LIMA, Ohio (WLIO) — Knowledge is key when fighting a potentially deadly condition like heart disease. That is why The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Lima Memorial Health System teamed up again to host their annual Heart Summit.
The Heart Summit is an annual event hosted by the OSU Wexner Medical Center and Lima Memorial Health System.
The event provides physicians, nurses, and allied professionals with cutting-edge information to manage and treat heart disease. Presenters discuss best practices across various specialties, including emerging trends such as addressing heart issues that may arise from the latest cancer treatments.
“For example, some subject we're going to bring next is called cardiac oncology, because we've seen people surviving the cancer, and guess what, we are treating them now for cardiac, an unwanted side effect from the immunotherapy and other therapy that make the patient life longer. So, it's really exciting time to bring it on annual basis and update our colleague and folks at Lima Memorial Hospital and in Lima health area,” said Dr. Mahmoud Houmsse, a cardiologist at OSU Wexner Medical Center.
This continued collaboration between Lima Memorial and OSU Wexner Medical Center aims to ensure cardiac patients in the area receive the best care possible.
“We have a really close affiliation with Ohio State, and it's wonderful that we can do a lot here, but when we need to move on, we have that affiliation so we can really advance and give cutting-edge medical therapy in this region,” said Dr. Pamela Gardner, a cardiologist at Lima Memorial Health System.
This continued collaboration between Lima Memorial and OSU Wexner Medical Center aims to ensure cardiac patients in the area receive the best care possible.
“Medicine is an ever-evolving field. Things that we used to do may no longer be relevant. So, there are always, especially in my area, which is heart failure, new medications coming out, new best practices, new devices to help monitor these patients and make sure we can keep them doing well,” said Jamie Verhoff, a nurse practitioner at Lima Memorial Health System.
“What we bring to the conference is guideline recommendations for very common disorders, things that primary care physicians see but may not see in their journals or other educational avenues. So, this is really an important conference for them,” said Dr. Ralph Augostini, a professor of medicine at OSU Wexner Medical Center.
The Heart Summit is an annual event hosted by the OSU Wexner Medical Center and Lima Memorial Health System. The Heart Summit topics included innovations in structural heart interventions, ECG interpretation, remote monitoring, heart failure management and more.
