(2025 On-Demand) Afib
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CME Credit Available:
This activity offers .75 1A AOA
Note: ACOI reports credits to the AOA at the beginning of each month.
Learning Objectives:
In this session, you'll learn how to:
- Identify and implement updated risk stratification – Describe the latest recommendations for stroke risk assessment and anticoagulation therapy, including changes to the CHA₂DS₂-VASc scoring system.
- Optimize rate and rhythm control strategies – Compare and apply guideline-directed medical and procedural management options, including antiarrhythmic medications, catheter ablation, and emerging therapies.
- Integrate lifestyle and comorbidity management – Explain the role of weight management, blood pressure control, and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea in improving atrial fibrillation outcomes.
Conflict of Interest Disclosures:
ACOI requires each planner and presenter to identify all conflicts of interest and mitigates risk of bias using a series of strategies for relevant conflicts. Unless otherwise noted below, the ACOI, ACOI staff and planners for this activity have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
Chad A. Link, DO, FACC, FACOI, faculty for this activity, has disclosed the following financial relationships:
- Astra Zeneca-Consulting Fees-Ongoing
- Johnson and Johnson-Consulting Fees-Ongoing
- Kiniska-Consulting Fees-Ongoing
Release & Review Date:
This activity is valid from July 31, 2025, until July 31, 2028.
Chad A. Link, DO, FACC, FACOI
Cardiologist
University of Michigan Health- Sparrow
Chad A. Link, D.O. FACC, FACOI received his medical degree from Michigan State University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine in East Lansing, Michigan. He completed both his Internal Medicine Residency and Cardiology Fellowship at Ingham Regional Medical Center in Lansing, Michigan. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiology and Nuclear Cardiology and serves as the cardiology chairman for the University of Michigan Health System-Sparrow Eaton and Ionia Hospitals and is a clinical assistant professor for the cardiology course at Michigan State University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine.
He specializes in cardiovascular medicine with the University of Michigan Health-Sparrow. Dr. Link’s background includes all aspects of clinical cardiology with specialized interest in the management of coronary artery disease, hyperlipidemia, echocardiography; nuclear cardiology and pulmonary hypertension. Professional memberships include: the American Society of Echocardiography, the American College of Cardiology, and the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology.
The faculty member, for this activity, has disclosed the following financial relationships:
- Astra Zeneca-Consulting Fees-Ongoing
- Johnson and Johnson-Consulting Fees-Ongoing
- Kiniska-Consulting Fees-Ongoing
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