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Friday, June 27, 2025
Pacific Time

7:00am

Registration/Coffee/Visit Exhibits

7:30-8:10

Coffee and Case Vignettes
Drs. Greenberg, Bhatia, Narezkina and Wilkinson

8:20-9:20

PRODUCT THEATRE I - Breakfast Session - Non-CME
A Near-Complete TTR Stabilizer Intentionally Designed for Patients With ATTR-CM
Speaker: Marcus Anthony (Tony) Urey, MD
Sponsored by: BridgeBio

9:20

Visit Exhibits

9:30

Welcome and Introduction to the 31st Annual San Diego Summer Heart Failure Symposium
Barry Greenberg, MD

SESSION I - The Cardiorenal Liver Metabolic Axis
Pam Taub, MD (Moderator)

9:40-10:00

FEATURED LECTURE I
The Cardiometabolic-Kidney-Liver Syndrome

Pam Taub, MD, FACC

10:00-10:20

GLP-1 Agonists for Treating Obesity and CV Disease
Harpreet Bhatia, MD

10:20-10:40

Novel Approaches for Optimizing Therapy of Dyslipidemia to Reduce CV Risk
Michael Wilkinson, MD

10:40-11:00

Reducing the Risk of Cardiovascular-Kidney Disease with Finerenone
Barry Greenberg, MD

11:00-11:20

Cardiometabolic Disease in Transplant Patients
Antoinette Birs, MD

11:20-11:40

Identifying and Treating Chemotherapy Induced Cardiac Disease
Anya Narezkina, MD

11:40-12:00

Update on Treating Patients with Aortic Stenosis
Gary Ma, MD

12:00-12:20

Audience Q/A
Pam Taub, MD (Moderator)
Drs. Bhatia, Wilkinson, Greenberg, Birs, Narezkina, Ma and Andrew Willeford, PharmD (Panelists)

12:20

Visit Exhibits

12:30-1:30

PRODUCT THEATRE II - Lunch Session - Non-CME
Introduction to AMVUTTRA® (vutrisiran)
Rola Khedraki, MD
Supported by: Alnylam

1:30

Visit Exhibits

Session II - Advances in Treating HFpEF, PAH and Amyloidosis
Marcus Anthony (Tony) Urey, MD (Moderator)

1:45-2:05

Advances in Managing Patients with HFpEF
Hilary Shapiro, MD

2:05-2:25

Defining and Treatment Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) in 2025: What’s the Best Approach?
Nick H. Kim, MD

2:25-2:45

Diagnosing and Treating Amyloidosis: How Do the Experts Do It?
Marcus Anthony (Tony) Urey, MD

2:45

Coffee Break/Visit Exhibits

Session III - Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Jorge Silva Enciso, MD (Moderator)

3:00-3:20

Imaging the Heart to Identify Patients with HCM and Define Risk of Future Events
Albert Hsaio, MD

3:20-3:40

Myosin Inhibitors and Other Novel Approaches for Treating Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Jorge Silva Enciso, MD

3:40-4:00

Gene Therapy for HCM
Barry Greenberg, MD

4:00-4:15

Patient Perspective
HCM Patient - TBD

4:15-4:45

Case Presentation/Audience Participation
Tony Urey (Moderator)
Drs. Shapiro, Silva Enciso, Hsaio, Greenberg, TBD (Panelists)

4:45

Adjourn Day 1


Saturday, June 28

7:00am

Registration Opens

7:30-8:10

Coffee and Case Vignettes
Drs. Greenberg, Wettersten, Elkayam, Heywood

8:20-9:20

PRODUCT THEATRE III - Breakfast Session - Non-CME
Rethinking Hyperkalemia Management in Patients on RAASi Therapy
Speaker: Vicky Kuo, PharmD, BCTXP
Sponsored by: AstraZeneca

9:30

Welcome and Introduction to the 31st Annual San Diego Summer Heart Failure Symposium - Day 2
Barry Greenberg, MD

Session IV - Managing Patients with Heart Failure
Barry Greenberg, MD (Moderator)

9:40-10:10

11th Annual Stanley Lloyd, MD Lecture
Improving the Quality of Care and Outcomes for Heart Failure

Gregg Fonarow, MD

10:10-10:30

Managing Social Determinants That Predispose Patients to Heart Failure
Cheryl Anderson, PhD

10:30-10:45

Selecting Additional Guideline Recommended Therapies That Improve Outcomes
Uri Elkayam, MD

10:45-11:00

Remote Monitoring Using Wearable and Implantable Devices
J Thomas Heywood, MD, FACC

11:00-11:15

New Diuretic Options for Managing Volume Overload
Nicholas Wettersten, MD

11:15-11:30

Cardiac Contractility Modulation
Farshad Raissi, MD

11:30-11:45

Living with Heart Failure: A Patient’s Perspective
Rhonda Monroe

11:45-12:10

Case Presentation and Panel Discussion with Audience Participation
Antoinette Birs, MD (Presenter)
Drs Fonarow, Anderson, Heywood, Elkayam, Wettersten, Raissi, Trina Huynh, PharmD and Rhonda Monroe (Panelists)

12:10

Visit Exhibits

12:20-1:20

PRODUCT THEATRE IV - Lunch Session - Non-CME
hATTR Progression: Addressing Polyneuropathy
Rajeev Mohan, MD
Supported by: AstraZeneca

1:20

Visit Exhibits

1:20-1:45

FOUNDERS LECTURE
Heart Failure - Looking Back and Looking Forward: A 100 year Perspective

Clyde Yancy, MD

Session V - Atrial Fibrillation/Preventing Sudden Cardiac Death/Genetics and Gene Therapy
Kimberly Hong, MD (Moderator)

1:45-2:00

Atrial Fibrillation: Rhythm vs Rate Control? Anticoagulation vs LAA Occlusion?
Jonathan Hsu, MD

2:00-2:15

Preventing Sudden Cardiac Death; Role of Wearable Devices and New ICDs
Fred Han, MD

2:15-2:30

Evaluating and Counseling Patients (and Their Families) with Suspected Genetic Cardiomyopathy
Kimberly Hong, MD

2:30-2:45

Advances in Gene Therapy for Patients with Cardiomyopathy
Barry Greenberg, MD

2:45

Coffee Break/Visit Exhibits

Session VI - Catheter Based Interventions, Shock and Management of Advanced Heart Failure
Hao (Howie) Tran, MD (Moderator)

3:00-3:15

Catheter Based Interventions for Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Disease
Ryan Reeves, MD

3:15-3:30

Recognition and Treatment of Cardiogenic Shock
Hao (Howie) Tran, MD

3:30-3:45

Use of Percutaneous Support Devices to Treat Patients with Shock
Rola Khedraki, MD

3:45-4:00

FEATURED LECTURE II
What’s New in Cardiac Transplant

Marcus Anthony (Tony) Urey, MD

4:00-4:15

Improving Outcomes with LVADs
Mark Kearns, MD

4:15-4:30

Heart Transplant: A Patient Perspective
Speaker TBD

4:30-4:50

Panel Discussion
Dr Howie Tran (Moderator)
Drs. Yancy, Hong, Greenberg, Urey, Khedraki, Kearns, Meghan Philbrick PA, Jade Kozach PharmD (Panelists)

4:50

Adjourn Until 2026 For the 32nd Annual Summer Symposium