Eugene Stead Memorial Medicine Grand Rounds: Antithrombotic therapy and Vascular disease management: Moving towards precision CV care and the Duke Databank 3.0

The Eugene A. Stead Memorial Lecture features speaker Manesh R. Patel, MD, Richard S. Stack Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Chief Division of Cardiology, Director Duke Heart Center. The annual lecture honors Eugene Stead, chair of the Department of Medicine from 1947 to 1967. Dr. Stead founded the Duke Cardiovascular Disease Research Database, which today serves as the resource for the Duke Clinical Research Institute, and he also founded the nation's first physician assistant program at Duke in the 1960s. Learning objectives: -Understand the Mechanism of Action of Current Anti-Thrombotic Therapies including oral anticoagulants, Factor X and Factor XI inhibitors -Understand the risk and benefits of anti-thrombotic therapy in patients with atrial fibrillation -Understand the various data sources that will provide precision care to patients with cardiovascular disease