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The University of Florida College of Medicine’s division of cardiovascular medicine is encouraging all alumni of its Cardiology Fellowship Training Program to attend a first-ever reunion weekend Sept. 8-10 at the UF Hotel and Conference Center on Southwest 34th Street.

The event will combine a high-quality educational program on cardiovascular disease with a Gator home football game and other collegiate activities.

All former fellows and faculty who have been a part of the training program since its inception in 1958 are invited.

The scientific program will continue the mission of UF’s Vascular Biology Working Group and will include review of important new data related to the pathobiology and management of cardiovascular disease and its risk factors. Continuing medical education credits will be available.

As a part of this educational program, several alumni working in large cardiology group practices will present cases of unusual interest.

Reunion participants are welcome to attend the division’s clinical case conference and grand rounds, a welcome reception and dinner on Sept. 8. On Sept. 9, the scientific program will feature keynote speaker Dr. Victor J. Dzau, the Hersey professor of the theory and practice of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chairman of the department of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Other speakers will include Dr. Gary H. Gibbons, associate professor of medicine and director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta; Dr. Howard R. Horn, the L.W. Diggs alumni professor of medicine and chair of Excellence in Medical Education at the University of Tennessee in Memphis; Dr. Jorge Plutzky, director of the Vascular Disease Prevention Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital; and Dr. Andrew P. Selwyn, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.