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2025 HCM Society Scientific sessions Program

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 Friday, November 7, 2025

TIME  TOPIC  SPEAKER 
 6:15 am  Breakfast  
 6:30 am - 9:00 am   Poster & Sponsor Set up 

6:45 am - 7:45 am

           

Satellite 1 | Cytokinetics: 

Multidisciplinary Insights: Best Practices for Diagnosing and Managing Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Mariko Harper, MD, MS, FACC
Katie Halbmaier, DNP, ARNP, ACGN
Margaret Kurnides, RDCS, ACS, FASE
7:45 am - 8:00 am Coffee Break  
8:00 am   Opening Remarks Milind Desai, Anjali Owens

Session 1: Multimodality Imaging for Diagnosis, Risk Stratification and Management of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy                       Moderators: Jeffrey Geske, Martin Maron
8:12 am New perspectives on diagnosis and differential diagnosis of HCM: Artificial intelligence to the rescue?  James Moon
8:24 am Unmasking a masquerader: leveraging multimodality imaging to characterize phenocopies  Ahmad Masri
8:36 am Sudden death risk assessment and multimodality imaging: Reconciling recommendations across the pond  Betty Raman
 8:48 am The good the bad, and the ugly of imaging a CMI patient  Milind Desai
 9:00 am Moderated discussion  All
9:15 am   Break  

Session 2: Impact of Genetics on the Family – from Mendelian to Polygenic Moderators: Sharon Cresci, Michele Michels
9:30 am How has the bench helped us be better at the bedside? Jolanda Van der Velden
9:42 am The basics of pediatric HCM: Who, what, when, where, why? Joe Rossano
9:54 am Emerging concepts in genetic testing: The new ground truth or still works in progress?  Jodie Ingles
10:06 am Leveraging polygenic risk scores in HCM: Is more the merrier? James Ware
10:18 am Facilitated discussion  Sharon Cresci, Michele Michels
10:30 am  The Inaugural Eugene Braunwald Lecture Prof.  Hugh Watkins
11:00 am - 12:30 am Lunch/Posters/Sponsor Visits  
11:30 am - 12:30 pm Satellite 2 | BMS:  Real-World Impact of Cardiac Myosin Inhibitors in Adults with Symptomatic NYHA Class II-III Obstructive HCM: A Case-Based Discussion Theodore Abraham, MD, FACC, FASE
12:30 pm  Break  

Session 3: Approved and Novel Therapies for the Management of Obstructive and Nonobstructive HCM Moderators: Sharlene Day,  Andrew Wang
12:45 pm More (Aerobic) Power to the People James MacNamara

12:57 pm

CMIs in Obstructive HCM: Exploring Sequoia trees with Valor while enjoying Maple syrup Sara Saberi
1:09 pm Treatment of nonobstructive HCM: Where are we? And where do we go? Anjali Owens
1:21 pm Invasive Therapies for Obstructive HCM : A shave, a tuck or a squirt ? Nick Smedira
1:33 pm Debate: What path for which patient as an initial option Moderator: Andrew Wang
   CMI debater (10 minutes)  Matthew Martinez
   SRT debater (10 minutes)  Steve Ommen
1:55 pm Panel Discussion: HCM is a Team Sport Moderators: Jane Linderbaum, Ted Abraham. Panelists: Erin Davidson, PharmD; Alex de Feria; Susan Ospina, NP; Ozlem Bilen

2:25 pm 

 Break  

Oral Abstracts with moderated discussion  Moderators: Carolyn Ho, Nosheen Reza
 2:40 pm Characteristics and Long-Term Outcomes of Asymptomatic Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Undergoing Treadmill Stress Echocardiography Sana Sultana
 2:50 pm Long-term Impact of Aficamten on Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Results From FOREST-HCM Shepard Weiner
 3:00 pm Dual SGLT1 and 2 Inhibition with Sotagliflozin Ameliorates Adverse Cardiac Remodeling and Diastolic Dysfunction in Mice with HCM Due to Tropomyosin E180G Mutation
Fuzhong Qin
 3:10 pm Artificial intelligence versus clinician maximum wall thickness measurement on cardiac MRI for mortality prediction  George Joy
 3:20 pm Body Mass Index, Diastolic Blood Pressure, and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Polygenic Background Differentially Modify Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Risk Sarah Abramowitz
3:30 pm  Break  

Session 4: Complications of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Recognition and Treatment of Arrhythmias and Advanced Heart Failure

Moderators Mariko Harper, Anna Woo

 3:45 pm Rowin' Troubled Rivers: AF in HCM is a bad actor Ethan Rowin
 3:57 pm Afib and VT management in the eyes of EP: Monitor, medicate, anticoagulate, and ablate Fatima Ezzeddine
 4:09 pm Navigating the bridge too far: Advanced heart failure and transplantation Jorge Silva Enciso
 4:21 pm ICD selection: the right wire for the right warrior Mark Link
 4:33 pm Moderated discussion All

Session 5: Managing Double Trouble - How the Experts Approach Complex Cases Moderators Richard Bach, Melissa Burroughs
 4:45 pm Severe aortic stenosis and obstructive HCM Srihari Naidu
 4:52 pm Severe oHCM and severe CAD: Navigating complex LGE pattern Albree Tower Rader
 5:01 pm Amyloid and HCM Florian Rader
 5:08 pm Fabry and HCM Daniele Massera
 5:15 pm What makes the Fabry heart tick?  John L. Jefferies

 Late Breaking Oral Abstracts Moderators: Michele Michels, Amrut Ambardekar 
6:00 pm

Effect of Mavacamten on Measures of Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing: An Analysis of the ODYSSEY-HCM Randomized Trial

Anjali Owens
6:08 pm Polygenic Risk Enhances Penetrance and Prognosis in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Insights from a US-based Multi-Ancestry Cohort Harshvir Bal
6:16 pm Effect of Aficamten vs Metoprolol on Patient-Reported Health Status in Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Michael Nassif
6:24 pm Effect of selected baseline characteristics and exposure on efficacy and safety of mavacamten: A Post-Hoc Analysis from the ODYSSEY trial Milind Desai
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Reception and Posters (reception is courtesy of Sanofi)




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