Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke Conference 2010

Conference Summary
The Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke Conference is dedicated to studying patients’ experiences with cardiovascular care and leveraging these insights to improve the quality of cardiac and stroke care. The conference also actively fosters informal interaction among attendees and provides networking opportunities for early career investigators.

The meeting will focus on new and developing opportunities, initiatives, projects, policies and research relevant to measuring and improving quality of care and outcomes for persons with or at risk for cardiovascular disease and stroke. Novel research methods for quantifying outcomes, new findings from clinical trials and observational studies and translational research will also be presented.

Target Audience
The conference is for clinicians, researchers, medical students and trainees, nurses, pharmacists, administrators, healthcare and managed care professionals, policymakers and other healthcare professionals interested in quality of care and outcomes research in cardiovascular disease and stroke. Trainees are particularly encouraged to attend so that they may become acquainted with the current state of the field and to interact with many of the leading researchers in this area. Special efforts are made to introduce new individuals to the field.