Writing update: Lown Institute Conference and ACC2015

Hi all, I have been busy in the last few weeks. Here is an update of my happenings and posts. From March 8-11, I attended and presented at the third annual Lown Institute Conference in San Diego. I have never felt more at home in a conference than I did at the Lown conference. Take a look at the About Us page of the Lown Institute and you will see why. Lown Institute Core Values No matter how things turn out for me in Medicine–today or tomorrow–I am happy and proud to be on the same side as Dr. Bernard Lown and his Institute. The motto of the conference was RightCare. That is perfect. Here is a link to a front page story in the San Diego Union-Tribune on the meeting. Dr. David Martin (Electrophysiologist and Chair of Medicine at Lahey Clinic) and I presented on overuse and misuse of atrial fibrillation ablation. In that same breakout session, Dr David Brown (Professor of Cardiology at Washington University, St. Louis) and Dr. William Boden (Lead investigator of the Courage Trial, Chief of Medicine at the Samuel S. Stratton VA Medical Center and Vice-Chairman, Department of Medicine at Albany Medical College) presented on overuse and misuse of cardiac stents in patients with stable coronary artery disease. It’s interesting that the essence of wrong care in both AF and CAD is the overuse of focal strategies to treat systemic (widespread) disease. I sat next to Dr. Boden at dinner. It was fun to meet such an eminent figure in the field. There were many highligh...
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