Time to Take the Lead – Practical Utilization of SGLT2 Inhibitors

Published: 07 September 2020

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Overview

This educational symposium first broadcast at the ESC Congress 2020 discusses how SGLT2 inhibitors should be utilised by cardiologists in everyday practice

This independent medical education symposium was supported by a grant from the Boehringer Ingelheim & Eli Lilly and Company alliance.

Learning objectives

  • Understand current guidelines and utilisation of SGLT2i
  • Describe the potential mechanism of benefit of SGLT2i
  • Initiate and manage SGLT2i in appropriate patients

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Part 1

Introduction, and No Permission Needed – Cardiology Guidelines + Prescribing Practice

1 session
Introduction, and No Permission Needed – Cardiology Guidelines + Prescribing Practice Watch now

Part 2

SGLT2i are Cardiovascular Drugs

1 session
SGLT2i are Cardiovascular Drugs Watch now

Part 3

Cardiologists Taking the Lead – How Can We Use SGLT2 Inhibitors in Our Clinical Practice?

1 session
Cardiologists Taking the Lead – How Can We Use SGLT2 Inhibitors in Our Clinical Practice? Watch now

Part 4

Case Discussion

1 session
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Part 5

A Follow-up Discussion to the ESC 2020 Session

1 session
A Follow-up Discussion to the ESC 2020 Session Watch now

Faculty Biographies

Shelley Zieroth

Shelley Zieroth

Director, Heart Failure and Heart Transplant Clinics

Dr Shelley Zieroth is Professor at the College of Medicine, Max Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, as well as Director of the Heart Failure and Heart Transplant Clinics at St Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg, Canada. She is also Head of the Medical Heart Failure Program for Cardiac Sciences Manitoba.

She is involved in several heart failure clinical trials as a PI, National Lead or Executive Committee member. She is the Past President of the Canadian Heart Failure Society and Co-Chair of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society Heart Failure Guidelines. She is co-chair of Canada’s largest annual heart failure meeting, HF Update, and Past President of the Federation of Medical Women of Canada.

Dr Shelley Zieroth is an Editorial Board member of Cardiac Failure Review.

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Stefan Anker

Stefan Anker

Professor of Cardiology

Prof Stefan Anker is professor of (Tissue) Homeostasis in Cardiology & Metabolism at Charité Berlin, Germany, since June 2017. Prodigious researcher who has authored more than 1,000 articles. He has also won several prizes, including the 2018 Copernicus Prize of German DFG & Polish FNP. In October 2020, he was awarded a Doctor honoris causa of Medical University Wroclaw, Poland.

Prof Anker has been serving on the board of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC since 2006 and was HFA President from 2012 to 2014. He currently chairs the HFA committee on regulatory affairs. He is founding Editor-in-Chief of the first open-access heart failure journal, ESC Heart Failure. Prof. Anker has served on several ESC Guideline task forces.

Prof Anker is the founding president of the International Society on Sarcopenia, Cachexia and Wasting Disorders (SCWD) and founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and…

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