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.

(See the full Main Session Agenda below.)

1: Basics and HCM201: Advanced Concepts in Echocardiography for the Sonographer: Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Two, half-day, hands-on complimentary workshops running concurrent to the main scientific session in partnership with HFSA and ACC. Perfect for FITs, APPs, sonographers, and others just getting started in HCM care. Lunch will be provided. More details and registration information can be found here.

Saturday Satellite Session -7:45 - 8: 45 am | Signia by Hilton, Triumph Ballroom F
Cardiac Myosin Inhibitors in Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in Contemporary Clinical Practice

This symposium will provide heart failure specialists and care providers insights into the recent guidelines for the management of obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) from the ACC/AJA and the European Society of Cardiology. Specifically, the appropriate and practical use of cardiac myosin inhibitors in clinical practice will be highlighted by a diverse group of HCM specialists. More details and registration can be found here.

Main Session 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

Victoria Parikh, MD

Session I: The New HCM Guidelines

Moderated by Matthew Martinez, MD

8:00 AM - 8:15 AM

Lecture: Guidelines Gossip! Top Takeaways

Carolyn Ho, MD

8:15 AM - 8:30 AM

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

Anjali Owens, MD

8:30 AM - 8:45 AM

Cases that don’t fit the guidelines

Milind Desai, MD

8:45 AM - 9:15 AM

Facilitated Discussion: Questions about the Guidelines

Carolyn Ho, MD

Anjali Owens, MD

Milind Desai, MD

9:15 AM - 9:45 AM

Morning Break

Session II: HCM management in 2024

Main Session

Moderated by Martin Maron, MD

9:45 AM - 10:00 AM

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

Mariko Harper, MD

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM

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

Andrew Wang, MD & Iacopo Olivotto, MD

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM

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

Michael Ayers, MD

10:30 AM - 10:45 AM

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

Mark Drazner, MD

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

Melissa Burroughs, MD

Room 2

Mingle in the main room

Break bread with HCM Session faculty and industry sponsors 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?

Main Session

Moderated by Carolyn Ho, MD

1:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Lecture: Rethinking precision HCM diagnosis from morphology to genetics

James Moon, MD

1:15 PM - 1:30 PM

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

Anna Axelsson, MD

1:30 PM - 1:45 PM

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

Matthew Wheeler, MD

1:45 PM - 2:15 PM

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

James Moon, MD

Anna Axelsson, MD

2:15 PM - 2:30 PM

Afternoon Break

Session IV. The future of HCM care

Moderated by Victoria Parikh, MD

2:30 PM - 2:45 PM

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

Adam Helms, MD

2:45 PM - 3:00 PM

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

Omar Wever-Pinzon, MD

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Panel Discussion:

Designing the future of HCM care: How do we expand access and improve therapy?

Adam Helms, MD

Eric Adler, MD

Omar Wever-Pinzon, MD

Martin Maron, MD

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Lecture: The future of care for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Caroline Coats, MD

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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