39th Annual Advances in Heart Disease - 2022 Syllabus

December 2 - 4, 2022
JW Marriott San Francisco Union Square + Live Stream
Course# MDM23A02

Schedule

** All time indicated below are Pacific Time **

Friday, December 2, 2022
7:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast    
8:10 a.m. Welcome and Symposium Overview Peter Ganz, MD  
Session: Frontiers in Cardiology: Genetics, Artificial Intelligence and Deep Empathy Chair: Priscilla Hsue, MD  
8:15 a.m. The Mind-Heart Connection: Stress and Trauma as Cardiovascular Risk Factors Ahmed Tawakol, MD   Slides
8:55 a.m. Artificial Intelligence in Cardiology Geoff Tison, MD, MPH Slides
9:35 a.m. Ascending Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms: Evaluation, Management and Genetic Testing Lisa Wilsbacher, MD, PhD  Slides
10:15 a.m. Coffee Break    
10:30 a.m. Update on Transthyretin Amyloidosis Mandar Aras, MD, PhD Slides
11:10 a.m. Gene Targeting for Cardiometabolic Diseases – Where are We? John Chorba, MD Slides
11:50 a.m. Elliot Rapaport Keynote Lecture: High Performance with Deep Empathy Medicine Eric Topol, MD   
12:40 a.m. Lunch (on Your Own)    
Session: State-of-the-Art: Cardiovascular Interventions Chair: Lucas Zier, MD, MS  
2:00 p.m. New Approaches to Pulmonary Embolism Gregory Piazza, MD, MS  Slides
2:40 p.m. Physiological Assessment of Coronary Stenosis Severity by CT Angiography and in the Cath Lab William Fearon, MD Slides
3:20 p.m. Expanding Options in the Management of Endocarditis Amy Fiedler, MD, MS  Slides
    Ann Bolger, MD Slides
4:00 p.m. Coffee Break    
4:15 p.m. Surgical Approaches to Advanced Heart Failure Jason Smith, MD Slides
4:55 p.m. Revascularization in Stable Coronary Disease: Sorting through the Evidence Jeffrey Zimmet, MD, PhD Slides
5:35 p.m. Adjourn    
Saturday, December 3, 2022
7:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast    
8:05 a.m. Announcements Peter Ganz, MD  
Session: Advances and Controversies in Electrophysiology Chair: Nora Goldschlager, MD  
8:10 a.m. Defining Sudden Cardiac Death in 2022 Zian Tseng, MD, MAS  
8:50 a.m. ECG Findings Suggesting High Arrhythmic Risk Melvin Scheinman, MD Slides
9:30 a.m. Debate: AFib Ablation Should be First Line Therapy in Patients with Symptomatic AFib  Adam Lee, MD Slides
    Tommy Dewland, MD  Slides
10:10 a.m. Coffee Break    
10:25 a.m. Advances in Cardiac Imaging for Arrhythmia Etiology, Prognosis and Therapy Edward Gerstenfeld, MD, MS Slides
11:05 a.m. The Effect of Alcohol, Exercise and Lifestyle on Atrial Fibrillation Gregory Marcus, MD, MAS Slides
11:45 a.m. Interventions for Novel/Genetic Arrhythmias Vasanth Vedantham, MD, PhD Slides
12:25 p.m Debate: Prophylactic Primary Prevention ICD in Dilated Cardiomyopathy with Heart Failure Byron Lee, MD, MS Slides
    Joshua Moss, MD, MS   Slides
1:05 p.m. Lunch (on your own)    
Session: Managing Heart Failure Chair: Jonathan Davis, MD, MPHS  
2:20 p.m. Cardiogenic Shock Jaya Mallidi, MD Slides
3:00 p.m. New Heart Failure Guidelines for HFrEF Jonathan Davis, MD, MPHS  
3:40 p.m. New Heart Failure Guidelines for HFpEF Jonathan Davis, MD, MPHS  
4:20 p.m. Coffee Break    
4:35 p.m. Polypharmacy and Medication Costs for Guideline Directed Medical Therapy for HFrEF Anusha McNamara, PharmD Slides
    Rose Pavlakos, PharmD  
5:15 p.m. Remote Monitoring of Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases Liviu Klein, MD, MS Slides
5:55 p.m. Adjourn    
Sunday, December 4, 2022  
7:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast    
8:00 a.m. Announcements Peter Ganz, MD  
Session: Managing Cardiovascular Risk Chair: Binh An P. Phan, MD  
8:05 a.m. The Effect of Salt and Salt Substitutes Consumption on Clinical Outcomes in Hypertension and Heart Failure Michael Crawford, MD Slides
8:45 a.m. Managing Cardiovascular Risk in the Elderly Carlin Long, MD Slides
9:25 a.m. Current Cholesterol Guidelines: Controversies and Agreements Peter Ganz, MD Slides
10:05 a.m. Where Are We with Non-Statin Lipid Modifying Therapy? Jorge Plutzky, MD  Slides
10:45 a.m. Management of Cardiovascular Risk and Chronic Kidney Disease Progression with Patients with Diabetes Lisa Murphy, MD, PhD Slides
11:25 a.m. Impact of Air Pollution on Cardiovascular Outcomes Karol Watson, MD, PhD  Slides
12:05 p.m. Adjourn