AGENDA

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Friday, September 20

12 - 3 PM Board Meeting  - By Invitation Only
5 - 6 PM Registration
Governors' Prefunction - Outside Gov. Hall C&D

 

Saturday, September 21

7:00a

Breakfast/Product Theater/Exhibits/Registration

Product Theater - Governor Hall E & F
Topic: 
A Treatment Option for the Polyneuropathy of hATTR Amyloidosis

 

 

Joel E Skaistis, MD

8:00a Conference Welcome Karthikeyan Ananthasubramaniam, MD, FACC
8:05 - 9:00a

Session 1 - Cardiovascular Interventions

1. Cardiogenic Shock
2. Renal Denervation
3. TAVR

4. Right-sided Interventions

Chairs: Babar Basir, DO & Shukri David, MD, FACC

1. Amir Kaki, MD
2. Shukri W. David, MD, FACC
3. Abdulfatah Abdelkarim Osman, MBBS, FACC
4. Pedro Engel Gonzalez, MD, FACC, FSCAI

9:00 - 10:00a

Session 2 - Imaging Advances 



1. Cardiac Amyloid Advances
2. Updates in cardiac CTA – CTFFR
3. Cardiac Imaging, Cardiac Masses and Tumors
4. Updates in Cardiac PET

Chairs: Karthik Ananth, MD, FACC & Sunil Rao, DO, MHA, FACC


1. Karthikeyan Ananthasubramaniam, MD, FACC

2. Michael Vredenburg, DO, MBA
3. Aiden  Abidov, MD, FACC
4. Karthikeyan Ananthasubramaniam, MD, FACC

10-10:15a Break and Exhibits  
10:15 - 11:15a

Session 3: Updates in Heart Failure


1. Update on medical treatment of heart failure: guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT-4), rapid decongestion, and remote monitoring.
2. Updates in the Treatment of Advanced Heart Failure
3. Updates in Cardiac Transplantation

Chairs: Celeste Williams, MD, FACC & Sangjin Lee, MD, MSc, FHFSA


1. Sangjin Lee, MD, MSc, FHFSA

 

2. Jennifer Cowger, MD, MS, FACC

3. Celeste T. Williams, MD, FACC

11:15 - 12:15p Poster Judging and Exhibits  
12:15-1:15p

Lunch & Learn | Exhibits

Product Theaters - Governor Hall E & F
Topics

  • A Treatment Option for Patients with Heart Failure
  • 2 LTE Trials Expand the Growing Body of Evidence for Camzyos

 

 


Surendra Sivarajah, MD & Farzad Daneshvar, PharmD

Mark Zenker, MD, FACC, FASE

     
1:15 - 2:15p FIT Jeopardy

Moderator: Bobak Rabanni, MD
Ascension Providence/MSUCHM
Ascension St. John
Beaumont Royal Oak

2:15-3:00p CV Team Exclusive
Family Feud Competition
 Moderator: David Klungle, PA-C
2:15-3:00p FIT Exclusive #1
Non-clinical discussion
 Timothy Logan, DO
3:00-3:45p FIT Exclusive #2 
Round table meet and greets with seasoned physicians
Shukri W. David, MD, FACC

Chadi Alraies, MD, FACC
Nishtha Sareen, MD, FACC
Karthik Ananth, MD, FACC
Nagib T. Chalfoun, MD, FACC, FHRS
Arfaat Khan, MD
Jennifer Cowger, MD, MS, FACC
Souheil Saba, MD, FACC
Babar Basir, DO 

3:45 - 6:00p Break  
6:00p Mentorship Program Reception  

 

Sunday, September 22

 

7:15-8:15a Breakfast and Exhibits  
7:45-8:30a Michigan Chapter Business Meeting  Karthikeyan Ananthasubramaniam, MD, FACC
  Chapter Awards Presentations David H. W. Wohns, MD, FACC
  Your College and Chapter  
  Advocacy Updates Sunil  Rao, DO, FACC
8:30-9:30a 2024 Legacy Lecture

"Reperfusion Therapy for Acute Myocardial Infarction: Our Shared Michigan Legacy"

Eric R. Bates, MD, FACC
9:30-9:45a Break, Exhibits & Networking  
9:45-10:45a

Session 4: Advances in EP Applications and AI in Cardiology

1. Atrial Fibrillation Management 2024:  Top Lessons from the New Guidelines
2. Can AF ablations be performed at sites without CTS or at ASCs
3. Artificial Intelligence in Echocardiography 

Chair: Arfaat Khan, MD


1. Nagib T. Chalfoun, MD, FACC, FHRS

2. Arfaat Khan, MD

3. Souheil Saba, MD, FACC

10:45-11:45a

Session 5: AI in HCM

 Matthew W. Martinez, MD, FACC
11:45a Conference Dismissed  

 


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