Friday May 2, 2025

Sponsored Breakfast Symposium - Beyond the Heart: Multidisciplinary Strategies in hATTR-CM

Sponsored Lunch Symposium - New Frontiers in Reducing CVD Risk

PLENARY SESSION 1: The PEF Era

UNACCREDITED SYMPOSIUM 

Comparing and Contrasting International HFpEF Guidelines
Sean Virani, MD

The Great Mimicker: ATTR Update
Margot Davis, MD

HFpEF: Prevention and Future Paradigms
Marc Pfeffer, MD

Incretin Debate: Hype or Phenotype?
Biykem Bozkurt, MD; Elizabeth Swiggum, MD

ACCREDITED WORKSHOPS

CHFS AAHFN Joint Nursing & Allied Health Workshop - Self Care in Heart Failure: Current State of Heart Failure Education Across Canada and the United States
Wynne Chiu, NP; Stephanie Barnes, NP; Laura Peters, NP; Rodolfo Pike, NP

Strategies for Identifying and Managing Cardiotoxicity in Cancer Treatment
Husam Abdel-Qadir, MD

Early Career and Trainee Workshop: Strategizing with the CHFS Workforce Committee
Aws Almufleh, MD; Phyllis Billia, MD; Michael Rheaume, MD

PLENARY SESSION 2: CHFS & JACC HF: Joint Session - The VAD Era

UNACCREDITED SYMPOSIUM 

JACC HF Top 10 papers of 2023/2024    
Biykem Bozkurt, MD

LVAD Do's and Dont's
Phyllis Billia, MD

ACHD: Options for Advanced Therapies    
Sarah Blissett, MD

AI Debate: Optimus Will "Make" Us or Optimus Will "Break" Us
Robert Avram, MD; Jonathan Howlett, MD

Saturday May 3, 2025

Sponsored Breakfast Symposium - Reshaping Heart Failure: The Role of TEER in Managing Secondary Mitral Regurgitation

Sponsored Lunch Symposium - Fortifying Heart Health: Integrating Iron Management in HF Care

PLENARY SESSION 3: Canadian Heart Failure Society & Heart Failure Association of the ESC (HFA) Joint Session
The REF Era (Master Slides) 

UNACCREDITED SYMPOSIUM 

Beyond the 4 Foundational Therapies
Gianluigi Savarese, MD 

Algorithms for HFrEF care
Harriette Van Spall, MD

Pregnancy and HFrEF
Candice Silversides, MD

Debate - Recovered HF is a myth: (pro) Remove Therapies and Polypharmacy, (con) Keep Therapies
Abhinav Sharma, MD; Justin Ezekowitz, MD

PLENARY SESSION 4: Canadian Heart Failure Society & Heart Failure Society of America Joint Session
The Device Era 

HFSA Scientific Statement: Update on Device Based Therapies
Marat Fudim, MD

Mitral TEER: Evolving Evidence
Stefan Anker, MD

Does ICD eligibility depend on EF alone?
Kiran Sidhu, MD

Debate - Diuretics or Tricuspid Intervention in TR: Moving the Needle
Neil Fam, MD; Anique Ducharme, MD