherapy Society, American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Society of Radiation Oncology.
Jennifer Liu, MD, FACC
Dr. Liu is a cardiologist with particular expertise in echocardiography. She is a native New Yorker and has been working in NYC as a cardiologist for 20+ years. Since her arrival at MSKCC in 2007, she has had the opportunity to build a career as a cardio-oncologist and leader in the field of echo imaging in the evaluation and management of cardiotoxicity in patients during and after cancer therapy. Her goal as a cardio-oncologist and echocardiographer is to apply echocardiographic imaging to improve the management of cardiovascular disease of patients during and after cancer therapy. A member of the ACC leadership cardio-oncology council, she is charged with guiding the college in creating cardio-oncology related programs that would help the practitioners in patient management and improve patient outcome.
Matthew D. Saybolt, MD, FACC
Dr. Saybolt earned his degree in chemistry from Lafayette College and his medical doctorate from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He went on to complete internal medicine residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Following his training in internal medicine and a faculty appointment as chief resident, he completed his general cardiology fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania where he was chief fellow. He then remained at Penn to complete subspecialty training in interventional cardiology and structural heart disease where he was recognized by the university for his teaching and research.
He has authored numerous scientific articles and editorials on the topics of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), percutaneous coronary interventions, intravascular imaging, vulnerable plaque detection and health care quality improvement. He has over a dozen research presentations at national meetings including those of the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics. He remains actively involved in clinical research.
Dr. Saybolt specializes in minimally invasive therapies for the treatment of valvular and structural heart disease. These include transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), closure of patent foramen ovale and atrial septal defect, transcatheter valve in valve therapy, Mitraclip, paravalvular leak closure and alcohol septal ablation. He is also trained in the most advanced techniques for the treatment and management of coronary artery disease, pulmonary embolism and cardiogenic shock.
He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is also board certified in Adult Echocardiography and board eligible in Interventional Cardiology.