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 

Mardi Gomberg-Maitland, MD, MSc. FACC

Professor of Medicine; Medical Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program

George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences

Washington, DC

8:25am

Welcome & Objectives

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? 

Murtaza Dawood, MD

Luminis Health

Annapolis, MD  

Mark Vesely, MD

Associate Professor

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Director, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program;

Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory Baltimore Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center

Baltimore, 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

Professor of Clinical Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

Diplomate, American Board of Obesity Medicine

Medical Director, Penn Metabolic Medicine

Medical Director, Center for Weight and Eating Disorders

Philadelphia, PA 

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

Medical Director, Pulmonary Hypertension

Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Assistant Professor of Clinical and Translational Science

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Pittsburgh, PA

Qiong (Joan) Zhao MD, PhD, FACC, FASE

Medical Director of Echocardiography Quality, Eastern Region

Director of Research, Echocardiography

Inova Schar Heart and Vascular, Inova Health System

Associate Professor, University of Virginia School of Medicine

Falls Church, VA

Noon

LUNCH in the Exhibit Hall

12:45pm

Keep On Pumping: Updates in CHF 

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

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology

Advanced Heart Failure/Transplant

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD 

Niti Dham, MD, MBA

Director, Cardiology-Oncology Program

Advanced Cardiac Therapies

Division of Pediatric Cardiology

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, George Washington University School of Medicine

Children’s National Hospital

Washington, DC

Jannae White, DNP, CRNP

Ascension St. Agnes Heart Failure Center

Baltimore, MD

Melissa Dazo, NP

Children's National Hospital

Washington, DC

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: Health Care Policy: Show Me the Money! 

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