42nd Annual Advances in Heart Disease

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December 12 - 14, 2025
Mission Bay Conference Center • San Francisco, CA
Course# MDM26A02 - Department: Medicine

 

 

Registration Fees

Early Bird 9/30/25
$750 Physicians
$550 Advanced Practice Professionals/Nurses
$450 Residents/Fellows
$1,000 Industry
    
Regular Fee 10/1/25
$800 Physicians
$600 Advanced Practice Professionals/Nurses
$500 Residents/Fellows
$1,000 Industry

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations received in writing before Dec 11, 2025 will be refunded, less a $75 administrative fee. No refunds will be made on cancellations received after that date.

Please submit your cancellation request at
https://tiny.ucsf.edu/cmehelp

 

Overview

Our 42nd annual course will again strive to present topics that highlight new evidence-based medicine findings reported within the last one to two years that impact clinical practice. These will range across a variety of cardiologic subspecialty interests including heart failure, arrhythmias, cardiac surgery, gene therapy, aortic diseases, prevention and artificial intelligence.

Our faculty will include a distinguished group of visiting academicians from North America together with outstanding teachers and clinicians from the University of California, San Francisco.

All sessions will be recorded and made available to participants for online viewing 30 days post course.

TARGET AUDIENCE 
This course is intended for cardiovascular specialists, practicing cardiologists, internists, family physicians, cardiovascular and critical care nurses, and physician assistants.

 

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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.

Objectives

An attendee completing this course will be able to improve skills and strategies to:

  • Provide the best management of coronary heart disease, hypertension, lipid disorders, diabetes, systolic and diastolic heart failure, atrial fibrillation, STEMI and non-STEMI, thromboembolic disease;
  • Refine considerations for atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, and ventricular tachycardia ablation;
  • Apply the best considerations of percutaneous interventions for coronary heart disease;
  • Improve the use of anti-platelet and anti-coagulation therapy for cardiovascular diseases;
  • Recognize risk stratification of cardiovascular disease;
  • Apply the best consideration of percutaneous treatment of valvular heart disease;
  • Recognize that pathophysiology of diseases and treatment options are impacted by social determinants of health and implement strategies to improve health outcomes among all patients.

Accreditation

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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.

UCSF designates this live activity for a maximum of 18.75 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This CME activity meets the requirements under California Assembly Bill 1195, continuing education and cultural and linguistic competency.

Internal Medicine Physicians
Successful completion of this CME activity enables the participant to earn up to 18.75 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC points.  Attendees must complete the course evaluation within 30 days of the activity completion in order to receive MOC credit.

Nurses 
For the purpose of recertification, the American Nurses Credentialing Center accepts AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM issued by organizations accredited by the ACCME.

Physician Assistants 
AAPA accepts category 1 credit from AOACCME, Prescribed credit from AAFP, and AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM from organizations accredited by the ACCME.

Pharmacists 
The California Board of Pharmacy accepts as continuing professional education those courses that meet the standard of relevance to pharmacy practice and have been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM.

 

Course Outline

Date/TimeTopic/TitleSpeaker(s)
Friday, 
Dec 12, 2025
  
7:00 AMRegistration and Continental Breakfast 
8:00Welcome and Symposium OverviewPeter Ganz, MD  
 Session: Frontiers in Interventional CardiologyChair: Lucas Zier, MD, MS
8:05Asymptomatic Severe Aortic Stenosis: Is Earlier Intervention Better?Sammy Elmariah, MD, MPH 
8:45Updates on the Management of Mitral and Tricuspid Valve DiseaseMichela Faggioni, MD
9:25A New Perspective on Old Therapies for Myocardial Infarction: Beta Blockers and SpironolactoneKrishan Soni, MD, MBA
10:05Coffee Break 
10:20Review of Treatment Guidelines for ACSJohn MacGregor, MD, PhD
11:00Renal Denervation Therapy for Resistant HypertensionJoseph Yang, MD
11:40Updates on Chronic Total Occlusions and Complete RevascularizationYousif Ahmad, MBBS, PhD  
12:20 PMLunch (Optional Product Theater) 
 Session: Advances in Cardiovascular Disease Management and PreventionChair: Peter Ganz, MD
1:50 PMCardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) SyndromeChiadi E. Ndumele, MD, PhD
2:30Elliot Rapaport, MD Keynote Lecture: Pulmonary Embolism- Historical Perspective and Glimpses into the FutureSamuel Z. Goldhaber, MD
3:15Update on the Management of Hypertension – 2025 AHA/ACC GuidelinesMary Gray, MD
3:55Coffee Break 
4:10Update on Cardiovascular Complications of Cancer TreatmentsJavid Moslehi, MD
4:50Contemporary Pulmonary Hypertension ManagementMarc Simon, MD, MS
5:30Adjourn 
Saturday,
Dec 13, 2025
  
7:30 AMContinental Breakfast 
8:00AnnouncementsPeter Ganz, MD
 Session: Advances and Controversies in ElectrophysiologyChair: Nora Goldschlager, MD
8:05Leadless vs. Leaded Pacemakers – Which One for Which Patient?Adam Oesterle, MD
8:45When to Anticoagulate Device-detected Atrial Fibrillation – Latest EvidenceJoshua Moss, MD, MS
9:25PACs and Atrial Fibrillation – Association or CausationEdward Gerstenfeld, MD, MS
10:05Coffee Break 
10:20Which ICD is Best for my Patient: Transvenous, Subcutaneous (S-ICD), or Extravascular (EV-ICD)? Daniel Morin, MD, MPH
11:00Atrial Fibrillation and Stroke Prevention - Current Evidence and Glimpse into the FutureCara Pellegrini, MD
11:40Lifestyle and Atrial Fibrillation: Conventional Wisdom versus the EvidenceGregory Marcus, MD, MAS
12:20 PMLunch (Optional Product Theater) 
 Session: Advances and Controversies in Electrophysiology (cont.)Chair: Nora Goldschlager, MD
1:50 PMHow to Evaluate Family Members of SCA Victims?Albert Liu, MD
 Session: Advances in Heart FailureChair: Jonathan Davis, MD, MPH
2:20The Expanding Role of GLP1-receptor Agonists in Heart Failure and BeyondCarlos Santos-Gallego, MD
3:00A Contemporary Approach to Identifying, Classifying, and Treating Cardiogenic ShockChristopher Barnett, MD, MHP
3:40Coffee Break 
3:55What’s Coming Down the Pipe for Heart Failure. Liviu Klein, MD, MS
4:35Finerenone vs. Spironolactone: Where Does the Non-steroidal MRA Fit into Contemporary Practice?Shweta Motiwala, MD, MPH
5:15 PMAdjourn 
Sunday, 
Dec 14, 2025
  
7:30 AMContinental Breakfast 
8:00AnnouncementsPeter Ganz, MD
 Session: Advances in Managing Cardiovascular DiseasesChair: Mary Gray, MD
8:05Updates in Pericarditis: From Pathophysiology to PracticeAlan Baik, MD, PhD
8:45Management of Cardiovascular Disease in Patients on HemodialysisRuth Dubin, MD
9:25Heart Disease in PregnancyAarthi Sabanayagam, MD, MBBS
10:05Iron Deficiency: A Low Hanging Mineral in Heart Failure ManagementPooja Prasad, MD
10:45Use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Improve Cardiovascular OutcomesLucas Zier, MD, MS 
11:25Colchicine and Other Anti-inflammatory Therapies in the Prevention of Acute Coronary SyndromesPaul M. Ridker, MD, MPH
12:05 PMAdjourn  

Course Director

Peter Ganz, MD, FACC
Professor, Division of Cardiology;
Director, Center of Excellence in Vascular Research,
UCSF at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital

Co-Directors

Jonathan Davis, MD, MPHS
Cardiologist, Mercy Hospital, St. Louis MO
Formerly, Director of the Heart Failure Services, San Francisco Health Network

Nora F. Goldschlager, MD
Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
UCSF at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital

Mary Gray, MD
Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Chief of Cardiology
UCSF at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital

Lucas Zier, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
UCSF at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital

 

Faculty

(University of California, San Francisco unless indicated)

Yousif Ahmad, MBBS, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Interventional Cardiology Program at UCSF Health

Alan Baik, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Director, Pericardial Disease Center at UCSF Health

Christopher Barnett, MD, MHP
Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at UCSF Health
Chief of Critical Care Cardiology at UCSF Health

Ruth Dubin, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology
Center for Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research
University of Texas Southwestern
 
Sammy Elmariah, MD, MPH 
Leone-Perkins Family Endowed Professor of Medicine
Chief of Interventional Cardiology at UCSF Health

Michela Faggioni, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Interventional Cardiology Program at UCSF Health

Edward Gerstenfeld, MD, MS
Melvin Scheinman Endowed Professor of Medicine
Chief of Cardiac Electrophysiology and Arrhythmias at UCSF Health

Samuel Z. Goldhaber, MD
Professor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School
Associate Chief and Clinical Director, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Director of the Thrombosis Research Group 
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

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

Albert Liu, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Electrophysiology and Arrhythmias Section at UCSF Health

John MacGregor, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Director of Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, 
UCSF at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital

Gregory Marcus, MD, MAS
Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Associate Chief of Cardiology for Research at UCSF Health

Daniel Morin, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory at UCSF Health

Javid Moslehi, MD
Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Chief, Cardio-Oncology and Immunology at UCSF Health

Joshua Moss, MD, MS
Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Electrophysiology Fellowship Director at UCSF Health

Shweta Motiwala, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Director of Heart Failure Disease Management at UCSF Health

Chiadi E. Ndumele, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Division of Cardiology
Director of Obesity and Cardiometabolic Research
Director of the Heart Failure Prevention Program 
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Adam Oesterle, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Electrophysiology Section, UCSF at San Francisco VA Medical Center

Cara Pellegrini, MD
Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology, UCSF at San Francisco VA Medical Center

Pooja Prasad, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Advanced Heart Failure Comprehensive Care Center, UCSF Health

Paul M. Ridker, MD, MPH
Eugene Braunwald Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Aarthi Sabanayagam, MD, MBBS
Associate Professor, Division of Cardiology
Co-Director, UCSF Pregnancy and Cardiac Treatment Program at UCSF Health

Carlos Santos-Gallego, MD
Instructor of Cardiology
Cardiovascular Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Marc Simon, MD, MS
Edward Fein and Pearl Landrith Endowed Professor in Cardiology
Director of Pulmonary Vascular Disease and the Pulmonary Hypertension Comprehensive Care Center at UCSF Health

Krishan Soni, MD, MBA
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Director of Value Improvement for the Department of Medicine-UCSF Health Subspecialty Services

Joseph Yang, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Interventional Cardiology Section, UCSF at San Francisco VA Medical Center

Travel & Lodging

Mission Bay Conference Center
1675 Owens Street
San Francisco CA 94158
Venue Phone: (866) 431-8273

No Group Room Block- but discount code for UCSF at Hyatt Place SF
Hyatt Place SF
701 3rd Street, San Francisco, CA, United States, 94107
(415-767-2000)
UCSF discount code: 98258

 


Exhibitors

Exhibit Fee: $3,000
Email Contact for Exhibits [email protected]

Pay $3,000 Fee Via Credit Card

Exhibit Description

Exhibitors receive the following benefits:

  •  (1) 6’ x 30” tabletop exhibit space at UCSF assigned location in exhibit hall
  • Standard acknowledgement from the podium
  • Acknowledgement in the course syllabus distributed to each registrant
  • (2) complimentary exhibitor attendees

Exhibit Hours

(subject to updating)

Friday    December 12, 2025 
7:00- 8:00AMContinental Breakfast in Exhibit Area
10:10- 10:40AMCoffee Break in Exhibit Area
3:15- 3:30PMCoffee Break in Exhibit Area
  
Saturday    December 13, 2025 
7:00- 8:00AMContinental Breakfast in Exhibit Area
10:15- 10:30AMCoffee Break in Exhibit Area
2:45- 3:00PMCoffee Break in Exhibit Area
  
Sunday    December 14, 2025 
7:00- 8:00AMContinental Breakfast in Exhibit Area
10:00- 10:20AMCoffee Break in Exhibit Area