It is never too early to get involved with Advocacy! The ACC acts as your professional home to support to transform cardiovascular care and improve heart health by engaging in ACC's advocacy programs and supporting HeartPAC.

Here you will find advocacy resources and links, how-to guides, articles written by your colleagues, and information on how to get involved in Advocacy within the College. We look forward to hearing from you and getting you involved!

  • Learn how you can step up and build upon the foundation of advocacy as a FIT. Learn about the issues and find ways to get involved at the local, state, or national levels regardless of your previous experience with advocacy. Find out more.
  • Know the essentials of advocacy as you get started. Find out more.
  • ACC Advocacy: Shaping the Future of Cardiology
  • Get involved! Submit your name and email address below.

The ACC FIT Chief Fellows Network aims to support and bring together chief fellows in Cardiovascular disease fellowships from all over the country.

To get involved, join the Chief Fellows Network here, and participate in the Chief Fellows Network group on Member Hub, ACC's online member community.

We recently hosted our first Chief Fellows Happy Hour, check out the below message from Dr. Berlacher.


Our inaugural Chief Fellows Leadership Symposium, held in May 2022, brought together top cardiovascular disease educators for sessions on leadership, education techniques, conflict management and more, specifically tailored to chief fellows.

We invite you to watch (or rewatch!) the recordings below, broken up by topic. If you are a rising chief fellow, keep an eye out for emails in the upcoming year about our Chief Fellows Leadership Symposium 2023!

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Theme 1 - Leadership Skills for Chief Fellows


Theme 2 - Creating the Culture


Theme 3 - Educational Leadership


Theme 4 - Recruitment and the Chief Fellow's Role in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

  • Create a value driven health care system
  • Ensure access to care and CV practice stability
  • Promote use of clinical data to improve care
  • Foster research and innovation in CV care
  • Prevent CV disease and improve public health
  • Engage members to shape health policy
  • Federal
    • U.S. Congress
    • White House/Executive Office of the President
    • HHS (CMS, FDA, CDC, NIH, ONC)
    • MedPAC
    • GAO
  • State
    • Legislature
    • Governor/Lt. Governor
    • Health Department (or equivalent)
    • Insurance Commissioner or equivalent
    • State medical board
    • Medicaid program
  • Non-Government
    • Health plans
    • Think tanks (e.g., Brookings, Duke, Pew)
    • National Quality Forum
    • Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement
    • Healthcare Payment Learning and Action Network
    • National Coalition for Health Care
    • Healthcare Transformation Task Force
    • Accountable Care Learning Collaborative
  • Connect with Congress
  • Attend the ACC Legislative Conference
  • Meet with your Legislator in the District
  • Host a Legislator Practice Visit
  • Join the ACC Grassroots Network
  • Join ACCPAC
  • ACCPAC is a voluntary, non-partisan Political Action Committee formed to support the American College of Cardiology's mission to transform cardiovascular care and improve heart health
  • ACCPAC works by combining the voices of cardiovascular professionals to impact the political process and send a powerful message to Congress regarding the need to preserve and improve cardiovascular care
  • ACCPAC opens the doors for ACC members and staff to educate key members of Congress on cardiovascular issues
  • ACCPAC builds relationships with lawmakers who shape policies that impact our members and patients
  • Contributing to ACCPAC is a direct investment in the future of cardiology