The 2021 AHA Scientific Sessions starts this weekend. Many CVI members will be participating as a speaker, moderator, panelist, and/or poster presenter to share their exciting research. To easily find presentations by CVI members, please view the compiled list of on-demand talks and session throughout AHA Scientific Sessions.

On Demand

Speaker Time (PST) Session Talk Title

Victoria Parikh

N/A

State of the Art: Cardiomyopathy

Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathies, so much more than ARVC

Ngan Huang

N/A

Hearts on Chips and Chips on Hearts

Biophysical and biomechanical cues in stem cell differentiation

Hannah Valantine

N/A

Circulation: Innovation in Cardiovascular Science and Medicine

Cell-Free DNA to Detect Heart Allograft Acute Rejection

Eldrin Lewis

 

Caring for Older Adults With CVD: Questions You Haven't Asked and How They Affect Outcomes

Falls in Patients With CVD: Reducing the Risk of Catastrophe

Marcia Stefanick

 

The Menopausal Transition and Cardiovascular Disease (Based on a Recent AHA Scientific Statement)

Menopause: Is It Really an Independent Risk Factor for CVD?

Vinicio de Jesus Perez

 

Rise of the Machines: How Bioengineering Models Advance PAH Research

Rise of the Machines: How Bioengineering Models Advance PAH Research

Michael Fischbein

 

Optimal Long-Term Techniques for Aortic Valve Pathology

Optimal Long-Term Techniques for Aortic Valve Pathology

Dominik Fleischmann

 

Foretelling the Future of Imaging in Aortic Dissection

Foretelling the Future of Imaging in Aortic Dissection

Jennifer Tremmel

 

Debates in the Management of NSTEACS

Debates in the Management of NSTEACS

Celina Yong

 

Through the Looking Glass: Intra-Coronary Imaging in Interventions and Beyond

Through the Looking Glass: Intra-Coronary Imaging in Interventions and Beyond

Vinicio de Jesus Perez

 

Cutting Edge Clinical Trials in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Cutting Edge Clinical Trials in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Joseph Wu

 

E-Cigarettes - Cardiovascular Toxicity and Health Effects

E-Cigarettes - Cardiovascular Toxicity and Health Effects

Sean Wu

 

Intersection Between Oncology and the Cardiovascular System-Investigations Beyond Cardiotoxicity

Intersection Between Oncology and the Cardiovascular System-Investigations Beyond Cardiotoxicity

Domenico Mastrodicasa

 

Foretelling the Future of Imaging in Aortic Dissection

Predictions using Artificial Intelligence

Robert Harrington

 

Social Determinants of Health and Cardiovascular Health Outcomes

Rural Health, Coronary Heart Disease, Heart Failure, and Stroke Outcomes

June Rhee

 

Intersection Between Oncology and the Cardiovascular System-Investigations Beyond Cardiotoxicity

Social Media Moderator

Victoria Parikh

 

Clinical Dilemmas in Cardiovascular Genetics

Social Media Moderator

Mark Chandy

 

E-Cigarettes - Cardiovascular Toxicity and Health Effects

Studying E-cigarette Toxicity in Organoids

Vivek Bhalla

 

The Evolving Paradigm of Aldosteronism, Blood Pressure and CVD-Renal Disease

Why Primary Aldosteronism is Under-Diagnosed in Clinical Settings

Kiran Khush

 

Advanced Heart Failure Feud: VADS Vs > Heart Transplant

THE MARGINAL DONORS: (Pro-Heart Transplant)

Mark Nicolls

 

Dickinson W. Richards Memorial Lecture

Immune Dysregulation and Inflammation in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Philip Tsao

 

 

Russell Ross Memorial Lecture in Vascular Biology

Russell Ross Memorial Lecture in Vascular Biology

Vinicio de Jesus Perez

 

Cournand and Comroe Early Career Investigator Award Competition

Cournand and Comroe Early Career Investigator Award Competition

James Priest

 

Pediatric Cardiovascular Precision Medicine

Genetic Determinants of Interventricular Septal Anatomy and Risk of Congenital Heart Disease

Han Zhu

 

Melvin L. Marcus Early Career Investigator Award in Cardiovascular Sciences Competition

Identification of Pathogenic Immune Cell Subsets in Immunotherapy-Induced Myocarditis

Yuanjia Zhu

 

A Novel Selectively Flexible Mitral Annuloplasty Ring Designed Based on Human Imaging with Superior Performance in Hemodynamics, Biomechanics, and Annular Dynamics - A Comprehensive Bench to in vivo Large Animal Analysis

CVSA Award Presentations

Sanjiv Narayan

 

Arrhythmia Research Summit: Special Topics and Innovations in Arrhythmia Management

Machine learning approaches to mapping: Promises and Limitations

Elsie Ross

 

Frontiers in Vascular Disease: Everything Old is New Again: Emerging Therapies for Thrombotic Disorders

Frontiers in Vascular Disease: Everything Old is New Again: Emerging Therapies for Thrombotic Disorders

Soah Lee

 

Cardiac Repair Therapeutic Strategies

Disrupted N-Cadherin Expression Leads to Sarcomeric Disassembly and Cell Cycle Activation in Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes

Mintu Turakhia

 

Patient Generated Data: Water Now Flows from the Ocean to Lakes- AHA Joint Session With the Heart Rhythm Society

Future of Wearable Technology

Andrew Shin

 

Optimizing CHD Outcomes: Improving the Things We Do Now

Target Based Care: Optimizing Post-Operative Recovery

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Speaker Time (PST) Session Talk Title

Karen Hirsch

6:24 pm

ReSS Joint Session

Tailoring TTM for Non-arrest Brain Injury

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Speaker Time (PST) Session Talk Title

Paul Wang, Eldrin Lewis

5:00 am

Moderated Digital ePoster: Optimizing Atrial Fibrillation Management: Risk Factor Modification and Medical Therapy

Women, Ethnic, and Racial Groups Are Underreported and Underrepresented in Atrial Fibrillation Clinical Trials

Sushma Reddy

5:00 am

Moderated Digital ePoster: Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatric Cardiology

Plasma Proteomic Signature Implicates Impaired Calcium Handling and Cell-Matrix Adhesion in Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot with Right Ventricular Volume and Pressure Overload

Francesca Briganti
(Mercola Lab)

5:00 am

Moderated Digital ePoster: Genetics and Genomics

RBM20 Regulation In Healthy And Diseased Cardiomyocytes: A New Opportunity For Targeted Therapeutics

David Staudt
(Mercola Lab)

5:00 am

Moderated Digital ePoster: Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathies

Interrogating Diastolic Dysfunction Using a Novel Stem Cell Model of Restrictive Cardiomyopathy

Brototo Deb
(Narayan Lab)

5:00 am

Moderated Digital ePoster: Electrophysiology and Arrhythmias

Deep Learning to Identify Atrial Fibrillation Phenotypes in Individual Patientsbased on Rate, Variability, Electrogram Shape

Y. Joseph Woo

6:30 am

Valves, Veins and New Viewpoints in Cardiothoracic Surgery

Late-Breaking Science

Alexander Kaiser
(Hiesinger Lab)

8:00 am

Thoracic Aortic Disease Abstract Poster Session

Fluid-Structure Interaction Simulations of Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease

Alex Dalal
(Fischbein Lab)

8:00 am

Thoracic Aortic Disease Abstract Poster Session

Extracellular Matrix Signaling in Marfan Syndrome Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Smooth Muscle Cells

Claudia Algaze

8:00 am

Pediatric Cardiac Genetics and Bioengineering Abstract Poster Session

Using Data Analytics Toward Precision Warfarin Dosing in Children With Heart Disease

Albert Pedroza

8:00 am

Outcomes in Valvular Heart Disease Abstract Poster Session

Smooth Muscle Cell Embryologic Origin Does Not Define Propensity for Phenotype Modulation in Murine Marfan Syndrome Aortic Root Aneurysm

Albert Pedroza

8:00 am

Outcomes in Valvular Heart Disease Abstract Poster Session

Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein 2 is a Novel Marker of Early Smooth Muscle Cell Phenotype Modulation in Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm

Robert Harrington

8:00 am

Health tech & Innovation

Potential Impact of Virtual Longitudinal Studies

Y. Joseph Woo

9:00 am

Meet the Trialists

Meet the Trialists 1

Patricia Nguyen

11:30 am

Cardiac Development

Early Career

Strategies for Career Success by Highly Effective Scientists

Brian Wayda

11:30 am

Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathies Abstract Poster Session

Impact of Increased Utilization of Expanded Criteria Donors at a High-Volume Heart Transplant Center: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis

Francisco Galdos
(Sean Wu Lab)

11:30 am

Cardiomyocyte Maturation and Development

TBX5-Based Lineage Tracing Identifies a Propensity for Left Ventricular Cardiomyocyte Differentiation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Using Biphasic Modulation of WNT Signaling

Hanjay Wang

11:30 am

Ischemic Heart Disease and Myocardial Preservation

Cardiothoracic Surgery Research Articles Supported by National Institutes of Health Grant Funding Exhibit Enhanced Scholarly Impact

Son Duong

11:30 am

Pediatric Electrophysiology Abstract Poster Session

Prediction of Pacemaker Implantation in Patients With Postoperative Heart Block: A Data Analytics Approach

Edda Spiekerkoetter

12:00 pm

Pulmonary Hypertension and Critical Care

3CPR Speed Monitoring

y. Joseph Woo

1:00 pm

Cardiac Developmeny

Organ on Demand: 3D Printing for CVD

Dominik Fleischmann

2:00 pm

Imaging and Nuclear Medicine

Information Overload: How to Establish and Manage an Image Post-processing Practice

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Speaker Time (PST) Session Talk Title

Eri Fukaya

6:30 am

Vascular Disease and Thrombosis

Tool Kit for Early Career Vascular Specialists

Elsie Ross

7:00 am

Vascular Disease and Thrombosis

Pearls/Pitfalls Learned From Your First 5 Years (Senior and Junior) Junior

Mintu Turakhia

12:12 pm

Late Breaking Science

Information Overload? Striving to Improve Care Delivery through Digital Health and Automated Data

Brian Wayda

12:30 pm

Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathies Abstract Poster Session

Optimal Patient Selection for Simultaneous Heart-Kidney Transplant: A Modified Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Ken Tran

12:30 pm

Interventional Treatments Abstract Poster Session

Patient-Specific Computational Flow Simulation Reveals Differences in Aortic Hemodynamics Between Two versus Four Vessel Fenestrated Endovascular Aneurysm Repair

Paul Heidenreich

12:40 pm

Where Should New Heart Failure Guidelines Change in 2021?

Change the Plan, Not the Goal: GDMT in the Real World Population

Karen Hirsch

1:00 pm

Resuscitation Science Symposium

Neuoprognostication in a Changing Landscape

Mintu Turakhia

1:00 pm

Meet the Trialists

Meet the Trialists 4

Eldrin Lewis

1:25 pm

Late Breaking Science

Building on the Foundations of Treatment: Advances in Heart Failure Therapy

Robert Harrington

2:00 pm

Council Sponsored Activities

The Council Challenge

Kevin Alexander

4:30 pm

Satellite Symposia

Hidden in Plain Sight: ATTR CM in Overlooked Patient Populations

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Speaker Time (PST) Session Talk Title
Neil Kalwani
(Heidenreich Lab)

5:00 am

Moderated Digital ePoster: Quality of Care and Outcomes Research

Productivity Targets and Performance Reviews for Cardiology Practices in the Veterans Health Administration: Do They Work?

Robert Harrington

5:40 am

Featured Science

Breaking a Tie: Left Main Intervention

Y. Joseph Woo
Robert Harrington
Paul Wang

6:00 am

Women’s Professional Development Lounge

GRWISM Lounge: Breakfast of Champions - Male Champions for Change

Eldrin Lewis

6:30 am

Featured Science

From Failure to Success: Advances in Heart Failure

Eldrin Lewis

8:00 am

Health and Wellness

Confronting the Tide of Heart Failure in Diabetes: From Mechanisms to Management

Ngan Huang

8:00 am

Signaling Abstract Poster Session

Therapeutic Cells, Genes and Drugs for Cardiovascular translation

Shiraz Maskatia

8:00 am

Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatric Cardiology Abstract Poster Session

Absent Ductus Arteriosus is Relatively Common in Neonates with Symptomatic Tetralogy of Fallot, and Rarely Associated with Critically Deficient Pulmonary Blood Flow at Birth

Ricardo Serrano

8:00 am

Electrophysiology and Arrhythmias Abstract Poster Session

Deep Learning and Patient-Derived hiPSC Cardiomyocytes to Predict Drug Proarrhythmia

Brynn Connor

8:00 am

Biomarkers and Other Predictive Factors on Diagnosis and Outcomes in Heart Failure Abstract Poster Session

Prevalence and Outcomes of Primary Cardiomyopathy in Marfan Syndrome

Ronnie Collins

8:00 am

Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease II Abstract Poster Session

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in Infants of Diabetic Mothers is Associated With Significantly Worse In-Hospital Outcomes: A Multicenter Analysis

Han Zhu

8:15 am

Pecha Kucha Says Heart Failure and Special Populations

Cancer and Heart Failure: Novel Chemotherapeutic Agents and their consequences

Han Zhu

8:40 am

Cardio-Oncology

Top Early Career Tips in Cardio-Oncology: Paving the way

Eldrin Lewis

8:50 am

Pecha Kucha Says Heart Failure and Special Populations

Financial Toxicity of GDMT Management

MIntu Turakhia

10:00 am

Health Tech

SFRN for Health Tech Round Table