Day 1 – Welcome
Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Symposium – Next Era of Cardiac Ablation: Optimising Outcomes in Clinical Practice
Chair: Reza Wakili (Frankfurt, DE)
Faculty: David Calvo Cuervo, (Madrid, ES); Verena Tscholl, (Berlin, DE); Jack McCready, (Worthing, UK)
The session is supported by Medtronic.
Session 1.1 – Live Case & Discussion: PFA & Mapping: Techniques & Tips
Chair: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Case Operators: Domenico Della Rocca and Antonio Sorgente (University Hospital (UZ) Brussels, Brussels, BE)
Panel: Serge Boveda (Toulouse, FR); Claire Martin (Cambridge, UK); Christian Sohns, (Bad Oeynhausen, DE)
Session 1.2 – Live Case & Discussion: Precision and Control in a Challenging Ablation Case
Chair: Richard Schilling (London, UK)
Case Operator: Jérôme Lacotte and Vladimir Manenti (Jacques Cartier Private Hospital, Massy, FR)
Panel: Dimitris Tsiachris (Athens, GR); Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Session 1.3 – Live Case & Discussion: PVI with Balloon-in-Basket Technology: Efficient and Straightforward
Chair: Richard Schilling (London, UK)
Case Operator: Abdul Parwani (German Heart Centre Berlin, Berlin, DE)
Panel: Roland Tilz (Lübeck, DE); Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US); Daniel Rodríguez (Madrid, ES);Boris Schmidt (Frankfurt, DE)
Session 1.4 – Live Case & Discussion: Streamlined PFA Workflow for AF Ablation
Chair: Richard Schilling (London, UK)
Case Operator: Christian Sohns, (Heart and Diabetes Centre (Bad Oeynhausen, DE)
Panel: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US); Kousik Krishnan (Naperville,US)
Symposium – AF Care Pathway in 2026: Optimizing Outcomes for Ablation and Stroke Prevention
Chairs: Claire Martin (Cambridge, UK);
Panel: Boris Schmidt (Frankfurt, DE); Daniel Rodríguez (Madrid, ES); Christian Sohns (Bad Oyenhausen, DE); Grégoire Massoullié (Clermont-Ferrand, FR)
This symposium is supported by Boston Scientific.
Session 1.5 – Presentation & Discussion: New and Emerging Technologies in Arrhythmia Management
Chair: Richard Schilling (London, UK)
Presenter: Serge Boveda (Toulouse, FR)
Panel: Andrea Sarkozy (Brusels, BE); Serge Boveda (Toulouse, FR); Lucas Boersma (Nieuwegein, NL)
Session 1.6 – Case & Discussion: Modern LAA Management With PFA: Integrated ICE, Advanced Mapping Platforms, and Next-Generation LAA Closure System
Chair: Julian Chun (Frankfurt, DE)
Case Operator: Devi Nair (St. Bernards Heart & Vascular, Jonesboro, US)
Panel: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US); Mansour Razminia (Chicago, US); Andrea Sarkozy (Brusels, BE)
Session 1.7 – Presentation & Discussion: LAA Management in the Age of PFA
Chair: Julian Chun (Frankfurt, DE)
Presenter: Boris Schmidt (Frankfurt, DE)
Panel: Andrea Sarkozy (Brusels, BE); Boris Schmidt (Frankfurt, DE); Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Session 1.8 – Case & Discussion: Imaging in Action: Concomitant LAA Workflows with TEE and ICE
Chair: Julian Chun (Frankfurt, DE)
Case Operator: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Panel: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US); David DeLurgio (Atlanta, US); Rodney Horton (Austin, US)
Breakout – The Integration of VARIPULSE & CARTOSOUND for PVI
Chair: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Faculty: Javier Romero Roldán (Navarra, ES); Giuseppe Ciconte (Milan, IT)
The session is supported by JnJ.
Day 1 - Summary
Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Day 2 – Welcome
Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Symposium – The Power of TRUE Integration
Chair: Giuseppe Ciconte (Milan, IT)
Faculty: Alexandre Almorad (Brussels, BE); Benjamin Berte (Lucerne, CH); Leon Iden (Bad Segeberg, DE)
The session is supported by JnJ.
Session 2.1 – Live Case & Discussion: Streamlined Strategy: Concomitant PFA and LAA Occlusion for AF Management
Chair: Roderick Tung (Phoenix, US)
Case Operator: Julian Chun (CCB Markus Krankenhaus, Frankfurt, DE)
Panel: Rodney Horton (Austin, US); Bradley Knight (Chicago, US); Poojita Shivamurthy (Philadelphia, US)
Session 2.2 – Live Case & Discussion: PFA Simplified – Enhancing Efficiency and Versatility in PVI
Chair: Rod Tung (Phoenix, US)
Case Operator: Salem Younsi & Jerome Lacotte, Hôpital Privé Jacques Cartier, (Massy, FR)
Panel: Bradley Knight Chicago, US; Dimitris Tsiachris (Athens, GR)
Session 2.3 – Live Case & Discussion: Balloon-in-Basket Versatility: Expanding Ablation Strategies with Confidence
Chair: Roderick Tung (Phoenix, US)
Case Operator: Arian Sultan (St. Georg Heart Center at the Asklepios Klinik, Hamburg, DE)
Panel: Diogo Cavaco (Lisbon, PT); Bradley Knight (Chicago, US); Sri Sundaram (Littleton, US); Roland Tilz (Lübeck, DE)
Session 2.4 – Case & Discussion: Patient-Tailored Strategy to Ablate Persistent AF Using RF/PF Energy
Chair: Roderick Tung (Phoenix, US)
Case Operator: Helmut Puererfellner (Ordensklinikum Linz Elisabethinen Linz, AT)
Panel: Alexandre Almorad (Brussels, BE); Jonathan Lyne (Dublin, IR); Helmut Purerfellner (Linz, AT)
Breakout – S-ICD as Standard Care: Best Practices in Implantation and Workflow Optimization
Chair: Stefano Viani (Pisa, IT)
Panel: Andrea Droghetti (Turin, IT); Michal Lewandowski (Warsaw, PL)
This breakout is supported by Boston Scientific.
Session 2.5 – Case & Discussion: Best CSP Practice
Chair: Jason Andrade (Vancover, CA)
Case Operator: Amr Abdin, University Hospital of Saarland (UKS), Homburg, DE
Panel: Syeda Atiqa Batul (Scrantion, US); Usha B Tedrow (Boston, US); Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US); David Zizek (Ljubljana, SI)
Session 2.6 – Presentation & Discussion: CIED Infection – What Makes a Good Referral?
Chair: Richard Schilling (London, UK)
Panel: Jonathan Behar (London, UK); Aldo Rinaldi (London, UK); Joachim Weil (Lubeck, DE)
Session 2.7 – Live Case & Discussion: Resetting the Rhythm – Cardioneural Ablation in Action
Chair: Richard Schilling (London, UK)
Case Operator: Roderick Tung (University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, US)
Panel: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US); Tolga Aksu (Istanbul,TR); Luis Carlos Saenz Morales (Bogota, CO)
Session 2.8 – Future Directions in Leadless Cardiac Rhythm Management
Chair: Richard Schilling (London, UK)
Presenter: Vivek Reddy (New York, US)
Panel: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US); Mikhael El-Chami (Atlanta, US); Vivek Reddy (New York, US)
Session 2.9 – Case & Discussion: Next-Generation LAAC: Precision Closure with Foam and Flexibility
Chair: Richard Schilling (London, UK)
Case Operator: Devi Nair (St. Bernards Heart & Vascular, Jonesboro, US)
Panel: Bradley Knight (Chicago, US); Shephal Doshi (Santa Monica, US); Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Session 2.10 – Live Case & Discussion: Epicardial VT Ablation – Mapping and Access Techniques
Chair: Richard Schilling (London, UK)
Case Operator: Roderick Tung (University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, US)
Panel: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US); Usha B Tedrow (Boston, US); Krishna Pothineni (Kansas City, US)
Day 2 - Summary
Richard Schilling (London, UK)
Day 3 - Welcome
Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Symposium – The Impact of Design on PFA Safety & Performance
This symposium is supported by Medtronic
Chair: Josh Silverstein (Pennsylvania, US)
Panel: Brett Atwater, (Virginia, US); Amin Al-Ahmad (Austin, US)
Session 3.1 – Case & Discussion: Tackling Persistent Redo AF with Pulse Field Energy
Chair: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Case Operator: Devi Nair (St Bernard's Heart and Vascular Center, Jonesboro, US)
Panel: Moussa Mansour (Boston, US); Andrea Natale (Austin, US); Frank Cuoco (North Charleston, US)
Session 3.2 – Case & Discussion: Dual Energy Ablation for Atrial Arrhythmias
Chair: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Case Operator: Nicholas Olson (Scripps Green Hospital, San Diego, US)
Panel: Nicholas Olson (San Diego, US); Usman Siddiqui (Orlando, US); Nitesh Sood (Fall River, US)
Session 3.3 – Case & Discussion: Workflow Versatility for PVI and Beyond
Chair: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Case Operator: Melanie Gunawardene (Markus Krankenhaus, Frankfurt, DE)
Panel: Melanie Gunawardene (Frankfurt, DE); Chirag Barbhaiya (New York, US); Ayman Hussein (Cleveland, US)
Session 3.4 – Case & Discussion: Precision and Durability in PVI using Circular PFA system
Chair: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Case Operator: Devi Nair (St Bernard's Heart and Vascular Center Jonesboro, US)
Panel: Usman Siddiqui (Orlando, US); Nitesh Sood (Fall River, US); Melanie Gunawardene (Frankfurt, DE)
Session 3.5 - Case & Discussion: Integrated ICE, Advanced Mapping Platforms, and Next Generation LAA Closure
Chair: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Case Operator: Devi Nair (St Bernard's Heart and Vascular Center, Jonesboro, US)
Panel: Ayman Hussein (Cleveland, US); Chirag Barbhaiya (New York, US); Bishnu Dhakal (North Charleston, US)
Session 3.6 - Case & Discussion: Anatomical Ablation for Persistent AF – Case and Early Experience
Chair: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Case Operator: Nicolas Derval (University Hospital of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, FR)
Panel: Nicolas Derval (Bordeaux, FR); Larry Chinitz (New York, US); Brett Gidney (Santa Barbara, US)
Session 3.7 - Case & Discussion: Versatility of the Multi-Electrode Array: PVI, Linear Ablation, and Beyond
Chair: Jason Andrade (Vancouver, CA)
Case Operator: Devi Nair (St Bernard's Heart and Vascular Center, Jonesboro, US)
Panel: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US); Vivek Reddy (New York, US); Harikrishna Tandri (Baltimore, US)
Session 3.8 - Case & Discussion: Maximizing Single Operator Case Sufficiency with Deep Sedation; Concomitant Ablation with ICE Guided LAA closure
Chair: Jason Andrade (Vancouver, CA)
Case Operator: Shephal Doshi (Pacific Heart Institute, Santa Monica, US)
Panel: Shephal Doshi (Santa Monica, US); Rodney Horton (Austin, US); Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Session 3.9 - Case & Discussion: Redefine Simple, Redefine Success: Streamlining my Workflow with a Balloon-in-Basket PFA Catheter
Chair: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Case Operator: Philipp Sommer (Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia, Bad Oeynhausen, DE)
Panel: Philipp Sommer (Bad Oeynhausen, DE); Ammar Killu (Rochester, US); Pasquale Santangeli (Cleveland, US)
Session 3.10 - Case & Discussion: Expanding Indications: PVI+ Procedures with Pulsed Field Ablation and ICE Guidance
Chair: Jason Andrade (Vancouver, CA)
Case Operator: Luigi Di Biase (Montefiore Medical Center, New York, US)
Panel: Luigi Di Biase (New York, US); Moussa Mansour (Boston, US); Moeen Saleem (Naperville, US)
Session 3.11 - Case & Discussion: Innovating Ventricular Ablation: Dual-Modality Ablation
Chair: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Case Operator: Ammar Killu (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, US)
Panel: Ammar Killu (Rochester, US); Pasquale Santangeli (Cleveland, US); Tom De Potter (Aalst, BE)
Session 3.12 - Case & Discussion: Pulsed Field Ablation of PAF Using a Contact Force-Sensing Large Footprint Focal Catheter
Chair: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Case Operator: Moussa Mansour (Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, US)
Panel: Moussa Mansour (Boston, US); Luigi Di Biase (New York, US); Dinesh Sharma (Naples, US)
Session 3.13 - Case & Discussion: Mapping and Targeting AF Drivers: From De Novo to Redo Ablation
Chair: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Case Operators: Saumil Oza (Ascension St. Vincent's Riverside Hospital, Jacksonville, US); Anish Amin (OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital, Columbus, US)
Panel: Saumil Oza (Jacksonville, US); Anish Amin (Columbus, US); Gery Tomassoni (Lexington, US)
Session 3.14 - Case & Discussion: From Implant to Retrieval: Mastering Dual Leadless Pacing Techniques
Chair: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Case Operator: Devi Nair (St Bernard's Heart and Vascular Center, Jonesboro, US)
Panel: Mikhael El-Chami (Atlanta, US); Vivek Reddy (New York, US); Rahul Doshi (Scottsdale, US)
Session 3.15 - Case & Discussion: Breaking Tradition: Non-Femoral Access in the Leadless Era
Chair: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Case Operator: Mikhael El-Chami (Emory University Hospital Midtown, Atlanta, US)
Panel: Mikhael El-Chami (Atlanta, US); Nicholas Olson (La Jolla, US)
Session 3.16 - Case & Discussion: Leadless Left Ventricular Endocardial Pacing (LVEP): A New Era in CRT
Chair: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Case Operator: Devi Nair (St Bernard's Heart and Vascular Center, Jonesboro, US)
Panel: Dinesh Sharma (Naples, US); Robert Canby (Austin, US); Rahul Doshi (Scottsdale, US); Nestor Lopez-Cabanillas (Buenos Aires, AR)
Session 3.17 - Case & Discussion: Optimization of Atrial Pacing Site: Placement of the Aveir at Bachmann’s Bundle
Chair: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Case Operator: Steven Bailin (University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, US)
Panel: Steven Bailin (Iowa City, US); Brett Atwater (Virginia, US); Ulrika Birgersdotter-Green (San Diego, US)
Session 3.18 - Case & Discussion: Left Bundle Branch Pacing
Chair: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Case Operator: Apoor Patel (Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital, Houston, US)
Panel: Syeda Atiqa Batul (Scranton, US); Apoor Patel (Houston, US); Valentina Kutyifa (Rochester, US)
Session 3.19 - Case & Discussion: Lead Extraction and Abandoned Leads – Best Practices and Technology Insights
Chair: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Case Operator: Anne Kroman (Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, US)
Panel: Anne Kroman (Charleston, US); Rohit Mehta (Charlotte, US); Oliver Monfredi (Charlottesville, US)
Session 3.20 - Case & Discussion: SICD Implantation: What and Why Every EP Needs to Know
Chair: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Case operator: Michael Lloyd (Emory University Hospital Midtown, Atlanta, US)
Panel: Michael Lloyd (Atlanta, US), Sunil Kapur (Boston, US); Marco Perez (Stanford, US)
Day 3 - Summary
Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Day 4 – Welcome
Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Symposium – AFib Care: New Frontiers in AI
This symposium is supported by GE HealthCare and Volta Medical.
Chair: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Case Operator: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Panel: Paul Zei (Massachusetts, US); Julien Seitz (Marseille, FR); Matt Hyman (Pennsylvania, US)
Session 4.1 - Case & Discussion: Balancing Safety and Precision: Zero-Fluoro PFA and TEE-Guided LAAC
Chair: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Case Operator: Devi Nair (St Bernard's Heart and Vascular Center, Jonesboro, US)
Panel: Shephal Doshi (Santa Monica, US); David DeLurgio (Atlanta, US); Mohamed Kanj (Cleveland, US)
Session 4.2 - Case & Discussion: A Novel Approach to AF Ablation: improving Outcomes Through Robotic Surgery
Chair: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Case Operator: Zain Khalpey (HonorHealth John C. Lincoln Medical Center, Scottsdale, US)
Panel: Zain Khalpey (Scottsdale, US), Rahul Doshi (Scottsdale, US); John Rickard (Al Maryah Island, AE)
Session 4.3 - Presentation & Discussion: Best EP Practices for the Future: PFA Should Not Be Performed on All Heart Failure Patients with AF
Chair: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Presenter: Douglas Packer (Murray, US)
Panel: Nassir Marrouche (New Orleans, US); Amin Al-Ahmad (Austin, US)
Session 4.4 - Case & Discussion: Seeing the Source: Advanced Mapping and ICE in PVC Ablation
Chair: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Case Operator: Fermin Garcia (Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, US)
Panel: Fermin Garcia (Philadelphia, US); Andre d’Avila (Boston, US); Usha Tedrow (Boston, US)
Session 4.5 - Case & Discussion: Bipolar Ablation as a Therapeutic Strategy for Premature Ventricular Contractions
Chair: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Case Operator: Bishnu Dhakal (MUSC Medical Center (Medical University of South Carolina), North Charleston, US)
Panel: Bishnu Dhakal (North Charleston, US); Fermin Garcia (Philadelphia, US); Andre d’Avila (Boston, US)
Session 4.6 - Case & Discussion: Beyond the Circuit: Tackling the VT Substrate
Chair: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Case Operator: Andre d’Avila (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, US)
Panel: Andre d’Avila (Boston, US), Fermin Garcia (Philadelphia, US); Timothy Maher (Boston, US)
Session 4.7 - Presentation & Discussion: Closing the Gap: Access, Ambulation, and Same-Day Discharge in the EP Lab
Chair: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Presenters: David DeLurgio (Atlanta, US); Christian-Hendrik Heeger (Hamburg, DE)
Panel: David DeLurgio (Atlanta, US); Rahul Doshi (Scottsdale, US); Christian-Hendrik Heeger (Hamburg, DE); Roland Tilz (Lübeck, DE)
Session 4.8 - Presentation & Discussion: Beyond Ablation: Integrating Smart Monitoring, Mapping, and Neuromodulation
Chair: Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Presenter: Vivek Reddy (New York, US)
Panel: Juan Carlos Zerpa Acosta (São Paulo, Brazil); Rahul Doshi (Scottsdale, US); Shephal Doshi (Santa Monica, US)
Day 4 – Summary and Event Close
Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Devi Gopinath Nair
Course Director
St Bernards Heart & Vascular Center, Arkansas, US
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Jason Andrade
Course Co-director
Vancouver, CA
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Julian Chun
Course Co-director
Markus Krankenhaus Frankfurt am Main, DE
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Richard Schilling
Course Co-director
St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK
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Roderick Tung
Course Co-director
The University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, US
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Andrea Sarkozy
Course Co-director
Brussels, BE
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Olujimi A. Ajijola
Los Angeles, US
Amr Adbin
Homburg, DE
Tolga Aksu
Istanbul,TR
Alexandre Almorad
Brussels, BE
Syeda Atiqa Batul
Scrantion, US
Jonathan Behar
London, UK
Benjamin Berte
Lucerne, CH
Serge Boveda
Toulouse, FR
David Calvo Cuervo
Madrid, ES
Diogo Cavaco
Lisbon, PT
Giuseppe Ciconte
Milan, IT
Domenico Della Rocca
Brussels, BE
David DeLurgio
Atlanta, US
Andrea Droghetti
Turin, IT
Leon Iden
Bad Segeberg, DE
Kousik Krishnan
Naperville,US
Jerome Lacotte
Paris, FR
Michal Lewandowski
Warsaw, PL
Jonathan Lyne
Dublin, IR
ladimir Manenti
Massy, FR
Claire Martin
Cambridge, UK
Grégoire Massoullié
Clermont-Ferrand, FR
Jack McCready
Worthing, UK
Abdul Parwani
Berlin, DE
Krishna Pothineni
Kansas City, US
Helmut Purerfellner
Linz, AT
Mansour Razminia
Chicago, US
Vivek Reddy
New York, US
Aldo Rinaldi
London, UK
Daniel Rodríguez
Madrid, ES
Javier Romero Roldán
Navarra, ES
Boris Schmidt
Frankfurt, DE
Poojita Shivamurthy
Philadelphia, US
Christian Sohns
Bad Oeynhausen, DE
Antonio Sorgente
Brussels, BE
Arian Sultan
Hamburg, DE
Sri Sundaram
Littleton, US
Usha B Tedrow
Boston, US
Roland Tilz
Brussels, BE
Verena Tscholl
Berlin, DE
Dimitris Tsiachris
Athens, GR
Stefano Viani
Pisa, IT
Reza Wakili
Frankfurt, DE
Joachim Weil
Lübeck, DE
David Zizek
Ljubljana, SI
