HFSA Heart Failure Seminar: Focus on Palliative Care
Program Overview
Heart failure is associated with distressing symptoms, high resource utilization, and significant mortality. While palliative care is highly relevant for patients with heart failure, it remains underutilized and often poorly integrated into standard care. Clinicians and institutions should strive to deliver high-quality, integrated heart failure–palliative care across the disease spectrum to ease burdens on patients, caregivers, and healthcare systems.
The upcoming HFSA Heart Failure Seminar, "Living Well, Dying Well: Integrating Palliative Care into Heart Failure Management," will feature statement co-authors Sarah Chuzi, MD, MSc, and Haider Warraich, MD, as they highlight key takeaways from the HFSA Consensus-Based Recommendations on integrating palliative care into heart failure care. They will be joined by fellow co-authors for an open discussion and Q&A session.
Target Audience
This activity is intended for trainees, fellows, mid-career physicians, APPs, nurses and intensivists and other health care providers who care for patients with heart failure.
Learning Objectives
Following this activity, participants will be better able to:
1. Understand the need for palliative care among patients with heart failure.
2. Discuss how palliative care can be effectively integrated into comprehensive heart failure management.
3. Apply key recommendations from the HFSA Consensus Statement on the integration of palliative care in heart failure care.
4. Facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration to address the palliative care needs of patients with heart failure.
Faculty
Program Planners:
- Sarah Chuzi, MD, MSc
- Haider J. Warraich, MD
Panelists
- Larry A. Allen, MD
- Shelli Feder, PhD, APRN, FNP-C
- Jill M. Steiner, MD, MS
Agenda
Welcome Remarks
Sarah Chuzi, MD, MSc, and Haider Warraich, MD
Top Takeaways from the Integration of Palliative Care into Heart Failure Care:
Consensus-Based Recommendations from the Heart Failure Society of America
Sarah Chuzi, MD, MSc, and Haider Warraich, MD
Case-Based Panel Discussion and Q&A with Co-Authors of the Integration of Palliative Care into Heart Failure Care: Consensus-Based Recommendations from the Heart Failure Society of America
Sarah Chuzi, MD, MSc, and Haider Warraich, MD
Faculty Disclosures
The Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) is committed to ensuring balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in its educational activities. HFSA has a disclosure policy that requires oral presenters to disclose all relevant financial relationships for themselves and their spouse or partner during the past 24-months with any commercial entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on patients and related to the content of the activity, whether or not these commercial entities are supporters of the activity.
Speakers will have a disclosure slide at the beginning of each presentation. All potential conflicts of interests have been resolved in accordance with the ACCME Updated Standards for Commercial Support.
The following faculty and/or accreditors with ability to control content for this activity have no conflict of interest:
- Sarah Chuzi, MD, MSc
- Shelli Feder, PhD, APRN, FNP-C
- Jill M. Steiner, MD, MS
- Haider J. Warraich, MD
The following faculty and/or accreditors with the ability to control content for this activity have listed the below disclosures:
- Larry A. Allen, MD - Consultant: ACI Clinical, Quidel; Associate Editor: AHA
Off-Label Disclosure
This CME activity may or may not discuss investigational, unapproved, or off-label use of drugs. Participants are advised to consult prescribing information for any products discussed. The information provided in this CME activity is for continuing medical education purposes only and is not meant to substitute for the independent medical judgment of a physician relative to diagnostic and treatment options for a specific patient’s medical condition.
Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, The Heart Failure Society of America 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.
The Heart Failure Society of America designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This educational activity is approved for nursing continuing professional development (NCPD) units by the Heart Failure Society of America. This activity is approved for a maximum of 1.0 contact hours.
The Heart Failure Society of America is an accredited provider of continuing pharmacy education (CPE). This event is accredited for up to 1.0 contact hours of knowledge-based CPE. ACPE Universal Activity Numbers (UAN): JA4008267-0000-25-005-L01-P (on-site/live attendance only); JA4008267-0000-25-006-H01-P (on-demand/home study)
The Heart Failure Society of America has been authorized by the American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 1.0 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
Supporting Materials on Palliative Care
Important Date(s)
Originally recorded June 17, 2025