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2024 HCMS Scientific Sessions

Join us for an immersive experience where you'll:

  • Discover the latest updates from the 2024 HCM guidelines and learn to recognize their key features.
  • Gain insight into precision care for HCM, mastering the assessment of outcomes.
  • Explore upcoming therapeutic options on the horizon for HCM care.
  • Identify the fundamental principles of HCM care, tailored for fellows and APPs new to the field.
  • Develop hands-on skills by evaluating HCM patients using live cases and simulators, enhancing your clinical proficiency.

Registration opens in May, stay tuned! 

Agenda
September 27 2024

TIME

EVENT


7:00 AM - 7: 45 AM

Registration

Coffee, breakfast, and networking

7:45 AM - 8:00 AM

Opening Remarks 

8:00 AM - 8:15 AM 

Lecture: Guidelines Gossip! Top Takeaways


8:15 AM - 8:30 AM 

Guidelines Gaps: What DON’T the guidelines have data support or fail to address?

8:30 AM - 8:45 AM 

Cases that don’t fit the guidelines

8:45 AM - 9:15 AM

Facilitated Discussion: Questions about the Guidelines


9:15 AM - 9:45 AM

Morning Break

Session II: HCM management in 2024 (simultaneous multidisciplinary sessions)

Main Session 

Stay tuned for upcoming breakout session announcements for fellows and allied health professionals!

9:45 AM - 10:00 AM

Myosin Inhibitors: have we reached the peak or do we have miles to go?


10:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Novel therapies for oHCM: novel septal reduction approaches and new small molecules


10:15 AM - 10:30 AM

CMIs didn’t work for my oHCM patient - what’s next?


10:30 AM - 10:45 AM 

Society collaboration to improve HCM care: Advocacy, education and expanding access


10:45 AM - 11:00 AM

Facilitated discussion/Q&A



11:00 AM - 12:00 PM 


Oral Abstract Presentations 



12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Lunch

Room 1

FIT Careers Panel Discussion/Q&A


Room 2

Industry Updates 

Room 3

Mingle in the main room 

Break bread with HCM Session faculty in an opportunity to ask questions and share your experiences in an informal setting.

Session III. Precision Care for HCM: What we have learned and what do we need to learn?
(simultaneous multidisciplinary sessions)

Main Session

Stay tuned for upcoming breakout session announcements for fellows and allied health professionals!

1:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Lecture:  Rethinking precision HCM diagnosis from morphology to genetics


1:15 PM - 1:30 PM

Lecture: What are the right clinical outcomes to study in nHCM?

1:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Lecture: The role of genetics in HCM: Beyond family screening to precision prognostication and therapy

1:45 PM - 2:15 PM

Panel Discussion: Priorities for study: High-impact areas of need in HCM

2:15 PM - 2:30 PM 

Afternoon Break

Session IV. The future of HCM care 

2:30 PM - 2:45 PM

Lecture: Gene Therapy - What is it and is it ready for prime time? 


2:45 PM - 3:00 PM

Lecture: Who still needs access to expert HCM care and how do we get it to them? 


3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Panel Discussion: Designing the future of HCM care: How do we expand access and improve therapy?
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM


Lecture: The future of care for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy


4:00 PM -  5:00 PM

Closing Remarks & Poster Cocktail Reception 

HCMS Sessions Committee will provide closing remarks and reflections from the day's sessions. 




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