Heart Rhythm Board Review OnDemand

The Heart Rhythm Society is the international leader in science, education, and advocacy for cardiac arrhythmia professionals and patients and is the primary information resource on heart rhythm disorders. Its mission is to improve the care of patients by promoting research, education, and optimal health care policies and standards.

Program Description

This program contains comprehensive content focused on preparation for the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) certification and recertification examinations in clinical cardiac electrophysiology. For those not preparing for the exam, this course is an excellent update and overview of cardiac electrophysiology

TOPICS

1. abstract

Advanced Mapping, Ablation, and Denervation for Challenging Ventricular Arrhythmias

 

• Intramural Infusion Needle Ablation for Intractable Premature Ventricular Contractions Associated with Ventricular Dysfunction (Presenter: TomofumiNakamura, MD, PhD) (PDF)
• Intramural Infusion Needle Ablation for Intractable Premature Ventricular Contractions Associated with Ventricular Dysfunction (Presenter: TomofumiNakamura, MD, PhD) (Slides
• Direct Epicardial Ablation Plus Intramural Ethanol Injection Via Surgical Approach For The Treatment Of Ventricular Tachycardia Refractory To Combined Epi/endocardial Ablation (Pre …
• Cardiac Sympathetic Denervation In Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy: A Single Center Experience (Presenter: Fabrizio R. Assis, MD)
• Effect Of Activation Wavefront On Electrogram Characteristics During Ventricular Tachycardia Ablation (Presenter: Claire A. Martin, MA, MBBS, PhD)
• Comparison Of Bolus And Continuous Infusion Stellate Ganglion Blocks For Treatment Of Ventricular Tachycardia/fibrillation Storm (Presenter: Nicholas James Abbott, MD)

 

AF Ablation: Faster, Stronger, Better

 

• Performance Of A 3Rd Generation Visually-guided Laser Balloon Catheter For Pulmonary Vein Isolation: Results Of The X3 Study (Presenter: PetrNeuzil, MD)
• Pulmonary Vein Isolation By Irreversible Electroporation: First-in-human Experience (Presenter: PeterLoh, MD, PhD)
• Novel Ultra-low Temperature Cryoablation -Breakthrough Results In The Treatment Of Atrial Fibrillation (Presenter: TomDe Potter, MD, PhD)
• First In Human Experience: Procedural Safety And Efficacy Of A Novel Cryoballoon Pulmonary Vein Ablation System (Presenter: AnteAnic,)
• Pulmonary Vein Isolation Using A Novel Temperature-controlled Irrigated Catheter Delivering High Power / Short Duration (90w / 4 Sec) Lesions: Initial Results Of A First-in-human C …

 

AF and HF: Cardiac Implantable Electronic Device-Based Detection and Treatment

 

• Evaluation Of Subclinical AF As A Marker Of Cardiovascular Events In Patients With Implantable Electronic Cardiac Devices: A Silent Sub Study (Presenter: Ricardo Alkmim Teixeira, M …
• The Impact Of Subclinical Atrial Fibrillation On Device Based Heart Failure Status (Presenter: Jorge A. Wong, MD, MPH)
• Remote Monitoring To Detect Atrial Fibrillation In Patients With Central Retinal Artery Occlusion (Presenter: JenniferWellings, MD)
• Stroke Risk As A Function Of Atrial Fibrillation Duration And Cha2Ds2-vasc Score In 21,799 Patients With Continuous Monitoring (Presenter: Rod S. Passman, MD, …

 

Allied Professional Abstracts: Teaching Case Reports

 

• Hypoglossal Nerve Stimulator Damage with Electrical Cardioversion for Atrial Fibrillation (Presenter: TrevorBonney, MS, PA-C)
• A Shocking Case of Wide Complex Tachycardia (Presenter: Erin E. Flatley, BSN, MSN, NP)
• Treatment Of VT With Verapamil In A Patient With Previous MI Based On An Understanding Of The Mechanism Of VT (Presenter: Nina E. Mirachi, PAC)
• Left Atrial Appendage Thrombus Despite Sinus Rhythm Following Electrical Isolation (Presenter: RobertHipp, MBA, MS, PA)
• Unsuspecting Presentation Of Sudden Cardiac Death In A Young Patient (Presenter: Gerilynn M. Schott, ACNP)
• Prevalence Of Suicide Among Patients With Sudden Death Predisposing Genetic Heart Diseases (Presenter: Michaela J Saunders, BSN)

 

Atrial Fibrillation: Lifestyles Matter

 

• Physical Activity And Risk Of Atrial Fibrillation: A Nationwide Cohort Study In General Population (Presenter: Moo-NyunJin,)
• Prevention Of Atrial Fibrillation In Obese Patients Undergoing Bariatric Surgery: Acase Control Study From California (Presenter: PankajMalhotra,)
• Childhood Tobacco Smoke Exposure and Atrial Fibrillation Risk in Adulthood (Presenter: Christopher A Groh,)
• Cardiovascular Risk Of Energy Drinks: Caffeine And Taurine Promote Ventricular Arrhythmias In A Sensitive Whole-heart Model (Presenter: ChristianEllermann, MD)

 

Atrial Fibrillation: Lifestyles Matter

 

• A Randomized Controlled Trial Of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy In Patients With Prolonged Atrioventricular Interval: The REAL-CRT Pilot Study (Presenter: GiuseppeStabile, MD)
• Comparison Of Measures Of Ventricular Delay At Left Ventricular Pacing Sites On Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Response (Presenter: Michael Eugene Field, MD, FHRS)
• Activation Delay Between Right Ventricular And Left Ventricular Lead Electrodes Strongly Predicts Quadripolar-lead Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Outcomes (Presenter: Haris M. H …
• Electrical Synchronization Achieved By Multipoint Pacing Combined With Dynamic AVD Programming (Presenter: DavidO`Donnell, MBBS)
• Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Improves Hemodynamics In First-degree Atrioventricular Block: An Experimental – Computational Proof Of Principle Study (Presenter: PeterHuntjens, …

 

Challenging Patients: Electrophysiology and Ablation

 

• On The Cusp Of Termination: An Alternative Approach To Target Scar-Related Ventricular Tachycardia In Surgically-Corrected Tetralogy Of Fallot (Presenter: Alexis Z. Tumolo, MD)
• Walking On Thin Ice: Use Of Intracardiac Echocardiography And Remote Navigation For Ablation Within A Pseudoaneurysm (Presenter: Blake E. Fleeman, MD)
• AV Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia In Patients With Twin AV Nodes (Presenter: ChristopherMathis, MD)
• Stereotactic Radiation for Refractory Ventricular Tachycardia Without Noninvasive Activation Mapping (Presenter: JosephDonnelly, MD)
• Usefulness Of Speckle Tracking Echocardiography For Detecting The Origin Of Posterior Papillary Muscle Ventricular Arrhythmia (Presenter: ShinyaYamada, MD)
• Finding The Groove: Use Of Intracardiac Echocardiography (ICE) To Identify The True Atrioventricular (AV) Groove For Accessory Pathway Ablation In Ebstein’s Anomaly (Presenter: Ale …

 

Challenging Patients: Pacemakers and ICDs

 

• A Rare Cause Of Inappropriate Shock Late After Subcutaneous Icd Placement (Presenter: HarpaulSandhu, MD)
• The Power Of Three: An Uncommon Cause Of Atrial Far-field Myopotential Capture (Presenter: Lauren Ashley Rousseau, PAC, CCDS)
• Longterm Experiences With Coating Of Pacemaker And Icd Devices In Patients With Hypersensitivity Against Various Metallic Materials (Presenter: BertHansky, MD)
• The SecuresenseTmAlgorithm Does Not Protect From Inappropriate Therapy In Pacemaker-dependent Patient (Presenter: NicolasWelte,)
• A Knot In The Tether System During Leadless Pacemaker Implantation:Try To Recapture The Device Or Call A Surgeon? (Presenter: PoojitaShivamurthy, MBBS, MD)
• Successful Detection And Defibrillation Of Ventricular Fibrillation (VF) By Subcutaneous ICD During Leadless Ventricular Pacing Despite Failure Of Initial Vector Screening (Present …

 

Challenging Patients: Pacemakers and ICDs

 

• SyncAVTMIs Associated With A Reduced Risk Of Device-detected Atrial Arrhythmias Among Patients Treated With CRT (Presenter: NirajVarma, MD, PhD)
• Cryoablation For Atrial Fibrillation and Systolic Heart Failure. A Comparison With Radiofrequency Ablation (Presenter: SandeepPrabhu, MBBS (Hons))
• The Incidence Of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation In Angiotensin-neprilysin Inhibition As Compared To Angiotensin Inhibition In Reduced Ejection Fraction Patients Under Continuous Re …
• Underutilization of Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy In Heart Failure Patients With Atrial Fibrillation (Presenter: RabahAlreshq, MD)
• Ablation Of Atrial Fibrillation In Heart Failure Patients: Additional Outcomes Of The Cabana Trial (Presenter: Douglas L. Packer, MD, FHRS)

 

Harnessing the Power of New Computational Approaches to Transform Arrhythmia Treatment

 

• A Novel Framework For Performing Biophysically Realistic But Computationally Inexpensive Simulations For Assessment Of Arrhythmia Susceptibility In Patient-specific Models Of The A …
• Defining Architectures Of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (cnn) For Clinically Actionable Analysis Of Complex Af Datasets (Presenter: Mahmood I Alhusseini, BS, MS) (PDF)
• Defining Architectures Of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (cnn) For Clinically Actionable Analysis Of Complex Af Datasets (Presenter: Mahmood I Alhusseini, BS, MS) (Slides)
• Fast Personalized Computer Simulation Of Electrical Activation From CT Imaging In Post-infarction Ventricular Tachycardia (Presenter: NicolasCedilnik, MSci)
• Fast And Accurate Reconstruction Of Transmural Activation Maps From Standard 12-lead ECG Using An Eikonal Model (Presenter: SimonePezzuto, PhD)

 

Individualizing Pacing in the Heart Failure Patient

 

• Clinical benefits Of Left Bundle Branch Pacing In Patients With Left Bundle Branch Block (Presenter: WeijianHuang, MD, FHRS)
• Biventricular Pacing Acutely Improves Right Ventricular Contractility In LVAD Patients (Presenter: Brian Allan Houston,)
• Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy With A Single Left Ventricular Septal Pacing Electrode: Acute Hemodynamic And Electrophysiological Effects (Presenter: FloorSalden, MD)
• Impact of heart size on CRT response in the MultiPointTM Pacing (MPP) IDE Study (Presenter: NirajVarma, MD, PhD)
• Qr-max Index In Cardiac Resynchronization (Presenter: GianniPastore,)

 

Insights and Innovations in Specific Heart Failure Populations

 

• Role Of Arrhythmia Duration On Myocardial Recovery In Patients With Arrhythmia Induced Cardiomyopathy: A Multicenter Study (Presenter: RakeshGopinathannair, MA, MD, FHRS)
• Efficacy Of Transvenous Device Therapies In Patients With LMNA Cardiomyopathy (Presenter: Kirandeep Kaur Sidhu, BPharm, MD, CCDS)
• Targeted Radiofrequency Septal Ablation In Symptomatic Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Outcomes And Observations (Presenter: Andrew D. Beaser, MD)
• Effect Of Preload Reducing Therapy On Right Ventricular Function In Patients With Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy (arvc) (Presenter: ShadiKalantarian,)
• Initial And Subsequent Arrhythmic Events In Patients With Cardiac Sarcoidosis (Presenter: David Robert Okada, MD)
• Infliximab Stabilizes Ejection Fraction and Reduces Ventricular Tachycardia in Refractory Cardiac Sarcoidosis (Presenter: Gurukripa N Kowlgi, MBBS, MD)

 

Learning More About Left Atrial Appendage Closure

 

• Impact Of Left Atrial Appendage Closure On Neurohormones Secretion At Long-term Follow-up (Presenter: XiaomengYin,)
• Left Atrial Appendage Closure Device (Watchman) Utilization In Medicare Patients With Atrial Fibrillation (AF) And Associated Mortality, Re-hospitalizations And Ischemic Stroke (Pr …
• Device Related Thrombosis After Watchman Implantation: Impact Of Post-procedural Anticoagulation (Presenter: Nachiket MadhavApte, MD)
• Clopidogrel Resistance In Patients Undergoing Left Atrial Appendage Closure With The Watchman Device (Presenter: Domenico Giovanni Della Rocca, MD)
• Incidence Of Thrombus In Watchman Patients Prior To Cardioversion (Presenter: James Arthur Mann, MD)

 

 

 

Mapping Atrial Fibrillation and Complex Atrial Flutter

 

• Sorting Through Fractionation: Respective Contribution Of “Classic” Complex Fractionated And “Dispersion” Electrograms To Driver Regions During Atrial Fibrillation (Presenter: Clem …
• Ripple-at Study: A Multicentre And Randomized Study Comparing 3D Mapping Techniques During Atrial Tachycardia Ablations (Presenter: VishalLuther, PhD MRCP)
• Novel DELTA Method For High Resolution Measurement Of Local Activation Time Differences Improves Accuracy Of Local Conduction Velocity Estimation At Small Spatial Scales (Presenter …
• Artificial Intelligence Algorithm-guided Atrial Fibrillation Ablation: Acute Procedural Results In 27 Patients (Presenter: JeromeKalifa, MD)
• Artificial Intelligence Algorithm Fills The Diagnostic Gap For The Ablation Of Challenging Micro-reentrant Tachycardias (Presenter: ClementBars, MD)

 

Mechanistically Based Mapping of Persistent Atrial Fibrillation

 

• Optimal Basket Catheters For Atrial Fibrillation Mapping (Presenter: Bruce H. Smaill, PhD)
• Inter-relationship Of Focal Source And Phase Singularity Uncovered Using Two Independent Analyses Of High Density Epicardial Mapping In Patients With Persistent Atrial Fibrillation …
• Body Surface Atrial Fibrillation Complexity Correlates with Atrial Substrate Electrophysiology and Ablation Impact and Strategy (Presenter: MariannaMeo, PhD)
• Functional Networks Created by Nonsimultaneously Recorded Electrograms Predict Ablation Outcomes of Persistent Atrial Fibrillation (Presenter: SusumuTao, MD, PhD)
• Persistent AF Is The Dominant Driver Of Endomysial Fibrosis In Left But Not Right Human Atrial Appendages: Results From The CATCH ME Consortium (Presenter: JorisWinters,)
• Atrial Fibrillation As A Patchwork Of Organized Zones Whose Area May Predict Termination By Ablation (Presenter: Neal Kumar Bhatia, MD)

 

Novel Genetic Insights in Rare and Common Arrhythmias

 

• Clinical Implications Of Purkinje System Hyperexcitability In Type 3 Long QT Syndrome (Presenter: WalidBarake, MBBCh, MScTMR)
• The Clinical Phenotype And Natural History Of Type 5 Long QT Syndrome (Presenter: Yukiko Yukiko Asaki, MD)
• Effect Of Age And Gender In The Aetiology And Diagnostic Yield Of Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome (Presenter: ElijahBehr, MA, MBBS, MD)
• Genotype And Mutation Specific Risk For Cardiac Events In Women With Congenital Long-qt Syndrome (Presenter: AyhanYoruk, MD, MPH)
• A Genome-wide Investigation Of Arrhythmia Recurrence Following Atrial Fibrillation Ablation (Presenter: Moore B. Shoemaker, MD)

 

Optimal Care and Lost Opportunities In Stroke Reduction

 

 

• Remote Monitoring Alerts For Atrial Fibrillation And Implications For Anticoagulation: A Retrospective Analysis Of A Large Remote Monitoring Cohort (Presenter: CatherineO’Shea, MBB …
• Impact Of Embolic Stroke Events In Patients With New-onset Atrial Fibrillation Detected By Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices (Presenter: MiyoNakano, MD)
• Direct Oral Anticoagulants Are Frequently Under Dosed: A Single Center Experience (Presenter: Alan M Sugrue, MBChB)
• Appropriateness Of Oral Anticoagulation Use In A Contemporary Cohort Of Ambulatory Heart Failure Patients (APACHE-HF) (Presenter: HirmandNouraei,)
• Non-vitamin K Antagonist Oral Anticoagulants In Patients With Non-valvular Atrial Fibrillation And Low Body Weight (Presenter: So-RyoungLee,)

 

Pacing After TAVR and Techniques to Improve CRT Outcomes: When and How?

 

• Risk Prediction Model For Permanent Pacemaker Implantation After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation: An Extraction And Internal Validation In Single High Volume Center Experie …
• Predictors For The Need For New Permanent Pacemaker Implantation After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement With The Edwards-sapien 3 Valve (Presenter: SorooshKiani, MA, MD, MS)
• Utility Of Thirty-day Continuous Ambulatory Monitoring To Identify Patient With Delayed Occurrence Of Atrioventricular Block After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (Presenter … (PDF)
• Utility Of Thirty-day Continuous Ambulatory Monitoring To Identify Patient With Delayed Occurrence Of Atrioventricular Block After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (Presenter … (Slides)
• Electrical Delay Correlation in Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (Presenter: ScottKoerber,)
• Interventional Approach to Left Ventricular Lead Implantation (Presenter: NebuAlexander, MD)
• Feasibility and Safety of Left Bundle Branch Pacing By Transvenous Approach Through The Interventricular Septum In Patients With Left Bundle Branch Block (Presenter: WeijianHuang, …

 

Real-World Experience and Clinic Trial Insights in CRT: What’s New?

 

• Utilization Of Guideline-directed Device Therapies In Heart Failure Patients: A Real-world Analysis Using Electronic Health Record Data (Presenter: Anne B. Curtis, MD, FHRS)
• Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Using Pacemakers Versus Defibrillators In Patients With Non-Ischemic Cardiomyopathy: The United States Experience From 2007 To 2014 (Presenter: Te …
• Response To Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Comparing Quadripolar To Bipolar Left Ventricular Leads In A Prospective Randomized Trial (Presenter: Klaus-JuergenGutleben, MD)
• Multipoint Pacing Demonstrates Superior Long-term Response in Specific Patient Population (Presenter: Christophe I. Leclercq, MD, PhD)
• Left Ventricular Endocardial Pacing: A Direct Comparison Of The Second Generation Of The Novel Wireless CRT System (WiSE-CRT) With The Original System (Presenter: SimonJames, MBBS)

 

 

• Recent Developments in Device Extraction
• Does Shape Matter? Large Vegetations In Device Infections (Presenter: Roger G Carrillo, MBA, MD, FHRS)
• Structured Image Acquisition In Computed Tomography Aid Risk Assessment In Lead Extraction (Presenter: EmmaSvennberg,)
• Correlation Between Lead Location In The Superior Vena Cava via Cardiac CT And Difficulty Of Transvenous Lead Extractions (Presenter: Divyang Rajesh Patel, MD)
• Utility Of Intracardiac Echocardiography In Pacemaker And ICD Lead Extractions: A Single Center Experience (Presenter: Neel Atul Patel, DO)
• Percutaneous Aspiration Of Large Lead Vegetations Facilitates Safe Transvenous Lead Extraction In CIED Infections With Large Lead Vegetations (Presenter: Raymond H. M. Schaerf, MD, …
• Management Of Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices In Patients With Bacteremia And/or Sepsis With Associated Prosthetic Cardiac Valves (Presenter: CalebNorton, MD)

 

Risk Stratification and Outcomes in CRT Patients

 

• Real-world Assessment Of Disparities In The Use Of Guideline-directed Defibrillator Therapy (Presenter: Anne B. Curtis, MD, FHRS)
• Improved Outcomes In Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Patients Following Revision Of The Implant Guidelines (Presenter: AhmadAllaw,)
• Recurring Hospitalizations For Heart Failure During Long-term Follow-up In Madit-crt (Presenter: ElizabethLee, MD)
• Combined Risk Stratification After Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Defibrillators with the Seattle Heart Failure Model and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (Presenter: Kenneth C. Bilch …
• Left Bundle Branch Block Subtype and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Outcomes (Presenter: Kevin Michael Trulock, MD)
• Risk Of Ventricular Tachyarrhythmic Events In Patients Who Improved Beyond Heart Rhythm Society Guidelines For A Defibrillator In MADIT-CRT (Presenter: IlanGoldenberg, MD)

 

Strategies and Tools to Improve Lesion Durability and PVI Ablation Outcomes

 

• Characteristics Of Acute And Chronic Ablation Lesion Using Electroporation Assessed By Magnetic Resonance Imaging And Histology (Presenter: SusumuTao, MD, PhD)
• What Is The Relationship Between Physical Radiofrequency Ablation Parameters And Lesion Metric Indices? Insights From An In-silico Study (Presenter: FelixBourier,)
• Ablation Index Guided High Power 50 W Ablation For Pulmonary Vein Isolation, The Fafa Concept Frankfurt Ablation Index Guided Atrial Fibrillation Ablation (Presenter: ShaojieChen,)
• Efficacy Of The Optimal Ablation Index-targeted Strategy For Pulmonary Vein Isolation In Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: The Optimum Study Results (Presenter: So-RyoungLee,)
• Persistent Atrial Fibrillation Catheter Ablation Outcomes Stratified by Left Atrial Posterior Wall Isolation Lesion Set Characteristics (Presenter: Chirag R. Barbhaiya, MD, FHRS)

 

 

Sudden Arrhythmic Death: Variants and Mechanisms

 

• Case Control Analysis Shows High Burden Of CASQ2 And LMNA Variants In A Large Cohort Of Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome Victims (Presenter: ElijahBehr, MA, MBBS, MD)
• Common Genetic Variation Affects Phenotypic Heterogeneity In A Scn5a-mutation Founder Population (Presenter: AaronIsaacs,)
• Natural And Undetermined Sudden Death: Value Of Post-mortem Genetic Investigation (Presenter: GeorgiaSarquella-Brugada, MD, PhD)
• Established In Vitro Loss-of-Function Variants In ANK2-Encoded Ankyrin B Rarely Cause A Concerning Cardiac Phenotype In Humans (Presenter: John R. Giudicessi, MD, PhD …
• Unraveling How Plakoglobin Docks P85 On Insulin Receptors (InsRs) To Activate PI3 Kinase And How Its Deficits Lead To Metabolic Deregulation In ARVC Hearts (Presenter: ChuanyuWei, …

 

Updates in Pediatric Channelopathies and Sudden Cardiac Death

 

• Electromechanical Window Negativity Identifies Patients With Symptomatic Long QT Syndrome: A Validation Study (Presenter: Alan M Sugrue, MBChB)
• Assessment And Validation Of A Phenotype-Enhanced Variant Classification Framework To Promote Or Demote RYR2 Variants Of Uncertain Significance (Presenter: John R. Giudicess …
• Prevalence Of Triadin Knockout Syndrome In A Multi-Center Molecular Autopsy Cohort Of Sudden Unexplained Death In The Young (Presenter: Daniel J Clemens, BS)
• Management Strategies And Outcomes Of Signature Long QT Syndrome Arrhythmia Presenting In The Perinatal Period: A Multicenter Registry Study (Presenter: DanielleHarake,)
• Prospective Countywide Surveillance And Autopsy Characterization Of Sudden Death In The Young: San Francisco POST SDY Study (Presenter: Zian H. Tseng, MD)

 

What’s New in Atrial Fibrillation: New Methodologies, New Players, and New Therapies

 

• Enhanced â1 Adrenergic Receptor Autoantibodies Levels Are Associated With Atrial Fibrillation And Atrial Structural Remodeling (Presenter: LingZhang, MD, PhD)
• Novel Role Of Stress-response Kinase C-jun N-terminal Kinase (jnk) In Inflammatory Bowel Disease-associated Atrial Fibrillation (Presenter: JiajieYan, MS, PhD)
• Development Of Omt-28, A Small Molecule Targeting Intracellular Ca2+-handling And Mitochondrial Function, For Rhythm Control In Atrial Fibrillation Patients: Scientific …
• First In Vivo High Resolution Near-infrared Optical Mapping of Sinus Rhythm And Atrial Fibrillation In A Large Animal Model (Presenter: NingLi, MD, PhD)

 

What’s New With Leadless Pacemakers and Defibrillators

 

• Leadless Pacing. Going For The Jugular (Presenter: ShmailaSaleem-Talib, MD)
• Feasibility Of Leadless Pacemakers Across Bioprosthetic Or Repaired Tricuspid Vlave: A Multicenter Experience (Presenter: M. Rizwan Rizwan Afzal, MD)
• Complications Involving The S-ICD: Lessons Learned From Maude (Presenter: Emily P. Zeitler, MD, MHS)
• A Novel Tube-exercise Test Predicts Inappropriate Shocks From Myopotentials From The Subcutaneous Implantable Cardioverter-defibrillator (Presenter: YujiISHIDA, MD, PhD)
• Qrs Duration And Device Performance After Apical Versus Non-apical Leadless Pacemaker (micra Tps) Implantation (Presenter: ChristopheGarweg, M.D.)

 

2. Abstract Plus

Allied Professionals and Clinical Research

 

• Post- Atrial Fibrillation Ablation (AFA) Protocol Adherence And Its Impact On Reporting And Management Of Symptoms, Concerns And Complications (Presenter: Linda K. Ottoboni, CNS, D …
• Correspondence Between Left Atrial Size Estimated By Echocardiography, CT And Electroanatomical Mapping In Patients With Atrial Fibrillation (Presenter: ZdenkaFingrova, MSci)
• Use Of Heart Rate To Guide Exercise Training Intensity In Patients With Atrial Fibrillation (Presenter: Christian V Verdicchio, BAPPSC)
• Syncope Patients’ Perspective On Accessing Emergency Services (Presenter: MaryRunte, MBA, PhD)
• Association Between Physical Activity, Aerobic Fitness And Incident Af: A Longitudinal Analysis From The Uk Biobank Cohort (Presenter: Adrian D. Elliott, PhD)
• Abstract Commentator (Presenter: Robert Hipp, MBA, MS, PA)

 

 

Arrhythmias Following CHD Surgery

 

• Genome-wide Association Study Of Atrial Tachycardia After Congenital Heart Surgery Identifies Novel Susceptibility Loci (Presenter: Prince J. Kannankeril, MD, MS, FHRS, CEPS-P)
• The Effect Of Chromosomal Abnormalities On Postoperative Arrhythmias After Congenital Heart Surgery (Presenter: Prince J. Kannankeril, MD, MS, FHRS, CEPS-P) (PDF)
• The Effect Of Chromosomal Abnormalities On Postoperative Arrhythmias After Congenital Heart Surgery (Presenter: Prince J. Kannankeril, MD, MS, FHRS, CEPS-P) (Slides)
• Validation And Utility Of A Novel Mapping System In Ablation Of Complex Arrhythmias In Adult Congenital Heart Disease: A Multi Centre Uk Study (Presenter: VinitSawhney, MD)
• Right Ventricular Pacing After Ventricular Septal Defect Closure Is Associated With The Development Of Cardiac Dysfunction (Presenter: Taylor Stewart Howard, MD)
• The Impact Of Ventricular Pacing In The Single Ventricle Patient: Multi-Center International Study (Presenter: HenryChubb, MA, MBBS, PhD)

 

 

Catheter Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia

 

• A Novel Irrigated Temperature-Controlled Lattice Ablation Catheter for Deep Ventricular Substrate: A Preclinical Biophysical Characterization (Presenter: AyeletShapira-Daniels, MD)
• Infusion Needle Radiofrequency Ablation For Treatment Of Refractory Ventricular Tachycardia In Non-ischemic Cardiomyopathy Patients: A Case-control Study (Presenter: Amir M. AbdelW …
• Improvements in Ablation Volume and Radiation Delivery Over Time Using Noninvasive Cardiac Radioablation for Ventricular Tachycardia (Presenter: PamelaSamson, MD)

 

 

 

Exploring the ECG in AF

 

• Congruence Of Non-invasively And Invasively Located Sites Of Maximal Dominant Frequency In Atrial Fibrillation (Presenter: MiguelRodrigo, PhD)
• Deep Learning Algorithm For Atrial Fibrillation Detection Based On Single Beat Morphology (Presenter: Sarah W.E Baalman, MD)
• Prognostic Implication Of Selvester QRS Scoring In Patients With Atrial Fibrillation And Heart Failure Undergoing Catheter Ablation: Predictive Appraisal For Recovery Of Cardiac Fu …
• Left Atrial Deformation Is Associated With Risk Of Adverse Cardiovascular Events In AF Patients ≤75 Years (Presenter: Jo-NanLiao, MD)
• Abnormal P-wave Indices Are Associated With Incident Dementia Independent Of Atrial Fibrillation And Ischemic Stroke: The Atherosclerosis Risk In Communities (aric) Study (Presente …
• Abstract Commentator (Presenter: Peter J. Zimetbaum, MD, FHRS)

 

 

Heritable Arrhythmias in Children

 

• Left Cardiac Sympathetic Denervation (LCSD) Monotherapy In Patients With Long Qt Syndrome (LQTS) (Presenter: Johan M Bos, MD, PhD)
• Pore-localizing Pathogenic Variants In The KCNQ1-encoded Kv7.1: A Novel Risk Factor For Patients With Type 1 Long Qt Syndrome (Presenter: Ram K Rohatgi,)
• Lone? Atrial Fibrillation: A Multi-institutional Retrospective PACES Collaborative Study (Presenter: BenjaminHammond, MD)
• Outcomes Of Genetic Testing By Era In A Large Academic Center: Increasing Variants Of Unknown Significance (Presenter: Christopher W. Follansbee, MD)
• Prevalence And Phenotypic Correlations Of Calmodulinopathy-Causative CALM1-3 Variants Detected In A Multi-Center Molecular Autopsy Cohort Of Sudden Unexplained Death Victims …
• Abstract Commentator (Presenter: Dominic J Abrams, MBBS, MD)

 

Innovations and Best Practices for AF Ablation

 

• Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Using Pulsed Electric Fields: Acute Effect And Mri (Presenter: PierreJais, MD)
• Rapid Pulmonary Vein Isolation Using An Irrigated Temperature-controlled Lattice Ablation Catheter: A First-in-human Clinical Experience (Presenter: Vivek Y. Reddy, MD)
• Mapping And Localization Of The Left Phrenic Nerve During Left Atrial Appendage Electrical Isolation (Presenter: JorgeRomero, MD, FHRS)
• Long-term Durability Of Posterior Wall Isolation In Conjunction With Pulmonary Vein Ablation Using The Cryoballoon In Patients With Persistent Atrial Fibrillation: Outcomes From A …
• Impact Of Age On Outcome Of Atrial Fibrillation Ablation In The CABANA Trial (Presenter: Tristram D. Bahnson, MD, FHRS)
• Abstract Commentator (Presenter: Stavros Stavrakis, MD, PhD)

 

Innovations in ECG Diagnosis and Novel EP Maneuvers

 

 

• Differentiating Atrioventricular Reentry Tachycardia and AV Node Reentry Tachycardia Using Premature His Bundle Complexes (Presenter: Benzy J. Padanilam, MD, FHRS)
• Prognostic Value Of Bundle Branch Block In Primary Care Patients From An Electronic Cohort: The Code Study (Presenter: Gabriela Miana de Mattos Paixao,)
• The “Double Transition”: A Distinctive Ecg Pattern To Identify Manifest Posteroseptal Accessory Pathways Successfully Ablated On The Right Side And Outside The Coronary Sinus (Pres …
• Discerning The Health Of The Left Bundle Branch and Left Ventricular Function From The Surface ECG In Patients With Right Bundle Branch Block: A Pilot Study (Presenter: Behzad B. P …
• A Novel Electrocardiographic Risk Score For New-onset Atrial Fibrillation (Presenter: AdrianBaranchuk, MD, FACC, FRCPC, FCCS)
• Abstract Commentator (Presenter: Steven M. Markowitz, MD, FHRS)

 

Technological Advances in Devices Facilitating Personalized Patient Management

 

• Multiparametric Analysis of Device Based Physiological Sensors May Identify ICD Patients Reacting Adversely to Right Ventricular Pacing (Presenter: NirajVarma, MD, PhD)
• Personalized Virtual Hearts Improve Sudden Cardiac Death Risk Stratification in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (Presenter: RyanO’Hara, BS)
• Artificial Neural Network Algorithm Improves Atrial Fibrillation Detection (Presenter: MarkRichards, MD, PhD, FHRS)
• Seismocardiographic Detection Of Cardiac Systolic Time Intervals : Validation Study With Transthoracic Echo (Presenter: SathishReddy, MBBS)
• The Quality Of Smartphone Based Heart Rhythm Monitoring Using Ppg Technology In A Large-scale Free-living Setting (Presenter: LarsGrieten,)
• Abstract Commentator (Presenter: Eric M. Grubman, MD, FHRS)

 

Things That Can Go Wrong With Implanted Pacemakers and Defibrillators

 

• Radiation Induced Malfunction In Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices (Presenter: AminZagzoog, MBBS, CCDS)
• Radiotherapy-induced Malfunctions On Contemporary Implantable Cardioverter-defibrillators: A Real-time, In-vitro Evaluation (Presenter: EnricoDi Girolamo,) (PDF)
• Radiotherapy-induced Malfunctions On Contemporary Implantable Cardioverter-defibrillators: A Real-time, In-vitro Evaluation (Presenter: EnricoDi Girolamo,) (Slides)
• Body Scanners Do Not Affect The Functionality Of Implanted Pacemakers Or Defibrillators: A Cross Sectional In-vivo Study (Presenter: CarstenLennerz, MD, MSci)

 

 

Update on Pediatric Pacemakers and ICDs

 

• Subcutaneous Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators In Pediatrics And Congenital Heart Disease: An International Multi-center Review (Presenter: Johannes C. Von Alvensleben, MD, C …
• Safety And Efficacy Of Transvenous Lead Extraction In The Pediatric And Congenital Population In The Recent Era (Presenter: Tam DanPham, MD)
• The Impact Of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Upon Transplant-free Survival In Pediatric And Congenital Heart Disease (Presenter: HenryChubb, MA, MBBS, PhD)
• His Bundle Pacing In Congenital Complete Heart Block: A Feasible And Safe Pacing Option (Presenter: Vivak M Master, MD)
• Predicting Defibrillation Thresholds In Infants And Children With Non Transvenous Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators – Can Serial Dft Testing Be Avoided? (Presenter: Matthias …

 

3. Allied Professionals Forum

Clinical EP Laboratory Techniques and Interpretations Arrhythmia Mechanisms and EGM Interpretation – Part I

 

• Understanding Our History: The Rapid Evolution of Electrophysiology from Mechanistic Investigation to Major Clinical Therapies (Presenter: Melvin M. Scheinman, MD, FHRS)
• “Burn It In Your Brain!” – Key ECG Patterns that Help Discern Arrhythmia Mechanisms and Anatomical Relationships (Presenter: Scott J. Cox, MS, PAC, CEPS, CCDS)
• The Diagnostic EP Study – Initial EGM Interpretation and Conduction System Characterization (Presenter: Jonathan W Waks, MD)
• Induction of Sustained Tachycardia During EPS: Step-wise Approach for Identifying the Differential Diagnoses (Presenter: Samir F. Saba, MD, FHRS)

 

 

 

Clinical EP Laboratory Techniques and Interpretations Catheter Ablation of Atrial Arrhythmias – Part II

 

• AF Ablation in 2019 and Beyond: Review of Current Strategies and Promising Future Directions (Presenter: Kirstan Clay-Weinfeld, BSN, MSN, ACNP, CCRN)
• “Collateral Damage” During AF Ablation: How Do we Minimize Risk and Maximize Therapeutic Benefit? (Presenter: Erin E. Flatley, BSN, MSN, NP)
• Reversing AF Disease by Lifestyle Management: Current Role and Potential Implications for Timing and Recommendation of AF Ablation (Presenter: Melissa E. Middeldorp,)

 

 

Clinical EP Laboratory Techniques and Interpretations Catheter Ablation of Ventricular Arrhythmias – Part III

 

• Evolution of VT Ablation – What Have We Learned and Where Are We Going? (Presenter: Cory M. Tschabrunn, PhD, CEPS)
• VT Ablation Pre-procedure Planning: Role of Imaging, Hemodynamic Support, and Special Considerations (Presenter: Erica S. Zado, PAC, FHRS)
• Approaching Current Challenges in VT Mapping and Ablation: Lesion Enhancement Techniques (Presenter: Wendy S. Tzou, MD, FHRS)

 

 

Contemporary Review of the Management of Patients With Cardiac Devices From Implant to the Clinic – Part I

 

• “To Implant, or not to Implant, that is the question” – Current Limitations of ICD Implantation Guidelines (Presenter: Christian S. Yacono, MHS, PAC, CCDS)
• Overview of Peri-operative Strategies to Avoid Device Infections in the EP Lab (Presenter: Michael Carlozzi, BSN)
• Evaluation and Management of the CRT Non-Responder (Presenter: Rutuke K. Patel, PAC)
• Indications, Implant Strategies, and Evolving Role of His Bundle Pacing (Presenter: Gopi Dandamudi, MD, FHRS)
• Is This Pocket Infected? Assessment and Management of the Subtle Presentations (Presenter: Robert D Schaller, DO)

 

 

Contemporary Review of the Management of Patients With Cardiac Devices From Implant to the Clinic – Part II

 

• “To Implant, or not to Implant, that is the question” – Current Limitations of ICD Implantation Guidelines (Presenter: Christian S. Yacono, MHS, PAC, CCDS)
• Overview of Peri-operative Strategies to Avoid Device Infections in the EP Lab (Presenter: Michael Carlozzi, BSN)
• Evaluation and Management of the CRT Non-Responder (Presenter: Rutuke K. Patel, PAC)
• Indications, Implant Strategies, and Evolving Role of His Bundle Pacing (Presenter: Gopi Dandamudi, MD, FHRS)
• Is This Pocket Infected? Assessment and Management of the Subtle Presentations (Presenter: Robert D Schaller, DO)

 

 

Contemporary Review of the Management of Patients With Cardiac Devices From Implant to the Clinic – Part III

 

• Overview of Current Implantable Loop Recorders and Implantation/Programming Techniques (Presenter: James Armstrong, PAC)
• Management of Device/Lead Advisories and Recalls (Presenter: Paul Kohanski, CCRC, CNP, CRNP, FHRS, CCDS)
• Remote Monitoring Best Practices To Maximize Patient / Provider Compliance (Presenter: Amy Kleinhans, DNP, NP, CEPS)
• Shared Decision Making Strategies for CIEDs (Presenter: Lori Harvey, CCNS, CNS, CCDS)

 

 

Multidisciplinary Care of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Patient – Part I

 

• Approaching the Patient with Syncope (Presenter: James Armstrong, PAC)
• Wide Complex Tachycardia: Differentiating VT from SVT with Aberration (Presenter: Jose A. Joglar, MD, FHRS)
• Remote Monitoring: Best Practice (Presenter: Stacy M. Poe, MS, MSN, ANP)
• ECGs & SCD Risk: Patterns That You Need to Recognize (Presenter: Stephanie Toth, ACNP)
• Autonomic Dysfunction: Treating the Refractory Patient (Presenter: Jill L Schaeffer, MSN, CRNP, FHRS, CEPS, CCDS)

 

Multidisciplinary Care of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Patient – Part II

 

• 2019 EP Guideline and Consensus Update (Presenter: Christopher X Wong, MBBS, MPH, MS, PhD)
• 2019 EP Pharmacologic Update (Presenter: Kristen B. Campbell, PharmD)
• AF Management: Streamlining Care to Optimize Outcomes (Presenter: Jill L Schaeffer, MSN, CRNP, FHRS, CEPS, CCDS)

 

 

Multidisciplinary Care of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Patient – Part III

 

• Genetics for the EP Provider: Who, What Test and How to Interpret (Presenter: Benjamin Helm, MS)
• Device Management During End of Life: How to Start the Discussion (Presenter: John M. Mandrola, MD)
• EP Patient Restrictions: What’s Necessary and What’s Not (Presenter: Aileen M. Ferrick, PhD, ACNP, RN, FHRS)
• Device Diagnostics: Tools to Optimize Patient Outcomes (Presenter: Laurel Kay Racenet, MSN, FNP, FHRS, CEPS, CCDS)

 

4. Basic Translational Science Forum

Omics, Informatics and Population Science Big Data Analysis to Study Heart Rhythm – Session 1

 

• Douglas P. Zipes Lectureship: Probing Sudden Cardiac Death in the Community: Learn Today, Deploy Tomorrow (Presenter: Sumeet S. Chugh, MD, FHRS)
• Electronic Medical Records, Phenotype Risk Scores and the Genetic Causes of Common Rhythm Disorders (Presenter: Dan M. Roden, MD, FHRS)

 

Omics, Informatics and Population Science Big Data Analysis to Study Heart Rhythm – Session 2

 

• Omics, Arrhythmias and the Metabolism of the Heart (Presenter: BrianO’Rourke, PhD)
• A Proteomics Approach to the Study of Ion Channel Complexes (Presenter: Alicia Lundby, PhD) (PDF)
• A Proteomics Approach to the Study of Ion Channel Complexes (Presenter: Alicia Lundby, PhD) (Slides)

 

Omics, Informatics and Population Science Big Data Analysis to Study Heart Rhythm – Session 3

 

• GWAS of Electrocardiographic Parameters: From Genes to the ECG (Presenter: AravindaChakravarti, PhD) (PDF)
• GWAS of Electrocardiographic Parameters: From Genes to the ECG (Presenter: AravindaChakravarti, PhD) (Slides)
• Towards a Fully Automated MRI-Based Reconstruction of the Left Atrial Cavity (Presenter: Jichao Zhao, PhD)

 

 

 

5. Case Based Tutorial

Approaches to Previously Failed Ablation of Ventricular Arrhythmias

 

• Historical Perspective on the Evolution of the Approach to VT Ablation (Presenter: David J. Wilber, MD, FHRS, CCDS)
• Recurrent Ventricular Arrhythmias Arising from the Papillary Muscles (Presenter: Rajeev Kumar Pathak, MBBS, PhD, FHRS)
• Approach to the Challenging VF Ablation (Presenter: Matthew M. Zipse,)
• Strategies for Ablation of Recurrent LV Summit Arrhythmias (Presenter: Pasquale Santangeli, MD, PhD)
• Intramyocardial Substrate Mapping and Ablation (Presenter: Usha B. Tedrow, MD, MS, FHRS)
• Challenges Encountered with Mapping and Ablation of Epicardial Ventricular Arrhythmias – How We Have Evolved? (Presenter: David J. Callans, MD, FHRS, CCDS)

 

Atrial Fibrillation The Value of Prevention Versus Treatment

 

• AF Management in 2019: Review of Current Treatment Guidelines (Presenter: Erica S. Zado, PAC, FHRS)
• Risk Factor Modification: Can It Really Prevent or Reverse AF? (Presenter: Melissa E. Middeldorp,)
• Incorporating Risk Factor Management & Education into Your AF Clinic: The Adelaide Experience (Presenter: Celine Gallagher, BSN)
• Incorporating Risk Factor Management & Education into Your AF Clinic: The Penn Experience (Presenter: AmaryahYaeger, BSN, RN)

 

Beyond Guideline Based Therapy or Not Complexities of Clinical Care Continuum

 

• Patient with an acute anterior MI and severe LV dysfunction with PVCs? Wearable external defibrillator bridge or not? (Presenter: Huagui Li, MD, PhD)
• Patient With Complete Heart Block and Cardiac Sarcoidosis — PPM or ICD (Presenter: Raphael Martins, MD)
• Post TAVR heart block? Temporary pacing wire and wait or Permanent Pacemaker? (Presenter: Michael C. Giudici, MD, FHRS)
• PET Positive Myocarditis with Recurrent NSVT — WED or ICD? (Presenter: Sanjeev Saksena, MBBS, MD, FHRS)
• NICM Patient with an EF of 30% & RBBB and Preexisting VVI ICD — CRT Upgrade or Not? (Presenter: Mark H. Schoenfeld, MD, FHRS, CCDS)

 

Cardiac Resynchronization Expert Solutions for Tough Cases

 

• Tricks to Place the Difficult LV Lead (Presenter: Uma N Srivatsa, MBBS, MS, FHRS)
• The Endocardial LV Option for CRT (Presenter: Jaimie Manlucu, MD)
• Failed CS lead positioning – Rescue His Bundle pacing? (Presenter: Ahran Arnold, MBBS)
• Is surgical LV Epicardial Lead Still an Option for CS lead failures -long term performance and new techniques (Presenter: Justin Van Meeteren, DO)
• Role of Speckled Tracking and Nuclear Imaging in Identifying an Appropriate Site for LV Lead Placement (Presenter: Christopher Piorkowski, MD)
• Future of CRT pacing (Presenter: Ali Oto, MD, FHRS)

 

Comprehensive Approach to Evaluation of At-Risk Youth for SCD

 

• When Syncope is a Red Flag, Not Just a Red Herring (Presenter: Melissa Olen, MSN)
• A Needle in the Haystack: The Yield of Testing in SUDS (Presenter: Brynn E. Dechert, APN, FHRS, CCDS)
• Role and Interpretation of Genetic Testing (Presenter: Heather M. Macleod, MS)
• Preparing the Patient and Family for Lifestyle Modifications after SUDS (Presenter: ShannonHourigan, PhD)

 

Critical Management Issues in Cardiomyopathy Patients From Quality of Life to SCD Prevention

 

• Impact of ICD on Quality of life in CMP patients (Presenter: Daniel B. Kramer, MD, MPH)
• Management of ARVC Families: From Genetic Counseling to Arrhythmia Treatment Options (Presenter: Rhea C. Pimentel, MD, FHRS)
• After the DANISH Trial: Older DCMP Patients Don’t Need an ICD? (Presenter: Cara N. Pellegrini, MD, FHRS)
• Evolution of Risk Stratification in HCM — What Have We Learned Over the Past 40 Years? (Presenter: Barry J. Maron, MD)

 

Cutting-Edge Techniques for Expanding Indications Show Me How to Do It

 

• Implantable Device Therapy to Treat Sleep Apnea in the Heart Failure Patient (Presenter: Ralph Sayre Augostini, MD, FHRS)
• Leadless Endocardial Pacing for the Failing Heart: How Best to Do It? (Presenter: Timothy Betts, MD)
• Ablating AF in HF: How to Use Either a Hot or a Cold Balloon? (Presenter: Hiro Yamasaki, MD)
• Cardiac Contractility Modulation: What Does it Really Do? (Presenter: Lynne Warner Stevenson, MD)
• His Bundle Pacing for the HF Patient with LBBB: Show Me How to Do It! (Presenter: Gopi Dandamudi, MD, FHRS)

 

From the ECG to the Diagnosis How to Squeeze out All the Information Contained

 

• SVT vs. VT — How Can the Surface ECG Help? (Presenter: Melvin M. Scheinman, MD, FHRS)
• Use of Signal Averaged ECG In Predicting VT Recurrence After ARVC Ablation (Presenter: Shih-Ann Chen, MD)
• Use of the ECG in Diagnosing Atypical Atrial Flutter (Presenter: Sanjay Dixit, MD, FHRS)
• ECG Risk Stratification in Brugada Syndrome (Presenter: Pier D. Lambiase, MBChB, FHRS)

 

Heart Failure and Arrhythmia A Sinister Alliance

 

• Heart Failure and Arrhythmias: The Chicken or the Egg? A Historical Perspective (Presenter: Brian Olshansky,)
• Device-Detected Sub-Clinical Atrial Fibrillation and the Risk of Heart Failure (Presenter: Jorge A. Wong, MD, MPH)
• Heart Failure and Atrial Fibrillation: Rate or Rhythm Control (Presenter: Nassir F. Marrouche, MD, FHRS)
• Heart Failure and Conduction Delay/Bradycardia (Presenter: Martin Stockburger,)
• Heart Failure and Ventricular Arrhythmias (Presenter: Suneet Mittal, BA, MD, FHRS)

 

I Am Actually Glad I Got That Curbside Consult

 

• Chair (Presenter: Robin L. Clegg, MD)
• When Chest Pain Matters (Presenter: Andrew D. Blaufox, MD, FHRS, CEPS-P)
• Does This V2 Look Funny? (Presenter: Maria Cecilia Gonzalez,)
• Glad I Took a Second Look Before I Signed That Sports Release Form (Presenter: Santiago O. Valdes, MD)
• Sinus Tachycardia in a 16 Year Old. Or Is It? (Presenter: Ulrich Krause, MD)
• When Second Degree Heart Block Matters (Presenter: Richard J. Czosek, MD, CCDS)
• Is This Really Just a Sinus Pause? (Presenter: Svjetlana Tisma-Dupanovic, MD, FHRS, CCDS, CEPS-P)
• Panelist (Presenter: Jeffrey M. Vinocur, MD, CEPS-P)

 

 

Managing Arrhythmias in Special Heart Failure Populations

 

• Recurrent Atrial Fibrillation Following Ablation in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (Presenter: Ravi Ranjan, MD, PhD, FHRS)
• PVCs in ARVC/AC (Presenter: Harikrishna Tandri, MD)
• Syncope in Cardiac Amyloid (Presenter: Kristen K. Patton, MD, FHRS)
• SCD Prevention in Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot (Presenter: PaulKhairy, MDCM, PhD)
• Ventricular Arrhythmias in Cardiac Sarcoid (Presenter: William H. Sauer, MD, FHRS, CCDS)

 

Managing Challenging Anatomy During Transvenous Device Implantation

 

• Upgrading, But Vein Occluded With Indwelling Leads? Extract One, Implant Two! (Presenter: peter paul Delnoy, MD, PhD)
• Past Infections, Mastectomies, Dialysis Catheters, etc.: Evidence For and Against Safety of Device Implantation in These Settings. (Presenter: Charles J. Love, MD, FHRS, CCDS)
• Subtotal Venous Occlusion at Implant? Venoplasty to the Rescue! (Presenter: Eugen C. Palma, MD, FHRS)
• “Railing” the Guidewire with a Snare to Improve LV Lead Delivery (Presenter: Gregory E. Supple, MD, FHRS)
• Device implant challenges presented by persistent left superior vena cava and other congenital veinous abnormalities (Presenter: Yash Lokhandwala,)

 

 

My Patient’s Clinical Care at Crossroads! What Do I Do About This Device?

 

• My Permanent AF Patient with Severe Pulmonary Regurgitation Needs a PM? Leadless or Conventional? (Presenter: Jayanthi N. Koneru, MBBS, CCDS)
• My Pacemaker Dependent Destination LVAD Patient’s ICD Generator is at ERI! Generator Replacement or Downgrade to a PM? (Presenter: Chandra S. Bomma, MD)
• My Leadless Pacemaker Patient Has Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis! Extract the Device or Not? (Presenter: MichaelGlickson, MD)
• My SICD DFTs are High! Change to Transvenous Device or Reposition the Defibrillation Lead? (Presenter: Theofanie Mela, MD)
• My Patient Needs a VVI Pacemaker Post AVN Ablation! Leadless or Conventional Device? (Presenter: Mohit K. Turagam, MD)
• My CRT Patient Had No Good CS Branches! LV Epicardial Lead or His Bundle Lead? (Presenter: Gerald V. Naccarelli, MD, FHRS)

 

Navigating the Difficult SVT Tips From Experts

 

• Chair (Presenter: Melvin M. Scheinman, MD, FHRS) (PDF)
• Chair (Presenter: Melvin M. Scheinman, MD, FHRS) (Slides)
• The Difficult ANVRT Ablation (Presenter: Bradley P Knight, MD, FHRS)
• Unusual Accessory Pathways (Presenter: Warren M. Jackman, MD, FHRS)
• Ablation of High-Risk Accessory Pathways Near the AV Node (Presenter: Gregory F. Michaud, MD, FHRS)
• Approach to Patients with Multiple SVTs (Presenter: George J. Klein, MD)

 

 

New Options for the Pharmacological Treatment of Arrhythmias

 

• Ivabradine: Is it Finally Helpful? (Presenter: MarkusMeyer, MD)
• After the RAID: Ranolazine as an Antiarrhythmic Drug (Presenter: Wojciech Zareba, MD, PhD)
• Take a Deep Breath! Inhaled Drugs for Arrhythmia Termination (Presenter: Bruce S. Stambler, MD, FHRS)
• Back Into the Future: Introducing Quinidine for Cardiac Arrhythmia Treatment (Presenter: Zachary Laksman, MD, MS)

 

Pacing Strategies for Heart Failure A 2019 Update

 

• CRT Upgrade for RV Pacing Induced Cardiomyopathy: Predicting and Optimizing Response (Presenter: David S. Frankel, MD, FHRS)
• Multipoint Pacing: Who is Likely to Benefit and When to Use? (Presenter: Christophe I. Leclercq, MD, PhD)
• LV Endocardial Pacing to Achieve Resynchronization: Who Needs It and Where to Place the Lead? (Presenter: Christopher A. Rinaldi, MD, FHRS)
• When Should We Consider HIS Bundle Pacing for CRT (Presenter: Parikshit S. Sharma, MD, MPH, FHRS)
• Dyssynchrony and Pacing Induced Cardimyopathy: Mechanisms and Predictors (Presenter: Bernard Thibault,)

 

Persistent Atrial Fibrillation What Are the Targets Beyond the PV Sleeves

 

• Where We Have Come From in Mapping AF (Presenter: Andrea Natale, MD, FHRS)
• Posterior Wall Isolation in Non-Paroxysmal AF. Techniques, Energy Sources (RFA/Cryo), and Supportive Clinical Data (Presenter: Arash Aryana, MD, FHRS)
• Spectrum of Atrial Arrhythmias Using the Ligament/Vein of Marshall in Patients with AF. Technique and Acute Effects and Long Term Outcomes of Alcohol Ablation. (Presenter: Miguel V …
• Organized Activity in AF. Techniques, Endpoint, and Evidence Behind Techniques Across Centers. (Presenter: Jonathan M. Kalman, MBBS, PhD, FHRS)
• Atrial Substrate Ablation for AF. Preprocedural Imaging, Quantification of Atrial Fibrosis, Techniques and Outcomes (Presenter: Rong Bai, MD, FHRS)
• LAA Arrhythmogenesis and Electrical Isolation: How to Perform and Report Outcomes (Presenter: Jorge Romero, MD, FHRS)

 

Prevention, Identification, and Treatment of EP Procedural Complications

 

• Overview of EP and Device Related Complications and Identifying High Risk Patients (Presenter: Nancy Duran, FNP, NP)
• Clinical Recognition and Treatment of Procedural Complications (Presenter: Justina Antonio, PA)
• Procedural Techniques and Strategies to Help Improve Procedural Safety (Presenter: Scott J. Cox, MS, PAC, CEPS, CCDS)

 

 

 

 

 

Sports in Arrhythmia Patients Therapeutic or Damaging

 

• How Should I Advise My Patient with Newly Diagnosed ARVC About Exercise? (Presenter: Cynthia A. James, MS, PhD)
• My Patient with Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation Wants to Ride in a 100 Mile Bike Race. What should I tell him/her? (Presenter: LluisMont, MD)
• Young Athletes with Asymptomatic WPW: When Does it Get Dangerous? (Presenter: CorradoDi Mambro, MD)

 

 

The Difficult Mitral Isthmus Ablation – Aren’t They All

 

• Anterior Versus Posterior Mitral Line: Pick your Poison (Presenter: Changsheng Ma, MD, FHRS)
• Ethanol Infusion in the Vein of Marshall to Facilitate Mitral Isthmus ablation (Presenter: Miguel Valderrabano, MD)
• Whoops! — I Isolated The Left Atrial Appendage, Now What? (Presenter: Christopher R. Ellis, MD, FHRS)

 

6. Complication Theater

 

Current and Future Technologies to Make Catheter Ablation Safer

 

• Seeing Is Believing: ICE and Vascular Ultrasound to Avoid Complications (Presenter: Fermin C. Garcia, MD)
• You’ve Got To Move It Move It: Esophageal Deviation to Avoid Harm (Presenter: Moussa Mansour, MD, FHRS)
• What You Don’t Know About Radiofrequency Biophysics Can Hurt Your Patient (Presenter: David E. Haines, MD, FHRS)
• Techniques and Technologies to Improve the Safety of Pericardial Access (Presenter: Jacob S Koruth, MBBS, MD)

 

How to Avoid and Manage CIED Implantation-Related Complications

 

• Pocket Hematoma Prevention: Lessons learned from Bruise Control I and II (Presenter: David H. Birnie, MD)
• How to Avoid a Hole in the Heart During Device Implantation? (Presenter: Marwan M. Refaat, MD, FHRS)
• How to Avoid a Hole in the Lung? Using Anatomy, Micropuncture needles, Ultrasound and more (Presenter: Samy C. Elayi, MD, PhD)
• Are All Leads the Same? How Can We Avoid the Lemon? (Presenter: Edward J. Schloss, MD, FHRS)
• How to Manage a Coronary Sinus Dissection and Complete the CRT Implantation (Presenter: Amin Al-Ahmad, MD, FHRS, CCDS)
• Pocket Infection-Lessons learned from PADIT (Presenter: Andrew D. Krahn, MD, FHRS)

 

 

I’m Not Gonna Do That Again

 

• When the Drug Treatment Was Worse Than the Channelopathy (Presenter: Virginie Beausejour-Ladouceur, MDCM)
• I Should Have Paid Attention to Symptom #99 on That Holter (Presenter: Mary Niu,)
• That Was One Too Many Lesions (Presenter: Eric Silver, MD, FHRS, CEPS-P)
• I Should Have Walked Away from That Challenging Implant (Presenter: Jamie A. Decker, MD)
• I Wish I Had Never Put That Girl on the Treadmill (Presenter: Kendra M. Ward, MD)
• He Should Not Have Walked Out of Clinic with That Device Programming (Presenter: Amy Z Walsh,)

 

Ooh….What Do I Do Now

 

• Just Finished Implanting a S-ICD, and DFT’s Failed! What Do I Do? (Presenter: Andrea M. Russo, MD, FHRS)
• Yikes! I May Have Injured the Phrenic Nerve. (Presenter: Jason G. Andrade, MD, FHRS)
• Oh No! My Leadless Pacemaker Just Dislodged! (Presenter: Jacob S Koruth, MBBS, MD)
• Post-Implant Recurrent Effusion! What Do I Do Now? (Presenter: Bruce A. Koplan, MD, MPH, FHRS)

 

 

7. Core Curriculum

Ablation Technologies of the Future

 

• One Shot Devices for AF Ablation (Presenter: Karl-Heinz Kuck, MD, FHRS)
• Needle RF Ablation for VT (Presenter: William G. Stevenson, MD, FHRS)
• Radiotherapy for Ablation (Presenter: Paul C Zei, MD, PhD, FHRS)

 

Anticoagulation in Challenging Clinical Settings

 

• Stroke prevention in AF patients with CAD: triple versus dual OAC or first line LAA occlusion? (Presenter: Daniel Steven, PhD)
• Stroke Prevention in AF patients with Renal Disease: Coumadin, NOACs, or LAA Occlusion (Presenter: Jonathan C. Hsu, MD, FHRS)
• Periprocedural anticoagulation in 2019 (Presenter: Konstantinos C. Siontis, MD)
• Should cryptogenic stroke patients get oral anticoagulation? NAVIGATE (ES)us! (Presenter: Hooman Kamel,)
• NOACs: Urgent Interventions, Bleeding, and Reversal Agents (Presenter: Andreas Goette, MD)

 

Arrhythmias in the LVAD Patient Predictors, Mechanisms and Treatment

 

• The Incidence and Predictors of Tachyarrhythmias in LVAD Recipients (Presenter: WilliamCornwell, BS)
• Understanding the Hemodynamic Impact of Arrhythmias in the LVAD Patient (Presenter: Liviu Klein, MD, MS)
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• Implantable Device Therapy in LVADs: Do You Need an ICD or CRT? (Presenter: Rakesh Gopinathannair, MA, MD, FHRS)
• Managing Electrical Storm in the LVAD Patient (Presenter: Ivan Cakulev, MD, FHRS)
• Management of Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Role of Catheter Ablation in LVAD Recipients (Presenter: Frederic Sacher,)

 

Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy State-of-the-Field (A Session Honoring Dr. Frank Marcus)

 

• Frank Marcus: A Lifetime of Achievements (Presenter: Richard N. W. Hauer, MD, PhD)
• Who Has Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy? Revisiting the 2010 Task Force Criteria (Presenter: Domenico Corrado, MD, PhD)
• ARVC: Who is at Risk of Sudden Death? And What to do About It (Presenter: Hugh Calkins, MD, FHRS, CCDS)
• Case presentation: Is it ARVC? And what should I do about it? (Presenter: ArgeliaMedeiros-Domingo,)
• Concluding remarks (Presenter: Frank I. Marcus, MD)

 

Back to the Future EP in 2059

 

• TED Talk: What Will Pacing Look Like in 40 Years (Presenter: Robert H Pass, MD)
• Ablation: Is There a Future Beyond 95% Success? (Presenter: Shubhayan Sanatani, BS, MD, FHRS, CCDS) (PDF)
• Ablation: Is There a Future Beyond 95% Success? (Presenter: Shubhayan Sanatani, BS, MD, FHRS, CCDS) (Slides)
• Moving to Zero: Eliminating Sudden Death in the Young by 2030 (Presenter: Silvia G Priori, MD, PhD)
• Will Big Databases Cure Your Patients’ Arrhythmias? (Presenter: Dan M. Roden, MD, FHRS)
• Where Do You Want to Go? Designing Your Career (Presenter: J. Philip Saul, MD, FHRS)
• Your First Career is Not Your Last Career: Redesigning Your Career (Presenter: Stu (Stuart)Berger, MD)

 

Cardiac Devices – Cybersecurity, Electric Cars, and Biological Pacemakers!

 

• Cybersecurity and Cardiac Devices — Are We Safe Yet? (Presenter: David J. Slotwiner, MD, FHRS)
• How Well Does Firmware Upgrades Help Improve Cybersecurity of CIEDs? (Presenter: Leonard I. Ganz, MD, FHRS)
• Do Electric Cars Impact Pacemakers and Defibrillators? (Presenter: Christof Kolb, MD)
• FDA’s Perspective on CIEDs and Cybersecurity? Road Map to a Strategic Cyber Defense (Presenter: Matthew Hazelett, BSBME)
• Biological pacemakers – reality or a far away dream? (Presenter: BuddhadebDawn,)

 

EP and the Unusual Cardiomyopathies

 

• Electrical Propagation in the Cardiomyopathic Heart (Presenter: Igor R. Efimov, PhD, FHRS)
• ARVC: A Disease With Many Faces (Presenter: Mario Delmar, MD, PhD, FHRS)
• Skeletal Myopathies With an Arrhythmia Phenotype (Presenter: Naomi J. Kertesz, MD, FHRS, CEPS-P)
• Noncompaction: A Disease You Should Share With Your Electrophysiologist (Presenter: David N. Rosenthal, MD) (PDF)
• Noncompaction: A Disease You Should Share With Your Electrophysiologist (Presenter: David N. Rosenthal, MD) (Slides)
• An Update on Arrhythmia-Induced Cardiomyopathies (Presenter: Jason M. Garnreiter, MD, CEPS-P)
• Predicting and Avoiding Pacemaker-Mediated Cardiomyopathy (Presenter: Jeffrey J. Kim, MD)

 

EP Diagnostic Maneuvers for Narrow and Wide Complex Tachycardias State-of-the-Art

 

• Role of Adenosine in Electrophysiological Testing (Presenter: Bruce B. Lerman, MD, FHRS, CCDS)
• Diagnostic Maneuvers in Wide Complex Tachycardias (Presenter: Reginald T. Ho, MD, FHRS)
• How to Best Utilize Para-Hisian Pacing (Presenter: Mauricio S Arruda, MD)
• Pacing Maneuvers to Distinguish Retrograde Conduction (Presenter: Michael M. Shehata, MD, FHRS)
• Diagnostic Electrophysiology Studies — 40 years of Discoveries (Presenter: Eric N. Prystowsky, MD, FHRS)

 

EP Jeopardy Devices, Antiarrhythmic Drug Use, Intracardiac Electrograms, and Clinical Decision Makings

 

• Chair (Presenter: Marleen E. Irwin, RCVT, RRT, FHRS, CCDS) (PDF)
• Chair (Presenter: Marleen E. Irwin, RCVT, RRT, FHRS, CCDS) (Slides)
• Utilizing Antiarrhythmic Drug Therapy in Arrhythmia Patients (Presenter: Jill L Schaeffer, MSN, CRNP, FHRS, CEPS, CCDS)
• Clinical Decision Making For Device and Lead Related Issues (Presenter: Erin E. Flatley, BSN, MSN, NP)
• Intracardiac Electrograms Interpretation (Presenter: Ralph J. Verdino, MD)

 

Four Decades of Devices What Do You Keep and What Do You Throw Away

 

• VVI Pacing is Not Obsolete (Presenter: Edward P Walsh, MD, FHRS, CCDS, CEPS-P)
• Atrial Anti-Tachycardia Pacing (Presenter: Nicholas H. Von Bergen, MD)
• Drinking from the Fire Hose: Managing a Busy Device Clinic (Presenter: Brynn E. Dechert, APN, FHRS, CCDS)
• Pull it or Leave it: What I Have Learned in My Career (Presenter: Richard A. Friedman, MBA, MD, FHRS)
• That Is NOT What the Device Manual States: Pediatric Electrophysiologists Must Be Creative (Presenter: Charles I. Berul, MD, FHRS, CCDS, CEPS-P)
• CRT in CHD: Conceptual and Practical Are Not the Same (Presenter: JanJanousek, MD, PhD)

 

Genetics and Arrhythmias Beyond Mendel’s Peas

 

• When Genetic Burden Reaches Threshold (Presenter: Connie R Bezzina, PhD)
• Genetics Functional Testing: Are We Ready for Prime Time? (Presenter: Alfred L. George, MD)
• Mosaics: How, How Common and How Important? (Presenter: Martin Tristani-Firouzi, MD)
• The Influence of Epigenetics on Electrophysiologic Disease (Presenter: Andras Bratincsak, MBA, MD, PhD)
• What Is the Difference Between Sudden Death and Aborted Sudden Death? (Presenter: Gregory Webster, MD, MPH, CCDS)
• Practical Use For the UK 100,000 Genomes (Presenter: Elijah Behr, MA, MBBS, MD)
• Panelist (Presenter: Martin Tristani-Firouzi, MD) (PDF)
• Panelist (Presenter: Martin Tristani-Firouzi, MD) (Slides)

 

His Bundle Pacing 360 Degrees!

 

• Physiology of HB pacing (Presenter: Sanjeev Saksena, MBBS, MD, FHRS)
• Indications for His Bundle Pacing – Who and When? (Presenter: Olujimi A. Ajijola, MD, PhD)
• Long Term Data Behind HBP — Lead Longevity and Physiologic Impact on Cardiac Function (Presenter: Gaurav A. Upadhyay, MD, FHRS)
• How to Successfully Implant a HB Pacing Lead? (Presenter: Weijian Huang, MD, FHRS)
• What is the Future of HB Pacing? (Presenter: Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, MD, FHRS)
• FDA’s Perspective to the Future of HBP (Presenter: Kimberly A. Selzman, MD, MPH, FHRS)

 

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy EP Considerations

 

• Atrial Fibrillation: Treatment Options and Outcomes (Presenter: Ethan J Rowin,)
• Using Risk Stratification Algorithms to Predict SCD in HCM (Presenter: Perry Elliott,)
• Impact of Lifestyle and Genetics on Adverse Arrhythmia Outcomes in HCM (Presenter: Mark S. Link, MD, FHRS)
• Catheter Ablation of Ventricular Arrhythmias in HCM (Presenter: Usha B. Tedrow, MD, MS, FHRS)
• ICD in Primary Prevention of SCD: Device and Programming Considerations (Presenter: Raul Weiss, MD, FHRS)

 

ICDs in Specific High-Risk Populations Controversies and Current Evidence

 

• Chair (Presenter: N. A. Mark Estes, MD, FHRS, CCDS) (PDF)
• Chair (Presenter: N. A. Mark Estes, MD, FHRS, CCDS) (Slides)
• Role of ICD in Patients with Cardiac Amyloidosis? (Presenter: Patrick J. Tchou, MD)
• Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators in Adult Congenital Heart Disease (Presenter: Natasja M. S. De Groot, MD, PhD)
• When Should we Implant an ICD for Long QT Syndrome? (Presenter: Michael J. Ackerman, MD, PhD)
• When is an ICD Appropriate in a Patient with Myocarditis? (Presenter: Davendra Mehta, MD, PhD, FHRS, CCDS)
• When Would you Place an ICD in a Patient with Brugada Syndrome? (Presenter: Gregory K. Feld, MD, FHRS)
• Role of ICDs in LV Non-Compaction and Mitochondrial Cardiomyopathies (Presenter: Jeffrey A. Towbin, MD, MS)

 

 

Ion Channel Trafficking and Targeting Mechanisms and Therapeutic Targets

 

• X and Caveolin-3 Domains Interactions (Presenter: L. Lee Eckhardt, MD, FHRS)
• Mutations Specific Difference in IKr Channel Trafficking (Presenter: Brian P. Delisle,)
• Drug Therapy to Rescue Ion Channel Trafficking (Presenter: Lia Crotti, MD, PhD)

 

Ion Channels and the Relation Between Location and Function

 

• State-of-the-Art (Presenter: Barry London, MD, PhD)
• How Do Ion Channel Proteins Reach Their Final Location? (Presenter: Robin M. Shaw, MD, PhD)
• A Sodium Channel-Mitochondria Hub: Functional Implications (Presenter: Mario Delmar, MD, PhD, FHRS)
• The Sodium Channel Beta Sub-Units: Location-Specific Functions (Presenter: Robert Gourdie, PhD)
• Characterizing the Receptor-Channel Microdomain (Presenter: Julia Gorelik, MD)

 

Lead Extraction Workshop – Understanding and Learning the Tools and Techniques

 

• Deciding When, Where and How to Extract Leads – Building a Safe Lead Extraction Program (Presenter: George H. Crossley, MD, FHRS)
• Choose Your Weapon: Lasers, Snares, and Mechanical Sheaths for Extraction. (Presenter: Bruce L. Wilkoff, MD, FHRS, CCDS)
• Know When to Say When: Indications For Aborting an Extraction. (Presenter: Charles J. Love, MD, FHRS, CCDS)
• Practical tips on using the Bridge balloon – prophylactically and/or emergently. (Presenter: Charles E. h. Kennergren, MD, PhD, FHRS)
• CIED lead extraction data management – EP PASSION and more (Presenter: Jim W. Cheung, MD, FHRS)
• How and Where Do I Grab It? Extraction of the Leadless Pacemaker (Presenter: Emile G. Daoud, MD, FHRS)

 

Leadless Pacing in 2019

 

• Techniques for Improving the Safety and Efficacy of Leadless Pacemakers (Presenter: Rahul N. Doshi, MD, FHRS)
• Safe Extraction of Leadless Pacemakers (Presenter: John Ip, MD)
• The Current State of Leadless ICD and CRT! (Presenter: Petr Neuzil, MD)
• Initial Experience with Leadless Pacing and AVN Ablation in AF Patients (Presenter: Abhishek J. Deshmukh, MD, FHRS)
• Understanding Coverage for Leadless Pacemakers (Presenter: JoEllyn C. Moore, MD, FHRS)
• What is to Come in Leadless Pacing? (Presenter: Lucas V. A. Boersma, MD, PhD)

 

Mapping AF Substrate When to Do It How to Do It

 

• What is the Role Ganglion Plexus Mapping in AF? (Presenter: Sunny S. Po, MD, PhD)
• When Should CFAE Mapping Be Used in AF Ablation? (Presenter: Isabel Deisenhofer, MD)
• What is the Role of Scar Mapping in AF? (Presenter: Nazem Akoum, MD, MS, FHRS)
• What is the Role and Best Way to Perform Focal Impulse and Rotor Mapping During AF Ablation? (Presenter: Sanjiv M. Narayan, MD, PhD, FHRS)
• What is the Role of High Density Mapping in AF Ablation? (Presenter: Elad Anter, MD)
• Translational Perspective (Presenter: Jose Jalife, MD, FHRS)

 

 

New Insights Into AF Mechanisms

 

• Whole Genome Sequencing in Atrial Fibrillation (Presenter: Patrick T. Ellinor, MD, PhD)
• Inflammation, Cytokines and AF (Presenter: Naohiko Takahashi, MD)
• Micro-RNAs and AF (Presenter: Michael Gramlich, MD)
• Rotors as the Dominant Driving Mode in AF (Presenter: Omer Berenfeld, PhD, FHRS)

 

Pacing and ICD Device Therapy Updates for 2019

 

• His Bundle Pacing Update: Overview of Patient Selection and How It Works (Presenter: Jessel S. Pestilos, BS)
• Who Gets Conventional Transvenous CIEDs versus Non-Transvenous Devices? (Presenter: Julie B. Shea, MS, MSN, FHRS, CCDS)
• Emerging CIED Technologies: What Does the Future Hold? (Presenter: Christina L. Magnelli-Reyes, BSN, RN)

 

Pathophysiology and Treatment of Ventricular Arrhythmias in 2019

 

• Idiopathic vs Scar Related Ventricular Arrhythmias: Review of Pathophysiology and Arrhythmia Mechanisms (Presenter: Jeffrey Arkles, MA, MD)
• ECG Localization of Ventricular Arrhythmias (Presenter: Haris M. Haqqani, MBBS, PhD, FHRS)
• Current and Future Strategies to Optimize PVC and VT Ablation (Presenter: Jeffrey R. Winterfield, MD)
• Epicardial Mapping and Ablation: Lessons Learned Over 20 Years (Presenter: Cory M. Tschabrunn, PhD, CEPS)

 

Physiology and Pathophysiology of the Sinoatrial Node

 

• Historical Perspective (Presenter: Jose Jalife, MD, FHRS)
• SAN Dysfunction in Heart Failure (Presenter: Robert A. Rose, PhD)
• SAN Function in Pregnancy (Presenter: CelineFiset,)

 

Posttranslational Regulation of Cardiac Ion Channels in Disease

 

• Historical Perspective (Presenter: Gordon F. Tomaselli, MD, FHRS)
• Palmitoylation of Cardiac Ion Channels (Presenter: Gea-ny Tseng, PhD)
• Estradiol-mediated regulation of calcium channels in the heart: Implications to arrhythmogenesis in LQT2 (Presenter: Guy Salama, PhD, FHRS)
• Phosphorylation of Cardiac Sodium Channels (Presenter: Celine Marionneau, PhD)

 

Preventing Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure

 

• What Is Too Old? (Presenter: Benjamin A. Steinberg, MD, MHS, FHRS)
• Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF >50%) (Presenter: Nancy K Sweitzer, MD, PhD)
• HF with Recovered EF (>45%) (Presenter: Jane E. Wilcox, MD)
• HFrEF and Dialysis (Presenter: Jonathan Chrispin, MD)

 

 

 

Psychological Care Considerations for the EP Patient

 

• Psychological Impact of ICD Shocks (Presenter: Samuel Sears, PhD)
• Special Psychological Care Considerations in Pediatric and Adult Congenital Patients (Presenter: Gregory Webster, MD, MPH, CCDS)
• Non-traditional Treatments for the Arrhythmia Patient (Presenter: Heidi M Carroll, BSN, RN)

 

Risk Stratification of SCD Where We Have Been and Where We Need to Go

 

• The Evolution of Risk Stratification — Historical Perspective to Where We’ve Been and Where We Are Going? (Presenter: Alfred E. Buxton, MD)
• Autonomic Dysfunction for Risk Stratification (Presenter: Peng-Sheng Chen, MD, FHRS)
• MRI Scar Imaging — A Better Risk Prediction Tool Than Ejection Fraction? (Presenter: Saman Nazarian, MD, PhD, FHRS)
• What’s in the ECG and SAECG? (Presenter: Mithilesh K. Das, MD)
• EP Study in Post MI Patients — A Reasonable Risk Stratifier? (Presenter: Daniel P. Morin, MD, MPH, FHRS)
• Role of Race and Sex in SCD Risk Stratification — Unrecognized Risk Factors (Presenter: Emily P. Zeitler, MD, MHS)

 

State-of-the-Art Review of Mapping Basic Principles and Overview of Current Technologies

 

• Principles of Unipolar and Bipolar Intracardiac Electrogram Recording Techniques (Presenter: Jonathan W Waks, MD)
• Factors That Influence Electrogram Characteristics: Practical Considerations During Voltage Mapping (Presenter: Cory M. Tschabrunn, PhD, CEPS)
• Atrial Substrate Characterization with Electroanatomic Mapping (Presenter: Edward P. Gerstenfeld, MD, FHRS)
• Ventricular Substrate Characterization with Electroanatomic Mapping (Presenter: VictorBazan, MD)

 

Stroke Prevention in AF 2019 Therapy Update

 

• 2019 Consensus on Periprocedural Anticoagulation Management (Presenter: Melissa L. Callans, MSN, CRNP, FHRS, CCDS)
• Oral Anticoagulation: Dosing, Drug Interactions & Reversibility (Presenter: Kristen B. Campbell, PharmD)
• Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion: Indications, Devices and Follow Up Care (Presenter: Donita Atkins, BS, BSN)

 

Substrate-Based Ablation of Ventricular Arrhythmias

 

• Identification and Isolation of the VT Core (Presenter: David S. Frankel, MD, FHRS)
• Limitations and Opportunities in Voltage Mapping of Ventricular Myocardium (Presenter: Roderick Tung, MD, FHRS)
• Appropriate Endpoints for Substrate Based VT Ablation (Presenter: Paolo Della Bella, MD)
• Epicardial Mapping of Ventricular Substrate during Cardiac Surgery (Presenter: Joshua D. Moss, MD, FHRS)

 

 

Syncope After 40 Years of HRS, Still a Lot of Open Questions

 

• Geography and Syncope: An Unexpected Connection (Presenter: Roopinder K. Sandhu, MD, MPH, FHRS)
• Evaluation of Syncope in Primary Electrical Disease (Presenter: Elizabeth S. Kaufman, MD, FHRS)
• What’s New in POTS? Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, Treatment (Presenter: Gabriele Hessling, MD)
• New Guidelines in Syncope Management: The European Perspective (Presenter: Carlos A. Morillo, MD, FHRS)
• What’s New in the Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Syncope: The US Perspective (Presenter: Win-Kuang Shen, MD, FHRS)

 

Technology Meets ACHD A Collaboration With the Association of European Pediatric Cardiology

 

• Nontraditional Pacing in Congenital Heart Disease (Presenter: Jeremy P Moore, MD, MS, FHRS, CCDS, CEPS-P)
• ACHD and MRI: Just Do It (Presenter: Henry Chubb, MA, MBBS, PhD) (PDF)
• ACHD and MRI: Just Do It (Presenter: Henry Chubb, MA, MBBS, PhD) (Slides)
• CRT and ACHD Predicting the Future (Presenter: Roman A. Gebauer, MD)
• Complex Anatomy Can Still Produce Simple Reentrant Substrates (Presenter: Michael R. Epstein, MD, CCDS, CEPS-P)
• Bringing Adult AFIB Technology to ACHD Patients (Presenter: Joachim Hebe, MD)
• Evaluating Risk Beyond Tetralogy of Fallot (Presenter: Frank A. Fish, MD, CEPS-P)

 

The Future Roadmap of AF Management – Where Are We Heading in 2019

 

• AF and Cardiovascular Risk Factors – A Growing Health Care Burden (Presenter: Celine Gallagher, BSN) (PDF)
• AF and Cardiovascular Risk Factors – A Growing Health Care Burden (Presenter: Celine Gallagher, BSN) (Slides)
• AF Ablation or Drug Therapy: What Should I Tell My Patient? (Presenter: Ohad Ziv, MD)
• (N)OAC – Who to Prescribe What? Insights from the 2018 EHRA Guide on Oral Anticoagulation (Presenter: Hein Heidbuchel, MD, PhD)
• Integrated Comprehensive AF Care – The Future AF Management Approach? (Presenter: Jeroen ML Hendriks, MS, PhD, RN)

 

Unbreak My Heart Progress Towards Personalized Arrhythmia Treatment

 

• Understanding Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes via Computational Modeling (Presenter: StefanoSeveri, PhD)
• Generation of Mature Cardiomyocytes from Pluripotent Stem Cells (Presenter: Yoshinori Yoshida, MD, PhD)
• Stem Cell-derived Biological Pacemakers to Treat Conduction System Disorders (Presenter: Eugenio Cingolani, MD)
• Can Polygenic Risk Scores Help Personalize Antiarrhythmic Therapy? (Presenter: Christopher H. Newton-Cheh, MD, MPH)

 

 

 

Use All You Can Get Implementing Advanced Imaging in VT Ablations

 

• High Resolution Body Surface ECG Imaging to Perform Noninvasive VT Mapping (Presenter: Phillip Cuculich, MD)
• Integrating Cardiac CT/MRI with 3-D Mapping to Guide VT Ablation (Presenter: Uma N Srivatsa, MBBS, MS, FHRS)
• Applying Advanced Echocardiography (TTE, TEE, and ICE) to Facilitate VT Ablation (Presenter: Abhishek J. Deshmukh, MD, FHRS)
• Role of Nuclear Imaging for Diagnosis and Management of VT in Inflammatory Cardiac Disease (Presenter: Suraj Kapa, MD, FHRS)

 

What Do the Trials Say for Catheter Ablation

 

• CABANA: Putting All the Evidence Together (Presenter: Douglas L. Packer, MD, FHRS)
• VT Ablation — What Do the Trial Say (Presenter: John L. Sapp, MD, FHRS)
• New Technologies for AF Ablation: What’s the Most Interesting New Trials (Presenter: Young-Hoon Kim, MD)
• What’s New in Managing the LAA — An Update on the AMAZE Study (Presenter: David J. Wilber, MD, FHRS, CCDS)
• Anticoagulation Discontinuation After Successful Ablation: Where Are We and Where Are We Going (Presenter: Atul Verma, MD, FHRS)

 

What to Do After PVI for Persistent and Long Standing Persistent AF

 

• Isolating the Posterior LA is a Viable Option for Persistent AF: How and in Whom? (Presenter: Stuart P. Thomas, BM)
• Use of Cryoablation for Persistent AF — When, Where and How (Presenter: Julian Chun, MD)
• Persistent AF: When, How and Where Should We Look Outside the Left Atrium? (Presenter: Meleze Hocini, MD)
• Localizing and Ablating Triggers in Persistent AF: Role and Impact on Outcomes (Presenter: Andrea Natale, MD, FHRS)
• Scar Based Ablation is Essential for Persistent AF (Presenter: Oussama M. Wazni, MD, FHRS)
• Outcomes in Persistent AF ablation: Have We Gotten Better? (Presenter: Bruce A. Koplan, MD, MPH, FHRS)

 

 

8. Debate

Ablation Should Be Performed in All Patients With Brugada Syndrome

 

• Yes, All Patients With Brugada Syndrome Should be Ablated! (Presenter: Carlo Pappone, MD, PhD)
• No, there is no role for routine ablation of all Brugada syndrome patients (Presenter: Sami Viskin, MD) (PDF)
• No, there is no role for routine ablation of all Brugada syndrome patients (Presenter: Sami Viskin, MD) (Slides)
• Rebuttal (Presenter: Carlo Pappone, MD, PhD) (PDF)
• Rebuttal (Presenter: Carlo Pappone, MD, PhD) (Slides)
• Rebuttal (Presenter: Sami Viskin, MD) (PDF)
• Rebuttal (Presenter: Sami Viskin, MD) (Slides)

 

Can the RV Be Resynchronized

 

• CRT for Right Heart Failure (Presenter: Jordana Kron, MD, FHRS)
• CRT is NOT a Treatment for Right Heart Failure (Presenter: Roger A. Freedman, MD, FHRS, CCDS)
• Rebuttal (Presenter: Jordana Kron, MD, FHRS) (PDF)
• Rebuttal (Presenter: Jordana Kron, MD, FHRS) (Slides)
• Rebuttal (Presenter: Roger A. Freedman, MD, FHRS, CCDS) (PDF)
• Rebuttal (Presenter: Roger A. Freedman, MD, FHRS, CCDS) (Slides)

 

Device-Detected Subclinical AF of less than 24 Hour Duration To Treat or Not to Treat

 

• Patients with stroke risk factors and subclinical atrial fibrillation lasting more than 6 minutes do NOT require anticoagulation (Presenter: Dipen C. Shah, MD, FHRS)
• Patients with Stroke Risk Factors and Subclinical Atrial Fibrillation Lasting More Than 6 Minutes Should be Treated with Oral Anticoagulation (Presenter: Taya V. Glotzer, MD, FHRS)
• Rebuttal (Presenter: Dipen C. Shah, MD, FHRS)
• Rebuttal (Presenter: Taya V. Glotzer, MD, FHRS) (PDF)
• Rebuttal (Presenter: Taya V. Glotzer, MD, FHRS) (Slides)

 

Does Every Patient With an LVAD Need an ICD A Data-Driven Debate With No Data

 

• Every LVAD Patient Needs an ICD – OH YES! (Presenter: Hasan Garan, MD)
• Every LVAD Patient Needs an ICD – NO WAY! (Presenter: Bruce L. Wilkoff, MD, FHRS, CCDS)
• Rebuttal (Presenter: Hasan Garan, MD)
• Rebuttal (Presenter: Bruce L. Wilkoff, MD, FHRS, CCDS)

 

If My 13-Year-Old Had 35% PVCs, I Would Consent to an Ablation

 

• Pro Position (Presenter: Akash R. Patel, MD, FHRS, CEPS-P)
• Con Position (Presenter: Ronn E Tanel, MD, FHRS, CEPS-P)
• Rebuttal (Presenter: Akash R. Patel, MD, FHRS, CEPS-P)
• Rebuttal (Presenter: Ronn E. Tanel, MD, FHRS, CEPS-P)

 

If My 6-Year-Old Had Congenital Heart Block, I Would Want Them to Get an Endocardial System

 

• Pro Position (Presenter: David J. Bradley, MD, FHRS, CEPS-P)
• Con Position (Presenter: JosephAtallah, MD)
• Rebuttal (Presenter: David J. Bradley, MD, FHRS, CEPS-P)
• Rebuttal (Presenter: Joseph Atallah, MDCM, MS)

 

LAA Occlusion Should Be Used in All Patients With PersistentPermanent AF

 

• Con: All Patients with Persistent/Permanent AF Should Get LAA Occlusion (Presenter: Larry A. Chinitz, MD, FHRS)
• All patients with persistent/permanent AF should get LAA occlusion (Presenter: Vivek Y. Reddy, MD) (PDF)
• All patients with persistent/permanent AF should get LAA occlusion (Presenter: Vivek Y. Reddy, MD) (Slides)
• Rebuttal (Presenter: Larry A. Chinitz, MD, FHRS) (PDF)
• Rebuttal (Presenter: Vivek Y. Reddy, MD) (PDF)
• Rebuttal (Presenter: Vivek Y. Reddy, MD) (Slides)

 

Left Atrial Appendage Electrical Isolation Should Not Be Empirically Performed in Persistent and Longstanding Persistent AF at First Procedure

 

• Left Atrial Appendage Electrical Isolation should not be empirically performed in persistent and longstanding persistent AF at first procedure: PRO (Presenter: Boris Schmidt, MD, F …
• Left Atrial Appendage Electrical Isolation Should be Empirically Performed in Persistent and Longstanding Persistent AF at First Procedure: CONTRA (Presenter: Luigi Di Biase, MD, P …
• Rebuttal (Presenter: Boris Schmidt, MD, FHRS)
• Rebuttal (Presenter: Luigi Di Biase, MD, PhD, FHRS)

 

Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt We Need a Sham Trial for AF Ablation

 

• Pro — A Sham Trial Will Answer Many Questions and is Needed (Presenter: Dhiraj Gupta, MBBS, MD)
• Con — We Know Ablation is Effective and a Sham Trial is Not Needed for AF Ablation (Presenter: Atul Verma, MD, FHRS)
• Rebuttal (Presenter: Dhiraj Gupta, MBBS, MD)
• Rebuttal (Presenter: Atul Verma, MD, FHRS)

 

The Great Risk Stratification Debate on Sudden Cardiac Death

 

• No, LVEF Alone is Not Sufficient for Risk Stratification in NICM. (Presenter: Wendy S Tzou, MD, FHRS)
• Yes, LVEF Alone is Sufficient for Risk Stratification in Nonischemic Cardiomyopathy (Presenter: A. John Camm, MD, FHRS)
• Rebuttal (Presenter: Wendy S. Tzou, MD, FHRS)
• Rebuttal (Presenter: A. John Camm, MD, FHRS)

 

9. EPicenter

Making the EP World a Smaller Place Building and Utilizing an International Network

 

• Networking Through Certification – How IBHRE Helped Me to Establish an International Network (Presenter: Aparna Jaswal, CCDS)
• Networking Through Societies – Why Are We All Here in San Francisco? (Presenter: Fred M. Kusumoto, MD, FHRS)
• Networking Through Research Funding – Building International Research Collaboration Networks (Presenter: Junaid A.B Zaman, MD)
• Networking Through Travel – Personal Tips on EP Training Across Continents. (Presenter: Elena Arbelo, MD, MSci, PhD)

 

The Top 5 Tips and Tricks for a Flourishing Early Career in EP

 

• How HRS Is Especially Helpful in the First 5 Years of your EP Career (Presenter: T. Jared Bunch, MD, FHRS)
• How to Build an Electrophysiology Practice in the First 5 Years – The Top 5 Tips (Presenter: Ali A. Sovari, MD, CEPS-A)
• The Top 5 Critical Skills You Need to Survive Early On in Practice (Presenter: Ivan C. Ho, MD, FHRS)
• How To Learn New Procedural Skills Following Fellowship – The Top 5 Resources (Presenter: Chirag Sandesara, MD, FHRS)
• Life Outside the EP Lab: Top 5 Tips to Maintain Sanity (Presenter: Tina Baykaner, MD, MPH)

 

What You Didn’t Learn in Fellowship Training

 

• How to Unleash the Full Power of Intracardiac Echo (Presenter: Fermin C. Garcia, MD)
• Look Beyond The Colors – Understanding Activation Mapping (Presenter: Freddy Del Carpio Munoz, MD, FHRS)
• The 20 Minute Clinic Visit That Wasn’t. Looking After Patients With Dysautonomia Syndromes. (Presenter: David S Cannom, MD, FHRS)
• How to Put Safety First During VT Ablation Procedures (Presenter: Edmond M. Cronin, MBChB, FHRS, CCDS, CEPS-A)
• How to Approach a CRT Non-Responder (Presenter: John Rickard, MD, MPH)

 

Your Journey Will Not Be A Straight Line The Multitudinous Career Paths Available to EP Professionals

 

• Chair (Presenter: Patrick Boyle, BS, PhD, FHRS)

 

10. Featured Symposium

CABANA Unplugged

 

• Chair (Presenter: Christine M. Albert, MD, MPH, FHRS)
• CABANA — Main Trial Results (Presenter: Douglas L. Packer, MD, FHRS)
• Trialists: Secondary Outcomes and Subgroup Analyses (Presenter: Jonathan P. Piccini, MD, MHS, FHRS) (PDF)
• Trialists: Secondary Outcomes and Subgroup Analyses (Presenter: Jonathan P. Piccini, MD, MHS, FHRS) (Slides)
• AF Burden Results (Presenter: Jeanne E. Poole, MD, FHRS, CCDS)
• Quality of Life Results (Presenter: Daniel B. Mark, MD)
• The Statistical Perspective (Presenter: Kerry L. Lee, PhD)
• Commentary: Limitations of Intention to Treat (Presenter: Daniel B Mark, MD)

 

Crash Course in Syncope for Arrhythmia Experts

 

• From Insertable Loop Recorder to Insertable Cardiac Monitor and Beyond (Presenter: Andrew D. Krahn, MD, FHRS) (PDF)
• From Insertable Loop Recorder to Insertable Cardiac Monitor and Beyond (Presenter: Andrew D. Krahn, MD, FHRS) (Slides)
• Economic Implications of Syncope (Presenter: Robert S. Sheldon, MD, PhD, FHRS)
• Conduction Blocks and Syncope: When is Pacing Indicated? (Presenter: Selcuk Adabag, MD, MS, FHRS)
• When Pacing Fails in Syncope — A Practical Algorithm (Presenter: Artur Fedorowski, MD, PhD)
• Will Use of Algorithms Improve Syncope Diagnosis and Management? (Presenter: Carlos A. Morillo, MD, FHRS)
• Cardio-Neuromodulation for Cardioinhibitory Syncope (Presenter: JOSE CMATEOS, MD, PhD)

 

Screening for AF in 2019

 

• Smart Phones and Watches — What is Here and What is Coming (Presenter: Ben Freedman, MBBS, PhD)
• Brief Episodes of AF on Continuous Monitoring — Meaningless Versus Meaningful (Presenter: Mintu P Turakhia, MD, MS, FHRS)
• Impact of Wearable Patch ECG Monitoring on AF Detection and Treatment (Presenter: SteveSteinhubl, MD, MS)
• Device Detected AF – Risk for Stroke and Beyond (Presenter: Jorge A. Wong, MD, MPH)
• AF Screening Post Stroke- How, when, why? (Presenter: HoomanKamel,)
• Genomics Approaches to AF Screening (Presenter: Steven A. Lubitz, MD, MPH)

 

Sudden Cardiac Death Risk Assessment in the Population

 

• Racial Difference in Sudden Cardiac Death Risk (Presenter: Rajat Deo, MD)
• Risk Factors for SCD in the Young (Presenter: Sumeet S. Chugh, MD, FHRS)
• Utility of Gene Sequencing in Adult Onset Sudden Cardiac Death (Presenter: Christine M. Albert, MD, MPH, FHRS)
• Genetic Variants and Myocardial Fibrosis: The Pathophysiologic Link to SCD (Presenter: Juhani Junttila, MD, PhD)
• Idiopathic VF in the Real World-How Idiopathic is it? (Presenter: EloiMarijon, MD, PhD)

 

 

 

11. How-To

How to Develop an Effective and Efficient Remote Monitoring Practice

 

• Evidence Based Medicine: How Does Remote Monitoring Improve Patient Outcomes? (Presenter: Suneet Mittal, BA, MD, FHRS)
• Review of 2015 Expert Consensus Statement and Guidelines on Remote Monitoring of CIEDs (Presenter: Martha G. Ferrara, DNP, FNP, FHRS, CCDS)
• Clinical Decision Making and Prioritizing Urgent versus Non-urgent Alerts (Presenter: Laurel Kay Racenet, MSN, FNP, FHRS, CEPS, CCDS)
• Practical Strategies and Techniques to Maximize Patient and Provider Compliance (Presenter: Lynn M. Brewer, CCDS)

 

How to Exploit Strengths and Avoid Pitfalls of Mouse Cardiac Arrhythmia Models

 

• Pinpointing Mechanisms of Sudden Cardiac Death (Presenter: Hector H Valdivia, MD, PhD)
• Deciphering the Genetic Basis of Human Arrhythmia Syndromes (Presenter: Xander H. T. Wehrens, MD, PhD, FHRS)
• Delineating Mechanisms of the Integrated Fight-or-Flight Response (Presenter: Crystal M. Ripplinger, PhD, FHRS)
• Manipulating Distinct Cell Populations via Optogenetic Stimulation (Presenter: Matthew W. Kay, DSC)
• Understanding When and Why to Move from Mice to a Large-Animal Model (Presenter: Glenn I. Fishman, MD, FHRS)

 

How to Interpret Variants of Uncertain Significance (VUS)

 

• Exploiting Ion Channel Structure to Assess Pathogenicity of VUS (Presenter: Brett Kroncke, PhD)
• Using Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes to Identify Genetic Modifiers of LQTS2 (Presenter: Isabelle Deschenes, PhD)
• Clinical Perspective (Presenter: Arthur A. M. Wilde, MD, PhD)
• Genome Editing of iPSC to Decipher Channelopathy Variants (Presenter: Karim Sallam,) (PDF)
• Genome Editing of iPSC to Decipher Channelopathy Variants (Presenter: Karim Sallam,) (Slides)

 

How to Manage Arrhythmias in Advanced Heart Failure Device and Medical Options

 

• Management of Atrial Fibrillation in VADs (Presenter: Roy M. John, MD, PhD, FHRS, CCDS)
• Management of Ventricular Tachycardias in VADs (Presenter: Joshua D. Moss, MD, FHRS)
• CRT post-LVAD (Presenter: Liviu Klein, MD, MS)
• Arrhythmias in the Transplanted Heart (Presenter: JeffTeuteberg, MD)

 

How to Optimally Deliver CRT Strategies That Enhance Response

 

• How Should I Target the LV Lead in a non-LBBB Patient? (Presenter: Rahul N. Doshi, MD, FHRS)
• How Do I Get the Lead to the Optimal Location Despite Anatomical Constraints? (Presenter: Brett D. Atwater, MD)
• How Do I Use Multipoint Pacing to Enhance Response in My Patient? (Presenter: Maurizio Lunati, MD)
• How Do I Place an LV Endocardial Lead in My CRT Non-responder? (Presenter: Marc Strik, MD, PhD)

 

How to Perform Epicardial VT Ablation

 

• Epicardial Access — Where Did We Start? (Presenter: Eduardo B. Saad, MD, PhD, FHRS)
• Selection of Patients for Epicardial VT Ablation: Who and When? (Presenter: David J. Wilber, MD, FHRS, CCDS)
• Epicardial Access – Tools and Techniques (Presenter: Paolo Della Bella, MD)
• Avoiding Complications Related to Epicardial Access and Ablation (Presenter: Arash Aryana, MD, MS, FHRS)
• Optimization of Ablation Lesions in the Epicardial Space (Presenter: Thomas Deneke, MD, PhD, FHRS)

 

How to Place Special CIEDs and LAA Closure Devices

 

• How to do a Lariat LAA ligation? (Presenter: Abdi Rasekh, MD)
• How to Place an Endocardial LAA Occluder Device? (Presenter: Jie Cheng, MD, PhD, FHRS)
• How to do a Thoracoscopic LAA Epicardial Clip? (Presenter: Sacha P. Salzberg, MD)
• How to place a pulmonary arterial pressure sensor for HF management? (Presenter: Leo Simpson, MD, FHRS)
• How to do a Subpectoral CIED Implant (Presenter: Rajesh Kabra, MD, FHRS)
• How to place an LV endocardial leadless pacemaker for CRT (Presenter: Martin Seifert,) (PDF)
• How to place an LV endocardial leadless pacemaker for CRT (Presenter: Martin Seifert,) (Slides)

 

How to Rapidly and Safely Isolate the Pulmonary Veins

 

• What Are Appropriate Targets For A PV Isolation Using RF Ablation Procedure (Presenter: Mattias Francis Duytschaever,)
• PVI With The Cryoballoon: Best Balance Of Fast, Safe and Effective (Presenter: Wilber W. Su, MD, FHRS)
• Why Next Generation Laser Balloon Will Challenge Cryo For PVI Procedures (Presenter: Julian Chun, MD)

 

How to Use Cardiomyocytes Derived From Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Arrhythmia Research

 

• Using iPSC to Study Channelopathies (Presenter: Lior Gepstein, MD, PhD)
• Expanding the Impact of hiPSC Studies Through High Throughput Patch Clamp (Presenter: Alfred L. George, MD)

 

How to Use the Best Diagnostic Maneuvers in Differentiating Supraventricular and Ventricular Tachycardia

 

• Pacing Maneuvers in Atrial Tachycardia (Presenter: Peter M. Kistler, MBBS, PhD, FHRS)
• Pacing Maneuvers in WPW (Presenter: Jose Luis Merino, MD, PhD)
• Narrow Complex Tachycardia: Are You Sure it is SVT? (Presenter: Christian de Chillou, MD, PhD)

 

Pacing Palooza Overview of Device Options

 

• Leadless Pacemaker: Who, How & What to Watch for in Follow Up (Presenter: Julie B. Shea, MS, MSN, FHRS, CCDS)
• Update on MultiPoint & LV Endocardial Pacing in CRT (Presenter: Laurel Kay Racenet, MSN, FNP, FHRS, CEPS, CCDS)
• His Bundle Pacing: Outpatient Management and Programming Considerations (Presenter: Elizabeth E. Davenport, BA)

 

PedAdult Congenital Heart Disease and Clinical EP Tips and Tricks for Practice

 

• Expert Tips For The Perfect AVNRT Ablation (Presenter: Sunny S. Po, MD, PhD)
• Pay It Forward: Tips For Teaching Ablation (Presenter: George F. Van Hare, MD, FHRS, CCDS, CEPS-P)
• Pay it Forward: Clean Up Your Mess (Presenter: Sabrina S. Tsao, BS, MB, MBBS, CCDS, CEPS-P)
• Ablation Near Vital Structures (Presenter: Gabriele Hessling, MD)
• When Can Ablation Replace ICD Therapy? (Presenter: Kyoko Soejima, MD)
• Knowing When to Add the D to CRT (Presenter: Mark E. Alexander, MD, FHRS, CEPS-P)

 

Put on Your Big Boy Pants

 

• Brave Enough to Fight Dragons: A TED Talk (Presenter: Maully J. Shah, MBBS, FHRS, CCDS, CEPS-P)
• Everything In the Toolbox: It’s Not Over Until It Is Gone (Presenter: Kathryn K. Collins, MD, FHRS, CEPS-P)
• Avoiding ICDs Even in Secondary Prevention (Presenter: Jennifer N. Avari Silva, MD, FHRS, CEPS-P)
• “Undiagnosing” The Channelopathy (Presenter: Aarti Dalal, DO, CEPS-P)
• There is No Such Thing As Too Complex: How to Do A Complex ACHD Ablation With Severe Access Limitations (Presenter: Sylvia Abadir, MD, CCDS)

 

 

12. Joint Session

ABCHRS Joint Session Diversifying Arrhythmias

 

• Explaining Differences in SCD in Blacks and Whites (Presenter: Rajat Deo, MD)
• ICD Therapy in Non-ischemic Cardiomyopathy – Implications for Black Individuals with Chronic Systolic Heart Failure (Presenter: Sana M. Al-Khatib,)
• The Genetics of Arrhythmia Susceptibility – Explaining the AF Paradox (Presenter: Gregory M. Marcus,)
• CABANA- Characteristics and Outcomes in Women and Non-whites (Presenter: Douglas L. Packer, MD, FHRS)
• Oral Anticoagulation for NVAF in Underrepresented Racial and Ethnic Populations (Presenter: Larry R. Jackson, MD)

 

ACCHRS Joint Session Updates on Clinical Guidelines

 

• The Key New ACC/AHA/HRS AF Guidelines Recommendation: What did they get right? (Presenter: Richard Kovacs, MD)
• The Key New ACC/AHA/HRS AF Guidelines Recommendation: What’s wrong or missing? (Presenter: David N. Kenigsberg, MD, FHRS)
• The AHA/ACC/HRS Ventricular Arrhythmias Guidelines: Most Important Gap (Presenter: Jose A. Joglar, MD, FHRS)
• The AHA/ACC/HRS Ventricular Arrhythmias Guidelines: Are the ICD recommendations right? (Presenter: Freddy Del Carpio Munoz, MD, FHRS)
• RV,CRT, His bundle pacing for LVEF > 35%: The New Guidelines got it right (Presenter: Keith R. Oken, MD) (PDF)
• RV,CRT, His bundle pacing for LVEF > 35%: The New Guidelines got it right (Presenter: Keith R. Oken, MD) (Slides)
• RV,CRT, and His bundle pacing for LVEF > 35%: The New Guidelines don’t help (Presenter: Dan Sorajja, MD)

 

AHAHRS Joint Session Atrial Fibrillation Burden Questions and More Questions

 

• Atrial Fibrillation Burden and Outcomes From AF Clinical Trials: Why Should We Care? (Presenter: Lin Yee Chen, MD, FHRS)
• Wearable Technologies: A Boon or a Bane for Measuring Atrial Fibrillation Burden? (Presenter: Mintu P Turakhia, MD, MS, FHRS)
• Device-detected Atrial Fibrillation: What is the Critical Threshold for Anticoagulation? (Presenter: Peter A. Noseworthy, MD, FHRS)
• Chicken or the Egg: Can Heart Failure Optimization or CRT Reduce AF Burden? (Presenter: John Rickard, MD, MPH)
• AF Management: Should Reducing AF Burden be Enough? (Presenter: Ayman A. Hussein, MD, FHRS)
• Should Atrial Fibrillation Burden be Added to the CHA2DS2-VASc Score? (Presenter: Marco Perez,)

 

APHRSHRS Joint Session From Pathophysiology to Practice

 

• Isolated atrial cardiomyopathy: fact or fiction? (Presenter: Minglong Chen, MD, PhD, FHRS)
• Post STAR AF2: Is There Still a Role for Substrate Modification? (Presenter: Carlos A. Morillo, MD, FHRS)
• Fire or ICE: How different are they? (Presenter: Shinsuke Miyazaki, MD, PhD, FHRS)
• Substrate Identification with MRI: Implications for Ablation Strategy? (Presenter: Nassir F. Marrouche, MD, FHRS)

 

CCSHRS Joint Session Secondary AF, Is It No Big Deal?

 

• Current Practice in Treating Secondary AF (Presenter: Atul Verma, MD, FHRS)
• Late Recurrence of AF After an Acute Episode: What Do We Know (Presenter: David H. Birnie, MD)
• Clues From the Echo World to Identify Patients at Risk of Late Recurrence of AF (Presenter: Fadi Mansour, MD, CCDS)
• Thromboembolics Events After Secondary AF – A Need for Further Follow-up (Presenter: Lena Rivard, MD, MSci)

 

CHRSHRS Joint Session Safety of Discontinuation of Oral Anticoagulant After AF Ablation

 

• What is the key determinant of post-AF ablation anticoagulation strategy: recurrence of AF or risk of stroke? (Presenter: ShaowenLiu, MD, PhD)
• Use vs. Discontinuation of Anticoagulant in Patients Without Apparent Recurrence After AF Ablation — Viewpoint in USA (Presenter: Hugh Calkins, MD, FHRS, CCDS)
• Choice of Anticoagulant in Patients Without Apparent Recurrence After AF Ablation: Warfarin, NOAC or Aspirin? (Presenter: Atul Verma, MD, FHRS)
• Use vs. Discontinuation of Anticoagulant in Patients Without Apparent Recurrence After AF Ablation — Viewpoint in Europe (Presenter: Riccardo Cappato, MD, FHRS)

 

CSPEHRS Joint Session His Purkinjie Conduction System Pacing

 

• His-Purkinjie Conduction System Pacing in China: Experience and Prospect (Presenter: Wei Hua,)
• His-Purkinjie Conduction System Pacing: Clinical Studies and Emerging Techniques (Presenter: Pugazhendhi Vijayaraman, MD, FHRS)
• Intraseptal Peri-LBB Pacing from Venous Access (Presenter: Weijian Huang, MD, FHRS)
• The characteristics and values of LBB potential in intraseptal Peri-LBB pacing -case study (Presenter: Xingbin Liu, MD, FHRS)

 

CVCTHRS Joint Session Clinical Trials in Electrophysiology Navigating the Evidence Post-CABANA

 

• Introductory Remarks: HRS and CVCT Partnership (Presenter: FaiezZannad, MD)
• What is the Totality of Evidence? — External Validity of CABANA. Consistency with Other AF Ablation Trials, Other Non-Trial Evidence, and Generalizability Issues (Presenter: Peter …
• Interventional Therapy Trial Design Pitfalls and Solutions – Methodology and Statistical Insight (Presenter: Faiez Zannad, MD)
• Role of Registries and Pragmatic Trials for the Evaluation of Interventional Treatments (Presenter: Nikolaos Dagres, MD)
• Interventional Trials from an Industry Vantage Point: Trials, Registries, and Post-market Surveillance (Presenter: Kenneth M. Stein, MD, FHRS)
• Regulatory Perspective: What is “Regulatory Grade” Real World Evidence? (Presenter: Kimberly A. Selzman, MD, MPH, FHRS)
• How to Translate into International Guidelines?: HRS (Presenter: Thomas F. Deering, MBA, MD, FHRS, CCDS)
• How to Translate into International Guidelines?: ESC-EHRA (Presenter: Gerhard Hindricks, MD)

 

ECASHRS Joint Session Evolving Therapeutic Strategies for Atrial Fibrillation in Heart Failure

 

• Non-Antiarrhythmic Pharmacological Therapies (Presenter: N. A. MarkEstes, MD, FHRS, CCDS)
• Antiarrhythmic Pharmacological Therapies (Presenter: Albert L. Waldo,)
• Interventional Therapies: Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (Presenter: Thorsten W Lewalter,)
• Interventional Therapies: Catheter Ablation (Presenter: Johannes Brachmann, PhD, FHRS)

 

EHRAHRS Joint Session State-of-the-Art in Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia in Nonischemic Cardiomyopathy

 

• How Well Does Electro-Anatomical Mapping Reflect the VT Substrate? (Presenter: Ivo Roca-Luque, MD, PhD)
• Neuromodulation for Treating Refractory Ventricular Tachycardia (Presenter: Kalyanam Shivkumar, MD, PhD, FHRS)
• Bipolar Radiofrequency Ablation: When and How (Presenter: Paolo Della Bella,)
• Radiotherapy as a Last Resort (Presenter: Cliff Robinson, MD)

 

HFSAHRS Joint Session Screening, Diagnosis and Management of Cardiac Sarcoidosis

 

• Cardiac Sarcoid: Screening and Diagnostic Criteria (Presenter: Jordana Kron, MD, FHRS)
• Cardiac Imaging in Sarcoidosis: State of the Art (Presenter: Van Selby,)
• Electroanatomic Mapping-Guided Endomyocardial Biopsy in Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy: Who and Why? (Presenter: LeslieCooper, MD)
• Sudden Death and Risk Stratification in Patients with Established Cardiac Sarcoid (Presenter: David H. Birnie, MD)

 

IHRSHRS Joint Session Management of Complex Arrhythmias

 

• Infiltrative Cardiomyopathy – Drugs, Diagnostics and Ablation (Presenter: Calambur Narasimhan, MD)
• Cardiac Sympathetic Denervation: For Whom & How? (Presenter: Yash Lokhandwala,)
• Catheter Ablation of Atrial Arrhythmias in Rheumatic Heart Disease (Presenter: Narayanan Namboodiri,)
• Atrial Tachyarrhythmias Following Surgical AF Ablation: Mechanisms and Management (Presenter: Rakesh Gopinathannair, MA, MD, FHRS)
• Epicardial Ablation of VT: Minimizing Risks & Improving Success (Presenter: Kalyanam Shivkumar, MD, PhD, FHRS)
• Ablation of Epicardial and Multiple Accessory Pathway SVTs (Presenter: Anil Saxena, MBBS, MD)

 

ISHNEISEHRS Joint Session QRS Morphologies That Influence Interventional Strategies

 

• Brugada Syndrome — Can the Surface ECG Guide Ablation Strategy? (Presenter: Kazutaka Aonuma, MD)
• Surface ECG Mapping for PVCs: Identifying Site of Origin (SOO): SOO or SOS? (Presenter: Adrian Baranchuk, MD)
• ECG Imaging Technologies to Improve Patient Selection for CRT and Device Optimization (Presenter: Niraj Varma, MD, PhD)
• The QRS as a Guide for Selection of Patients for Successful His Bundle Pacing (Presenter: Jonathan S. Steinberg, MD, FHRS)
• Optimization of the Surface ECG for SCD Risk Prediction (Presenter: Larisa G. Tereshchenko, MD, PhD, FHRS, CCDS)

 

JHRSHRS Joint Session Advanced Treatments of Complex Ventricular Arrhythmias

 

• Catheter Ablation of Idiopathic Ventricular Tachycardia / PVC with Unusual Origin (Presenter: Hiroshi Tada,)
• Treatment of Ventricular Arrhythmias in Patients with Sarcoidosis (Presenter: Akihiko Nogami, MD, PhD)
• Catheter Ablation of VT in Patients with Non-Ischemic Cardiomyopathy (Presenter: Fermin C. Garcia, MD)

 

LAHRSHRS Joint Session Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation Is the Epicardium the Key to Improve the Results

 

• Endo-epicardial Myofiber Architecture and Arrhythmogenesis (Presenter: Kalyanam Shivkumar, MD, PhD, FHRS)
• Re-defining LA Posterior Wall Isolation: Role of Septopulmonary Bundle (Presenter: Luis Carlos Saenz Morales, MD)
• How to Recognize and Treat Epicardial Connections During Peri-Mitral Flutter Ablation (Presenter: Fermin C. Garcia, MD)
• Is there a Role for Epicardial Mapping and Ablation of AF? (Presenter: Andrea Natale, MD, FHRS)

 

SADSHRS Joint Session Pediatric and Young Adult Ventricular Arrhythmia Outpatient Diagnosis and Management

 

• What Constitutes “Benign” ventricular Arrhythmia (Presenter: Peter F. Aziz, MD, FHRS, CEPS-P)
• Not so Benign Ventricular Ectopy (Presenter: Sami Viskin, MD)
• Athletes and Exercise Induced Ventricular Arrhythmias: Who is an Athlete? — Clearing Scary Ventricular Arrhythmias (Presenter: Charles I. Berul, MD, FHRS, CCDS, CEPS-P)
• Assessment of Postoperative Congenital Heart Disease Ventricular Arrhythmia: Electrophysiologic vs Noninvasive Testing (Presenter: Edward P Walsh, MD, FHRS, CCDS, CEPS-P)

 

SCAIHRS Joint Session Intersection Between Structural Heart Procedures and Electrophysiology

 

• CMR Assessment and Guidance in Ventricular Tachycardia (Presenter: Roderick Tung, MD, FHRS)
• CMR Scanning in Patients with Implantable Cardiac Devices (Presenter: KanaeMukai, BS, MD)
• CMR Assessment and Guidance in Atrial Fibrillation (Presenter: Hiroshi Ashikaga,)
• CMR for Patients undergoing CRT (Presenter: Kenneth C. Bilchick, MD, MS, FHRS) (PDF)
• CMR for Patients undergoing CRT (Presenter: Kenneth C. Bilchick, MD, MS, FHRS) (Slides)

 

SCMRHRS Joint Session Clinical Value of CMR in the Evaluation of Patients With Cardiac Arrhythmias

 

• CMR Assessment and Guidance in Ventricular Tachycardia (Presenter: Roderick Tung, MD, FHRS)
• CMR Scanning in Patients with Implantable Cardiac Devices (Presenter: KanaeMukai, BS, MD)
• CMR Assessment and Guidance in Atrial Fibrillation (Presenter: Hiroshi Ashikaga,)
• CMR for Patients undergoing CRT (Presenter: Kenneth C. Bilchick, MD, MS, FHRS) (PDF)
• CMR for Patients undergoing CRT (Presenter: Kenneth C. Bilchick, MD, MS, FHRS) (Slides)

 

SCVPHRS Joint Session Sudden Death in the Young and in the Athlete

 

• Epidemiology of Sudden Death in the Athlete and pre-participation Screening (Presenter: Xavier Jouven, MD, PhD)
• Normal Heart and the need of uniform protocols of autopsy investigation (Presenter: Cristina Basso, MD, PhD)
• Toxicology, the Forgotten Actor in the Scene (Presenter: JacobTfelt-Hansen, DSC, MD)
• Commotio Cordis (How Much Common Is It?) (Presenter: Mark S. Link, MD, FHRS)
• Molecular Autopsy (Presenter: Christopher Semsarian, MBBS, MPH, PhD, FHRS)

 

WSAHRS Joint Session Progress in Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices Miniaturization in Technology and Extra-Cardiac Approach

 

• A Combination of S-ICD and Leadless Pacing: Will it be Mainstream in Future Practice? (Presenter: MichaelGlikson,)
• Wearable Cardioverter Defibrillator “the lifevest” – Device Design, Limitations, and Areas of Improvement (Presenter: Bruce L. Wilkoff, MD, FHRS, CCDS)
• Real World Experience with Wearable Cardiac Defibrillators (Presenter: CIsrael,)

 

 

 

 

13. Late-Breaking Clinical Trials

Late Breaking Clinical Trials Session I

 

• Chair (Presenter: Fred M. Kusumoto, MD, FHRS)
• Transcutaneous Electrical Vagus Nerve Stimulation To Suppress Atrial Fibrillation (TREAT AF): A Randomized Clinical Trial (Presenter: StavrosStavrakis, MD, PhD)
• Commentator – Transcutaneous Electrical Vagus Nerve Stimulation To Suppress Atrial Fibrillation (TREAT AF): A Randomized Clinical Trial (Presenter: Peng-Sheng Chen, MD, FHRS)
• Prospective Randomized Comparison Of Rotor Ablation Vs Conventional Ablation For Treatment Of Persistent Atrial Fibrillation – The REAFFIRM Trial (Presenter: JohannesBrachmann,)
• Commentator – Prospective Randomized Comparison Of Rotor Ablation Vs Conventional Ablation For Treatment Of Persistent Atrial Fibrillation – The REAFFIRM Trial (Presenter: Gregory …
• Evaluate Renal Artery Denervation In Addition to Catheter Ablation To Eliminate Atrial Fibrillation (ERADICATE-AF) Trial (Presenter: Jonathan S. Steinberg, MD, FHRS)
• Commentator – Evaluate Renal Artery Denervation In Addition to Catheter Ablation To Eliminate Atrial Fibrillation (ERADICATE-AF) Trial (Presenter: Cara N. Pellegrini, MD, FHRS)
• Baroreflex Activation Therapy In Patients With Heart Failure With A Reduced Ejection Fraction (Presenter: Michael R. Zile, MD)
• Commentator – Baroreflex Activation Therapy In Patients With Heart Failure With A Reduced Ejection Fraction (Presenter: Sanjeev Saksena, MBBS, MD, FHRS)
• His Corrective Pacing Or Biventricular Pacing For Cardiac Resynchronization In Heart Failure: A Randomized Pilot Trial (HIS SYNC) (Presenter: RoderickTung, MD, FHRS)
• Commentator – His Corrective Pacing Or Biventricular Pacing For Cardiac Resynchronization In Heart Failure: A Randomized Pilot Trial (HIS SYNC) (Presenter: Nora Goldschlager, MD, F …
• LBCT Abstract PDF Copies (Embargoed until time of presentation) (Presenter: Late Breaking Clinical Trials,) (PDF)
• LBCT Abstract PDF Copies (Embargoed until time of presentation) (Presenter: Late Breaking Clinical Trials,) (Slides)

 

Late Breaking Clinical Trials Session II New Data for Device Therapies

 

• Understanding Outcomes With The S-ICD In Primary Prevention Patients With Low Ejection Fraction (UNTOUCHED) Study: High Conversion Efficacy And Low Adverse Event Rate During The Fi …
• Commentator – Understanding Outcomes With The S-ICD In Primary Prevention Patients With Low Ejection Fraction (UNTOUCHED) Study: High Conversion Efficacy And Low Adverse Event Rate …
• Update From The Prevention Of Arrhythmia Device Infection Trial (padit); Development Of The Padit Infection Risk Score (Presenter: David H. Birnie, MD)
• Commentator – Update From The Prevention Of Arrhythmia Device Infection Trial (padit); Development Of The Padit Infection Risk Score (Presenter: Maria Birgersdotter-Green, MD, FHRS …
• Decline In Ventricular Arrhythmia Events And Mortality In The Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trials (Presenter: ValentinaKutyifa, MD, PhD, FHRS)
• Commentator – Decline In Ventricular Arrhythmia Events And Mortality In The Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trials (Presenter: Leslie A. Saxon, MD, FHRS, CCDS)
• After RAFT: Long Term Outcomes Of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (Presenter: Soori T Sivakumaran, MD)
• Commentator – After RAFT: Long Term Outcomes Of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (Presenter: Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, MD, FHRS)
• Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy In Chemotherapy-induced Cardiomyopathy: Results Of The Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial – Chemotherapy-induced Cardiomyopath …
• Commentator – Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy In Chemotherapy-induced Cardiomyopathy: Results Of The Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial – Chemotherapy-induced …

 

Late Breaking Clinical Trials Session III Late Breaking Science

 

• Prospective Evaluation Of Feasibility, Electrophysiological And Echocardiographic Characteristics Of Left Bundle Branch Area Pacing (Presenter: PugazhendhiVijayaraman, MD, FHRS)
• Is Nonselective His Bundle Pacing Good Enough? Long-term Outcomes From The Geisinger- Rush Hbp Registry (Presenter: DominikBeer, DO)
• Preventive Ablation Of Ventricular Tachycardia In Patients With Myocardial Infarction: The BERLIN-VT Trial (Presenter: Karl-HeinzKuck, MD, FHRS)
• Five-year Outcomes In Cardiac Surgery Patients With Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Concomitant Surgical Ablation Versus No Ablation. The Long-term Follow-up Of The Prague-12 Study …
• Real-time Electrogram Analysis For Drivers Of Atrial Fibrillation (Radar): A Multi-center, Fda-ide, Clinical Trial Of Persistent Af (Presenter: Vivek Y. Reddy, MD)
• Pulsed Field Ablation For Pulmonary Vein Isolation: Lesion Durability And Chronic Safety (Presenter: Vivek Y. Reddy, MD)

 

Late Breaking Clinical Trials Session IV Innovations

 

• First-in-human Chronic Implant Experience Of The Substernal Extravascular Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (Presenter: Ian G. Crozier, MBChB, MD, FHRS)
• Commentator – First-in-human Chronic Implant Experience Of The Substernal Extravascular Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (Presenter: Sanjeev Saksena, MBBS, MD, FHRS)
• DIGITAL-AF II: Results From A Real-life Digital Atrial Fibrillation Screening And Outcome Registry In The General Population (Presenter: TineProesmans, MASc)
• Commentator – DIGITAL-AF II: Results From A Real-life Digital Atrial Fibrillation Screening And Outcome Registry In The General Population (Presenter: David J. Slotwiner, MD, FHRS)
• Commentator – Non-invasive Localization Of Cardiac Arrhythmias Using Electromechanical Wave Imaging (Presenter: Gregory F. Michaud, MD, FHRS)
• A Novel Percutaneous Carotid Coil Filter For Stroke Prevention In Atrial Fibrillation: Outcomes Of The First-in-human CAPTURE Trial (Presenter: Vivek Y. Reddy, MD)
• Commentator – A Novel Percutaneous Carotid Coil Filter For Stroke Prevention In Atrial Fibrillation: Outcomes Of The First-in-human CAPTURE Trial (Presenter: Gregory F. Michaud, MD …
• Bipolar Catheter Ablation For The Treatment Of Refractory Scar-related Ventricular Tachycardia: A Multicenter, Prospective Fda Ide Study (Presenter: Srinivas R. Dukkipati, MD, FHRS …
• Commentator – Bipolar Catheter Ablation For The Treatment Of Refractory Scar-related Ventricular Tachycardia: A Multicenter, Prospective Fda Ide Study (Presenter: David J. Callans, …

 

 

14. Master Class

Approach to Complex VT

 

• Master: Unpacking the Approach to VT (Presenter: Francis Marchlinski, MD, FHRS)
• Case Presenter: NICM such as HOCM or one with Endo/epic VT — Mapping, use of EGM,Entrainment, mapping and how to use voltage to make decision etc, when to who epicardial etc (Pres …
• Case Presenter: Case of Sarcoid — Approach for Mapping and Ablation for Septal VT (Presenter: Suraj Kapa, MD, FHRS)
• Case Presenter: ICM — Mapping, use of EGM,Entrainment, when to who epicardial , how to go epicardial post CABG (Presenter: Srinivas R. Dukkipati, MD, FHRS)

 

Challenge the Legend

 

• Case presenter (Presenter: Salim F Idriss, MD, PhD, FHRS, CEPS-P)
• Case presenter (Presenter: Bhavya Trivedi, MD, PhD, CEPS-P)

 

Complex SVT – Mastered!

 

• Master (Presenter: George J Klein, MD)
• Case presenter (Presenter: RamananKumareswaran, MD)
• Case Presenter (Presenter: Narayanan Namboodiri, MBBS, MD)

 

Device Troubleshooting – Understanding the Post Implant Nuances!

 

• Pacemaker Troubleshooting (Presenter: Carsten W. Israel, MD)
• ICD troubleshooting (Presenter: Charles D. Swerdlow, MD, FHRS, CCDS)
• CRT Troubleshooting (Presenter: Andrew D. Krahn, MD, FHRS)

 

You Won’t Find It in the Guidelines! Ask the Master

 

• Case Presentation (Presenter: Charles A. Henrikson, MD, FHRS)
• Case Presentation (Presenter: Marye J. Gleva,)
• Case Presentation (Presenter: Raul D. Mitrani, MD, FHRS, CCDS)

 

 

15. Mini Board Review

EP 101 Introduction to EP for the New Allied Professional – Part I

 

• Introduction to Pacing: Basic Principles (Presenter: Amy G Tucker, BSN, CCDS)
• Introduction to ICD Therapy: Basic Principles and Concepts (Presenter: Douglas Steven Beinborn, BSN, MA, RN)
• Introduction to CRT: Basic Principles and Programming (Presenter: Nancy A. Lee, RN, FHRS, CCDS)
• Do’s and Don’ts in the EP Lab: Key Concepts to Remember During Device Procedures (Presenter: Anastasios Manaris, MD, FHRS, CCDS)

 

EP 101 Introduction to EP for the New Allied Professional – Part II

 

• Basic Principles of the EP Study (Presenter: Jonas A. Cooper, MD, MPH)
• Basic Principles of SVT/Atrial Flutter Ablation (Presenter: Cory M Tschabrunn, PhD, CEPS)
• Basic Principles of AF / VT Ablation (Presenter: Alex J. Cambridge, BS, CEPS, CCDS)
• Overview of EP Laboratory Complications: Diagnosis and Treatment (Presenter: Nancy Duran, FNP, NP)

 

Preparation for ABIM and EHRA Examinations

 

• Preparing for the Examination (Presenter: Edward P Gerstenfeld, MD, FHRS)
• SVT Tracings (Presenter: Jonathan M Kalman, MBBS, PhD, FHRS)
• VT: How To Tackle Difficult Tracings (Presenter: Haris M. Haqqani, MBBS, PhD, FHRS)
• VT Ablation: Entrainment (Presenter: Henry H Hsia, MD, FHRS)
• Atrial Tachycardias, Atrial Flutter, Atypical Atrial Flutter (Presenter: Mathew D Hutchinson, MD, FHRS)

 

Preparation for Device Questions

 

• Preparation for Device Questions (Presenter: Paul J Wang, MD, FHRS)
• Pacemaker Questions (Presenter: Ulrika Maria Birgersdotter-Green, MD, FHRS)
• CRT Questions (Presenter: Jeanne E Poole, MD, FHRS, CCDS)
• EP Through Devices Practical Questions (Presenter: Noel G Boyle, MD, PhD, FHRS)
• Lead Management: Infection and Extraction (Presenter: Christine Tompkins, MD)

 

 

16. Mini-Course

Ablation of Summit PVCs

 

• Chair (Presenter: G. Neal Kay, MD, CCDS)
• Anatomy and Electrocardiography of the LV summit (Presenter: Marmar Vaseghi, MD, FHRS)
• Endocardial Ablation Approach to LV Summit Arrhythmias (Presenter: Fermin C. Garcia, MD)
• Epicardial Ablation Approach to LV Summit Arrhythmias (Presenter: ArashAryana, MD, MS, FHRS)
• Surgical Ablation of LV Summit Arrhythmias (Presenter: Roderick Tung, MD, FHRS)
• Remote Magnetic Navigation-Guided Catheter Ablation of Left Ventricular Summit (Presenter: Pasquale Santangeli, MD, PhD)
• Interventional Approaches to Lesion Formation in the LV Summit — The Old and The New (Presenter: Saurabh Kumar, MD, PhD)

 

 

Complex VT Ablations in Children New Age Help for the Impossible Substrate

 

• A Case of An Impossible VT in a Child: HELP! (Presenter: Martin Runciman, MBBS, FHRS, CEPS-P)
• Making Sense of Papillary Muscle VT (Presenter: John K. Triedman, MD, FHRS, CEPS-P)
• Needle Tipped Catheter Ablation for the Hard to Approach VT (Presenter: Duy Thai Nguyen, MA, MD, FHRS)
• Imaging Strategies to Aid Complex VT Ablations (Presenter: Saman Nazarian, MD, PhD, FHRS)
• VT Ablation in Brugada Syndrome? Is There a Role in the Young Person? (Presenter: Koonlawee Nademanee, MD, FHRS, CCDS)
• VT Ablation in ARVC: Can WE Assure Long-term Success? (Presenter: Pasquale Santangeli, MD, PhD)

 

Device Therapy for Heart Failure State-of-the-Art 2019

 

• A Look Back On Cardiac Pacing (Presenter: Stavros Stavrakis, MD, PhD)
• Assessing Response to CRT: When, How, and Why (Presenter: Christophe I. Leclercq, MD, PhD)
• Multisite or Multipoint: Where Do We Stand in 2019? (Presenter: Rasmus Borgquist, MD, PhD)
• Neuromodulation for the Failing Heart: 2019 & Beyond (Presenter: Olujimi A. Ajijola, MD, PhD)
• Leadless Pacing or His Bundle Pacing: What is the Right Direction for 2019 & Beyond? (Presenter: Gaurav A. Upadhyay, MD, FHRS)

 

Extra-Cardiac Targets to Improve AF Outcomes

 

• Ralph Lazzara Lectureship Award: Mechanisms Underlying the Link between Body Composition and Atrial Fibrillation (Presenter: Stanley Nattel, MD, FHRS)
• Treating Sleep Apnea for AF – When, How, and Why? (Presenter: Dominik K Linz, MD, PhD)
• Exercise and AF – Prevention or Causation? (Presenter: Marco Perez,)
• Aggressive Upstream Therapy to Prevent AF Progression (Presenter: Harry J.G.M. Crijns, PhD)
• Comprehensive Risk Factor Management – Effect on AF Outcomes (Presenter: Prashanthan Sanders, MBBS, PhD, FHRS)
• Gut Microbes – Targets for AF? (Presenter: Sunny S. Po, MD, PhD)

 

Gender, Age and Arrhythmias Better Be Young and Female?

 

• Eric N. Prystowsky Lectureship Award: Sex Differences in Electrophysiology and Epidemiology of Atrial Fibrillation and Ventricular Arrhythmias (Presenter: Anne M. Gillis, MD, FHRS)
• Does Gender Influence Treatment Outcomes in AF? (Presenter: Isabel Deisenhofer, MD)
• ARVC, HCM and Other Cardiomyopathies: Age Predicts Risk? (Presenter: Christopher Semsarian, MBBS, MPH, PhD, FHRS)
• Sudden Death During Sports Activity: Only in Young Men? (Presenter: Paul Dorian, MD, FHRS)
• Gender and the Risk of VT/VF (Presenter: Christine Tompkins, MD)
• Impact of Age and Gender in Inherited Arrhythmias (Presenter: Elizabeth S. Kaufman, MD, FHRS)

 

Implantable Loop Recorders, Smart Rhythm Devices and More

 

• What is the Incremental Benefit of ILRs in Patients with Cryptogenic Stroke? (Presenter: Rod S. Passman, MD, FHRS)
• ILRs Can Be Utilized Better in Working Up Syncope (Presenter: Behzad B. Pavri, MD, FHRS)
• How to Manage Data Deluge From Implantable Devices? (Presenter: Venkatakrishna N. Tholakanahalli, MD, FHRS)
• ILRs are Better External Monitors for AF Management (Presenter: Moussa Mansour, MD, FHRS)
• Are We Ready for Incorporating Rhythm Monitoring in Clinical Practice Using Smart Phone Technologies? (Presenter: Subramaniam C. Krishnan, MD, FHRS)
• Population Screening for Atrial Fibrillation Using Smartphone-Based Technology — New Grass Roots Patient Engagement (Presenter: Christine M. Albert, MD, MPH, FHRS)

 

LAA 2019 Part I

 

• Anatomic Variations of LAA – Impact on Pathophysiology and Closure (Presenter: Sunil Kapur, BS, MD)
• Why Does the LAA Turn Rogue in Atrial Fibrillation Patients? (Presenter: David R Holmes, MD)
• Understanding Physiology – LAA Homeostasis and atrial function (Presenter: Dhanunjaya R. Lakkireddy, MD, FHRS)
• Periprocedural Cardiac Imaging for Effective LAA Management — TEE/CT (Presenter: Jacqueline Saw, MD)
• Who is the Right Candidate for LAA Closure? (Presenter: Claudio Tondo, MD, PhD, DPhil)
• LAA Exclusion as Adjunct to AF ablation – AMAZE and more (Presenter: Nitish Badhwar, MBBS, FHRS)

 

LAA 2019 Part II

 

• Current Evidence for LAA Occlusion With Endocardial Umbrella Devices (Presenter: Vivek Y. Reddy, MD)
• LAA Exclusion Using Epicardial Devices (Presenter: Randall J. Lee, MD, PhD)
• Managing Life-Threatening Complications Arising from LAA Occlusion (Presenter: Thorsten W Lewalter, MD, PhD)
• Managing Post LAAO Leaks and Device Related Thrombus (Presenter: Rodney P. Horton, MD, FHRS)
• Ongoing Clinical Trials in LAA Closure — Do We Really Need Them All? (Presenter: Saibal Kar, MBBS, MD)
• FDA Perspective — What More Data Do We Need in the LAA Space? (Presenter: Andrew Farb, MD)
• EHRA/EAPI Consensus Document Recommendations on Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion: What is New? (Presenter: Michael Glikson, MD)

 

Little Patients Can Be Big Challenges

 

• Using Fetal Pacing and Team Building as a Construct for Success: A TED Talk (Presenter: YanivBar Cohen, MD)
• Why the Electrophysiologist Should Care About SIDS and Seizures (Presenter: Martin Tristani-Firouzi, MD)
• How to Use Population Genetics to Understand Sudden Death in the Very Young (Presenter: JacobTfelt-Hansen, DSC, MD)
• How I Manage the Challenging Neonate with Pharmacology (Presenter: Jonathan Robert Skinner, MD, FHRS)
• How I Manage the Difficult Neonate: Ablation (Presenter: Elizabeth A. Stephenson, MD, FHRS, CEPS-P)
• How I Manage the Difficult Neonate Using Devices (Presenter: Douglas Y. Mah, MD, CEPS-P)
• How to Manage the Difficult Neonate. When Doing Nothing is the Best Approach (Presenter: James C. Perry, MD, FHRS, CEPS-P)
• Little Baby: Tiny Toys. How the FDA Can Help with Miniaturization (Presenter: Hetal Odobasic, BS, MS)

 

Managing Arrhythmias in HF Patients Insights from Recent Clinical Trials

 

• An Overview of VEST: What Did We Learn? (Presenter: Jeffrey E. Olgin, MD, FHRS)
• VEST: A Clinical Perspective (Presenter: Ilan Goldenberg, MD)
• VEST: A Clinical Trialist Perspective (Presenter: Anne B. Curtis, MD, FHRS)
• An Overview of CASTLE-AF: What Did We Learn? (Presenter: Johannes Brachmann, PhD, FHRS)
• CAMERA-MRI: What Did We Learn? (Presenter: Peter M. Kistler, MBBS, PhD, FHRS)
• CASTLE-AF and CAMERA-MRI: A Clinical Perspective (Presenter: Albert L. Waldo, MD, FHRS, CCDS)

 

The Difficult Coronary Sinus Lead

 

• How to Implant LV Leads in Patients with Coronary Sinus Anomalies (Presenter: Sandeep Bansal, MD, MPH)
• Negotiating a Tricky CS OS (Presenter: Mark Panna, MD, FHRS)
• Getting Leads into Small Branch Veins (Presenter: Gregory E. Supple, MD, FHRS)
• Managing High Thresholds and Phrenic Stimulation (Presenter: Nestor Cabanillas, MD)
• When the CS is Inaccessible: Options? (Presenter: Timm-Michael Dickfeld, MD, PhD)
• Snare Technique for LV Lead Implantation (Presenter: Albert Y. Sun, MD)

 

 

17. Moderated ePoster

2019 Pediatric Electrophysiology Potpourri

 

• Pectoral Nerve Blocks Decrease Post-Operative Pain And Opiate Use After Pacemaker Or ICD Placement In Children (Presenter: JeffreyYang, MD, BS)
• Thromboembolic Complications In Patients With Atrial Standstill And Inability To Atrial Pace (Presenter: Taylor Stewart Howard, MD)
• Comparison Of Outcomes Of Pediatric Catheter Ablation Under General Anesthesia Versus Sedation: An Analysis Of Data From The IMPACT Registry (Presenter: Christopher M. Janson, MD, …
• Role Of Persistent Left Superior Vena Cava In Arrhythmogenesis And Ablation In Patients With Atrial Fibrillation (Presenter: VaibhavVaidya, MBBS)

 

Arrhythmia Mechanisms in Inheritable Arrhythmia Syndromes

 

• The Fibro-fatty Environment Is A Critical Determinant Of Arrhythmia Substrates In Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy (Presenter: Sunil K. Vasireddi, BSBME, MD)
• Next-generation Sequencing Based Genetic Testing Can Detect Concealed Cardiomyopathies In Patients With Idiopathic Ventricular Fibrillation (Presenter: Ki YungBoo,)
• Role Of Depolarizing Currents In Brugada Syndrome’s Cellular Phenotype (Presenter: Zeina R Al Sayed,)
• Quantification Of Transmural Arrhythmia Dynamics In Human Rvot (Presenter: Ndeye RokhayaFaye, Ph.D)

 

                Best in Show Case Reports

 

• Chair (Presenter: T. Jared Bunch, MD, FHRS)
• A Tragic Case Of LifeVest Failure To Detect And Deliver Appropriate Therapy For Ventricular Arrhythmias (Presenter: ArielVinas,)
• Bidirectional Ablation For Bidirectional VT (Presenter: NicholasMantini, MD)
• A Novel Diagnostic Approach To An Undifferentiated Mass On A Device Lead (Presenter: DAVIDCHANG, MD)
• Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy For The Treatment Of Ventricular Tachycardia Secondary To Cardiac Lipoma (Presenter: lihonghuang,)

 

Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Devices – Present and Future

 

• Misdiagnosis Of Ventricular Tachycardia In Patients With Cardiac Sarcoidosis With Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator- Problem With The Stability Discriminator (Presenter: Debab …
• Implantable Defibrillator Early After Primary Percutaneous Intervention For St-elevation Myocardial Infarction: The Defibrillator After Primary Angioplasty (dapa) …
• An Entirely Extracardiac, Minimally Invasive, Pacing System (Presenter: Anne-Floor B.E. Quast, MD)
• Tricuspid Valve Dysfunction: A Multicenter Echocardiographic Comparison Between Leadless Versus Transvenous Single-Chamber Pacing Therapy (Presenter: NiekBeurskens, MD)
• A Novel Evaluation Method For Detection Of Three-dimensional Lead Curvature And Associated Strains Of Implanted Leads (Presenter: TamasSzili-Torok, MD, PhD)

 

Defining Substrate Based Ventricular Arrhythmias – Novel Approaches to Mapping

 

• Mechanisms And Ablation Challenges For Ventricular Tachycardia In Patients With Left Ventricular Assist Devices: The Importance Of Peri-cannula Origins (Presenter: RyohsukeNarui, M …
• Safety And Outcomes Of Substrate-guided VT Ablation In Sinus Rhythm. Results Of The Multicenter Registry Of Scar Dechanneling (Presenter: FelipeBisbal Van Bylen,)
• High Density Mapping Of Dynamic Functional Late Potentials And Functional Late Repolarization Identifies Critical Sites For Ablation In Ventricular Tachycardia (Presenter: Neil T. …
• Totally Endoscopic Robotic Epicardial Ablation Of Refractory Left Ventricular Summit Arrhythmia: Feasibility And Outcomes Of Initial 10 Cases (Presenter: ZaidAziz, MD)
• Ablation Of CT-derived Wall Thickness Channels In Post-infarction Ventricular Tachycardia: Comparison To Conventional Lava Elimination Strategy (Presenter: MasateruTakigawa, MD)
• Multi-size Electrodes For Substrate Identification In Ischemic Cardiomyopathy: Validation By Whole Heart Histology (Presenter: ClaireGlashan, MD)

 

Enhancing Clinical Outcomes in Device Therapy Patients

 

• Post Electrophysiology Procedure Monitoring With a Novel Wearable Device (Presenter: LiorJankelson, MD)
• Procedural Profiles and Outcomes of Coronary Venous Injuries During Coronary Sinus Lead Placement for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (Presenter: JohnnyChahine,)
• Coronary Venoplasty To Facilitate Left Ventricular (LV) Lead Placement During Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy (CRT) Implant (Presenter: Chen Chen ElaineBoey, MBBS)
• Change In Blood Pressure Following Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy And Subsequent Clinical Outcomes In Madit-crt (Presenter: Khaled H Abdulla,)
• Rates And Predictors Of Cardiac Implantable Electronic Device Infections Within 90 Days Following Implantation: Insights From The Nationwide Readmissions Database 2010 – 2014 (Pres …

 

Epidemiology of AF Revisited

 

• Risk Of Dementia By Incident Atrial Fibrillation In Elderly Population (Presenter: DongminKim, MD)
• Prevalence Of Silent Atrial Fibrillation In The Women’s Health Initiative Strong And Healthy Silent Atrial Fibrillation Recording Study (whish Star) (Presenter: JeffreyLin, MD)
• Atrial Fibrillation As A Phenotypical Characteristic Of Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy: Experience From The Nordic Arvc Registry (Presenter: Maria A Baturova, MD, …
• Patient Experience With Caffeine and Cardiac Ectopy (Presenter: Christina D Fang,)
• Prognostic Significance Of Atrial Fibrillation Without Comorbidities: The Reasons For Geographic And Racial Differences In Stroke (regards) Study (Presenter: Matthew J. Singleton, …

 

Innovations in Monitoring and Device Therapy for Heart Failure

 

• A Feasibility Study To Find Optimal Pacing Site Of Left Quadripole Lead Based On Non-invasive Electrocardiographic Imaging (Presenter: StepanZubarev,)
• Synchronized Biventricular Pacing with Wirelessly Powered Pacemakers (Presenter: HongmingLyu,)
• Novel Quadripolar Active Fixation Left Ventricular Pacing Lead For Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: One-year Follow Up Data From A Multi Center Uk Registry (Presenter: MichaelCha …
• Novel Device-based Algorithm Could Obtain Optimal Hemodynamics During Exercise In Patients With Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: Results Of Exercise Stress Echocardiographic Opti …

 

Managing Data – Beyond the Device Implantation!

 

• The Role Of A Novel Remote Monitoring Data Management System In Ameliorating Data Deluge From Implantable Loop Recorders (Presenter: Manish K. Wadhwa, MD, FHRS)
• Are Current Generation Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices (CIEDS) Good Enough To Last A Lifetime? (Presenter: NigelGupta, MD)
• Driving Restrictions And Early Arrhythmias In Patients Receiving A Primary Prevention Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator (DREAM-ICD Study) (Presenter: ChristianSteinberg, MD)
• Efficiency and Accuracy Of Arrhythmia Detection Using Implantable Cardiac Monitor: A Prospective Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing Reveal LINQTMAnd Confirm RxTM

 

Mapping AF What ECG Recordings Can Tell

 

• Spatial Characteristics Of Fibrillatory Wave Loops Correlate with Atrial Fibrillation Complexity And Drivers (Presenter: MariannaMeo, PhD)
• Micro-atrial Fibrillation Episodes (4 Beats – 29s) Are Usually Followed By Clinical Atrial Fibrillation (≥30s) (Presenter: Linda Sofia Birgitta Johnson, MD, PhD)
• High Density Epicardial Mapping Of Persistent Atrial Fibrillation: Association Of Rotational Activity With Lines Of Block At The Crista Terminalis (Presenter: Chrishan Joseph Nalli …
• The Prediction Of New-onset Atrial Fibrillation After Cavo-tricuspid Isthmus Dependent Atrial Flutter Ablation (Presenter: YUHIFUJIMOTO, MD)

 

Mechanistic Insights Into Heart Failure Therapies

 

• His-bundle Pacing Is Associated With Positive Left Ventricular Remodeling And Improvement In Functional Mitral Regurgitation (Presenter: DavideGenovese, MD)
• His Bundle Pacing Versus Biventricular Pacing In Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: Acute Hemodynamic And Electrophysiological Effects (Presenter: Floor CWM Salden, MD)
• Therapy With Ivabradine Improves Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Calcium Uptake In Dogs With Chronic Heart Failure (Presenter: Hani N. Sabbah, PhD)
• Vectorcardiography Demonstrates Electrical Synchronization By Multipoint Pacing With Dynamic AVD Programming (Presenter: Frits W Prinzen, PhD)

 

New Lessons in SVT

 

• Machine Learning Can Predict Accessory Pathway Location With Greater Accuracy Than A Conventional Algorithm (Presenter: AhranArnold, MBBS)
• VA Linking After Atrial Entrainment Of Typical Fast-slow Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia Is Masked Depending On The Pacing Rate (Presenter: YoshiakiKaneko, MD, PhD)
• Localizing Posteroseptal Accessory Pathways- Right Vs Left- Insights From Ventricular Overdrive Pacing (Presenter: DebabrataBera, MD)
• Ablation Of Supraventricular Tachycardias From Concealed Left-sided Nodoventricular And Nodofascicular Accessory Pathways (Presenter: RicardoCardona Guarache, MD, MPH)
• Identification Of Conduction Isthmuses By Coherence Map To Treat Multiple Reentrant Circuits In Scar-related Atrial Tachycardia (Presenter: Jennifer Jeanne B. Vicera, MD)
• Catheter Ablation Of Atypical Atrial Flutter Using The HD-grid Mapping Catheter (Presenter: Jippe C Balt, MD, PhD)

 

Nuances in CIEDs Implantation and Management

 

• Ultrasound Real Time Guided Venous Access To Reduce Vascular Complications In Stimulation Device Implant Procedures (Presenter: Federico José Malavassi, MD)
• Leadless Pacemaker Implant, Anticoagulation Status, And Outcomes: Results From The Micra Transcatheter Pacing System Post-approval Registry (Presenter: Mikhael F. El-Chami, MD, FHR …
• “Snare-Over-Snare” Technique During Percutaneous Lead Extraction (Presenter: Edward C. Clermont, BSE, MD)
• Use of The Penumbra Indigo Aspiration System During Transvenous Lead Extraction (Presenter: Travis D. Richardson, MD)
• Optimal Cied Surgical Pocket Management Using A Microengineered Biocellulose Membrane (Presenter: FrancescoRobotti, PhD)

 

Oral Anticoagulation and LAA Occluder Effects, Side-Effects and Open Questions

 

• Of Left Atrial Appendage Thrombus In Patients Treated With Direct Oral Anticoagulants Versus Warfarin For Atrial Fibrillation (Presenter: KentaroMinami,)
• Risk Of Thromboembolic Events And Intracranial Hemorrhage In Patients Who Are On And Off Oral Anticoagulation Therapy After Catheter Ablation Of Atrial Fibrillation (Presenter: Jor …
• ACT Correlates Poorly With Anti Factor Xa Assay In Patients On Novel Anticoagulants Undergoing AF Ablation (Presenter: ArtemAstsaturov, MD)
• Risk And Implications Of Collateral Damage To The Contiguous Vessels From Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion Devices – A Systematic Review (Presenter: Sharan Prakash Sharma, MD)
• Safety And Efficacy Of Direct Current Cardioversion In Patients With Left Atrial Appendage Closure Device (Presenter: Sharan Prakash Sharma, MD)

 

Pediatric EP Outcomes

 

• A New Foundation For ECG Analysis In Youth (Presenter: AndrasBratincsak, MBA, MD, PhD)
• 411 For Young Icd Patients And Parents: Seeking Different Information? (Presenter: Lauren M. Schneider, PhD)
• Contemporary Outcomes Of Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation For Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia In Children And Young Adults (Presenter: Edward Thomas O’Leary, MD)
• The Long-term Complications Of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy In Children And Patients With Congenital Heart Disease (Presenter: HenryChubb, MA, MBBS, PhD)
• Impact Of Catheter Ablation For Atrial Arrhythmia On The Reduction Of Repeat Cardioversion In Patients With Adult Congenital Heart Disease (Presenter: SatoshiKawada, MD)
• Revisiting Pediatric Electrophysiologists’ Approach To Asymptomatic Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome (Presenter: HenryChubb, MA, MBBS, PhD)

 

Systemic Determinants of AF Ablation Outcomes and Complications

 

• Chair (Presenter: Dennis H Lau, MBBS, PhD, FHRS)
• Marked Reduction in Recurrence Rates Following Bariatric Surgery in Morbidly Obese Patients Undergoing Atrial Fibrillation Ablation (Presenter: EoinDonnellan, MD)
• Risk Factors For The Occurrence of Stroke After Atrial Fibrillation Ablation: The Relevance Between Epicardial Adipose Tissue And Embolic Stroke (Presenter: JinheeAhn, MD)
• Catheter Ablation Of Atrial Fibrillation Reduces The Future Risk Of Dementia During A Long-term Follow-up: A National Cohort Study (Presenter: Yenn-JiangLin, MD, PhD)
• Is Epicardial Adipose Tissue The Cause Or Consequence Of Atrial Fibrillation?: Implication Of Ablation Effects (Presenter: SeinaYagyu,)
• Shorter Leukocyte Telomere Length Is Associated With Atrial Remodeling And Predicts The Recurrence Of Atrial Fibrillation After Radiofrequency Ablation Therapy (Presenter: Kuo LiPa …

 

Transcriptional Regulation of Heart Rhythm

 

• Transcriptomic Profiling Of The Developing Cardiac Conduction System At Single-Cell Resolution (Presenter: William R Goodyer, MD, PhD)
• Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure Independently Alter Gene Expression in Human Atrial Tissue Samples (Presenter: StefZeemering, PhD)
• Human Disease Model Of IRX5 Mutations Reveals Key Role For This Transcription Factor In The Regulation Of Cardiac Conduction (Presenter: Zeina R Al Sayed, PhD)

 

 

18. Pioneers Unplugged

HRS Awardee Pioneers

 

• Chair (Presenter: Igor R. Efimov, PhD, FHRS)
• Panelist (Presenter: David J Milan, MD)
• Panelist (Presenter: Rishi Arora, MD, FHRS)
• Panelist (Presenter: Raul D. Mitrani, MD, FHRS, CCDS)

 

Meet the Mentor

 

• Chair (Presenter: Patrick Boyle, BS, PhD, FHRS)
• Mentor (Presenter: Geoffrey S Pitt, MD, PhD)
• Mentor (Presenter: Peng-Sheng Chen, MD, FHRS)
• Mentor (Presenter: Bjorn C. Knollmann, MD, PhD)
• Mentor (Presenter: Isabelle Deschenes, PhD)
• Mentor (Presenter: Sumeet S. Chugh, MD, FHRS)
• Mentor (Presenter: Connie R Bezzina, PhD)
• Mentor (Presenter: Alfred L. George, MD)
• Mentor (Presenter: Carol Ann Remme, MD, PhD)
• Mentor (Presenter: David J Christini, PhD)
• Mentor (Presenter: Patrick T. Ellinor, MD, PhD)
• Mentor (Presenter: Brian O’Rourke, PhD)

 

 

Pioneers in VT Ablation

 

• Chair (Presenter: William G. Stevenson, MD, FHRS)
• Panelist (Presenter: Francis Marchlinski, MD, FHRS)
• Panelist (Presenter: Paolo Della Bella, MD)
• Panelist (Presenter: Warren M. Jackman, MD, FHRS)

 

 

19. Rapid Fire Cases

Challenging Cases What to Do When

 

• My Patient’s ICD is at ERI and has a Functioning Fidelis? or Riata? Use it, Extract or Abandon and Replace? (Presenter: Robert N. Goldstein, MD, FHRS)
• My Pacemaker Patient has Pacing Induced Cardiomyopathy — Upgrade to CRT- D or P? (Presenter: Christine Tompkins, MD)
• My Patient has Numerous LV Branches! How Do I Choose? (Presenter: Theofanie Mela, MD)
• My ICD Patient Scheduled for LVAD has Lead Endocarditis- Should I Reimplant the ICD? (Presenter: Ashish A. Bhimani, BSE, MD, FHRS)
• My Post-TAVR Patient with EF of 40% has AV Block- What Device Should I Implant? (Presenter: Elaine Wan, MD, FHRS)
• The LV Lead No Longer Captures: What’s the Best Approach? (Presenter: Frederick T. Han, MD, FHRS)

 

Decoding the Complex Atrial Flutter

 

• Multielectrode Mapping of Post-AF Ablation Atrial Flutters (Presenter: Subbarao Choudry, MD) (PDF)
• Multielectrode Mapping of Post-AF Ablation Atrial Flutters (Presenter: Subbarao Choudry, MD) (Slides)
• Ultrahigh Density Mapping to Identify the Isthmus (Presenter: Pierre Jais, MD) (PDF)
• Ultrahigh Density Mapping to Identify the Isthmus (Presenter: Pierre Jais, MD) (Slides)
• Intra-atrial Reentrant Tachycardia in Congenital Heart Disease (Presenter: Edward P Walsh, MD, FHRS, CCDS, CEPS-P) (PDF)
• Intra-atrial Reentrant Tachycardia in Congenital Heart Disease (Presenter: Edward P Walsh, MD, FHRS, CCDS, CEPS-P) (Slides)
• Atypical Atrial Flutter After Cardiac Transplantation (Presenter: William Whang, MD, FHRS) (PDF)
• Atypical Atrial Flutter After Cardiac Transplantation (Presenter: William Whang, MD, FHRS) (Slides)
• Left Atrial Appendage Tachycardias (Presenter: Rodney P. Horton, MD, FHRS) (PDF)
• Left Atrial Appendage Tachycardias (Presenter: Rodney P. Horton, MD, FHRS) (Slides)
• Ablation of Mitral Isthmus Dependent Atrial Flutter (Presenter: Gregory F. Michaud, MD, FHRS) (PDF)
• Ablation of Mitral Isthmus Dependent Atrial Flutter (Presenter: Gregory F. Michaud, MD, FHRS) (Slides)

 

New Devices, New Problems!

 

• Periprocedural Programming Management for Improved Sensing, Defibrillation and More (Presenter: Bharat K. Kantharia, MD, FHRS)
• My SICD Patient Needs a Pacemaker! Extract Implant a Transvenous ICD or Simply Add a Leadless pacemaker? (Presenter: Mikhael F. El-Chami, MD, FHRS)
• How to Minimize Inappropriate Sensing in SICD? (Presenter: Martin C. Burke, DO)
• Troubleshooting and Programming Issues in Leadless Pacemakers (Presenter: Nitish Badhwar, MBBS, FHRS)
• How to Minimize Periprocedural Complications Related to SICD Implantation? (Presenter: M. Rizwan Rizwan Afzal, MD)
• Panelist (Presenter: Bharat K. Kantharia, MD, FHRS)

 

SVT Is Not Always Benign – Cases

 

• Persistent AT Leading to Tachycardia-Induced Cardiomyopathy (Presenter: Felix Bourier, MD)
• How to Tackle This Difficult JET? (Presenter: Johannes C. Von Alvensleben, MD, CEPS-P)
• Malignant WPW (Presenter: Thomas M. Munger, MD, FHRS)
• A Case of Long RP Tachycardia (Presenter: Teiichi Yamane, MD, PhD, FHRS)
• Double Trouble: Drug Refractory AT in Adult Congenital Heart Disease (Presenter: Maully J. Shah, MBBS, FHRS, CCDS, CEPS-P)
• A Case of an AT Arising From the Aortic Cusp (Presenter: Yash Lokhandwala,)

 

What I Learned From My Worst Case

 

• A Pharmacologic Nightmare (Presenter: Carolina A. Escudero, MD, MS)
• I Should Have Left That Lead In Place (Presenter: Thomas A. Pilcher, MD, MS, FHRS, CEPS-P)
• I Am Not Sure That Was Aborted Sudden Death (Presenter: Stephanie Frances Chandler, MD)
• My Device Nightmare (Presenter: Caridad M. de la Uz, MD)

 

 

20. Special Session

#EP The Social Media Revolution

 

• International Collaboration Through Social Media: Flattening the Global EP World (Presenter: Suneet Mittal, BA, MD, FHRS)
• Social Media & Education: Can Education be Provided by Twitter (Presenter: Jason G. Andrade, MD, FHRS)
• Why Social Media is the Best MOC (Presenter: Faisal M. Merchant, MD, FHRS)
• Social Media for Successful Advocacy: Pipe Dream or Reality (Presenter: Jennifer N. Avari Silva, MD, FHRS, CEPS-P)
• How a Year in Social Media Made Me Better Electrophysiologist (Presenter: Rakesh Gopinathannair, MA, MD, FHRS)

 

 

 

 

Allied Professionals Luncheon 21st Century EP and 40 Years of Growth

 

• 40 Years of HRS: Past, Present & Future (Presenter: Erica S. Zado, PAC, FHRS)
• Update on EP Biosensors and Wearables (Presenter: Monica Pammer Austin, PAC)

 

Allied Professionals Luncheon Real-World Approach to Evolving Practices in EP

 

• Implementing Shared Decision-Making Tools/Decisional Aids (Presenter: Lori Harvey, CCNS, CNS, CCDS)
• Evolving Device Clinic Staffing Strategies in the Age of “Big Data” (Presenter: David J. Orenstein, FHRS, CEPS, CCDS)
• Creating Multi-disciplenary Integrated Clinics for Improved Patient Care (Presenter: Jeroen ML Hendriks, MS, PhD, RN)
• Performing MRI’s in Patients with Cardiac Devices (Presenter: Tamara M. Brunker, MHS, PAC)

 

Atrial Fibrillation Centers of Excellence What Can HRS Do to Help

 

• What is a “Center of Excellence” and Why Should I Consider Establishing This at My Hospital? (Presenter: Suneet Mittal, BA, MD, FHRS)
• Taking Care of the “Whole Patient”: The Role of Prevention (Presenter: Jonathan M. Kalman, MBBS, PhD, FHRS)
• What are the “Nuts and Bolts” of Establishing a Center? (Presenter: James Allred, MD)
• An International Perspective (Presenter: Thomas Deneke, MD, PhD, FHRS)
• The Role of the Interdisciplinary Team (Presenter: Jeroen ML Hendriks, MS, PhD, RN)
• The Role of Registries in Centers of Excellence: How Do We Improve Performance? (Presenter: William R. Lewis, MD, FHRS)

 

Attendee Orientation

 

• Chair (Presenter: Fred Kusumoto,) (PDF)
• Chair (Presenter: Fred Kusumoto,) (Slides)

 

Beware the DIY Genome Analysis Update for Practitioners of Inaccurate Results in Direct-to-Consumer Testing for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease Genes

 

• What’s in a Test? Differences Between Clinical Genetic Testing and Direct to Consumer Testing (Presenter: Tia Gabriela Rill Moscarello, BS, MS)
• Wrong Diagnoses and Inappropriate ICDs: Pitfalls of using DTC results for clinical care (Presenter: Brittney A. Murray, MS)
• Long Term Implications of DTC Testing, Clinical Utility and Use of Healthcare Resources (Presenter: Patricia L Arscott, MS, CGC)

 

Cardiac Electrophysiology Society Scientific Session Predicting and Treating AF – The Impact of Big Data Analysis

 

• CES Business meeting (Presenter: Charles Antzelevitch, PhD, FHRS) (PDF)
• CES Business meeting (Presenter: Charles Antzelevitch, PhD, FHRS) (Slides)
• Atrial fibrillation: Lessons learned from the Framingham Heart Study (Presenter: Emelia J. Benjamin, MD)
• Monitoring Devices to Detect Early Stage AF (Presenter: Gregory M. Marcus, MD, FHRS)
• Present and Future of AF Ablation and Other Invasive Approaches (Presenter: Hugh Calkins, MD, FHRS, CCDS)
• The 2019 Gordon K. Moe Lectureship: Atrial Fibrillation — From Genetics to Mechanisms and Therapeutic Targets (Presenter: Patrick T. Ellinor, MD, PhD)

 

Cardiac Imaging for Screening, Prognostication, and Treatment of Arrhythmias

 

• Advanced MR Tissue Imaging: A Novel Arrhythmia Predictor and Screening Tool (Presenter: Peter M. Kistler, MBBS, PhD, FHRS)
• Redefining “Lone Atrial Fibrillation” Using Advanced Imaging Modalities (Presenter: Christian Mahnkopf, MD)
• Imaging of Atrial Myopathy to Predict Cardiovascular Outcomes (Presenter: Nazem Akoum, MD, MS, FHRS)
• Fibrosis and Ventricular Arrhythmogenesis: Role of Cardiac MRI (Presenter: Mohammad Shenasa, MD, PhD, FHRS)
• Cardiac MRI and CT for Cardiac Mapping and Ablation (Presenter: Philipp Sommer, MD, FHRS)

 

CCEP Program Directors’ Luncheon CCEP Training in 2019

 

• Chair (Presenter: Usha B. Tedrow, MD, MS, FHRS)
• Invited Speaker (Presenter: George H. Crossley, MD, FHRS)
• Invited Speaker (Presenter: Ronald D. Berger, MD, PhD, FHRS)
• Invited Speaker (Presenter: Usha B. Tedrow, MD, MS, FHRS)

 

Early Career Research

 

• “Now that my notes are done…” — Performing Research as a Young Clinician (Presenter: Sanjiv M. Narayan, MD, PhD, FHRS)
• Odd Bedfellows: QI and Traditional Science (Presenter: Jose Luis Merino, MD, PhD)
• Finding the Right Journal for Your Manuscript (Presenter: Peng-Sheng Chen, MD, FHRS)
• Show Me the Money: Funding Opportunities at the NIH and Elsewhere (Presenter: Jonathan R. Kaltman, MD)
• Collaboration Beyond HR Scientific Sessions (Presenter: Christopher Semsarian, MBBS, MPH, PhD, FHRS)

 

Global Disparities in Cardiac Pacemaker Therapy

 

• Global Disparities in Pacemaker Use: Overview of the Problem and Potential Solutions (Presenter: Behzad B. Pavri, MD, FHRS)
• Pacemaker Re-Use: Review of the Evidence (Presenter: Sunil K. Sinha, MD, FHRS)
• A Way Forward: Project My Heart Your Heart (Presenter: Thomas C. Crawford, MD, FHRS)
• FDA Perspective on Pacemaker Re-Use (Presenter: Brian Lewis, MD)
• Global Disparities in Pacemaker Use: Where Do We Go From Here? (Presenter: Stephen C. Vlay, MD, FHRS)
• Panel Discussion (Presenter: Panel Discussion)

 

 

 

 

 

Global Heart Rhythm Quality Improvement Forum

 

• Reducing Risk Factors via Team-based Care (Presenter: Prashanthan Sanders, MBBS, PhD, FHRS)
• Key Issues Related to Adhering to AF Guidelines in China (Presenter: Yan Yao, MD, PhD, FHRS)
• Initiating AF Ablation Standardization (Presenter: Thomas Deneke, MD, PhD, FHRS)
• Developing Effective AF Care in India (Presenter: Anil Saxena, MBBS, MD)

 

Global Roundtable Challenging Cases in Clinical EP (China, Croatia, S. Africa, Argentina, Israel)

 

• Case from China (Presenter: NING Zhang, MD)
• Case from Croatia (Presenter: Ivan Sikirica,)
• Invited Speaker (Presenter: Sarah Kraus, MBChB)
• Case from Argentina (Presenter: Luis E Aguinaga Arrascue, MD, PhD)
• Case from Israel (Presenter: Anat Milman, MD, PhD)

 

Heart Rhythm Bowl Finals

 

• Chair (Presenter: Dhanunjaya R. Lakkireddy, MD, FHRS)
• Official Judge (Presenter: Amin Al-Ahmad, MD, FHRS, CCDS)
• Official Judge (Presenter: T. Jared Bunch, MD, FHRS)
• Official Judge (Presenter: Wendy S. Tzou, MD, FHRS)
• Official Judge (Presenter: Pugazhendhi Vijayaraman, MD, FHRS)
• Official Scorekeeper (Presenter: Ragesh Panikkath, MD)
• Official Scorekeeper (Presenter: Ricardo Cardona Guarache, MD, MPH)
• Official Scorekeeper (Presenter: Rakesh Gopinathannair, MA, MD, FHRS)
• Official Scorekeeper (Presenter: Niti Chadha, MBBS, MD, CCDS, CEPS-A)

 

Heart Rhythm Bowl Semifinals

 

• Chair (Presenter: Dhanunjaya R. Lakkireddy, MD, FHRS)
• Official Judge (Presenter: Amin Al-Ahmad, MD, FHRS, CCDS)
• Official Judge (Presenter: T. Jared Bunch, MD, FHRS)
• Official Judge (Presenter: Wendy S. Tzou, MD, FHRS)
• Official Judge (Presenter: Pugazhendhi Vijayaraman, MD, FHRS)
• Official Scorekeeper (Presenter: Rakesh Gopinathannair, MA, MD, FHRS)
• Official Scorekeeper (Presenter: Sergio L. Pinski, MD, FHRS, CCDS, CEPS-A)
• Official Scorekeeper (Presenter: Jason G. Andrade, MD, FHRS)
• Official Scorekeeper (Presenter: Niti Chadha, MBBS, MD, CCDS, CEPS-A)

 

Heart Rhythm Society’s Research Fellowship Awards

 

• Chair (Presenter: Kenneth R. Laurita, PhD) (PDF)
• Chair (Presenter: Kenneth R. Laurita, PhD) (Slides)
• Winner of the Kenneth M. Rosen Fellowship in Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology Scholarship (Presenter: Anna Pfenniger, MD, PhD)
• Winner of the Clinical Research Award in Honor of Mark Josephson and Hein Wellens Scholarship (Presenter: Adam C. Lee, MBBS, CEPS-A, CCDS)
• Past HRS Fellowship Award Winner (Presenter: Gregory M. Marcus, MD, FHRS)
• 2019 Award Presentation and Significance of HRS Awards (Presenter: Peng-Sheng Chen, MD, FHRS)

 

HeartRhythm Journal Presents Part I New Therapies for Cardiac Arrhythmias

 

• Permanent His-bundle Pacing as an Alternative to Biventricular Pacing for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: A Multicenter Experience (Presenter: Pugazhendhi Vijayaraman, MD, FHRS)
• Permanent His-bundle Pacing: Long-term Lead Performance and Clinical Outcomes (Presenter: Pugazhendhi Vijayaraman, MD, FHRS)
• Catheter Ablation vs Electrophysiologically Guided Thoracoscopic Surgical Ablation in Long-standing Persistent Atrial Fibrillation: The CASA-AF Study (Presenter: Tom Wong,)
• Clinical Effectiveness of a Systematic “Pill-in-the-Pocket” Approach for the Management of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation (Presenter: Jason G. Andrade, MD, FHRS)

 

 

HeartRhythm Journal Presents Part II: New Mechanisms of Cardiac Arrhythmias

 

• Presence of cardiomyocytes exhibiting Purkinje-type morphology and prominent connexin45 immunoreactivity in the myocardial sleeves of cardiac veins (Presenter: SzilviaKugler, MD)
• Using the genome aggregation database, computational pathogenicity prediction tools, and patch clamp heterologous expression studies to demote previously published long QT syndrome …
• Antiarrhythmic Effects of Vagal Nerve Stimulation after Cardiac Sympathetic Denervation in the Setting of Chronic Myocardial Infarction (Presenter: Marmar Vaseghi, MD, MS, PhD, FHR …
• Cardiac Electrical Dyssynchrony Is Accurately Detected by Noninvasive Electrocardiographic Imaging (Presenter: Laura R Bear, PhD)

 

History Session Agustin Castellanos Jr. (1928-2017)

 

• Agustin Castellanos Jr.: The Man, Those Times and A Teacher’s Remarkable Journey to Critical Deductive Scholarship (Presenter: Robert J. Myerburg, MD)
• “Tino” Castellanos and the early days of His Bundle Physiology, Pathology and Pacing (Presenter: Ruey J. Sung, MD)
• Pioneering Studies in Electrocardiography and the Diagnosis of Conduction Abnormalities in Acute Myocardial Infarction (Presenter: Samuel Levy, MD)
• Deductive ECG Analysis in Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia and its Laboratory Validation — A Master’s Lesson Opening a New Frontier — Ablation (Presenter: Nadir Saoudi, MD, …
• Barouh Berkovits and” Tino” Castellanos: The Extraordinary Couple who bought us Dual Chamber Pacemakers (Presenter: Sanjeev Saksena, MBBS, MD, FHRS)

 

Innovation in Cardiac Electrophysiology How an Idea Grows From Concept to Reality

 

• Panel Discussion (Presenter: Paul J. Wang, MD, FHRS)
• Entrepreneurship: Medical Innovation and Return on Investment (Presenter: George Stuart Mendenhall, MD, FHRS)
• The Route to FDA Approval (Presenter: Kimberly A. Selzman, MD, MPH, FHRS)
• Acceptance: From Science to Primetime (Presenter: Gust H Bardy, MD)

 

Integrating Mobile Technologies Into Clinical Care New Partnerships

 

• Using Mobile Medical Technology to Communicate with Patients: Opportunities and Challenges (Presenter: David J. Slotwiner, MD, FHRS)
• Strategies to Use Mobile Medical Technology to Enhance Clinician- Patient Communication (Presenter: KathyLoveless, ACNP, CEPS, CCDS)
• Case Study: Using Mobile Medical Technologies to Enhance Patient Care (Presenter: Raghuveer Dendi, MD, FHRS)
• Case Study: Using Mobile Medical Technologies to Enhance Patient Care (Presenter: Rohit Malhotra,)
• Case Study: Using Mobile Medical Technology to Enhance Parent Care for Children (Presenter: Nathan Miller, BSN, NREMTB, RN)
• FDA Regulation of Mobile Medical Technology (Presenter: Arielle Drummond, PhD)

 

Live Case Presentation From Geisinger Heart Institute

 

• Chair (Presenter: Gopi Dandamudi, MD, FHRS)
• Panelist (Presenter: Weijian Huang, MD, FHRS) (PDF)
• Panelist (Presenter: Weijian Huang, MD, FHRS) (Slides)

 

Live Case Presentation From Vanderbilt University

 

• Chair (Presenter: Bruce A. Koplan, MD, MPH, FHRS)
• Operator (VT) (Presenter: Arvindh N. Kanagasundram, MD, FHRS) (PDF)
• Operator (VT) (Presenter: Arvindh N. Kanagasundram, MD, FHRS) (Slides)
• Moderator (VT) (Presenter: William G. Stevenson, MD, FHRS)
• Operator (LAA) (Presenter: Christopher R. Ellis, MD, FHRS)

 

Novel Approaches to Arrhythmia Therapy

 

• Gene Therapy for AF (Presenter: J. Kevin Donahue, MD)
• Optogenetics (Presenter: Patrick Boyle, BS, PhD, FHRS)
• Advances and Challenges in Drug Discovery for AF (Presenter: Sunil Kapur, BS, MD)
• CaMKII Inhibition in Heart Failure and AF (Presenter: Mark E. Anderson, MD, FHRS)
• Cytokine based therapy for AF (Presenter: David Conen, MD, MPH)

 

Presenting the 2019 HRS Expert Consensus Statement on Evaluation, Risk Stratification, and Management of Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy

 

• HRS Clinical Documents (Presenter: Julia H. Indik, MD, PhD, FHRS)
• Diagnostics (Presenter: Andrew D. Krahn, MD, FHRS)
• Genetics (Presenter: Daniel P. Judge, MD)
• Pathophysiology (Presenter: Michael John Ackerman, MD, PhD)
• General Management and Exercise (Presenter: Cynthia A. James, PhD, CGC)
• Arrhythmia Management and Risk Stratification (Presenter: N. A. Mark Estes, MD, FHRS, CCDS)
• Diagnosis and Management of Left-Sided ARVC Case Study (Presenter: LuisaMestroni, MD)
• Electrophysiology Case Study (Presenter: Mark S. Link, MD, FHRS)

 

Presenting the 2019 HRSEHRAAPHRSLAHRS Expert Consensus Statement on Catheter Ablation of Ventricular Arrhythmias

 

• Preprocedure Assessment (Presenter: Haris M. Haqqani, MBBS, PhD, FHRS)
• Indications for Catheter Ablation of VA (Presenter: Sana M. Al-Khatib, MD, MHS, FHRS, CCDS)
• Mapping of VA (Presenter: Thomas Deneke, MD, PhD, FHRS)
• Practical Aspects of Catheter Ablation of VA (Presenter: Francis E. Marchlinski, MD, FHRS)
• Postprocedural Care (Presenter: Luiz Leite, MD, PhD, FHRS)
• Co-Chair (Presenter: Frank M. Bogun, MD)

 

Putting Real World Evidence to Work Answering Today’s Research and Regulatory Questions

 

• Using Registry Data for your Research Question: A Guide for Clinical Scientists (Presenter: Sana M. Al-Khatib, MD, FHRS, CCDS)
• The Role of Registry Data in the Regulatory Environment (Presenter: Li Wang, MS, PhD)
• The NCDR ICD Registry: It’s Status, Relevance and Future Use (Presenter: Paul D Varosy, MD, FHRS)
• EP PASSION: A New Paradigm for Lead Surveillance (Presenter: Kimberly A. Selzman, MD, MPH, FHRS)
• Feasibility Study to Evaluate the Use of mHealth as Data Source in Post-Market Surveillance (Presenter: Rachel J. Lampert, MD, FHRS)

 

Shared Decision Making (SDM) From Theory to Clinical Practice

 

• What is Shared Decision Making and Why Do We Need It? (Presenter: David J. Slotwiner, MD, FHRS)
• What is an SDM Tool? How Do I Find or Create One? (Presenter: DanielMatlock, MD, MPH)
• Shared Decision Making: CMS Perspective (Presenter: Robert Kazmierski, PhD)
• SDM in Clinical Practice: Patients Considering LAAO Therapy (Presenter: Bryan Baranowski, MD)
• SDM in Clinical Practice: Patients Considering Anticoagulation for AF? (Presenter: Peter A. Noseworthy, MD, FHRS)

 

Stanford Biodesign New Arrhythmia Technologies Retreat Highlights

 

• Biologic Markers and SCD (Presenter: Christine M Albert, MD, MPH, FHRS)
• Genetics of Atrial Fibrillation (Presenter: Patrick T. Ellinor, MD, PhD)
• Modeling Arrhythmias: An Update (Presenter: Natalia A. Trayanova, PhD, FHRS)
• Pacing, Neuromodulation, and Sensors for Heart Failure (Presenter: Jagmeet P. Singh, MD, PhD, FHRS)
• Novel Imaging of Substrate in Atrial Fibrillation (Presenter: Eugene G. Kholmovski, PhD)
• Nonthermal Electroporation Ablation (Presenter: Kars Neven, MD, PhD)
• Laser and Ultrasound Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation (Presenter: Jacob S Koruth, MBBS, MD) (PDF)
• Laser and Ultrasound Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation (Presenter: Jacob S Koruth, MBBS, MD) (Slides)
• Balloon Cryoablation of Atrial Fibrillation (Presenter: Wilber W. Su, MD, FHRS)
• EP-guided Noninvasive Cardiac Radioablation (ENCORE) (Presenter: Phillip Cuculich, MD)

 

What Are Atypical Clinical Paths Really Like

 

• Doctors Without Borders (Presenter: Sri Sundaram, MD, FHRS)
• Electrophysiology in the Military (Presenter: Matthew Needleman, MD, FHRS, CEPS-P)
• National Institutes of Health Fellowships (Presenter: Crystal M. Ripplinger, PhD, FHRS)
• Rural Electrophysiology (Presenter: Susan P. Etheridge, MD, FHRS, CEPS-P)

 

What to Do When That Familial Disease Might Not Be So Familial After All Implications of New Data for Managing HCM & ARVC Families

 

• Non-Familial ARVC — Is it All Exercise-Induced? (Presenter: Cynthia A. James, MS, PhD)
• Non-Familial HCM — Can it Be Predicted by Phenotype? (Presenter: Jodie Ingles, MPH, PhD)
• Implications for Genetic Counseling — Anticipatory Guidance and Variant Interpretation (Presenter: Katherine G. Spoonamore, MS, CGC)
• Implications for Clinical Surveillance of Relatives (Presenter: Peter van Tintelen, MD, PhD)

 

Women in EP Networking Luncheon Supporting and Promoting Women Investigators

 

• Chair (Presenter: Ulrika Maria Birgersdotter-Green, MD, FHRS)
• Invited Speaker (Presenter: Silvia G Priori, MD, PhD)
• Invited Speaker (Presenter: Christine M. Albert, MD, MPH, FHRS)
• Invited Speaker (Presenter: C. NoelBairey Merz,)
• Utility Of Thirty-day Continuous Ambulatory Monitoring To Identify Patient With Delayed Occurrence Of Atrioventricular Block After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (Presenter … (PDF)
• Utility Of Thirty-day Continuous Ambulatory Monitoring To Identify Patient With Delayed Occurrence Of Atrioventricular Block After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (Presenter … (Slides)
• The Power Of Three: An Uncommon Cause Of Atrial Far-field Myopotential Capture (Presenter: Lauren Ashley Rousseau, PAC, CCDS) (PDF)
• A Novel Irrigated Temperature-Controlled Lattice Ablation Catheter for Deep Ventricular Substrate: A Preclinical Biophysical Characterization (Presenter: AyeletShapira-Daniels, MD) (PDF)
• A Novel Irrigated Temperature-Controlled Lattice Ablation Catheter for Deep Ventricular Substrate: A Preclinical Biophysical Characterization (Presenter: AyeletShapira-Daniels, MD) (Slides)
• Characterizing Macroreentrant Atrial Flutter With Electromechanical Wave Imaging (Presenter: LeaMelki, MS) (PDF)
• Characterizing Macroreentrant Atrial Flutter With Electromechanical Wave Imaging (Presenter: LeaMelki, MS) (Slides)
• Remote Monitoring Alerts For Atrial Fibrillation And Implications For Anticoagulation: A Retrospective Analysis Of A Large Remote Monitoring Cohort (Presenter: CatherineO’Shea, MBB … (PDF)
• Remote Monitoring Alerts For Atrial Fibrillation And Implications For Anticoagulation: A Retrospective Analysis Of A Large Remote Monitoring Cohort (Presenter: CatherineO’Shea, MBB … (Slides)
• Ventricular Assist Device Patients Experience A High Incidence Of ICD Shocks Despite Programming With ATP (Presenter: Julie B. Shea, MS, MSN, FHRS, CCDS) (PDF)
• Ventricular Assist Device Patients Experience A High Incidence Of ICD Shocks Despite Programming With ATP (Presenter: Julie B. Shea, MS, MSN, FHRS, CCDS) (Slides)

 

Young Investigator Awards Competition

 

• Essential Role Of Sodium Channel Isoforms In Maintaining The Robust Intranodal Conduction Of The Human Sinoatrial Node (Presenter: NingLi, MD, PhD)
• Targeting Serum Glucocorticoid Kinase 1 In Obesity-related Atrial Fibrillation (Presenter: AneeshBapat, MD)
• Cardiac Restricted Loss Of Zfhx3 Perturbs Atrial Sidedness And Increases Susceptibility To Atrial Arrhythmias (Presenter: AlanHanley,)
• A Novel Ring-type Wearable Device Equipped With Deep Learning Algorithm Using Photoplethysmographic Signals For Detecting Atrial Fibrillation (Presenter: SoonilKwon,)
• Percutaneous Epicardial Placement Of A Prototype Miniature Pacemaker Under Direct Visualization: An Infant Porcine Chronic Survival Study (Presenter: Rohan Narendra Kumthekar, MD)

 

 

 

21. Translational Electrophysiology

EP Lab 2049 How Today’s Scientific Innovations Will Transform Tomorrow’s Arrhythmia Treatments

 

• Noninvasive Characterization of Focal Arrhythmia with Electromechanical Wave Imaging (Presenter: ElisaKonofagou,)
• Ultra-Rapid, Tissue-Selective Ablation with Pulsed Electric Fields (Presenter: Vivek Y. Reddy, MD)
• Ablation Guided by Deep Learning-Based Classification of Intracardiac Electrograms (Presenter: Jerome Kalifa, MD)
• Noninvasive Cardiac Radiation for Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia (Presenter: Phillip Cuculich, MD)
• Targeted Ablation Procedures Guided by Personalized Computational Modeling (Presenter: Natalia A. Trayanova, PhD, FHRS)

 

MicroRNAs Involvement in Cardiac Electrophysiology and Disease

 

• MiRNAs and Sinus Node Dysfunction (Presenter: Vadim V Fedorov, PhD) (PDF)
• MiRNAs and Sinus Node Dysfunction (Presenter: Vadim V Fedorov, PhD) (Slides)
• MiRNAs Triggered Cardiac Remodeling (Presenter: Isabelle Deschenes, PhD)
• MiRNAs and Heart Failure Mortality (Presenter: Ryan L. Boudreau,)
• MiRNAs Biophysically Modulate Cardiac Ion Channels (Presenter: Jidong Fu, MD PhD)
• MicroRNA and Sudden Cardiac Death (Presenter: Barry London, MD, PhD)

 

The Right Ventricle as an Arrhythmia Source What Is Different About It

 

• Asymmetric Response to Exercise and its Impact to Arrhythmias (Presenter: Andre La Gerche, MBBS, PhD)
• Combining Computer Modeling and Cardiac Imaging to Understand Right Ventricular Pump Function and Susceptibility to Arrhythmias (Presenter: Joost Lumens, MSBME, PhD)
• The Right Ventricle in Brugada Syndrome: Structural Substrate and the Success of Epicardial Ablation (Presenter: Koonlawee Nademanee, MD, FHRS, CCDS)

 

Ventricular Arrhythmias and the His Purkinje System

 

• Historical Perspective (Presenter: Ruben Coronel, MD, PhD)
• Translator (Presenter: Glenn I. Fishman, MD, FHRS) (PDF)
• Translator (Presenter: Glenn I. Fishman, MD, FHRS) (Slides)