CME Certificates will be issued digitally after Speaker Evaluations and Overall Surveys are completed. Surveys are accessible after logging in with the email address you submitted during registration. Surveys will be available online starting the day of the symposium. You must complete the process by July 27, 2026 in order to receive your certificate. Certificates will be available online until December 1, 2026 and are printable directly from the website.
The AAFP will review the 32nd Annual San Diego Heart Failure Summer Symposium and
deem it acceptable for up to TBD Live AAFP Prescribed credits. Term of Approval
is from 07/10/2026 to 07/11/2026. Physicians should claim only the credit
commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
AAFP Prescribed credit is accepted by the American Medical Association as
equivalent to AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s)™ toward the AMA Physician's
Recognition Award. When applying for the AMA PRA, Prescribed credit earned
must be reported as Prescribed, not as Category 1.
To keep pace with the rapid growth in our understanding of heart failure and, most importantly, to better treat patients with this disease, the 32nd Annual San Diego Summer Heart Failure Summer Symposium will provide a comprehensive overview of emerging concepts of heart failure management and new approaches to therapy. The series of didactic presentations, case discussions and Q & A sessions are designed to efficiently deliver new information that will help provide better care to patients and offer expert advice of how to implement new advances into clinical practice. Each morning, the Symposium will start with a series of illustrative case vignettes, each one highlighting a different management strategy.
At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:
The target audience for this activity includes cardiologists, internists, primary care physicians, nurses and allied healthcare professionals.
Heart failure (HF) currently affects well over million Americans. Moreover, prevalence is increasing in both developed and developing countries around the world. In the U.S. alone, an estimated 670,000 new cases of heart failure are diagnosed each year. HF adversely affects quality of life and increases hospitalization and mortality rates. It is the leading cause of hospitalization in elderly individuals in the United States. Moreover, within 8 years of diagnosis, 80% of men and 70% of women less than 65 years of age with new onset heart failure will die.
Our understanding of HF is changing rapidly and new treatments that help improve outcomes are available. The Symposium is designed to help clinicians synthesize new information about heart failure and integrate it into effective strategies of care of their patients. The Symposium will provide a comprehensive overview of diagnostic approaches, current evidence-based therapies and treatment strategies as well as emerging approaches for treatment.
This activity is in compliance with California Assembly Bills 1195 and 241 which requires continuing medical education activities with patient care components to include curriculum in the subjects of cultural and linguistic competency. Cultural competency is defined as a set of integrated attitudes, knowledge, and skills that enables health care professionals or organizations to care effectively for patients from diverse cultures, groups, and communities. Linguistic competency is defined as the ability of a physician or surgeon to provide patients who do not speak English or who have limited ability to speak English, direct communication in the patient’s primary language. Cultural and linguistic competency was incorporated into the planning of this activity.