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Run Time:
Tue, 03/18/2025 - 7:30am
Duration:
60-minutes
CME Credits:
1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM
Cost:
Free
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Michael Ackerman, MD, PhD

Return-to-Play for Athletes with SCD-Predisposing Genetic Heart Diseases: Who Says That They Can’t Play Anyway?

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Michael Ackerman, MD, PhD

At the end of this virtual presentation, participants should be able to:

  • Assess the past and present expert opinion guidelines regarding competitive sports participation for patients with a sudden cardiac death (SCD)-predisposing genetic heart disease (GHD)
  • Examine the data that is compelling the slow evolution from disqualifying to shared decision making (SDM)

About this presenter:

Michael Ackerman, MD, PhD
Windland Smith Rice Cardiovascular Genomics Research Professor
Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics and Pharmacology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
Director, Windland Smith Rice Genetic Heart Rhythm Clinic and the Windland Smith Rice Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory

Michael J. Ackerman is the Windland Smith Rice Cardiovascular Genomics Research Professor and Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics and Pharmacology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Ackerman received his MD and PhD from the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine and the Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and residency and fellowship training in Pediatric and Pediatric Cardiology in the Mayo Clinic School of Graduate Medical Education. Currently, he serves as director of Mayo Clinic’s Windland Smith Rice Genetic Heart Rhythm Clinic and the Windland Smith Rice Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory. He has published over 700 peer-reviewed articles. Dr. Ackerman has also served as the president of the Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndromes (SADS) Foundation since 2006. In 2015, he received Mayo Clinic’s Distinguished Clinician Award. In 2018, he received the Mayo Clinic Distinguished Pediatric Investigator Award and the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Heart Rhythm Society. In 2021, he was inducted into the prestigious Association of American Physicians and received the Mayo Clinic Distinguished Investigator Award.