LEARNING OBJECTIVES:           

• Identify novel therapeutic interventions in cardiovascular diseases and how they could serve in their managements.
• Define the relationship between knowledge in cardiovascular diseases and their application in real practice settings.
• Differentiate pathophysiology vs. therapeutic interventions of cardiovascular diseases and how they contribute to the management of the disease.
• Describe how new clinical trials regulate and modify the pharmacotherapeutic management of cardiovascular diseases.
• Describe how critical pathways modulate cardiovascular diseases management.
• Identify mechanisms by which clinical pharmacists could signal and participate in cardiovascular diseases pharmacotherapy.
• Identify mechanisms and interventions by which pharmacists could be able to establish specialized cardiology clinics and take a lead in cardiovascular disease management.
• Highlight the new trends in hypertension management and its cardiovascular applications.
• Highlights the new trials in dyslipidmia management and its clinical implications.
• Understand how specific the critical management of cardiac patient in intensive care settings is.
• Describe the applications of ECG knowledge by pharmacists in clinical settings. 
• Acquire an understanding of the rationale behind the choice of specific therapeutic interventions currently being employed in practice and in ongoing clinical trials and the preliminary results of those trials.