Agenda

Breakfast in the Exhibit Hall

7:30 -

8:30am

Bonus Education Session 

This program is accredited separately

Redefining Relief: Emerging Innovations in the Management of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension 

Victor, Moles, MD

Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine

University of Michigan

Associate Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program
Medical Director, Bridges and Transitions Program

8:25am

Welcome & Objectives

Introduction of Governors

When More Muscle Isn’t Better: Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy  

This session is supported through an educational grant from Bristol Myers Squibb.

Alejandro de Feria, MD, FACC

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Center for Inherited Heart Disease

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

Michael A McCulloch, MD

Professor of Pediatrics

Medical Director, Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension and Mechanical Circulatory Support Programs

University of Virginia

Charlottesville, VA 

Jose Madrazo, MD

Director, Johns Hopkins Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Baltimore, MD

9:15am

Forgotten No More! Tricuspid Valve Interventions!

DEBATE: Repair or Replace? 

Surgical Point of View:

Murtaza Dawood, MD

Luminis Health

Annapolis, MD 

9:45am

BREAK

Grab a warm beverage and chat with our Exhibitors and visit our FIT Poster Gallery

10:30am

It’s a Disease, Not a Bad Habit: Anti-obesity Drugs 

Andrew Reittinger, MD

Children's Hospital of Richmond, Virginia Commonwealth University

Richmond, VA  

Anastassia Amaro, MD

Fight Cancer, Protect the Heart: Cardio-oncology At Your Service 

Joshua Levenson, MD

Director, UPMC Center for Cardio-Oncology

Co-Director, Noninvasive Cardiology Shadyside Hospital

Associate Director, Cardiology Fellowship Program

Assistant Professor of Medicine 

Pittsburgh, PA

Shawn West, MD, MSc

Pediatric Cardiologist, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Pittsburgh, PA

Qiong Joan Zhao MD, PhD, FACC, FASE

Regional Medical Director, Cardiac Diagnostics 

Director of Research, Cardiac Diagnostics

Inova Schar Heart and Vascular

Fairfax, VA

Noon

LUNCH in the Exhibit Hall

12:45pm

Keep On Pumping: Updates in CHF 

Sabra C. Lewsey, MD, MPH, FACC, FHFSA

1:30pm

Mitral Therapies in Heart Failure 

Volker Rudolph, MD

Director of General and Interventional Cardiology

Professor of Cardiology

Heart & Diabetes Center NRW

University Hospital of the Ruhr University Bochum

Medical Faculty OWL/ University Bielefeld

Bad Oeynhausen

Germany

2:00pm

Insight From ACC Leadership: Future Payment Models and the Effect on Patient Care 

Akshay Khandelwal, MD, MBA, FACC

Treasurer, American College of Cardiology Board of Trustees

Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine

AHN Cardiovascular Institute

Pittsburgh, PA

2:45pm

ADJOURN