2025 Agenda

  • Day 1 Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025
  • Day 2 Friday, Dec. 5, 2025

8 - 8:10 a.m.

Welcome

Kyle Lehenbauer, MD

BLOCK 1: CARDIOMETABOLIC

8:10 - 8:30 a.m.

Women’s Cardiometabolic Health and Wellness in 2025

Erin Michos, MD, MHS, FAHA, FACC, FASE, FASPC

8:35 - 8:55 a.m.

GLP1 Inhibitors in Action

Dan Aistrope, PharmD

9:05 - 9:25 a.m.

Cardiac Cachexia: Nutrition and Heart Failure

Amanda Vest, MBBS

9:30 - 9:50 a.m.

Role of Finerenone in Cardiometabolic Care

Andrew Sauer, MD

9:50 - 10:15 a.m.

Q & A

10:15 - 10:40 a.m.

Break and Exhibitors

BLOCK 2: DELIVERING CARDIOVASCULAR CARE in 2025

10:40 - 11 a.m.

Leveraging AI in Care Delivery

Mirza Kahn, MD

11:05 - 11:25 a.m.

Updates from ACC and AHA 2025

Randall Thompson, MD

11:30 - 11:50 a.m.

Incorporating KCCQ into Clinical Practice

John Spertus, MD

11:55 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Impact of the Affordable Care Act

Rishi Wadera, MD

12:15 - 12:30 p.m.

Q & A

12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

Lunch and Exhibitors

BLOCK 3: INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY

1:30 - 1:50 p.m.

Landscape of Interventions in the Cath LabBarry Rutherford Lectureship Award

David Cohen, MD

1:55 - 2:15 p.m.

C.A.R.E. Clinic

J. Grantham, MD

2:45 - 2:55 p.m.

Disparities in Peripheral Arterial Disease

Alexander Faneroff, MD

2:40 - 2:55 p.m.

Q & A

2:55 - 3:15 p.m.

Break and Exhibits

BLOCK 4: THE "4:30" CONSULT

3:15 - 3:35 p.m.

CC: “I’m dizzy and I have palpitations.”

John Lee, MD

3:40 - 4 p.m.

CC: “I had a heart surgery as a baby for TOF, but I don’t remember any details”

Chris DeZori, MD

4:05 - 4:25 p.m.

CC: “I have chest pain and I just found out I’m pregnant”

Laura Schmidt, MD

4:30 - 4:45 p.m.

Q&A

4:45 p.m.

Happy Hour

8 - 8:05 a.m.

Welcome

Kyle Lehenbauer, MD

BLOCK 5: MULTIMODALITY IMAGING

8:05 - 8:25 a.m.

Multimodality Imaging

Erika Hutt, MD

8:30 - 8:50 a.m.

AI Use in Echocardiography: Friend or Foe?

Jordan Strom, MD

8:55 - 9:15 a.m.

Round Table Case Discussion Panel: Dr. Orme, Dr. Hutt, Dr. Lehenbauer

9:15 - 9:30 a.m.

Q & A

9:30 - 9:45 a.m.

Break and Exhibitors

BLOCK 6: VALVES

9:50 - 10:10 a.m.

What to Know about Valve Disease in 2025

David Skolnick, MD

10:15 - 10:35 a.m.

Overview and Implications of Early TAVR

Adnan Chhatriwalla, MD

10:40 - 11 a.m.

Electro-Surgery in Structural Interventions

Liz Grier, MD

11:05 - 11:25 a.m.

One Year Experience with Commercial Tricuspid

John Saxon, MD

11:30 - 11:45 a.m.

Q & A

11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.

Lunch and Exhibitors

BLOCK 7: CARDIOMYOPOTHIES

12:45 - 1:10 p.m.

Updates in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Michael Nassif, MD

1:15 - 1:35 p.m.

The Cure for Amyloidosis

Brett Sperry, MD

1:40 - 2:00 p.m.

Cardiac Myosis Inhibition for HFpEF

Ravi Patel, MD

2:05 - 2:15 p.m.

Q & A

2:15 - 2:30 p.m.

Break and Exhibits

BLOCK 8: EP

2:30 - 2:50 p.m.

Cardiac Contractility

Daniel Steinhaus, MD

2:55 - 3:15 p.m.

Updates in Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion

Sanjaya Gupta, MD

3:20 - 3:40 p.m.

Common Scenarios in Ambulatory Monitoring

Jess Kline, MD

3:45 - 3:55 p.m.

Q & A

BLOCK 9: CLOSING

4 - 4:20 p.m.

Secrets to Longevity

Abe Saeed, MD

4:25 - 4:45 p.m.

TBD

James O’Keefe, MD