Annual Meeting

7:00am

FunRun

Gather together at the Lighthouse for a nice jog along the boardwalk

6:00am**

Scenic Stroll        

Meet up at the Lighthouse for a stroll along the boardwalk

7:00am

Early Caffeination

Meet us at the Market at the Ale and Compass - we'll grab a cup and wake up together

Press that snooze  button one more time...no guilt!

1. Imaging for Ischemia: What Modality is Best? - ASBURY A & B

Moderator

Shone Almeida, MD, FACC

University of South Florida

Tampa, FL

Speakers

Chris Ray, MD, FACC

Director, Cardio-Oncology 

Mayo Clinic

Jacksonville, FL

Alexandra Sarau, MD

University of South Florida

Tampa, FL

Alex P. Rodriguez, MD, FACC, FSCMR

VA Medical Center

Miami, FL

2. Cardiology Critical Care & Cardiogenic Shock Management - ASBURY C & D

Moderator

Carlos Alfonso, MD, FACC

Director, Chronic Total Obstruction and Complex Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Baptist Health Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute

Miami, FL

Speakers

Key Points from the 2025 ACC Expert Consensus Statement on the Evaluation and Management of Cardiogenic Shock

Robby Wu, DO, FACC
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
University of South Florida, Morsani College of Medicine

When to Utilize Pulmonary Artery Catheter: Should We Escape from ESCAPE?

Joel Shoemaker, MMS, PA-C

Tampa General Hospital

Tampa, FL

Building an ECMO Program

Carlos L. Alviar MD, FACC, FESC
Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Director, Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation and ECPR Programs
Bellevue Hospital Center
Assistant Professor
The Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology
New York University School of Medicine

New York, NY

3. Cardio-Obstetrics - GRAND HARBOR SALON 6

Moderator

Alex Parker, MD

Assistant Professor

University of Florida

Gainesville, FL

Speakers

How to Develop a Cardio OB Clinic

Krithika Krishnarao, DO, FACC

Orlando Heart Health and Vascular

Orlando, FL 

Chinedu Nwabuobi, MD, MS
Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies
Orlando Health

Orlando, FL 

Prediction of Outcomes in Future Pregnancy

Daniela Crousillat, MD, FACC
Assistant Professor
Division of Cardiovascular Sciences
Department of Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology
Director, Women's Heart and Cardio Obstetrics Program
Associate Program Director, Cardiology Fellowship Training Program
Tampa General-Heart and Vascular Institute

Bromocriptine and GDMT

Alex Parker, MD

Assistant Professor

University of Florida

Gainesville, FL

AI Screening - Peripartum Cardiomyopathy

Demilade A. Adedinsewo, M.B., Ch.B., FACC

Director, Research for the Women's Heart Clinic

Director, Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship program

Mayo Clinic

Jacksonville, FL

4. Challenges in ACHD Management - HAMPTON ROOM

Moderator

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

Cases

Turner’s With CoA and Dissection
Elliot Griffith, MD  
University of Florida Congenital Heart Center 

Gainesville, FL 

Tetralogy of Fallot With RVOT Pseudoaneurysm
Kara Gay-Simon, MD
Nicklaus Children’s Hospital

Miami, FL

Transposition of Great Arteries
Kenneth Coca, MD
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital
St. Petersburg, FL

Panelists

Arwa Saidi, MB. BCh. M. Ed., FACC
Professor
University of Florida

Gainesville

Josh Saef, MD, FACC

Memorial Cardiac and Vascular Institute

Hollywood, FL

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

5. EP Summit - GRAND HARBOR SALON 7

Moderator

Alex Velasquez, MD

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Miami, FL

Case Presentations

Simon Pinsky, DO

University of Florida

Jacksonville, FL 

Alex Nusbickel, MD

University of Florida

Gainesville, FL 

Ufuk Vardar, MD

Mayo Clinic Florida

Jacksonville, FL

Panelists

David Kenisgsberg, MD, FACC

President, Florida Chapter ACC

Florida Heart & Vascular
Fort Lauderdale Heart and Rhythm Surgical Center

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Edward Chu, MD, FACC

MyCardiologist

Miami, FL 

Naushad Shaik MD, FACC, FHRS, CCDS
Cardiac Electrophysiology, Cardiovascular Associates
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine | University of Central Florida, College of Medicine
Chief of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Advent Health Central Florida

Orlando, FL

6. Controversies in the Management of Amyloidosis - GRAND HARBOR SALON 8

Moderator

Melissa Lyle, MD, FACC
Assistant 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

Jacksonville, FL

Speakers

What About the Watchman? Role of LAA Occluders in the Setting of Cardiac Amyloidosis  

Viviana Navas, MD

The Letica Family Endowed Chair

Section Head Heart Failure Program Director, Cardiology Fellowship

NCH Heart Institute

Naples, FL

TTR Targeted Therapy: Stabilizer, Silencer, or Both?

David Snipelisky, MD, FACC

Medical Director of Research

Medical Director of Temporary Mechanical Circulatory Support

Cardiology Fellowship Program Director

Cleveland Clinic

Fort Lauderdale, FL

When to Consider Heart Transplant

Panelist

Shawn Anderson, PharmD

Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Cardiology - HF

Department of Veterans Affairs

Gainesville, FL

7. Translational Research - ASBURY HALL

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 

Speakers

Cardiorenal Actions of the Clock Protein PER1 in Salt-sensitive Hypertension

Michelle Gumz, PhD
Professor. Physiology and Aging
University of Florida

Gainesville, FL

How Viruses Cause Autoimmune Disease: Virus and Mitochondrial-derived Extracellular Vesicles
DeLisa Fairweather, PhD
Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine
Mayo Clinic

Jacksonville, FL

Ischemic-trained Monocytes in the Outcomes of Hindlimb Ischemia

Roberta M. Lassance-Soares, PhD
Associate Professor Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL

Translational Research Young Investigator Winner: 

Sex-dependent Role for the Clock Protein PERIOD1 in Cardiorenal Coordination in Salt-sensitive Hypertension

Sophia Eikenberry

PhD Candidate

University of Florida

Gainesville, FL

8. Women Cardiologists - GRAND HARBOR SALON 1