Women As One CLIMB® 2024 Skills Training Program

Published: 04 December 2024

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Overview

About the CLIMB® Skills Training Program

 

Now in its fifth year, the CLIMB program has provided free, advanced clinical skills training to over 390 women physicians from 99 countries. This online program helps address the underrepresentation of women in advanced procedural cardiology subspecialties.

Physicians worldwide will now have on-demand access to didactic presentations delivered by leading faculty on five key clinical topics:

 

  • Atrial Fibrillation
  • ATTR-CM (Amyloid Transthyretin Cardiomyopathy)
  • Heart Failure
  • Prevention
  • Structural Imaging

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Part 1

CLIMB® 2024 Skills Training Program: Heart Failure

Sharpen your heart failure expertise! Curated by renowned program directors Dr Bonnie Ky and Dr Clara Saldarriaga this CLIMB lecture series organised by Women As One equips you with advanced skills in heart failure (HF).

 

Deepen your expertise by exploring advanced topics, clinical trials and other crucial aspects of heart failure management with leading experts of the field. Elevate your practice and patient care with selected lectures from the CLIMB® 2024 Skills Training Program.

 

Learning Areas:

  • HFpEF Diagnosis and Management
  • Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
  • Cardio-Oncology
  • Comorbidities
  • Devices and Structural Interventions
  • Advanced Heart Failure
  • Clinical trials

Would you like to access the full sessions? Register to Women As One’s community.

 

About Women As One

Women As One is a global organization dedicated to empowering women in cardiology. They offer a variety of resources and programs, including the CLIMB® 2024 Skills Training Program and the Women As One Talent Directory, a global community of women in cardiology.

 

Join the Women As One Community

Women physicians who are not yet part of the Women As One community can register for free here.

Part 2

CLIMB® 2024 Skills Training Program: Atrial Fibrillation

Develop Your Skills in Atrial Fibrillation Management! Deepen your knowledge and elevate your practice in atrial fibrillation (AF) with this comprehensive course curated by renowned Program Directors Professor Andrea Sarkozy and Dr Emily Zeitler.

Deepen your expertise by exploring advanced topics, tools and other crucial aspects of atrial fibrillation management with leading experts of the field. Elevate your practice and patient care with selected lectures from the CLIMB® 2024 Skills Training Program.

Learning Areas:

  • Fundamentals of Atrial Fibrillation
  • AF Ablation & Procedures
  • Special Circumstances in AF
  • Stroke Risk Reduction
  • Complication Management 
  • AF Clinical Trials

 

Would you like to access the full sessions? Register to Women As One’s community.

 

About Women As One

Women As One is a global organization dedicated to empowering women in cardiology. They offer a variety of resources and programs, including the CLIMB® 2024 Skills Training Program and the Women As One Talent Directory, a global community of women in cardiology.

 

Join the Women As One Community

Women physicians who are not yet part of the Women As One community can register for free here.

Part 3

Women As One CLIMB® 2024 Skills Training Program: Structural Imaging

Elevate your structural imaging expertise with this in-depth course led by renowned Program Directors, Professor Marta Sitges and Dr Julia Grapsa. Delve into advanced topics, tools, and critical aspects of structural imaging alongside leading field experts.

Enhance your practice and patient care through selected lectures from the CLIMB® 2024 Skills Training Program.

Learning Areas:

  • Basics of Structural Imaging
  • Intraprocedural Guidance for TAVI
  • Candidate Selection for Mitral Procedures
  • Guiding Annuloplasty
  • Paravalvular Leaks and LAA Occlusion

Would you like to access the full sessions? Register to Women As One’s community.

About Women As One

Women As One is a global organization dedicated to empowering women in cardiology. They offer a variety of resources and programs, including the CLIMB® 2024 Skills Training Program and the Women As One Talent Directory, a global community of women in cardiology.

Join the Women As One Community

Women physicians who are not yet part of the Women As One community can register for free here.

Part 4

Women As One CLIMB® 2024 Skills Training Program: Prevention

Build your cardiovascular prevention expertise with renowned Program Directors, Dr Pam Taub and Dr Malissa Wood. Dive deep into the latest prevention strategies and critical patient care alongside leading experts.

Enhance your practice and patient care through selected lectures from the CLIMB® 2024 Skills Training Program.

Learning Areas:

  • CV Risk Stratification
  • Tackling Obesity
  • Diabetes
  • Lipid Management – LDL & Triglycerides and Lp(a)
  • Management of CV risk in women

Would you like to access the full sessions? Register to Women As One’s community.

About Women As One

Women As One is a global organization dedicated to empowering women in cardiology. They offer a variety of resources and programs, including the CLIMB® 2024 Skills Training Program and the Women As One Talent Directory, a global community of women in cardiology.

Join the Women As One Community

Women physicians who are not yet part of the Women As One community can register for free here.

Part 5

Women As One CLIMB® 2024 Skills Training Program: ATTR-CM

This focused programme, led by Dr Grace Lin and Prof Thibaud Damy, explores the complexities of ATTR-CM diagnosis and treatment. The curriculum covers key areas such as identifying different types of amyloid cardiomyopathy, understanding the patient journey, utilizing imaging modalities, recognizing the role of AI, addressing underdiagnosis in women, and exploring current clinical trials and treatment advancements.

About the episode

Learn more about Mitral VinV and TMVR from expert, Professor Marta Sitges (Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, SP). Prof Sitges is the director of the Hospital Clinic Barcelona and a senior consultant non-invasive cardiologist.

 

This comprehensive five-part video lecture series, part of Women As One's CLIMB® 2024 Skills Training Program, offers a detailed comparison of devices and procedures used in TAVR.

Professor Marta Sitges provides a comprehensive overview of mitral valve-in-valve (Mitral VinV) and transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) procedures. She details the steps of the procedures, comparing valve-in-valve and valve-in-ring approaches. The video also explores native TMVR. Prof Sitges highlights the importance of imaging in these procedures, describing different imaging techniques used and guiding TMVR step-by-step. She discusses mitral valve-in-valve and concludes with key takeaways for imaging specialists guiding TMVR.

Enhance your TAVR expertise and patient outcomes. Watch Part 4 for Orthotopic & Heterotypic Transcatheter Tricuspid Therapies with Dr Julia Grapsa. 

 

Stay tuned for more content from the Structural Imaging track of Women As One’s CLIMB® 2024 Skills Training Program.

 

About Women As One

 

Women As One is a global organization dedicated to empowering women in cardiology. They offer a variety of resources and programs, including the CLIMB Skills Training Program and the Women As One Talent Directory, a global community of women in cardiology.

 

Join the Women As One Community

Women physicians who are not yet part of the Women As One community can register for free here.

Faculty Biographies

Marta Sitges

Marta Sitges

Director, Cardiovascular Institute

Prof Marta Sitges is a senior consultant non-invasive cardiologist at the Cardiovascular Institute in Hospital Clinic and Professor of Medicine at the University of Barcelona. She has also been the Director of the Cardiovascular Institute since October 2015.

Her main clinical practice is related to clinical and interventional echocardiography, sports cardiology and heart valve disease. She has an extensive publication track in these fields with participation in leading National and International meetings, she has received more than 60 peer reviewed grants and directed multiple MD and PhD thesis. 

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