Highlights of the week:
2019 Triangle Heart Walk Success!
We had an absolutely great time today at the Triangle Heart Walk due to the outstanding support of our team captains, walkers and volunteers from across Duke Heart, Duke Stroke Center and the Health System for not only doing their part as fundraisers, but through their efforts to work at the Duke tents and help make sure Duke Health was well represented this year. Together, we raised nearly $200,000 to support the American Heart Association (final numbers available next weekend). We began rolling out our Life Is Why sponsorship by offering blood pressure screenings – we were able to measure just over 100 walkers so that they would “Know Their Numbers” and have a better understanding of why it is important to measure regularly. (Did you know that the AHA recommends people check their BP twice per month?). Thanks to Manesh Patel for leading our PACE team: Partnering to Advance Cardiovascular health through community Engagement as part of our Life Is Why rollout.
Thank you to Sean Sondej, Jill Engel, Laura Dickerson, and Kelly Kester for taking the lead with the t-shirt tent and making sure all of our volunteers were fed, and thanks to Tracey Koepke for coordinating our sponsorship tent. Many, many thanks to our volunteers: Carolyn Gary, Melissa Williams, Latitia McNeil, Luz Pura, Mollie Kettle, Shari Starr (and husband!), Tayler Santorella, Terri Demuro and Brian Coyne for their help with blood pressure screenings and distribution of shirts. You’re all amazing!
We are very happy to have partnered with our Duke Stroke Center colleagues and appreciate their volunteers today: Margaret Fenu, Taylor Bennett, Vanessa Hutchins, Gerardine Granjean, Rebecca Horn, Donalyn Heilman, Amanda Taylor, Anna Southerland, Melissa Freeman, Shannon Chesney, Carey Unger, Nilam Patel and Emily Bulkley. We look forward to working with them again soon.
2nd Annual Duke Heart APP Symposium Held
Hosted by course directors Jill Engel and Manesh Patel, the 2nd Annual Duke Heart Symposium for APPs was held on Saturday, 9/21. We had excellent turnout (on a gorgeous day!) with more than 200 registered attendees from 12 different states. Duke Heart APPs moderated the sessions led by Jill Engel, Manesh Patel, Ann Marie Navar, Islam Othman, Jon Piccini, Adam Williams, Don Glower, Ben Bryner, Stephanie Barnes, Stu Russell, Terry Fortin and Michel Khouri. Topics included lipid management, chronic total occlusion, atrial fibrillation, aortic valve replacement, mitral interventions, endocarditis, LVAD therapies, heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, cardiac amyloidosis, and echocardiography.
This event has quickly become one of Duke Heart’s most well-attended events. Many thanks to the APP team for all of their hard work with particular appreciation to Jill Engel, Ashley Barba, Diane Sauro, Stephanie Barnes, Roman Ross, Peg Murphy, and Lynn McGugan for making the day so successful!
DeVore Accepted to ACC Leadership Academy
Congratulations to Adam DeVore on his acceptance into the 2019 American College of Cardiology Rick Nishimura, MD, MACC and Patrick T. O’Gara, MD, MACC Emerging Faculty Leadership Academy. This is great news, Adam – we are really happy for you!
Lowenstern Awarded 2019 CVRI Travel Grant
Congratulations to Duke Heart fellow Angela Lowenstern! She has been selected by the American Heart Association’s Council on Cardiovascular Radiology and Intervention (CVRI) for a 2019 CVRI Early Career Investigator Travel Grant. This award supports the research efforts of early career investigators and trainees of all backgrounds. She will be acknowledged as a Travel Grant recipient at the CVRI Awards Reception and Annual Business Meeting on Nov. 16 during the AHA Annual Scientific Sessions in Philadelphia.
STEMI Team & Piloting of LifeNet
Jamie Jollis presented at our STEMI meeting this week regarding an upcoming pilot of 
LifeNet, an application that allows EMS in many of our surrounding counties to push 12 lead EKGs from their machines to a computer in the CICU and ED at Duke. This will improve overall efficiency and quality of care, as LifeNet will offer improved EKG image quality, make transmission easier, and improve care for STEMI patients. This should also help reduce our false activation rates. We expect to begin the pilot in the next few weeks at DUH and DRH.
Cardio-Obstetrics Clinic Opens – Helps High Risk Moms
Congratulations to Sarah Goldstein and Cary Ward who, together, held their first multi-disciplinary cardio-obstetrics clinic this past week. The service is now offered at Lakeview Clinic side by side with Maternal Fetal Medicine (MFM). It allows our physicians to easily interact with our obstetrics colleagues around high risk patients, and is also highly patient-centered because the moms can see Cardiology and MFM all in the same place. We are starting with a half day clinic once per month, but plan to increase the number of days once we are operating smoothly.
Very special thanks to Nick Nguyen, division administrator for Duke Cardiology and Herly Joseph-Andre from the Department of Medicine who helped get this clinic set up and ready to go. Great job, everyone!
QMS Goes Live with DMP 7East as Pilot Unit
DMP 7East went live on Wednesday as the Duke Heart pilot unit for implementation of the 
Duke Quality Management System. Eric McClenny, 7E Nurse Manager and Cierra Ashley, 7E Clinical Lead are pictured here with the 7East staff during the morning huddle.
Shout-out to Duke Heart Nurse Managers and Clinical Leads
Many thanks to our Duke Heart Nurse Managers and Clinical Leads for all of their hard work and overall efforts to support our patients and team.
We managed to capture a shot of a group of them enjoying some sunshine and camaraderie out on the Trent Semans patio this week.
ECMO Team Wins Best Abstract at 30th Annual ELSO Conference
Congratulations to Sarah Mausert and Mike Wilson of the Duke ECMO team for winning
Best Abstract at the 30th Annual Extracorporeal Life Support Organization Conference held from Sept. 12-15 at the Hilton Austin in Austin, TX. Their abstract “RT ECMO Specialist Driven Sweep Trials Reduce Time to Sweep Trial Initiation and ECMO Duration in Patients Requiring VV-ECMO for ARDS.” We have heard that this was, without a doubt, the best content of the entire meeting. Our MICU ECMO Specialists all deserve a round of applause. We are very pleased and proud of this terrific team. Way to go!
EP Summit: 9th Annual CME Event Held Sept. 7
The 9th Annual Duke Electrophysiology Summit, directed by Jim Daubert, was hosted 
on Saturday, Sept. 7. Duke speakers included Sana Al-Khatib, Brett Atwater, Kristen Campbell, Camille Frazier-Mills, Kevin Jackson, Renato Lopes, Dan Mark, Jason Koontz, Ruth Lehan, Jane Schutz, Al Sun, Rob Lewis, and Kevin Thomas. The keynote speaker was Anthony Tang, professor of medicine at Western University in Ontario. More than 170 attendees registered for the live event and online webinar. Topics included the intersection of heart failure with arrhythmias and devices, rhythm control and stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation, device management and many interesting and challenging cases.
Great job, everyone!
Upcoming Opportunities/Save the Date:
Cardiology Grand Rounds
This month we have had two great presentations on different aspects of cardio-oncology by Michael Fradley and Ron Witteles. Thanks to those of you who were able to join us!
This week, we continue that discussion and focus on cardio-oncology care at Duke. Susan Dent and Michel Khouri, the directors of the Duke CardioOncology program, will be speaking. The title of their talk is, “CardioOncology: Past, Present and Future.” Tuesday, Sept. 24, 7:15 a.m., DN, 2001.
Upcoming Grand Rounds:
- 25 (Wednesday): Association of Women Surgeons Grand Rounds: “Gender in Leadership.” This event is a collaboration among various departments, including Surgery, Orthopedics, Neurosurgery, Anesthesiology, Ophthalmology, and Medicine. All Duke Health professionals are welcome to attend.
- 1: Davis Kass, Johns Hopkins, “Increasing Heart Contractility: A Renaissance.”
- 8: Cardiology Fellows Conference
- 15: Faculty Staff Meeting, 5 p.m.
- 29: Euan Ashley from Stanford, “Towards Precision Medicine.” 5 p.m.
- 5: Renato Lopes
- 8 (Friday): Kim Eagle, Michigan, will be presenting the Eugene Stead Lecture
- 12: Javed Butler, University of Mississippi
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Duke Heart in the News:
September 17 — Pamela Douglas
tctMD/the heart beat
American College of Cardiology Steps Up: Equal Pay, Opportunities for All
https://www.tctmd.com/news/american-college-cardiology-steps-equal-pay-opportunities-all
September 19 — Jennifer Rymer
Cardiovascular Business
Failed TAVR more common in women, those with PAD
cardiovascularbusiness.com/topics/structural-congenital-heart-disease/failed-tavr-more-common-women-those-pad
September 19 — Renato Lopes
Medscape
ENTRUST-AF PCI Supports Safety of Dual Therapy With Edoxaban
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/918713
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