2026 PRELIMINARY AGENDA

Registration

Pacifica Ballroom

Breakfast Symposium:

OPEN FOR SUBMISSION

Not Accredited for CME

Welcome, Introduction & Program Overview

Lori Daniels, MD, MAS (UC San Diego)

hsTroponin in the Emergency Department

Martin Than, MD (Christchurch Hospital, New Zealand)

Point of Care hsTroponin: Whole-Blood Testing Comes of Age

Paul Collinson, MA, MB, BChir, FRCPath, MD, FRCP(Edin), FAACC, FESC (City St. George’s University of London)

Troponin I or T? Using Both to Sort Type 1 from Type 2—and Acute from Chronic

Fred Apple, PhD, DABCC (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN)

Making the Call: Practical Lessons in Biomarker Outcome Adjudication

TBD

Reflections on the Universal Definition of MI

Nicholas Mills, MD, PhD (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Acute Coronary Syndrome Panel Q&A/Discussion

BREAK / VISIT EXHIBITS 

Everything You Need to Know About Macro Troponins & Troponin Autoantibodies – An Update

Saara Wittfooth, PhD (University of Turku: Turku, Finland)

Do You Need Necrosis? Rethinking Mechanisms of Troponin Release

Ola Hammarsten, MD, PhD (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)

High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin: Analytical Pitfalls & Practical Fixes

Rob Fitzgerald, PhD (UC San Diego)

Biomarker-Guided Prevention Interventions in the Emergency Department

Simon Mahler, MD (Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC) 

Biomarker-Leveraged Early Detection & Reduction of Risk in Diabetes

Lori Daniels, MD, MAS (UC San Diego)

Using Biomarkers to Advance GDMT ADHEREance

Gregg Fonarow, MD (UC Los Angeles)

Q&A Panel Discussion

LUNCH / VISIT EXHIBITS

Pacifica Ballroom

The Clinical Emergence of Lipoprotein (a)

TBD

Screening in the General Population

TBD

GDF-15 as a Therapeutic Target

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

CRP, IL-6 & the Inflammatory Axis in Diabetes, CVD & CKD

TBD

Keynote: Identifying Risk & Improving Outcomes in the SMuRFless

TBD

Age Matters: Principles for Interpreting Biomarkers in Late Life

Christopher deFilippi, MD, FACC (University. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD)

Q&A

BREAK / VISIT EXHIBITS

A Digital Biomarker for Peripheral Arterial Disease

Mattheus Ramsis, MD (UC San Diego)

Q&A Discussion

The Bed of the Future

Kevin King, MD, PhD (UC San Diego)

Q&A  

A Better Critical Care Biomarker 

Salvatore Di Somma,  MD, PhD (University “La Sapienza”, Rome)

Q&A

TBD: Open for Applicants

Q&A

Shark Tank Reveal

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

Concluding Remarks

Lori Daniels, MD, MAS (UC San Diego)