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BONUS EDUCATION

THESE SESSIONS ARE INCLUDED

WITH ANNUAL MEETING REGISTRATION

2:00pm

Rising to the Challenge of Unmet Needs in ACS, SSP, and AF Through Next-Generation Anticoagulation Strategies

This is a separately accredited session.

Jeffrey Weitz, MD, FRCPC, FRSC, FACP

Professor of Medicine & Biochemistry, McMaster University

Heart & Stroke Foundation/J.F. Mustard Chair in Cardiovascular Research, Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Thrombosis

Executive Director, Thrombosis & Atherosclerosis Research Institute

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

3:00pm

This is a separately accredited session.

Let’s Beat HCM!

In conjunction with Association of Black Cardiologists

Adedapo Iluyomade, MD, FACC
Baptist Health

This initiative focuses on improving the screening, diagnosis, and management of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM)—a genetic condition that can obstruct blood flow and lead to serious complications, including sudden cardiac death.

WELCOME HOME BUFFET DINNER
6:30-8:30 pm

Put on your Hawaiian shirts, grab your tropical prints, choose what Lily print would be best, and get ready to put on a lei as we say Aloha to our kick off event - the Welcome Home Dinner!

Stay tuned for which Disney characters will join us at 6:45pm for a meet & greet…pretty sure they will be all in on the tropical theme!

Play games that everyone can enjoy | Find the kids craft table under the balloons

Immediate families of attendees welcome to enjoy a scrumptious dinner (served from 6:30-8:00pm). Ticket required for additional guests and may be purchased during registration or via the Chapter's Square site.

Saturday, August 1

7:00am

START YOUR DAY

FunRun	Gather together for a nice jog
Scenic Stroll	Meet up for a stroll
Early Caffeination	Meet us at the coffee shop and we'll grab a cup and wake up together
Sleep	Press that snooze button one more time...no guilt!

7:00am

Breakfast in the Exhibit Hall

7:55am

Welcome

Melissa Lyle, MD, FACC

Annual Meeting Program Director

8:00am

Cardiogenic Shock 2025: From SUSPECT to Solutions

Shashank Sinha, MD, MSc, FACC, FAHA, FHFSA

Assistant Professor of Medical Education, University of Virginia School of Medicine
System Director, Inova Cardiogenic Shock Program
Medical Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Cardiology
Director, Cardiovascular Critical Care Research Program
Advanced Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support, and Transplant Cardiologist
Inova Schar Heart and Vascular
Inova Fairfax Medical Campus

8:25am

Seeing is Believing: CT-Guided Planning from Pixels to Procedures

A Joint FL Chapter ACC and FL Society of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgeons Session

Moderator

Abdallah El Sabbagh, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Mayo Clinic

Jacksonville, FL

Speakers

From Pixels to Photons: CT Image Acquisition Essentials for the Heart Team
Kavitha Chinnaiyan, MD, FACC, MSCCT

Director of Cardiac Imaging Research

Professor of Medicine

Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine

The Why Behind the Image: How CT-Guided Planning Transforms PCI and Beyond
Carlos Collet, MD, PhD

Director, Cardiovascular Imaging, Physiology and Translational Therapeutics

Cardiovascular Research Foundation

When CT Meets the Cath Lab: From Strategy to Stent
Yader Sandoval, MD, FACC

Co-Chairman, Center for Coronary Artery Disease

Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation

Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine

Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science

Cut Once, See Twice: CT as the Surgical GPS

Thomas M. Beaver, MD, MPH

Professor & Chief

Grant & Shirle Herron Chair

Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery

University of Florida Health

Gainesville, FL

Kavitha Chinnaiyan

Carlos Collet

Yader Sandoval

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9:25am

Right on Time: Rediscovering the Right Ventricle

Ryan Tedford, MD

Professor of Medicine/Cardiology

Dr. Peter C. Gazes Endowed Chair in Heart Failure

Medical University of South Carolina

9:50am

BREAK WITH THE EXHIBITORS

FIT POSTER GALLERY

10:20am

The Irwin R. Callen, MD Memorial Lectureship

The Evolving Landscape of Transplant Cardiology: Innovations Driving Access and Success
Nir Uriel, MD

Director, Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation

New York-Presbyterian

Professor of Medicine

Columbia University

10:45am

Hormones and the Heart: Navigating Cardiovascular Risk in Perimenopausal Women
Malissa Wood, MD, FACC
Past Chair, American College of Cardiology Board of Governors

Chief Medical Officer

Women as One

11:10am

Cross-Atlantic Perspectives: AICD Policy Insights from Spain.
Ignacio Fernández Lozano, MD
President of Sociedad Española de Cardiología

11:35am

Aortic Function in Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms: Because the Aorta is Not Just a Pipe
Thais Coutinho, MD
Chair, Division of Preventive Cardiology

Professor of Medicine

Director of Aorta Clinic

Mayo Clinic Rochester

12:00pm

Lunch Pick-up in the Exhibit Hall

12:30pm

Product Theater Lunch

1:30pm

BREAK

1:45-3:15pm

BREAKOUT SESSIONS: DISEASE STATES

Florida Chapter Breakout Sessions bring the latest research into small break-out rooms where case-based presentations allow for serious debate and discussion on how to translate the research into everyday care settings.

1. Structural Valve Intervention in 2026: Decision-Making in the Gray Zones
Is TAVR alone enough or does this patient need a multi-valve transcatheter strategy?

Moderator

Abdallah El Sabbagh, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic

FIT Case Presentation

Fatemah Akbar, MD

University of Miami/Jackson Health System

Speakers

TAVR in Special Populations

Neelima Katukuri, MD, FACC

Orlando VA Medical Center

Transcatheter Mitral Repair in Multivalvular Disease
Fadi Matar, MD, FACC. FSCAI

Chief of Cardiology, Internal Medicine
Professor of Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine

Transcatheter Tricuspid Intervention: Patient Selection is Everything

Abdallah El Sabbagh, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic

Beyond the Procedure: GDMT Before and After Valve Intervention
Davide Ventura, PharmD, BCCCP
AdventHealth Orlando

Surgery, Hybrids, and When Transcatheter Isn’t Enough
Kenan Yount, MD

Mayo Clinic Florida

Abdallah El Sabbagh

Fatemah Akbar

Neelima Katukuri

Fadi Matar

Abdallah El Sabbagh

Davide Ventura

Kenan Yount

2. Sociedad Espanola de Cardiologia & FL ACC Joint Session

Moderator

Mario Lopez, MD, FACC

Chair, FCACC International Relations Committee

Speakers

Atrial Fibrillation Ablation as First Line Therapy

Ignacio Fernández Lozano, MD
President, Sociedad Española de Cardiología

Primary Prevention Lipid Management

Almudena Castro, MD

President-elect, Sociedad Española de Cardiología

Stable Coronary Artery Disease: Revascularization vs OMT

Carlos Alfonso, MD, FACC

Director, Chronic Total Occlusion & Complex Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Baptist Health Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute

Ignacio Fernandez Lozano

Almundena Castro

Carlos Alfonso

3. Cardio-oncology

Moderator

Patricia Guerrero, MD, FACC

Chair, FCACC Cardio-oncology Committee

Case Presentation

Jamie Lee Borkowski, APRN

Lee Health Heart Institute

Speakers

Carol Ma, MD, FACC

Advent Health

Chris Ray, MD, FACC

Director, Cardio-Oncology
Mayo Clinic Florida

Patricia Guerrero

Jamie Lee Borkowski

Carol Ma

Chris Ray

4. EP Summit

Genotype vs. Phenotype: Deciphering a Markedly Abnormal ECG in an Elite Female Athlete
Suraj Dahal, MD
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

EV-ICD
Jonathan Lopez, MD
University of Florida

Epicardial Coronary Venous Pulsed Field Ablation of Therapy Refractory Mitral Isthmus Flutter Following Endocardial Ablation, A Case Series
Gul Sajjad, MD
University of South Florida

An Interesting Case

Ufuk Vardar, MD
Mayo Clinic

Suraj Dahal

Jonathan Lopez

Gul Sajjad

Ufuk Vardar

5. Not All Thick Hearts are the Same: Clinical Challenges Across the Spectrum of HCM and Cardiac Amyloidosis

Moderator

Melissa Lyle, MD, FACC

Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant
Director, Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy Clinic
Medical Director, Cardiopulmonary Rehab
Associate Program Director, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Fellowship
Mayo Clinic Florida

FIT Case

Bridget Lee, DO

Mayo Clinic

ATTR-CM in 2026- Which Disease Modifying Therapy Do We Choose

Jose Nativi, MD, MS, FACC
Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Jacksonville, FL

How do we define disease progression in amyloid cardiomyopathy
Alex Parker, MD
Assistant Professor
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

How do we utilize PET imaging for diagnosis and guiding therapy in amyloid cardiomyopathy
Dia Smiley, DO, FACC
Cleveland Clinic Florida

How do we manage symptomatic non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Mays Ali, MD
Mayo Clinic Florida

Melissa Lyle

Bridget Lee

Jose Nativi

Alex Parker

Dia Smiley

Mays Ali

6. Translational Research

Moderator

Katelyn Bruno, PhD, FHFSA, FACC

Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine (Department of Medicine)
Affiliated Faculty, Department of Physiology and Aging
Affiliated Faculty, Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Deputy Director, Center for Regenerative Medicine
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

Cellular Heterogeneity in Aortic Valve Development and Disease

Joshua D. Hutcheson, PhD
Associate Professor, Department: Biomedical Engineering
Florida International University

Developing mRNA Therapeutics for Ischemic Cardiovascular Diseases
Ajit Magadum, PhD
Assistant Professor, Center for Regenerative Medicine, Internal Medicine
University of South Florida

Sex and Age Differences in Viral Myocarditis

Katelyn Bruno, PhD, FHFSA, FACC
Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine (Department of Medicine)
Affiliated Faculty, Department of Physiology and Aging
Affiliated Faculty, Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Deputy Director, Center for Regenerative Medicine
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

Translational Research Young Investigator Winner

Resident Macrophage Depletion on Heart Valve Matrix Structure and Function

Claudia Ponce Aportela

Florida International University

Katelyn Bruno

Joshua Hutcheson

Ajit Magadum

Katelyn Bruno

7. Women Cardiologists

Rhea Sancassani, MD, FACC
Chair, FCACC Women Cardiologists Committee
Medical Director
Jackson Medical Group Cardiology
Miami, FL

Madhavi Chunduru, MD, FACC
Vice Chair, FCACC Women Cardiologists Committee
Florida Keys Cardiology
Key Largo, FL

Madhavi Chunduru

8. EKG in the Athlete: From Physiology to Policy — Navigating Florida’s New Requirements

Moderators

Jennifer Co-Vu, MD, FACC

Associate Professor

Director, Fetal Cardiac Program at the UF Health Congenital Heart Center

Director, UF Health Congenital Heart Center Single Ventricle Home Monitoring Program

University of Florida

Gainesville, FL

Shantelle Bartra, APRN, AACC
Golisano Children’s Hospital, Lee Health Heart Institute
Fort Myers, FL

ECG in Athletes: Normal vs Abnormal

Mohammad Al-Mousily, MD

Director of Pediatric and Congenital Electrophysiology

University of Florida

Florida Law + Workflow Implementation

Gerson Antonio Valencia Villeda, MD

Director, Pulmonary Hypertension

Orlando Health Children's Heart Institute

Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children

Clearing Athletes with CHD

Josh Saef, MD, FACC
Memorial Cardiac and Vascular Institute
Hollywood, FL

Jennifer Co-Vu

Shantelle Bartra

Mohammad Al-Mousily

Gerson Villeda

Josh Saef

3:15pm

ADJOURN

6:30pm

President's Celebration

What better way to celebrate 40 YEARS as a chapter then to throw a party…a NEW YEARS EVE PARTY! This party is for everyone and will feature toasts, dancing, confetti, the ball drop (not at midnight), and fireworks. Black tie not allowed - come casual for a great party! Or put your party dress on - just come have fun!

Tickets will be sold until 11:59pm on Tuesday, July 28th and can be purchased during registration or via the Chapter's Square site.

Sunday, August 2

8:00am	Committee Chair Meet & Greet Take this opportunity to meet with the Chairs of the Chapter Committees and see where you might like to join in. Breakfast in the Exhibit Hall
8:55am	Welcome Back Melissa Lyle, MD, FACC Annual Meeting Program Director
9:00am	When Winds Rise, So Do Heart Risks: Hurricanes and Heart Disease Arnab Ghosh, MD, MSc, MA Assistant Professor of Medicine Weill Cornell Medical College
9:25am	Beyond the Basics: Practical Insights from the 2025 ACHD Guidelines William Miranda, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine Senior Associate Consultant, Division of Structural Heart Disease Mayo Rochester
9:50am	Break with the Exhibitors
10:10am	The Great Debate: GLP 1 Receptor Agonists Are Cardiovascular Medications and Should Be Initiated by Cardiologists for Secondary Prevention Case Presentation Carlos Vergara, MD Chair, FCACC FIT Committee Cardiology Fellow Mayo Clinic Florida Pro Position: Why GLP 1 Receptor Agonists Should Be Considered Cardiovascular Drugs and Initiated By Cardiologists in Patients Requiring Secondary Prevention Jose R. Rivas Rios, MD, FACC, FNLA Assistant Professor of Medicine University of Florida, College of Medicine-Jacksonville Con Position: Why GLP 1 Receptor Agonists Should Primarily Continue to be Initiated by Clinicians Specializing in Obesity Medicine Amy Sheer, MD, MPH Associate Professor University of Florida
10:35am	FL-QUIC Oral Presentations Moderator Jeffrey Williams, MD, FACC Chair, FCACC Quality Committee Lakeland, FL
10:55am	FIT Oral Presentations From Hashtags to Heart Rates: The Influence of Social Media on Illness Perception of Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome Jude N ElSaygh, MD University of Florida The Inversion of Cardiovascular Mortality: A Century of Autopsy-Confirmed Evidence for Omran's Epidemiologic Transition James Howick, MD Mayo Clinic Florida
11:15am	FCACC/FCACC Foundation Business Meeting
11:30am	ADJOURN