Time to Take the Lead – Practical Utilization of SGLT2 Inhibitors

Published: 18 December 2020

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Overview

This independent medical education symposium was supported by a grant from the Boehringer Ingelheim & Eli Lilly and Company alliance.

Learning objectives

  • Understand current guidelines and utilisation of SGLT2i
  • Describe the potential mechanism of benefit of SGLT2i
  • Initiate and manage SGLT2i in appropriate patients

More from this programme

Part 1

Introduction, and No Permission Needed – Cardiology Guidelines + Prescribing Practice

Part 2

SGLT2i are Cardiovascular Drugs

Part 3

Cardiologists Taking the Lead – How Can We Use SGLT2 Inhibitors in Our Clinical Practice?

Part 4

Case Discussion

Part 5

A Follow-up Discussion to the ESC 2020 Session

Faculty Biographies

Shelley Zieroth

Shelley Zieroth

University of Manitoba, Canada

Dr Shelley Zieroth is currently at SBH Heart Failure and Transplant Clinics and serves as Head of the Medical Heart Failure Program, WRHA Cardiac Sciences Program, and as Associate Professor of the Section of Cardiology at the University of Manitoba, Canada.

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Stefan Anker

Stefan Anker

Professor of Cardiology

Dr Stefan D Anker, Professor of Cardiology and Cachexia Research, Department of Cardiology, Charité Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany, and served as the 2012–14 President of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). 

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