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Welcome to 2009 March Board of

Governors Meeting!

Jane E. Schauer, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.C.

March 28, 2009

ACC.09, Orlando, FL

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Relationship with Industry

"It is my duty to remind you that the American College of Cardiology (ACC) maintains official policies on relationships of members with industry with respect to participation in all meetings of ACC Committees or Task Forces. I have a copy of your current statement from the College file. If your statement contained a Disclosure Form identifying an industry relationship as defined by ACC, and this Committee/Task Force takes under consideration today a matter where that relationship would apply, you should absent yourself and not participate in the discussion for its duration."

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2008 In Review• Wide Open Space

– Increased small group discussions at BOG meetings

• No Member Left Behind– Strengthening Chapters to strengthen the voice of the

members– Mandatory chapter dues means chapters have to be

relevant– ACC funded 30 chapters through grant funding

program ~ 15 on advocacy, and 15 on other projects

• Quality First Umbrella– #1 objective of all ACC projects ~ promoting highest

quality of patient care at the most effective cost

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2008 In Review• Quality

– Over two thirds of ACC Chapters reported on MLL/STEMI Efforts over the 2008 4th quarter

• Advocacy– BOG Advocacy Work Group identified six states with

high need for advocacy intervention and education and are working with them.

• Education– In 2008 ACC approved 4 chapters for CME and CE,

and 1 chapter for just CE– In 2009 ACC approved 5 chapters for CME and CE,

and 1 chapter for just CE

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Looking Forward to 2009 • New BOG Chair

– John G. Harold, M.D., F.A.C.C.

• New ACC President– Alfred A. Bove, M.D., F.A.C.C.

• The Year of the Patient– Empowerment of the patient as part of his/her

cardiac care team– Patients central to what we do as physicians– Members central to what we do in our

chapters for our patients

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Year of the Patient 2009 Goals

• Guidelines and performance measures in lay language for patient and family use

• Which test for me?• CardioSmart disease management tools• CardioSmart health risk tools• Chapter and community programs• CardioSmart content in JACC Journals

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Looking Forward to 2009 • Health Care System Reform

– Look past the problem to the solution– Keep the patient’s needs first and foremost– Talk to your colleagues about what ACC is

doing and what we need them to do