Annual Meeting

CONFERENCE TABLE BY MEETING REGISTRATION DESK

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.

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Breakfast in the Exhibit Hall

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Welcome Back

Melissa Lyle, MD, FACC

Annual Meeting Program Director

When Winds Rise, So Do Heart Risks: Hurricanes and Heart Disease
Arnab Ghosh, MD, MSc, MA

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Weill Cornell Medical College 

Beyond the Basics: Practical Insights from the 2025 ACHD Guidelines
William Miranda, MD

Professor of Medicine

Senior Associate Consultant, Division of Structural Heart Disease

Mayo Clinic Rochester 

Break with the Exhibitors

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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 

FL-QUIC Oral Presentations

Moderator

Jeffrey Williams, MD, FACC

Chair, FCACC Quality Committee

Bridging the Gap to Evidence-Based Heart Failure Care: A Simplified GDMT Score for Discharge Optimization

Mahmoud Abdalla, MD 

AdventHealth Tampa

Reduction of Rarely Appropriate Echocardiography in the Initial Evaluation of Murmur or Syncope in Ambulatory Pediatric Cardiology

Kunal Shah, MD

Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital

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

FCACC/FCACC Foundation Business Meeting