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2026 Agenda Coming Soon!

2025 Agenda

7:30 AM

Registration

Pacifica Ballroom

7:45 AM

Breakfast Symposium:


A Promising Treatment Option: Wegovy® for Adults With Established CVD & Obesity” presented

Mihir Barvalia, MD 


Supported by Novo Nordisk


Not Accredited for CME

8:30 AM

Welcome, Introduction & Program Overview

Lori Daniels, MD, MAS (UC San Diego)

SESSION I | ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME and TROPONIN

Moderator: Lori Daniels, MD, MAS

Panelists: Kristin M. Aakre, MD, PhD; Allan S. Jaffe, MD; Yader Sandoval, MD; 

Martin Than, MD; Saara Wittfooth, PhD

8:45 AM

hsTroponin in the Emergency Department

Martin Than, MD (Christchurch Hospital, New Zealand)

9:00 AM

Measuring Cardiac Troponin in Chest Pain Patients: My Place or Your Place?

Kristin M. Aakre, MD, PhD (University of Bergen, Norway)

9:15 AM

Biomarkers in Type 2 Myocardial Infarction

Yader Sandoval, MD (Minneapolis Heart Institute)

9:30 AM

Everything You Need to Know About Macrotroponin and Anti-Troponin Autoantibodies

Saara Wittfooth, PhD (University of Turku, Finland)

9:45 AM

High Sensitivity Troponin in the Third World 

Allan S. Jaffe, MD (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN)

10:00 AM

Acute Coronary Syndrome Panel Q&A 

10:15 AM

BREAK / VISIT EXHIBITS 

SESSION II | BIOMARKERS IN HEART FAILURE

Moderator: Hilary Shapiro, MD

Panelists: Quan M. Bui, MD; Robert H. Christenson, PhD; 

Lori Daniels, MD, MAS; Gregg C. Fonarow, MD; Joachim H. Ix, MD

10:35 AM

Using Biomarkers to Advance GDMT ADHEREance

Gregg C. Fonarow, MD (UC Los Angeles)

10:50 AM

Cardiologists as Diabeticians: Biomarkers and SGLT2i/GLP1a for Prevention of CVD 

Lori Daniels, MD, MAS (UC San Diego)

11:05 AM

Natriuretic Peptides: State of the Art

Robert H. Christenson, PhD (University of Maryland)

11:20 AM

Kidneys Versus the Heart: Leveraging Renal Biomarkers for Better BP and CVD Management

Joachim H. Ix, MD (UC San Diego and VA San Diego Medical Center)

11:35 AM

Screening for Heritable Cardiac Conditions with Genetic Markers

Quan M. Bui, MD (UC San Diego)

11:50 AM

Biomarkers in Heart Failure & Cardiometabolics Panel Q&A 

12:00 PM

LUNCH / VISIT EXHIBITS

Pacifica Ballroom

LUNCH SYMPOSIUM

12:25 PM

 Revisiting the Utility of Cardiac Biopsy in the Modern Era 

 Eric D. Adler, MD (UC San Diego) 

*Not CME Accredited*

12:40 PM

Evidence Based Treatment of Recurrent Pericarditis

Amin Sabet, MD

Supported by Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals

*Not CME Accredited*

SESSION III | SCREENING AND PREVENTION

Moderator: Christopher deFilippi, MD 

Panelists: Lori Daniels, MD, MAS; James de Lemos, MD; Dipti Itchhaporia, MD; 

Torbjorn Omland, MD; Gregory S. Thomas, MD, MPH; Michael Wilkinson, MD

1:15 PM

The Clinical Emergence of Lipoprotein (a)

Michael Wilkinson, MD (UC San Diego)

1:30 PM

Keynote: AI in Cardiology

Dipti Itchhaporia, MD (UC Irvine and Hoag Heart & Vascular Institute, Newport Beach, CA)

1:50 PM

Screening in the General Population

James de Lemos, MD (UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX)

2:05 PM

Cardiac Myosin Binding Protein C (cMyC): A New Marker of Subclinical Myocardial Injury in the General Population?

Torbjørn Omland, MD (University of Oslo, Norway)

2:20 PM

Special Talk: What Ancient Mummies Can Teach Us about the Most Ancient of Biomarkers and CVD

Gregory S. Thomas, MD (MemorialCare Heart & Vascular Institute, Laguna Hills, CA)

2:40 PM

Breast Arterial Calcification – An Imaging Marker of Heart Failure and CVD

Lori Daniels, MD, MAS (UC San Diego)

2:55 PM

Q&A

3:10 PM

BREAK / VISIT EXHIBITS

Session IV: Shark Tank “Biomarkers - The Next Generation”

Academia Sharks: Kristin M. Aakre, MD, PhD; Paul Collinson, MA, MB;

 James de Lemos, MD; Allan S. Jaffe, MD

3:30 PM

Troponin Fragments

Fred S. Apple, PhD (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN)

3:45 PM

Q&A Discussion

3:50 PM

More than Skin-Deep: Transcutaneous Troponin Measurements

W. Frank Peacock, MD (Baylor, Houston, TX)

4:05 PM

Q&A  

4:10 PM

The Biomarker Machine – CoDE-ACS to Diagnose MI and HF

Nicholas L. Mills, PhD (University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)

4:25 PM

Q&A

4:30 PM

Expanding the Rule-Out Zone for ACS: Synergism of Cardiac Troponin & Micro RNA 

Robert H. Christenson, PhD (University of Maryland) 

4:45 PM

Q&A

4:50 PM

Shark Tank Reveal

Lori Daniels, MD, MAS (UC San Diego), Christopher deFilippi, MD (Inova, Falls Church, VA)

5:00 PM

Concluding Remarks

Lori Daniels, MD, MAS (UC San Diego)

5:00 PM- 6:00 PM

Wine and Cheese Reception / Poster Award Ceremony

Located in the Exhibit Hall

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