Continuing Education Symposium featuring Dr. Peter R. Kowey will Broadcast Live Nationwide

Dr. Peter R. Kowey

Peter R. Kowey, M.D., will appear at Community Medical Center, Scranton, Nov. 29 at noon to lecture on Linking Evidence-Based Care to Improved Outcomes in Atrial Fibrillation: Evolving Pharmacologic Approaches. The educational activity will be held in CMC’s Professional Building Auditorium on Colfax Avenue and will broadcast live via satellite to 1,400 VHA hospitals nationwide, allowing healthcare professionals across the country the opportunity to pose questions via web chat.

Dr.  Kowey is Chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at Lankenau Hospital Main Line Health System as well as President of Main Line Health Heart Center in Philadelphia. Dr. Kowey is Professor of Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology at Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia. He has led in the development of several antiarrhythmic drugs and antitachycardia devices used to treat life-threatening cardiac rhythm problems.

Dr. Kowey studied Honors Biology at St. Joseph’s College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to graduate cum laude. He earned his medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and completed a straight medicine internship at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center of Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Kowey performed his Internal Medicine residency, followed by fellowships in Cardiology at Harvard University School of Public Health and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital; and Cardiovascular Medicine and Research at West Roxbury VA Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Sponsored by the North American Center for Continuing Medical Education, VHA Inc., and Horizon CME, the appearance is supported by an independent educational grant from Sanofi-Aventis, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer Inc. For more information or to register for the event, call CMC’s Continuing Medical Education Department at 570.969.8197.