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Agenda

Thursday, August 6, 2026
All times in Eastern Time

12:00 pm
Registration
1:00 pm
Welcome and Announcements
Venu Menon, MD

Meet the Trialists
Moderator: Venu Menon, MD

1:05 pm
Cleveland Clinic Trials in Hypertension
Ashish Sarraju, MD
1:25 pm
Cleveland Clinic Trials in Atrial Fibrillation
Oussama Wazni, MD
1:45 pm
Cleveland Clinic Trials in HCM
Milind Desai, MD
2:05 pm
Cleveland Clinic Trials In Lp(a)
Steven Nissen, MD, PhD

Understanding the Guidelines: Hear from Guideline Authors
Moderator: Grant Reed, MD

2:30 pm
ACC/AHA/SCAI Guideline for Acute Coronary Syndromes
Venu Menon, MD
2:50 pm
ACC/AHA Guideline for Hyperlipidemia
Leslie Cho, MD
3:10 pm
ACC/AHA/ Guidelines on ACHD
Margaret Fuchs, MD
3:30 pm
Refreshment Break & Exhibits

Overview of 2025/2026 : 5 Practice Changing Clinical Trials
Moderator: Samir Kapadia, MD

4:00 pm
Electrophysiology and Pacing
Oussama Wazni, MD
4:20 pm
Interventional Cardiology
Mauricio G. Cohen, MD
4:40 pm
Heart Failure and Transplantation
Amanda Vest, MD
5:00 pm
Valvular Heart Disease
Wael Jaber, MD
5:20 pm
Preventative Cardiology
Leslie Cho, MD
5:45 pm
Adjourn

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Friday, August 7, 2026
All times in Eastern Time

State of the Art Management – Part 1
Moderator:

8:00 am
Management of the Patient with Syncope
Kenneth Mayuga, MD
8:20 am
Breakthroughs in Amyloidosis
8:40 am
Current Management Strategies for HOCM
Milind Desai, MD
9:00 am
Pulmonary Hypertension – Emerging Therapies
Miriam Jacob, MD
9:20 am
CHIP: A Novel Risk Factor
Ohad Oren, MD
9:40 am
Refreshment Break & Exhibits
10:05 am
The Role of Early Surgery in Infective Endocarditis
Bo Xu, MD
10:25 am
Utilization of Genetic Services; Tips for the Practicing Clinician
Krishna Aragam, MD
10:45 am
Managing the Elite Athlete: Current Concepts in Sports Cardiology
Tamanna Singh, MD
11:05 am
Evolving Role of MRI in Valvular Heart Disease
Deborah Kwon, MD
11:25 am
Outpatient Management of Patients with Aortic Disease
Sagar Kalahasti, MD
11:45 am
Care of the Cardiovascular Patient during Pregnancy
Diedre Mattina, MD
12:05 pm
Optimal Utilization of Nuclear Cardiology in Clinical Practice
Bryan Abadie, MD
12:25 pm
Lunch & Exhibits (Lunch conflicts with CCIM event)

Novel Advances in Interventional Cardiology
Moderator: Grant Reed, MD

1:25 pm
Which Patients with a Chronic Total Occlusion benefit from Percutaneous Revascularization
Laura Young, MD
1:45 pm
Percutaneous Management of Severe Aortic Stenosis in 2026
Grant Reed, MD
2:05 pm
Progress in Structural Mitral Valve Interventions
Samir Kapadia, MD
2:25 pm
Transcatheter Solutions for TV Disease – Who Benefits
Amar Krishnaswamy, MD
2:45 pm
Optimal Utilization of Intracoronary Imaging in Current Practice
Mauricio G. Cohen, MD
3:05 pm
Diagnosis and Management of Microvascular CAD
Khaled Ziada, MD
3:25 pm
Refreshment Break & Exhibits

Heart Failure Hot Topics
Moderator: Amanda Vest MBBS, MPH

3:45 pm
The Role of Genetic Evaluation in the Diagnosis and Management of Heart Failure
Michael Hill, MD
4:05 pm
Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: Are the Breakthroughs Real?
Wilson Tang, MD
4:25 pm
Population Health Strategies to Optimize HF Care
M. Trejeeve Martyn, MD
4:45 pm
Optimal Outpatient Pharmacological Management of HF with Reduced EF
Amanda Vest MBBS, MPH
5:05 pm
Current Advances in Durable LVAD Utilization
Pavan Bhat, MD
5:25 pm
Heart Transplant: What Does the Future Hold?
Sanjeeb Bhattacharya, MD
5:45 pm
Role of the SHOCK Team in the Management of Cardiogenic Shock
Andrew Higgins, MD
6:05 pm
Adjourn

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Saturday, August 8, 2026
All times in Eastern Time

7:30 am
Breakfast and View Exhibits
8:00 am
Is There a Role for Aspirin in Primary Prevention?
Abhayjit Singh, MD
8:20 am
Novel Targets to Reduce the Risk of Hyperlipidemia
Ashish Sarraju, MD
8:40 am
How to Initiate Pharmacotherapy for Type 2 Diabetes in 2026
Dennis Bruemmer, MD, PhD
9:00 am
Coronary Calcium Score: In Whom and Then What?
Gary Parizher, MD
9:20 am
Evaluation of a Cardiovascular Patient Prior to Non-Cardiac Surgery
Ajay Bhargava, MD
9:40 am
Management of the Patient with Refractory Hypertension
Vikas Sunder, MD
10:00 am
Refreshment Break & Exhibits
10:10 am
Current Management of the Patient with Severe Degenerative MR?
Tarek Malas, MD
10:30 am
Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection – Recognition and Management
Pulkit Chaudhury, MD
10:50 am
Optimal Utilization of CABG in 2026
Faisal Bakaeen, MD
11:10 am
Advances in Surgery for Type A Dissection
Patrick Vargo, MD
11:30 am
Optimal Management of the Patient with ACHD
Margaret Fuchs, MD
11:50 am
Lunch

Contemporary Innovations in Electrophysiology
Moderator: Ayman Hussein, MD

1:00 pm
Advances in AF Ablation
Ayman Hussein, MD
1:20 pm
Breaking Barriers: Novel Procedures in EP
Pasquale Santangelli, MD
1:40 pm
Innovations in Cardiac Pacing
Thomas Callahan, MD
2:00 pm
Current Challenges in the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death
Jakub Sroubek MD, PhD
2:20 pm
Novel Strategies for Stroke Prevention in AF
Walid Saliba, MD
2:40 pm
My Approach to Evaluation PVC Cardiomyopathy
Tyler Taigen, MD
3:00 pm
Refreshment Break
3:10 pm
Learning from the Master: 5 EKG Pearls
Mohamed Kanj, MD
3.30 pm
State of the Art STEMI Care
Stephen Ellis, MD
3:50 pm
Management of Cardiogenic Shock Complicating Acute Myocardial Infarction: What Have We Learnt Since DANGER:
Venu Menon, MD
4:10 pm
Learning Through Cases: Improving Care with Multi-modality Imaging
Ben Alencherry, MD
4:30 pm
Adjourn

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