Plenary Q&A 

WORKSHOPS I 

Nursing Workshop: Heart Failure in the Frail and Elderly (in French)
Kim Laflamme, NP 

How and When to Stop Cardiac Medications in Your Heart Failure Patients
Elizabeth Swiggum, MD 

CCS Guidelines Update: Heart Failure & Atrial Fibrillation
Michael McDonald, MD; Mario Talajic, MD 

UNACCREDITED SYMPOSIUM  

Disruptive Treatment in HF: Combination Therapies for the Home Run 
Nadia Giannetti, MD; Peter Liu, MD; Kim Connelly, PhD; Jonathan Howlett, MD

PLENARY SESSION #2: IMAGING FOR THE HEART FAILURE PATIENT: PUMP, PERFUSION OR SPECIAL TESTING 

Don’t Go Breaking My Heart: Imaging and Prognosis in Takotsubos
Peter Liu, MD 

Imaging for Acute vs Chronic Myocarditis
Matthias Friedrich, MD 

How to Identify the Right and Wrong Patient for Percutaneous Mitral Intervention 
Anita Asgar, MD 

To Revascularize or Not to Revascularize: Imaging for Decision-Making in Ischemic Cardiomyopathy
Lisa Mielniczuk, MD 

PLENARY Q&A 

WORKSHOPS II 

Contemporary Palliative Care in Heart Failure
Caroline McGuinty, MD 

Shared Care Models for Heart Failure: Working with Primary Care
Harriette Van Spall, MD; Shelley Zieroth, MD 

CHFS & SSVQ joint workshop - Internal medicine and cardiology: Leveraging expertise in heart failure care (in French)
Anique Ducharme, MD; Daniel Carrier, MD; Serge Lepage, MD 

Saturday May 11, 2019 

PLENARY SESSION #3: HFpEF AND BEYOND! NOVEL CONCEPTS IN HFpEF AND HFrEF  

Invasive Measurement: The New Gold Standard for Diagnosis of HFpEF?
Susanna Mak, MD

The Nuts and Bolts of Real World Implantable Hemodynamic Monitoring
Brian Clarke, MD 

Managing Fluid, Salt, K+ and Creatinine in Heart Failure or Cardiorenal Syndrome
Serge Lepage, MD 

Rapidfire Update: New Heart Failure Therapies & Late Breaking Trials for HFrEF and HFpEF
Justin Ezekowitz, MB BCh 

PLENARY Q&A 

UNACCREDITED SYMPOSIUM

WORKSHOPS III 

VAD or Transplant for Patients Over 65 
Phyllis Billia, MD 

CCS Guidelines Update: Heart Failure & Atrial Fibrillation(in French)
Eileen O’Meara, MD 

Practical Approaches to Self-Care Management
Karen Harkness, RN PhD; Harleah Buck, RN PhD 

ACCREDITED SYMPOSIUM 

Cardio-Diabetes Crossfire
Shelley Zieroth, MD (Chair); Lori Berard, RN; Eileen O’Meara, MD; Navdeep Tangri, MD 

CHFS & HFSA JOINT SYMPOSIUM: CAN AMYLOID HEART DISEASE BE BEAT? 

When is LVH Not Just LVH? Practical Clinical Algorithms When You Suspect Amyloid
Mazen Hanna, MD 

AL Amyloid: “The Other Guys”
Margot Davis, MD 

When ATTR Gets on Your Nerves: A Primer on ATTR Neurologic Involvement for Cardiologists
Angela Genge, MD 

Promising Therapies on the Horizon for TTR Amyloid
Nowell Fine, MD 

PLENARY Q&A