HF Update 2020

Friday April 17, 2020 

PLENARY SESSION #1: THE HOSPITAL-TO-HOME JOURNEY: FRAUGHT WITH RISK  

Using Big Data to Prevent Hospitalizations 
Heather Ross, MD 

 

Five Things to Consider When Your Patient “Stalls” in Hospital
Jonathan Howlett, MD 

 

Novel Paradigms for Managing Hospital Transitions 
Harriette Van Spall, MD 

 

CHFS HF Pathway: A Practical Approach to Use of Contemporary HF Therapies
Shelley Zieroth, MD 

 

PLENARY #1 Q&A  

 

ACCREDITED SYMPOSIUM

Beyond awareness: How to Diagnose and Treat Hereditary ATTR Amyloidosis in Your Practice
Diego Delgado, MD (Chair); Vera Bril, MD; Margot Davis, MD; Anil Gupta, MD; Serge Lepage, MD 

 

MINI WORKSHOP SERIES #1 

My HFrEF Patient Now Has a Normal Ejection Fraction - What’s Next? 
Nadia Giannetti, MD 

 

Approaches to Managing the Palliative Care Needs of Patients with Heart Failure 
Caroline McGuinty, MD; Rodolfo Pike, RN, NP  

 

Point of Care Ultrasound: Pearls for Heart Failure Management 
Sharon Mulvagh, MD  

 

Apps and Wearables to Keep Track of Your Heart Failure Patient
Abhinav Sharma, MD; Kim Anderson, MD 

 

Saturday April 18, 2020 

PLENARY SESSION #2: HFrEF INTERSECTIONS: WHAT’S NEW? 

The Electric Heart: When to Call Your Friendly Neighborhood Electrician 
Jeff Healey, MD 

 

Identifying Best Responders to Existing Pharmacologic Therapies: The Underestimated World of Biomarkers and Protein Networks
Peter Liu, MD  

 

Heart Stimulation: Classifying the “Tropes” of Heart Failure
Serge Lepage, MD 

 

Health Inequality and Inequity in HF Populations: A call to Action
Mary Walsh, MD 

 

PLENARY #2 Q&A 

 

PLENARY SESSION #3: CHFS & HFSA Joint Plenary
NOVEL CONCEPTS IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF HFpEF

Key “Phenotypes” of HFpEF
Flora Sam, MD 

 

When to Invasively Measure Pressures in HFpEF
Kavita Sharma, MD  

 

Do we Need Sex Specific Heart Failure Diagnostic Criteria?
Eileen O’Meara, MD  

 

HFpEF Mimics and When to Look for Them
Lisa Mielniczuk, MD 

 

PLENARY #3 Q&A 

 

ACCREDITED SYMPOSIUM  

Treating Wild-Type ATTR Cardiac Amyloidosis Today
Nowell M. Fine, MD (Chair); Debra Bosley, RN; Margot Davis, MD; Michael Heffernan, MD; John Pasternak, MD 

 

PLENARY SESSION #4: CHFS & JACC: Joint Plenary 
HOW CAN WE SYNTHESIZE CUTTING-EDGE EVIDENCE IN HEART FAILURE 

JACC: HF - A Top Line Review of Recent Studies Published in JACC
Christopher O’Connor, MD  

 

Are Nurses the Best Way to Translate New Findings to Our Patients?
Nadia Thomson, NP  

 

Late-Breaking Heart Failure Trials 2.0
Justin Ezekowitz, MD 

 

CCS Heart Failure Guidelines REDUX
Michael McDonald, MD; Sean Virani, MD 

PLENARY #4 Q&A 

 

MINI WORKSHOP SERIES #2 

Diabetes for the Disinterested: Practical Tips for Implementing Diabetic Cardiovascular Medications
Robert McKelvie, MD 

 

Frailty Assessment 101
George Heckman, MD 

 

How to Avoid Late Referral for Device Therapy
Anil Gupta, MD; Kiran Sidhu, MD