2024 HCMS Scientific Sessions

8:00 AM - 8:15 AM

Opening Remarks 

Victoria Parikh, MD

8:15 AM - 8:30 AM 

Lecture: Guidelines Gossip! Top Takeaways 

Carolyn Ho, MD

8:30 AM - 8:45 AM 

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

Anjali Owens, MD

8:45 AM - 9:00 AM 

Cases that don’t fit the guidelines

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM

Facilitated Discussion: Questions about the Guidelines 

Carolyn Ho, MD 

Anjali Owens, MD 

Milind Desai, MD 

9:15 AM - 9:30 AM

Break 

Session II: HCM management in 2024 

                      Moderated by Martin Maron, MD 

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM

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

Mariko Harper, MD 

9:45 AM - 10:00 AM

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

Andrew Wang, MD & Iacopo Olivotto, MD 

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM

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

Michael Ayers, MD 

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM 

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

Mark Drazner, MD 

10:30 AM - 10:45 AM

Facilitated discussion/Q&A  

Mariko Harper, MD

Andrew Wang, MD

Michael Ayers, MD

Mark Drazner, MD

10:45 AM - 11:00 AM

 Break

Oral Abstract Presentations

12:00 - 12:15

Break

12:00 - 12:45 PM

FIT Careers Panel Discussion/Q&A  

Brad Lander, MD

Alex De Feria, MD 

Robyn Bryde, MD 

Nosheen Reza, MD 

Melissa Burroughs, MD 

12:15 - 1:15 PM    

Industry Updates

Moderated by Milind Desai, MD

Session III. Precision Care for HCM: What we have learned and

what do we need to learn?

                                Moderated by Carolyn Ho, MD

1:15 PM - 1:30 PM

Lecture:  Rethinking precision HCM diagnosis from morphology to genetics

James Moon, MD 

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

Anna Axelsson, MD 

1:45 PM - 2:00 PM

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

Matthew Wheeler, MD

2:00 PM - 2:15 PM

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

James Moon, MD 

Anna Axelsson, MD 

2:15 - 2:45 PM

Poster Presentations

Session IV. The future of HCM care 

Moderated by Victoria Parikh, MD 

2:45 PM - 3:00 PM

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

Adam Helms, MD 

3:00 PM - 3:15 PM

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

Omar Wever-Pinzon, MD

3:15 PM - 3:30 PM

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 

Lecture: The future of care for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Caroline Coats, MD