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.

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

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.

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 – 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Time	Title	Speaker(s)
7:00 – 8:00am	Registration/Continental Breakfast
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 and UCSF HFDM Team
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	Keynote Talk Lecture
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	Jaqueline DesJardin, 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	UCSF Transplant & Mechanical Circulatory Support Team
4:00 -6:00 pm	Garden Reception

Saturday, September 13, 2025 – 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Time	Title	Speaker(s)
7:00- 8:05 am	Continental Breakfast
8:05 – 8:25	A Primer for Non-Transplant Providers in Caring for Heart Transplant Patients	Mandar Aras, MD, PhD
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	Jason Smith, MD 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

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

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

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

Jason W. Smith, MD, FACS
Division Chief; Helen and Charles Schwab Distinguished Professor of Surgery
Division of Cardiac Surgery and Lung Transplantation
Program Director for the Advanced Fellowship in Cardiac Transplantation & MCS
Co-Director, UCSF Heart and Vascular 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].