Agenda 2024

Friday, November 1, 2024

On-Site Agenda

*Times Listed Are Eastern Standard Time
12:00 – 4:00 pm		Check-In and Group Assignments
4:00 – 6:30 pm		Hands-on Dissection Demonstration Session Dissection Demonstrations Spotlights Right Atrium and Left Atrium Midline and Annular Structures Ventricles *Main Station Leader:* Samuel Asirvatham *Circulating Faculty:* Wendy Tzou, MD, and William Sauer, MD
6:30 – 8:00 pm		Welcome Reception with Exhibits

*Times Listed Are Eastern Standard Time
8:00 – 9:00 am		Breakfast and Exhibits
9:00 – 9:05 am		Welcome / Introductions / Opening Remarks Wendy Tzou, MD, and William Sauer, MD
Anatomic Fundamentals in Cardiac Electrophysiology
Section I: Dissection Directed Topics
		Spotlight I: Right Atrium and Left Atrium
9:05 – 10:10 am		Presentations with Panel Discussion and Q&A Session
		Anatomy Facilitating Typical and Atypical Flutters Roderick Tung, MD
		Atrial Tachycardias: Origins of Common Sites Pasquale Santangeli, MD, PhD
		Atrial Fibrillation Spectrum: Triggering and Maintenance Francis Marchlinski, MD
		The Left Atrial Appendage: Anatomic Considerations for Thromboembolism and Protection Luigi Di Biase, MD, PhD
		Panel Discussion with Q&A Session *Moderator:* Wendy Tzou, MD, and Joshua Moss, MD *Panel:* Roderick Tung, MD, Pasquale Santangeli, MD, PhD, Francis Marchlinski, MD, and Luigi Di Biase, MD, PhD *Circulating Moderator:* William Sauer, MD
10:10 – 10:30 am		Anatomy Dissection Demonstration: Right Atrium and Left Atrium Samuel Asirvatham, MD
		Spotlight II: Midline and Annular Structures
10:30 – 11:35 am		Presentations with Panel Discussion and Q&A Session
		Anatomy Facilitating Reentrant SVTs: AVNRT/AVRT David Frankel, MD
		Arrhythmogenic Features Facilitating Outflow Tract Arrhythmias Francis Marchlinski, MD
		Importance of Anatomic Relationships to Target LV Ostial Arrhythmias (LV Summit, PSP) Pasquale Santangeli, MD, PhD
		Coronary Vein Approach to Intramural Arrhythmias Miguel Valderrábano, MD, PhD
		Panel Discussion with Q&A Session *Moderators:* Roderick Tung, MD, and William Sauer, MD *Panel:* David Frankel, MD, Francis Marchlinski, MD, Pasquale Santangeli, MD, PhD, and Miguel Valderrábano, MD, PhD *Circulating Moderator:* Wendy Tzou, MD
11:35 – 11:50 am		Anatomy Dissection Demonstration: Midline and Annular Structures Samuel Asirvatham, MD
11:50 am – 12:05 pm		Anatomy Dissection Demonstration: Ventricles Samuel Asirvatham, MD
12:05 – 1:05 pm		Lunch and Exhibits
		Spotlight III: Ventricles
1:05 – 1:55 pm		Presentations with Panel Discussion and Q&A Session
		Purkinje System and Non-Outflow Tract Ventricular Arrhythmias Roderick Tung, MD
		Ventricular Arrhythmias in Structural Heart Disease Usha Tedrow, MD
		Epicardial Access Approaches William Stevenson, MD
		Panel Discussion with Q&A Session *Moderators:* Wendy Tzou, MD, and Luigi Di Biase, MD, PhD *Panel:* William Stevenson, MD, Usha Tedrow, MD, and Roderick Tung, MD *Circulating Moderator:* William Sauer, MD
		Spotlight IV: Avoiding Collateral Damage
1:55 – 2:25 pm		Case Reviews with Panel Discussions and Q&A Session *Small Group Stations Leaders:* Cory Tschabrunn, MD, David Frankel, MD, Joshua Moss, MD, Jacob Koruth, MD, Usha Tedrow, MD, Miguel Valderrábano, MD, PhD, Matthew Zipse, MD, William Stevenson, MD, Pasquale Santangeli, MD, PhD, and Stavros Mountantonakis, MD *Circulating Faculty:* Wendy Tzou, MD, and William Sauer, MD
Section II: Mapping Fundamentals and Ablation Biophysics
2:25 – 3:25 pm		Biophysics of Ablation Hands-on Workshop Stations *Small Group Stations Leaders:* Cory Tschabrunn, MD, David Frankel, MD, Joshua Moss, MD, Jacob Koruth, MD, Usha Tedrow, MD, Miguel Valderrábano, MD, PhD, Matthew Zipse, MD, William Stevenson, MD, Pasquale Santangeli, MD, PhD, and Stavros Mountantonakis, MD *Circulating Faculty:* Wendy Tzou, MD, and William Sauer, MD
3:25- 3:55 pm		Break and Visit Exhibits
3:55 – 4:55 pm		Presentations with Panel Discussion and Q&A Session
		Mechanisms of and Tools for Pulsed Field Ablation Jacob Koruth, MD
		Mapping Fundamentals: High-Density, Unipolar Signals, etc. Cory Tschabrunn, MD
		Panel Discussion with Q&A Session *Moderators:* Wendy Tzou, MD, and William Sauer, MD *Panel:* Jacob Koruth, MD, Cory Tschabrunn, MD, William Stevenson, MD, and Francis Marchlinski, MD
4:55 pm		Day 1 Closing Thoughts, Followed by Hands-On Simulator Training Wendy Tzou, MD, and William Sauer, MD
Section III: Simulator Training
5:00 - 7:00 pm		Hands-on Simulator Training

*Times are Eastern Standard Time
8:00 – 9:00 am		Breakfast and Exhibits
Section I: Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices
9:00 – 9:05 am		Day 2 Welcome Wendy Tzou, MD, and William Sauer, MD
9:05 – 10:15 am		Presentations with Panel Discussion and Q&A Session
		Leadless Pacing Matt Zipse, MD
		CRT Implantation and Programming Joshua Moss, MD
		Conduction System Pacing Stavros Mountantonakis, MD
		Essential Concepts in ICD Programming Sunil Kapur, MD
		Panel Discussion with Q&A Session *Moderator:* William Sauer, MD *Panel:* Matthew Zipse, MD, Joshua Moss, MD, Sunil Kapur, MD, and Stavros Mountantonakis, MD *Circulating Moderator:* Wendy Tzou, MD
10:15 – 11:15 am		Case-based Device Troubleshooting Breakout Workshop *Small Group Station Leaders:* Matthew Zipse, MD, Joshua Moss, MD, Sunil Kapur, MD, Luigi Di Biase, MD, PhD, and Stavros Mountantonakis, MD *Circulating Faculty:* Wendy Tzou, MD, and William Sauer, MD
Section II: Challenging EGMs Workshop
11:15 am – 12:15 pm		Electrogram Reviews with Audience Response EGMs are presented with real-time ARS testing clinical decision-making proficiency in EGM interpretation. *Moderators:* William Sauer, MD, and Wendy Tzou, MD *Panel:* Matthew Zipse, MD, Joshua Moss, MD, Sunil Kapur, MD, and Luigi Di Biase, MD, PhD
12:15 – 1:15 pm		Lunch and Exhibits
Section III: Case Competition
1:15 – 2:15 pm		Case Competition Presentations The 3 case finalists present their work and participate in corresponding discussions with the panel of judges. At the session's conclusion, the overall winner of the Case Competition is announced. All Faculty Judges Atrial Fibrillation Trigger Masked by General Anesthesia Sang Lee, MD New York Presbyterian Queens Hospital, Flushing, NY, USA An Unusual Cause of Syncope: Right Coronary Vasospasm leading to Atrioventricular Block Maxwell Coll, MD Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA Ventricular Tachycardia Ablation with Stacked Pulsed-Field and Radiofrequency Energy via a Dual-Energy Lattice-Tip Catheter: A Novel Two-Pronged Approach James Mannion, MBBCh, BAO, MRCPI Beacon Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Section IV: EP Quiz Challenge
2:15 – 3:15 pm		EP Quiz Challenge
3:15 – 3:30 pm		Closing Remarks and Take-home Lessons Wendy Tzou, MD, William Sauer, MD, and Faculty

Course Chairs
Wendy Tzou, MD Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology Associate Professor of Medicine University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Aurora, CO		William Sauer, MD Chief, Cardiac Arrhythmia Service Brigham and Women’s Hospital Boston, MA
Faculty
Samuel Asirvatham, MD Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN		Pasquale Santangeli, MD, PhD Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH
Luigi Di Biase, MD, PhD Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Montefiore Hospital Bronx, NY		William Stevenson, MD Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Nashville, TN
David Frankel, MD Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA		Usha Tedrow, MD Brigham and Women’s Hospital Boston, MA
Sunil Kapur, MD Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA		Cory Tschabrunn, PhD Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA
Jacob Koruth, MD Mount Sinai Hospital New York, NY		Roderick Tung, MD The University of Arizona College of Medicine—Phoenix Phoenix, AZ
Francis Marchlinski, MD University of Pennsylvania Health System Philadelphia, PA		Miguel Valderrábano, MD, PhD Houston Methodist DeBakey Cardiology Associates Houston, TX
Joshua Moss, MD University of California San Francisco San Francisco, CA		Matthew Zipse, MD University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Aurora, CO
Stavros Mountantonakis, MD Lenox Hill Hospital New York, NY

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