Day Welcome
Day 3 - Welcome
Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Symposium
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)
Plenary Session
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)
Plenary Session
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)
Plenary Session
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)
Plenary Session
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)
Plenary Session
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)
Plenary Session
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)
Plenary Session
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)
Plenary Session
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)
Plenary Session
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)
Plenary Session
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)
Plenary Session
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)
Plenary Session
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)
Plenary Session
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)
Plenary Session
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)
Plenary Session
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)
Plenary Session
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)
Plenary Session
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)
Plenary Session
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)
Plenary Session
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)
Plenary Session
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 Summary
Day 3 - Summary
Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Day Welcome
Day 4 – Welcome
Devi Nair (Jonesboro, US)
Symposium
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)
Plenary Session
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)
Plenary Session
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)
Plenary Session
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)
Plenary Session
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)
Plenary Session
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)
Plenary Session
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)
Plenary Session
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)
Plenary Session
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 Summary
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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Roderick Tung
Course Co-director
The University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, US
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Suneet Mittal
Course Co-director
Paramus, US
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Bradley Knight
Course Co-director
Chicago, US
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Juan Carlos Zerpa Acosta
São Paulo, Brazil
Anish Amin
Columbus, US
Jason Andrade
Vancouver, CA
Syeda Atiqa Batul
Scrantion, US
Brett Atwater
Fairfax, US
Steven Bailin
Iowa City, US
Chirag Barbhaiya
New York, US
Luigi Di Biase
New York, US
Ulrika Birgersdotter-Green
San Diego, US
Larry Chinitz
New York, US
Frank Cuoco
North Charleston, US
Andre d'Avila
Boston, US
David DeLurgio
Atlanta, US
Tom De Potter
Aalst, BE
Nicolas Derval
Bordeaux, FR
Bishnu Dhakal
North Charleston, US
Rahul Doshi
Scottsdale, US
Shephal Doshi
Santa Monica, US
Mikhael El-Chami
Atlanta, US
Fermin Garcia
Philadelphia, US
Brett Gidney
Santa Barbara, US
Melanie Gunawardene
Hamburg, DE
Christian-Hendrik Heeger
Hamburg, DE
Ayman Hussein
Cleveland, US
Matt Hyman
Philadelphia, US
Mohamed Kanj
Cleveland, US
Sunil Kapur
Boston, US
Zain Khalpey
Scottsdale, US
Anne Kroman
Charleston, US
Valentina Kutyifa
Rochester, US
Michael Lloyd
Atlanta, US
Nestor Lopez-Cabanillas
Buenos Aires, AR
Moussa Mansour
Boston, US
Nassir Marrouche
New Orleans, US
Rohit Mehta
Charlotte, US
Oliver Monfredi
Charlottesville, US
Andrea Natale
Austin, US
Nicholas Olson
La Jolla, US
Saumil Oza
Jacksonville, US
Douglas Packer
Murray, US
Apoor Patel
Houston, US
Marco Perez
Stanford, US
Vivek Reddy
New York, US
John Rickard
Al Maryah Island, AE
Moeen Saleem
Naperville, US
Prashanthan Sanders
Adelaide, AU
Pasquale Santangeli
Cleveland, US
Julien Seitz
Marseille, FR
Dinesh Sharma
Naples, US
Usman Siddiqui
Orlando, US
Josh Silverstein
Pittsburgh, US
Philipp Sommer
Bad Oeynhausen, DE
Nitesh Sood
Fall River, US
Harikrishna Tandri
Nashville, US
Usha B Tedrow
Boston, US
Roland Tilz
Brussels, BE
Gery Tomassoni
Lexington, US
Paul Zei
Boston, US
