This symposium is clinically oriented, including case presentations, updates on clinical practice and reviews of multi-center trials data, and it emphasizes the scientific underpinnings of a cardiology practice. Subjects range from basic mechanisms underlying heart rate regulation to clinical lipid management, given by a faculty who are in day-to-day practice, drawn from the Hopkins Cardiology Division and related specialties of cardiac and vascular surgery, neurology and endocrinology. Our small group workshop sessions offer the opportunity to bring interesting or problem cases to stump or share with our clinical experts. As in previous years, we offer an ACLS training and certification module.