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Agenda

Friday, November 14, 2025
All times in Eastern Time

7:50 AM
Welcome and Announcements
Lars Svensson, MD, PhD

Session I – Prevention and Management: State of the Art
Moderator: Leslie Cho, MD

8:00 AM
Who Should Get a CAC? How Often? How to Use the Results to Assess Risk?
Milind Desai, MD, MBA
8:15 AM
Understanding the Role of Lp(a) as a CV Risk Marker in the Prevention of CV Disease
Leslie Cho, MD
8:30 AM
Medical management of Obesity, Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome: Use, Misuse and Effective Strategies
Ashish Sarraju, MD
8:45 AM
Understanding and Addressing Compliance with Lipid Lowering Medications
Leslie Cho, MD
9:00 AM
Contemporary Management of Hypertension
Luke Laffin, MD
9:15 AM
Panel Discussion/Attendee Q&A
Session Faculty
9:30 AM
Refreshments & Exhibit Break

Session II – Coronary Artery Disease
Moderator: Jacqueline Tamis-Holland, MD

9:50 AM
Management of Chronic Stable Coronary Artery Disease: When to Intervene?
Leslie Cho, MD
10:05 AM
Acute Coronary Syndrome: 2025 Guidelines, Long Term Management and Secondary Prevention
Jacqueline Tamis-Holland, MD
10:20 AM
Decision Making in Coronary Chronic Total Occlusion- Should We Open?
Laura Young, MD
10:35 AM
Comprehensive Surgical Management of a Patient with Ischemic Cardiomyopathy?
Michael Tong, MD
10:50 AM
Robotic and Advance CABG
Faisal Bakaeen, MD
11:05 AM
Panel Discussion/Attendee Q&A
Session Faculty

Session III – Mitral and Tricuspid Valve
Moderator: Marc Gillinov, MD

11:15 AM
Guideline Directed Management of Mitral Valve Disease: When to Watch and When to Fix?
Brian Griffin, MD
11:30 AM
Can I Do a Low Risk MV Repair and What I Would Do and Why? Sternotomy versus Robotic
Marc Gillinov, MD
11:45 AM
Management of Complex Mitral Valve Disease (MAC, radiation, infection etc.)
Shinya Unai, MD
12:00 PM
Tricuspid and Mitral: When and How to Intervene
Amar Krishnaswamy, MD
12:15 PM
Panel Discussion/Attendee Q&A
Session Faculty
12:25 PM
Lunch

Session IV – Aortic Valve
Moderator: Samir Kapadia, MD

1:25 PM
Diagnosis and Work Up of Patients with Aortic Valve Disease Across the Spectrum of Severity and Symptoms
Milind Desai, MD, MBA
1:40 PM
TAVR Versus SAVR in Patients over 65: What Is the Best Therapeutic Approach for the Management of Aortic Stenosis?
Samir Kapadia, MD
1:55 PM
Current Outcomes of AVR and Complex Endocarditis Surgery Including Reoperations
Shinya Unai, MD
2:10 PM
Aortic Valve Repair and Robotic Surgery
Lars Svensson, MD, PhD
2:25 PM
Panel Discussion/Attendee Q&A
Session Faculty
2:35 PM
Exhibit Break

Session V – EP
Moderator: Walid Saliba, MD

2:55 PM
AF Screening: Who, When and How?
Walid Saliba, MD
3:10 PM
LAA Closure and PFA: Who to Refer and Management After Implantation
Walid Saliba, MD
3:25 PM
Ventricular Ablation for Arrhythmia
Pasquale Santangeli, MD, PhD
3:40 PM
Panel Discussion/Attendee Q&A
Session Faculty

Session VI – Heart Failure and Pulmonary Disease
Moderator: Amanda Vest, MD

3:50 PM
HFrEF: Foundations of GDMT Across the Inpatient-Outpatient Domain
Amanda Vest, MD
4:05 PM
HFpEF: Medications, Devices, and Lifestyle Management
Sanjeeb Bhattacharya, MD
4:20 PM
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Current Concepts and Surgical Outcomes
Milind Desai, MD, MBA
4:35 PM
Amyloid Heart Disease: Diagnosis and Management
Amanda Vest, MD
4:50 PM
Is This Advanced Heart Failure? When to Refer for LVAD/Transplant
Michael Tong, MD
5:05 PM
Panel Discussion/Attendee Q&A
Session Faculty
5:15 PM
Adjourn

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