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Hypertension 2027
Join your peers and a world-leading set of MGB experts for Hypertension 2027, a transformative, full-day CPD/CME program.
Hypertension management is evolving rapidly. Is your practice keeping pace? This in-person symposium will provide cutting edge updates and a comprehensive, high-yield curriculum tailored for all providers who care for patients with high blood pressure -- specialists and PCPs alike. Move beyond the basics as we explore and discuss strategies for navigating advanced and complex Hypertension cases. Learn about the latest pharmacotherapies and novel agents, plus innovative technical solutions like renal denervation. You will leave equipped with the knowledge to make immediate changes in your practice. Expect a day packed with actionable insights that will elevate your practice and sharpen your clinical decision-making, imparting the tools needed to manage even the most challenging cases of hypertension.
Target Audience
This activity is intended for all primary care providers including MDs, NPs, PAs, and pharmacists. Hypertension affects one in two adults, so all providers who care for adults treat hypertension every day. It is also targeted to specialists who manage patients with hypertension, including nephrologists, cardiologists, and endocrinologists.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Identify the nearly universal blood pressure target and justify the imperative for achieving this goal in diverse patient cohorts.
- Optimize patient-centered lifestyle interventions that translate clinical recommendations into sustainable, effective, and actionable daily therapies.
- Analyze the 2025 AHA/ACC Hypertension guidelines, specifically evaluating critical updates and shifts in clinical practice paradigms since 2017.
- Evaluate first-line antihypertensive agents for comparative efficacy, safety profiles, and clinical selection criteria.
- Formulate comprehensive management strategies for patients with treatment-resistant hypertension.
- Customize therapeutic approaches for special populations, including complex cases involving diabetes, older patients, and pregnancy.
- Optimize the diagnostic and management pathway for primary aldosteronism, with a focus on high-yield screening and targeted intervention.
- Synthesize the potential clinical impact of emerging pharmacologic agents, including aldosterone synthase inhibitors and small interfering RNA (siRNA) therapies.
- Critically assess the role of renal denervation in hypertension management, applying evidence-based selection criteria to identify optimal candidates.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC)
American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) MOC Recognition Statement
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 6.5 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.
Additional Information
| 8:00am | Registration and Breakfast |
| 8:30 | Welcome and Overview: Why Hypertension Matters to All of Us | Naomi DL Fisher, MD |
| Mastering the Foundation: Essential strategies for HTN Management | |
| 8:40 | Taking Control: What every provider needs to know about managing HTN (include 2025 guidelines) | Naomi DL Fisher, MD |
| 9:10 | Rethinking the Routine: Impactful Lifestyle Changes to Control Blood Pressure (Weight Loss, Salt Restriction, Stress Reduction) | Jonathan S. Williams, MD, MSc |
| 9:40 | Discussion/Audience Q&A |
| 9:55 | Coffee Break Exhibits open |
| Beyond the Basics: Excelling at Treating Challenging Cases | |
| 10:15 | Tackling Resistant Hypertension | Naomi DL Fisher, MD |
| 10:45 | Primary Aldosteronism: State of the Art Update | Anand Vaidya, MD |
| 11:15 | Other Endocrine Causes of Hypertension: When and How Should We Look? | Anand Vaidya, MD |
| 11:45 | Hypertension in Special Populations: What’s Special About HTN Care in Young Women and in the Elderly? | Gail Adler, MD, PhD |
| 12:15pm | Discussion/Audience Q&A |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
Cutting Edge of Hypertension Management: Modern Solutions | |
| 1:30 | Novel Therapies for Hypertension: Zilbesiran, Aprocitentan, ASIs | Jenifer M. Brown, MD |
| 2:00 | Device-Based Therapy for HTN: Overview of Renal Denervation (Trials, Devices, Patient Selection) | David Gross, MD and Joseph Garasic, MD |
| 2:30 | High Tech for High BP: Digital Breakthroughs in Hypertension Management. Wearable Devices, Remote Management | Naomi DL Fisher, MD |
| 2:50 | Discussion/Audience Q&A |
| 3:10 | Coffee Break |
| 3:30 | Hypertension in Special Populations: What’s Special About HTN Care in Patients with Diabetes and CKD? | Finnian R. McCausland, MD, MMSc |
| 4:00 | Challenging Cases of HTN presented by fellows, with roundtable expert discussion (pseudopheo; nonadherence eg) | Naomi DL Fisher, MD; Gail Adler, MD, PhD; Anand Vaidya; Jenifer M. Brown, MD; Jonathan S. Williams, MD, MSc; Finnian R. McCausland, MD, MMSc |
| 4:30 | Conclusion |
| 4:45pm | Adjourn |
Course Director
Naomi DL Fisher, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School;
Director, Hypertension Service,
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism,
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Faculty
Gail Adler, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School;
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism,
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Jenifer M. Brown, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School;
Cardiovascular Medicine, Radiology,
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Joseph Garasic, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School;
Director, Peripheral Vascular Intervention,
Medical Director, Cardiac Access Unit,
Massachusetts General Hospital
David Gross, MD
Instructor in Medicine, Part-time,
Harvard Medical School;
Interventional Cardiology,
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Finnian R. McCausland, MD, MMSc
Associate Professor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School;
Renal (Kidney) Disease,
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Anand Vaidya, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School;
Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism,
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Jonathan S. Williams, MD, MSc
Associate Professor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School;
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism,
Brigham and Women's Hospital
In support of improving patient care, Mass General Brigham is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Credit Designation Statement
AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM
Mass General Brigham designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Available Credit
- 6.50 ABIM Medical Knowledge
- 6.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 6.50 Participation