Hearts in Sonoma: UCSF Update on Heart Failure Therapies - 2025

Registration Fees

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations received in writing before September 10, 2025 will be refunded, less a $100 administrative fee. No refunds will be made on cancellations received after that date.

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Officially endorsed by the Heart Failure Society of America. The opinions presented in this educational activity do not necessarily reflect the opinions or recommendations of the HFSA.

Overview

Heart failure affects approximately seven million Americans and is the most common diagnosis for acute hospitalization in patients over sixty-five years of age, with numbers increasing dramatically over the coming decades. UCSF Update on Heart Failure Therapies will feature up-to-date presentations on the evaluation and treatment of heart failure from initial diagnosis to advanced therapies. This conference will cover the success of guideline directed care, remote monitoring in the treatment and management of chronic heart failure, new approaches and innovations in the areas of cardiogenic shock, acute and long term mechanical circulatory support devices, heart transplantation, novel valvular heart disease therapeutics, genetic cardiomyopathies, cardiac amyloidosis and management of right heart failure and pulmonary hypertension. A comprehensive, advanced heart failure program can integrate treatment advances into a comprehensive patient-centered heart failure management program.

Target Audience
This course is designed for practicing internists, cardiologists, family practitioners, advanced practice providers, nurses, pharmacists, and all other healthcare professionals taking care of heart failure patients.

Objectives

Describe the latest guideline updates in the treatment and management of heart failure (HF), including optimization of drug therapy, remote monitoring, and novel clinical interventions and clinical trials;
Describe current approaches for the management of cardiogenic shock and the use of acute mechanical circulatory support devices in these patients. Highlight the importance of partnership with a quaternary care center cardiogenic shock team to facilitate rapid transfer of the patient in refractory cardiogenic shock.
Describe the use of long-term durable LVADs in patients with advanced heart failure, our minimally invasive surgical implant techniques, and the UCSF shared care programs with community cardiologists and co-management of patients;
Describe the latest innovations in heart transplant care, including novel approaches for organ acquisition, preservation, and procurement, dual organ transplantation, and expanded donor criteria leading to increased donor pool and decreased waiting times;
Review management of pulmonary hypertension in advanced heart failure: challenges and successes;
Discuss therapies and review new era drugs and strategies for the management of cardiac amyloidosis;
Discuss the comprehensive multidisciplinary care and services available to manage complex cardiac patients through the evolution of their disease pre- and post advanced cardiac intervention, and UCSF’s commitment to linking with community physicians.

Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, the University of California, San Francisco is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

ACCME: UCSF has approved this program for CME credit: UCSF designates this live activity for a maximum of 10.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Onsite and Remote Learning Options:
The course will be offered as a live conference. Registrants have the option to attend in person or to tune in remotely via zoom live stream during programming hours (Pacific Time). Login instructions along with the digital syllabus will be shared with attendees before the meeting. Included in your registration fee is access to the course recordings on demand after the conference and for 30 days after the course. You must tune in to the live conference (in person or remotely) to claim CME.

Course Outline

Friday, September 12, 2025
Time	Title	Speaker(s)
7:00 – 8:00am	Registration/Continental Breakfast Kenwood Foyer/Sonoma Valley Room Product Theater (Kenwood Room-Full Breakfast) – Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals Arcalyst: EVIDENCE-BASED TREATMENT OF RECURRENT PERICARDITIS	John Ryan, MD
8:05 – 8:30	New Pillars of HFpEF Management	Pooja Prasad, MD
8:35 – 9:00	Improving Heart Failure Care by Treating its Comorbidities	Shweta Motiwala, MD
9:05 – 9:30	New Heart Failure Devices	Liviu Klein, MD
9:35 – 10:15	Heart Failure Clinic: the Cornerstone of Patient Care	Shweta Motiwala, MD Brandon Martinez, PharmD Robin Fischer, DNP Jamie Lee, RN Yuri Nam, NP
10:15 – 10:30	Break
10:35 – 11:00	Multimodal Imaging in Cardiomyopathies	Michael Salerno, MD
11:05 – 11:30	Amyloid Cardiomyopathy: a Cinderella no More!	Mandar Aras, MD, PhD
11:35 – 12:00	What’s New in Pulmonary Hypertension?	Marc Simon, MD
12:00 – 12:45	Hosted Lunch
12:50 – 1:30	Risk-Based Prevention of Heart Failure: A New Paradigm	Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, MD, ScM
1:40 – 2:05	Early Recognition of Advanced Heart Failure	Leila Beach, MD
2:10 – 2:35	The Rise of the Machines: LVADs for Long-Term Heart Failure Therapy	Mandar Aras, MD
2:35 – 2:50	Break
2:50 – 3:15	Heart Transplantation in 2025: Back to the Future	Amy Fiedler, MD
3:15 – 3:50	Multidisciplinary Care: the Key to the Success of Transplant and LVAD Care	Jose Lazo, PharmD Julia Galeota, MSW Marvin Mailom, RN Simran Grewal, NP Ashley Jannesen, NP
4:00 – 4:30	GUARDIAN Angel: Organ Transport Updates	Amy Fiedler, MD Liviu Klein, MD
5:30 – 7:30 pm	Garden Reception
Saturday, September 13, 2025
Time	Title	Speaker(s)
7:00 – 8:05 am	Continental Breakfast Sonoma Valley Room Product Theater (Kenwood Room-Full Breakfast) – Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Introduction to AMVUTTRA (Vutrisiran) for the treatment of ATTR-CM and hATTR-PN in Adults	Mandar Aras, MD, PhD
8:05 – 8:25	A Primer for Non-Transplant Providers in Caring for Heart Transplant Patients	Jaqueline DesJardin, MD
8:30 – 8:55	Cardiogenic Shock after DanGer	Connor O’Brien, MD
9:00 – 10:00	What if a Heart Transplant or LVAD Patient Show up in my ER (case studies)	Connor O’Brien, MD Jaqueline DesJardin, MD Faculty Panel
10:00 – 10:15	Break
10:15 – 11:55	Collaboration for Complex Cases: Bring your Challenging cases to Discuss	Amy Fiedler, MD Connor O’Brien Liviu Klein, MD Community cardiologists Faculty Panel

Course Chairs

Amy G. Fiedler MD
Associate Professor of Medicine;
Surgical Director Heart Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support
Chair, Global Cardiac Surgery, Center for Health Equity in Surgery and Anesthesia (CHESA)

Liviu Klein, MD, MS
Professor of Medicine;
Director, UCSF Advanced Heart Failure Comprehensive Care Center
Section Chief, Advanced Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support, Pulmonary Hypertension and Heart Transplant

Nimaljeet Tarango, NP, MS
Nurse Practitioner;
Director, UCSF Advanced Heart Failure Comprehensive Care Center

Guest Faculty

Munir Janmohamed, MD, FACC
Medical Director Heart Failure Program
Dignity Health Mercy Hospital, Sacramento

Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, MD ScM
Alexander Graham Bell Professor of Medicine
Director, Framingham Center for Population & Prevention Science
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Past President, American Heart Association

Faculty

(University of California, San Francisco unless indicated)

Mandar Aras, MD, PhD, FACC
Associate Professor of Medicine;
Co-Director, UCSF Comprehensive Amyloidosis Program
Clinical Cardiology Lead, UCSF HHT Center of Excellence

Leila Beach, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Jacqueline T. DesJardin, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Robin Fischer, DNP, FNP-C
Nurse Practitioner

Julie Galeota, MSW
Associate Clinical Social Worker

Simran Grewal, NP
Nurse Practitioner

Ashley Jannesen, NP
Nurse Practitioner

Jose Lazo, PharmD
Transplant Pharmacist

HK Jamie Lee, RN
Nurse

Marvin Mailom, RN
Nurse

Brandon Martinez, PharmD
Pharmacist

Shweta Motiwala, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Heart Failure Disease Management

Yuri Nam, NP
Nurse Practitioner

Connor O'Brien, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Pooja Prasad, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Michael Salerno, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Radiology
Section Chief, Echocardiography and Cardiac Imaging
Director, Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging

Marc Simon, MD, MS
Professor of Medicine
Director, Pulmonary Vascular Disease &
Pulmonary Hypertension Comprehensive Care Center

Travel & Lodging

Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa
100 Boyes Boulevard, Sonoma CA 95476
Hotel Phone: 707-938-9000
Reservations: 707-938-1000

Rates: $495 Fairmont/Deluxe Rooms

Cutoff Date: August 12, 2025

Reserve your room online here

For reservations, guest should call the reservations department at 707-938-1000 or the global reservations team at 1-800-257-7544 and identify yourself as an attendee with the UCSF Heart and Vascular group over September 12-13, 2025.

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Exhibitors

Exhibit Fee: $3,000
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Pay $3,000 Fee Via Credit Card

Exhibit Description

For more information to exhibit (and interest in a product theater), please contact Dawn Bohlmann at [email protected].