Four pillars of heart failure
| Saturday, May 3, 2025 |
| 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM |
| Grand Ballroom |
Overview
Dr Manya Angley, Deborah Hawthorne and Yvette McGrath
Details
Despite strong evidence supporting the four key pillars of heart failure (HF) treatment—ARNIs, beta-blockers, MRAs, and SGLT2 inhibitors—many patients remain sub-optimally managed. Challenges such as therapeutic inertia, adherence barriers, and healthcare inefficiencies contribute to poor outcomes. Innovative approaches are emerging to address these gaps, offering new ways to enhance medicine optimisation and individualised care. This session explores why HF management falls short and how emerging strategies can improve quality use of medicines.
Learning Objectives
- Describe the four pillars of heart failure management, including their key roles, clinical benefits, and relevant guidelines.
- Identify common barriers to optimal heart failure care.
- Recognise gaps in current approaches to heart failure management.
- Discuss future strategies to improve guideline adherence and enhance patient outcomes in heart failure management.
Competency standards (2016): 1.6, 3.1, 3.2, 3.5
Speaker
Dr Manya Angley
Aged Care Pharmacist/psa Sa/nt Branch President
Marac
Four pillars of heart failure
Biography
Dr Manya Angley is an Advanced Practice Pharmacist who began her career in academia. She continues to undertake research in medicines safety at care transitions and has a particular interest in improving health outcomes for people with neurodevelopmental disorders.
Manya was the proud recipient of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (SA/NT Branch) Pharmacist of the Year (2021) and the Australian Association of Consultant Pharmacy MIMS Consultant Pharmacist of the Year (2021). Manya registered as Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner (PBSP) in 2023 which is an opportunity to integrate her professional and lived experiences as a carer of family members with neurodevelopmental disability. Her current focus is aging in intellectual disability.
Mrs Deborah Hawthorne
Chair PSA Consultant Pharmacist CSI
Deborah Hawthorne Consultancy
The four pillars of heart failure
Biography
Deborah Hawthorne is a consultant pharmacist, recently elected as the chair of Pharmaceutical Society of Australia’s Consultant Pharmacist Community of Special Interest. She brings a wealth of knowledge from a varied career portfolio includes working as a pharmacist in GP clinics, Credentialed Diabetes Educator at Northeast Wangaratta Hospital, Home Medicines Reviews, Residential Medication Management Reviews, Chemical Restraint Consultations, Telehealth Medication Reviews, clinical education and research as an adjunct senior lecturer at the University of Western Australia.
She is also a current Victorian branch committee member of PSA and a board member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Victoria (PSV). She has also been awarded PSA Consultant Pharmacist of the year 2023 and PSA Early Career Pharmacist of the year 2022.
Yvette McGrath
Credentialed Pharmacist
The 4 pillars of heart failure
Biography
Yvette is a credentialled pharmacist from Far North Queensland who enjoys a variety of B.Pharm career paths. She is currently providing HMRs in a 2 hour radius from her home, working in ACCHO clinics and Aged care homes with a bit of tutoring and mentoring JCU pharmacy students and pharmacist education opportunities in the mix.
