2026 AGENDA Coming soon!

Registration & Continental Breakfast

University Ballroom Prefunction

Welcome and Introduction

Ben Chung, MD & Christopher T. Salerno, MD

Case Presentation

Dimitar Saveski, MD

Strengthening the S-QUAD: Updates in HFpEF Therapy

Mark Belkin, MD

Spreading the Word: Expanding Access to New and Underutilized HF Medications 

Rachel Lavelle, PharmD

Emerging Electrical HF Therapies: Physiological Pacing, Resynchronization, and Beyond!

Gaurav A. Upadhyay, MD

What's New in Heart Failure Nutrition: A Dietitian's Perspective

Dani Pezzuto, RDN

Q&A Session with Panel 

The Role of Imaging in the Diagnosis of Cancer Treatment Related Cardiac Dysfunction

Jeanne DeCara, MD

Seeing Through the Thick of It: Novel Imaging in Hypertrophic Heart Disease

Jeremy A. Slivnick, MD 

Not Your Granuloma's Therapy: An Update on Cardiac Sarcoidosis Management

Ben Chung, MD

Where Are the Gaps in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Therapy?

Gene H. Kim, MD

The Advent of Polytherapy in TTR Cardiac Amyloidosis

Nitasha Sarswat, MD

Q&A Session with Panel 

BREAK / VISIT EXHIBITS

Cellular Metabolism and Its Role in Advanced Heart Failure

Sara Kalantari, MD

The Patient-Specific Tipping Point: Advanced Hemodynamics for HF Prognostication

Jonathan Grinstein, MD

Management of AMI CS in a Post DanGerShock World

Sandeep Nathan, MD

Q&A Session with Panel

LUNCH / VISIT EXHIBITS

Case Presentation

Orly Leiva, MD

Challenges to Managing Heart Failure: A Systems Perspective

Jeffrey Teuteberg, MD

Right to the Heart of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Risk & Imaging

Stanley Swat, MD

Updates from the 7th World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension

Leo Gozdecki, DO

Q&A Session with Panel

BREAK / VISIT EXHIBITS

The Present and Future LVAD Therapies

Manreet K. Kanwar, MD

Mitigating Post-Operative RV Dysfunction After LVAD: The RV Protection Study

Anthony Kanelidis, MD

Not Today, PRA: Novel Desensitization Protocols for Heart Transplant

Ashley Loethen, PharmD

Expanding the Donor & Recipient Pool in Heart Transplant

Ann Nguyen, MD

Heart - Lung Transplantation: Current Indications & Specific Considerations

Pablo G. Sanchez, MD, PhD

Heart Transplant in Complex Congenital Heart Disease

Valluvan Jeevanandam, MD

Q&A Session with Panel

Concluding Remarks

Rishi Arora, MBBS