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AHA SCientific Sessions 2025

Fri. Nov 7

Presenter

Main Session Name

Presentation Name

Presentation Type

Time

Location

Jordan Ezekian

An Introduction to Clinical Cardiovascular Genetic Testing Best Practices: A Flipped Classroom-Style Session

Clinical CV Genetics Flipped Classroom

Presentation

8:10am - 9:10am

208-209

Brittney Hills

How I Built This: Unique Clinical Programs to Improve CHD Care

Programmatic and Scientific Advances in Acute Care Cardiology

Special Sessions | Presentation

8:13am - 8:23am

Rivergate

Jordan Ezekian

What A Busy Cardiologist Needs to Know About Genetics

A positive genetic test in sudden cardiac death: What do I tell the family?

Special Sessions | Presentation

9:53am - 10:01am

Rivergate

Melissa Bellomy

Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Heart Failure and CKD in Critically Ill Patients

Let’s Tackle Both Issues: Is a Combined Heart and Kidney Transplant the Ultimate Solution?

Clinical | Presentaiton

10:33am - 10:45am

217-219

Benjamin Levine

Competitive Sports Participation for Athletes with Heart Disease: New Guidance and Future Directions

Competitive Sports Participation for Athletes with Heart Disease: New Guidance and Future Directions

Population

12:30am - 1:45pm

New Orleans Theater B

Joseph A. Hill

Publishing Your Work: A Discussion with Leading Journal Editors

Panel Speaker - Ciculation

Clinical | Presentaiton

2:00pm - 2:05pm

260-262

Joseph A. Hill

Circulating Global Health Knowledge: Key Findings from AHA Journals

Circulating Global Health Knowledge: Key Findings from AHA Journals

Clinical

2:00pm - 3:15pm

243

Jordan Ezekian

Genomic and Precision Medicine Symposium: Model Systems: Preclinical to Phase I Bridge: Session 2, Assessing Therapeutics in Model Systems

Genomic and Precision Medicine Symposium: Model Systems: Preclinical to Phase I Bridge: Session 2, Assessing Therapeutics in Model Systems

Basic | Moderator

2:15pm - 3:30pm

208-209

Brittany Weber

Strategies and experiences as an early career member funded with NIH and external grants

Protecting Your First Steps & Obtaining Funding in an Evolving Landscape: Words of Wisdom from Academic Leaders and Established Investigators

Clinical | Presentaiton

3:21pm - 3:28pm

260-262

Mark Link

ICD selection: The Right Wire for the Right Warrior

Complications of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Recognition and Treatment of Arrhythmias and Advanced Heart Failure

Clinical | Presentaiton

4:21pm - 4:33pm

R01

Reynaldo Sanchez

Building a Career That Maximizes Impact on All Populations

Building a Career That Maximizes Impact on All Populations

Basic

5:00pm - 5:50pm

270

 

Sat. Nov 8

Presenter

Main Session Name

Presentation Name

Presentation Type

Time

Location

Fernando Rabioglio Giugni (Post Doctoral Researcher)

Novel Mechanistic Pathways Underlying Cardiometabolic Risk

Attomolar-Sensitivity Plasma Proteomics Identifies Fat Depot-Specific Inflammatory Biomarkers Related to CKM Syndrome: The Dallas Heart Study

Population | Presentation

9:15am - 9:20am

Population Science Zone‚ Moderated Digital Poster 11

Nicolas Madsen (Attending)

A Vision for the Future of Clinical Registries in Pediatric Cardiovascular Care

A Vision for the Future of Clinical Registries in Pediatric Cardiovascular Care

Clinical

9:45am - 11:00am

225-227

Joshua Beckman

Arteries and Veins in Trouble: VTE and PAD

Arteries and Veins in Trouble: VTE and PAD

Clinical

9:45am - 11:00am

211-213

Eric Peterson

AI-enabled Digital Health for Scalable Management of Rhythm Disorders

AI-enabled Digital Health for Scalable Management of Rhythm Disorders

Population

9:45am - 11:00am

Heart Theater 2

Ambarish Pandey

Diabetes, CKD and CVD Risk: From Mechanisms to Management

The synergistic impact of Diabetes and CKD on Cardiovascular Risk and Mortality

Population | Presentation

9:45am - 9:55am

217-219

Eric Peterson

Health Innovation Pavilion Opening Session

Health Innovation Pavilion Opening Session

Population

9:45am - 11:00am

Health Innovation Pavilion

Joseph Hill

Fatty Acid Oxidation in HFpEF

Molecular Insights in HFpEF Pathophysiology

Basic | Presentation

9:57am - 10:09am

208-209

Brittany Weber

Inflammation and Atherosclerosis: Smoldering Threat or Therapeutic Target?

Debate: Seeing the Fire or Measuring the Smoke? The Battle for Superior Risk Stratification: Imaging Biomarkers

Population | Presentation

10:07am - 10:15am

224

Eric Peterson

Presenter

Health Innovation Pavilion Opening Session

Population | Presentation

10:20am - 10:25am

Health Innovation Pavilion

Amit Khera

From Drugs to Diet/Lifestyle: Practical Tips for Cardiovascular Risk Conversations in Clinical Care

Live patient/provider interview: best practices for incorporating lifestyle modification into cardiovascular practice

Core Cardiology | Presentation

10:25am - 10:35am

New Orleans Theater A

Victoria Lamberson

Novel Genomic and Precision Therapies for Cardiovascular Disease 1

Changes in the Plasma Proteome with Acute Exercise: The Dallas Heart Study

Basic | Presentation

10:30am - 11:30am

Basic Science Zone

Ambarish Pandey

Emerging Metabolic and Kidney Predictors of Cardiovascular Risk

Emerging Metabolic and Kidney Predictors of Cardiovascular Risk

Population | Moderated Poster

10:45am - 11:55am

Population Science Zone‚ Moderated Digital Poster 11

Peifeng Ruan

Decoding the Molecular Basis of Disease: Using OMICS to Understand Pulmonary Vascular Disease

Proteomics analysis identifies sub-phenotypes amongst clinically similar patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Clincal | Presentation

11:13am - 11:18am

Clinical Science Zone 2‚ Moderated Digital Poster 22

Eric Peterson

Health Tech Competition: Round 1

Health Tech Competition: Round 1

Population

11:30am - 1:00pm

Health Innovation Pavilion

Feroz James (Medical Resident)

Medical Therapy in Peripheral Artery Disease

Glycemic Control and Risk of Clinical Events in Diabetics Based on Severity of Peripheral Artery Disease: Insights from the Peripheral Artery Disease Long-Term Survival Study

Clincal | Presentation

12:22pm - 12:27pm

Clinical Science Zone 2‚ Moderated Digital Poster 21

Maryjane Farr, Joseph Hill

EHJ and Circulation: Advances in 2025

EHJ and Circulation: Advances in 2025

Clincal

1:30pm - 2:45pm

210

Joseph Hill

Mastering Research and Writing in Cardiology: The Physician-Scientist’s Guide to Success

Mastering Research and Writing in Cardiology: The Physician-Scientist’s Guide to Success

Clincal

1:30pm - 2:45pm

Membership Lounge

Leonard Chiu (Cardiology Fellow)

Laennec Fellow In Training (FIT) Clinician Award Competition

A Case of Concomitant Wild-Type Transthyretin and Systemic Light Chain Amyloidosis Involving Separate Organs

Clincal | Presentation

1:30pm - 1:40pm

260-262

Joshua Beckman

Finding Common Ground: Controversies in PAD and CLTI Management

Is Microvascular disease the silent killer for PAD patients?

Clincal | Presentation

1:30pm - 2:45pm

244

Ann Marie Navar

Shifting Paradigms in Lipid Management for ASCVD Risk

Efficacy and Safety of Enlicitide, an Oral PCSK9 Inhibitor, for Lowering LDL Cholesterol in Adults with or At-Risk for ASCVD: The Phase 3 CORALreef Lipids Trial

Population | Presentation

1:30pm - 1:40pm

Main Event 2

Melissa Bellomy

Powering the Failing Heart: Advances and Outcomes in Mechanical Support and Transplantation

Powering the Failing Heart: Advances and Outcomes in Mechanical Support and Transplantation

Clinical

1:45pm - 3:00pm

Clinical Science Zone 1‚ Moderated Digital Poster 7

Ambarish Pandey

Pragmatic Clinical Trials in the Electronic Health Record

Effectiveness of EHR Interventions to Identify and Mitigate Cardiac Risk

Population | Presentation

1:54pm - 2:06pm

220-222

Wendy Wang

Brain, Heart, and Risk: Advancing Cognitive and Cardiovascular Protection

Association Between Direct Oral Anticoagulant Dose and Risk of Stroke/Systemic Embolism, Major Bleeding, or All-Cause Mortality in Patients with Ischemic Stroke and Atrial Fibrillation

Clinical | Presentation

2:15pm - 2:25pm

238-239

Darren McGuire

Metabolic & Lipid-Focused Therapies for CAD

Effects on major adverse cardiovascular events in persons treated with sotagliflozin: Prespecified pooled analyses of the Phase 3 type 2 diabetes program

Clinical | Presentation

2:30pm - 3:30pm

Clinical Science Zone 2

Joshua Beckman

PAD Medical Therapies

PAD Medical Therapies

Clinical

2:30pm - 3:30pm

Clinical Science Zone 2

Khaled Shelbaya

Outcomes Linked to Obesity and Related Comorbidities

Progression in Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic (CKM) Stages Over 7 Years in Mid-Life: The Dallas Heart Study

Population | Presentation

2:30pm - 3:30pm

Population Science Zone

Parag Joshi

Risk Factor Trends and Associated Cardiovascular Disease Risk

Risk Factor Trends and Associated Cardiovascular Disease Risk

Population

2:30pm - 3:30pm

Population Science Zone

Shawna Nesbitt

HTN, Critical Care Cardiology, and Aortic Valve

HTN, Critical Care Cardiology, and Aortic Valve

Clincal

3:15pm - 4:25pm

Clinical Science Zone 1‚ Moderated Digital Poster 9

Jameson Wilbur (Resident)

Health Justice in Cardiology: Confronting Disparities in Care and Research Leadership

Patient trust in physicians and disease understanding impact heart failure care in an urban safety-net health system

Population | Presentation

3:15pm - 3:20pm

Population Science Zone‚ Moderated Digital Poster 15

Jiang He

Women and Underrepresented Populations in Research and Care Delivery

Disparities in Cardiovascular Outcomes: Closing the Gap or a Widening Divide?

Population | Presentation

3:35pm - 3:45pm

224

Alvin Chandra

Stress Matters: Innovations in Physiologic Testing Across Multimodality Imaging

Non-invasive Diastolic Stress Testing in a Large Observational Cohort Study: Insights from the Dallas Heart Study

Clincal | Presentaion

3:43pm - 3:48pm

Clinical Science Zone 1‚ Moderated Digital Poster 8

 

Sun. Nov 9

Presenter

Main Session Name

Presentation Name

Presentation Type

Time

Location

Mark Drazner

Pecha Kucha Says: It’s All About Managing Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Health

Pecha Kucha Says: It’s All About Managing Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Health

Clincal

8:00am - 9:15pm

260-262

Spencer Carter

Geriatrics: Practical Issues in Hypertensive Care

Geriatrics: Practical Issues in Hypertensive Care

Clinical

8:00am - 9:15pm

231-232

Shu Kang

Next-Generation Therapies for Ischemic Heart Repair: From Cells to Imaging

Evaluating Precision Therapy Efficacy in Post-MI Cardiac Tissue Regeneration using Noninvasive Optoacoustic Imaging

Basic | Presentation

8:30am - 8:40am

210

Shawna Nesbitt

Geriatrics: Practical Issues in Hypertensive Care

Social, Racial and Cultural Considerations in Hypertension in Older Adults

Clinical

8:45am - 8:57am

231-232

Amit Khera

Annual Lipid Update 2025

What LDL-C (or ApoB) level should we be targeting? And how ASCVD history inform LDL-C targets?

Core Cardiologo | Presentation

9:45am - 9:55am

New Orleans Theater A

Shawna Nesbitt

Cracking the Code: Turning the 2025 ACC/AHA High Blood Pressure Guideline Into Actionable Practice

When lifestyle modification isn't working: How to address the young person with stage 1 hypertension and low 10-year CVD risk who remains uncontrolled

Guidelines | Presentation

9:45am - 11:00am

New Orleans Theater B

Sophia Canga

Cholesterol Chronicles: Lipid Markers and Cardiovascular Disease

Not All LDLs are Created Equal: Discordance Between Calculated LDL-C Estimates and Incident ASCVD in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

Population | Presentation

11:57am - 12:02pm

Population Science Zone‚ Moderated Digital Poster 13

Medha Somisetty (Medical Student)

Under Pressure: Exercise, Risk, and Real-World Predictors in Cardiovascular Disease

Poor Glycemic Control is Associated with Increased Risk of Clinical Events in Older Diabetic Patients with Peripheral Artery Disease

Population | Presentation

3:22pm - 3:27pm

Population Science Zone‚ Moderated Digital Poster 12

Shawna Nesbitt

Practice Changing Trials in Blood Pressure Control?

Practice Changing Trials in Blood Pressure Control?

Clinical

3:30pm - 4:45pm

Main Event 1

James de Lemos, Joseph Hill

Circulation: Innovation in Cardiovascular Science and Medicine: An AHA Journals Session

Circulation: Innovation in Cardiovascular Science and Medicine: An AHA Journals Session

Clinical

3:30pm - 4:45pm

220-222

Amit Khera

Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Extends Beyond the Heart

Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Extends Beyond the Heart

Special Sessions

3:30pm - 4:45pm

Rivergate

Eric Peterson

GW-ICC at AHA2025: Frontiers in Cardiovascular Care (AHA Joint Session with Great Wall International Congress of Cardiology)

Community-based intervention in hypertension care

Clinical | Presentation

3:45pm - 4:00pm

235-236

 

Mon. Nov. 10

Presenter

Main Session Name

Presentation Name

Presentation Type

Time

Location

Mark Link

Featured Science in EP

Featured Science in EP

Clinical

8:00am - 9:15am

211-213

Dharan Kumbhani

Approaches to Ischemic Heart Disease Before During and After Hospitalization

Approaches to Ischemic Heart Disease Before During and After Hospitalization

Clinical

8:00am - 9:15am

Main Event 1

Amit Khera

Global Convergence in Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Health: Collaborative Innovation for the Next Era of Care

Global Models for CKMH: Practical Approaches to Collaborative Innovation

Population | Presentation

8:00am - 8:20am

235-236

Parag Joshi

A Window of Opportunity: Leveraging Non-cardiac Imaging to Guide CVD Risk Assessment

How to integrate and communicate incidental imaging findings as part of CVD prevention

Population | Presentation

9:00am - 9:10am

220-222

Nidhish Lokesh (Resident)

Clinical Case: CAD

Sludgy Cors: Phlebotomy for Testosterone-Induced Polycythemia in Acute Coronary Syndrome

Clinical | Presentation

9:15am - 9:20am

Clinical Science Zone 1‚ Moderated Digital Poster 7

Gaurav Sharma

Moving the Needle: Expanding Capabilities in Multimodality Imaging

HP-13CMRAnalyst: A MATLAB Application for Dynamic Cardiac Metabolic Imaging Analysis Using Hyperpolarized Carbon-13 MRI

Clinical | Presentation

9:43am - 9:48am

Clinical Science Zone 1‚ Moderated Digital Poster 4

Ambarish Pandey

Recipes for Success in Heart Failure

A Polypill Strategy for Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction: The POLY-HF Trial

Clinical | Presentation

9:45am - 9:55am

Main Event 1

Ning Liu

Gene Therapy: Repair the Heart by Targeting its Genes

Gene Therapy: Repair the Heart by Targeting its Genes

Basic

9:45am - 11:00am

208-209

Amit Khera

Innovators’ Network Innovation Showcase

Innovators’ Network Innovation Showcase

Population

9:45am - 11:30am

Health Innovation Pavilion

Ambarish Pandey

Recipes for Success in Heart Failure

Examining the Impact of Medically Tailored Meals vs Produce Supplements Delivered Conditionally vs Unconditionally on Heart Failure Readmissions and Emergency Department Visits: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Clinical | Presentation

10:15am - 10:25am

Main Event 1

Dazhe Cao

Heart Restart & Going Beyond the Pulse: Unveiling the 2025 Cardiac Arrest Guidelines

Offbeat Scenarios: Tackling Special Circumstances In Resuscitation

Guidelines | Presentation

10:20am - 10:25am

New Orleans Theater B

Brittany Hills

Social Determinants and Disparities in Cardiovascular Outcomes in pediatric and congenital heart disease

Social Determinants and Disparities in Cardiovascular Outcomes in pediatric and congenital heart disease

Clinical

10:45am - 12:00pm

Clinical Science Zone 2‚ Moderated Digital Poster 17

Haekyung Jeon-Slaughter

Aging, Biological Age & Cardiovascular Risk

Differential impact of aging on cardiovascular disease risk in male military service members

Population | Presentation

11:06am - 11:11am

Population Science Zone‚ Moderated Digital Poster 10

Ildiko Lingvay

Optimizing Use of GLP-1 RA for Cardiometabolic Benefit: New Strategies and Applications

SELECT-LIFE: A non-interventional follow-up study investigating the long-term effects of semaglutide in participants from the SELECT trial

Population | Presentation

11:20am - 11:25am

Population Science Zone‚ Moderated Digital Poster 11

Anand Jain

Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy: Disease Management and Outcomes

Symptoms of Bladder Incontinence Are Associated with Worse Functional Status and Quality of Life in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction

Clinical | Presentation

12:15pm - 12:20pm

Clinical Science Zone 1‚ Moderated Digital Poster 5

Eric Hedge

Physical Activity as Medicine

Influence of Heart Size and Sex on Cardiovascular Adaptations to 2 Years of Endurance Exercise Training in Sedentary Middle-Aged Adults

Population | Presentation

12:15pm - 12:20pm

Population Science Zone‚ Moderated Digital Poster 13

Khaled Shelbaya

Interventional Studies and Outcome Trends in CKM Syndrome

Prognosis of Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic (CKM) Stages: The Dallas Heart Study

Population | Presentation

12:57pm - 1:02pm

Population Science Zone‚ Moderated Digital Poster 11

Matthew Mosgrove (Fellow)

Epidemiology and Health Care Policy in Pediatric/Congenital Cardiology

From Diagnosis to Timely Care: How Social Determinants of Health Affect Pediatric Patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome

Clinical | Presentation

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Clinical Science Zone 2

Glynnis Bann

New Frontiers in Cardiac Injury, Therapies, and Disparities

New Frontiers in Cardiac Injury, Therapies, and Disparities

Basic

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Basic Science Zone

Rachel Leon

Bench to Bedside: Translational Multi-omic Models of Cardiovascular Disease 1

Fetal left ventricular outflow tract obstruction and placental syncytiotrophoblast differentiation

Basic

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Basic Science Zone

Chao Li (Instructor)

Emerging Topics In Cardiometabolic and Vascular Diseases

Seipin-Adipogenin Complex Drives Lipid Accumulation

Basic

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Basic Science Zone

Zhao Zhang

Emerging Topics In Cardiometabolic and Vascular Diseases

The Jack Sarver Prize in Basic Science: Forward Genetic Screen Identifies HELZ2 as a Central Regulator of APOB mRNA Stability Linking Hepatic Steatosis and Atherosclerosis

Basic

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Basic Science Zone

James de Lemos

Basics of Contract Negotiation

Basics of Contract Negotiation

Clinical

1:30pm - 2:45pm

215-216

Shawna Nesbitt

Drugs and Hypertension – New Treatments Causing Hypertension and New Mechanisms for Treatment

Drugs and Hypertension – New Treatments Causing Hypertension and New Mechanisms for Treatment

Clinical

1:30pm - 2:45pm

238-239

Ann Marie Navar

Meet the Trialist of CORAL Reef Lipids

Meet the Trialist of CORAL Reef Lipids

Population

2:00pm - 2:15pm

Clinical Science Zone 1‚ Moderated Digital Poster 8

Eric Peterson

Optimizing Brain Health: Enhancing Operations and Patient Experience with AI

Improving Patient Outcomes and Care Delivery with AI in Clinical Settings

Clinical | Presentation

4:00pm - 4:15pm

240-241