Schedule
Wednesday, September 21
Thursday, September 22
Friday, September 23
Saturday, September 24
Arrivals/Registration
Arrivals/Registration
14:00 – 16:45
Pre-Conference Seminar for Fellows & Associated Professionals (30 minutes each)
Braemore-Kenmore Room
- Moderators: Walsh & Triedman
- Top 10 “Don’t Miss” ECG Patterns for Clinicians (Walsh | Boston, USA)
- Deducing Tachycardia Mechanism from ECG (Triedman | Boston, USA)
- Basics of Channelopathies (Bezzerides | Boston, USA)
- Basics of Mapping and Catheter Ablation (Van Hare | St. Louis, USA)
- Early and Late Postoperative Arrhythmias (Hessling | Munich, Germany)
14:00 – 16:45
17:00 – 20:00
Welcome Reception
Huntington Ballroom Foyer
- Comments from Organizing Committee (Alpay Celiker | George Van Hare)
17:00 – 20:00
7:00 – 8:00
Breakfast/Registration
7:00 – 8:00
8:00 – 8:55
Keynote Address
Huntington Ballroom II & III
- Moderators: Walsh & Triedman
- Covid and the Heart (Jane Newburger | Boston, USA)
8:00 – 8:55
9:00 – 10:00
Lecture Sessions 1
Huntington Ballroom II & III: Genetics and Cellular EP
- Moderators: Wilde & Abrams
- Calcium Homeostasis in Cardiac Cells: The Role of the Ryanodine Receptor (Bezzerides | Boston, USA)
- CPVT: Diagnosis, Risk and Treatment (Maltret | Paris, France)
- Calcium Release Deficiency Syndrome: Diagnosis, Risk and Treatment (Roston | Vancouver, Canada)
Huntington Ballroom I: Adult Congenital Heart Disease
- Moderators: Khairy & Valente
- AF in ACHD – Triggers, Substrate, and Ablation Approaches (de Groot | Rotterdam, Netherlands)
- High-Density Mapping of IART in ACHD (Deisenhofer | Munich, Germany)
- Anticoagulation Issues for AF & IART in ACHD (Tadros | Boston, USA)
Braemore-Kenmore Room: Associated Professionals
- Moderators: Burns & Cherny
- Picking the Right Device for Your Patient (Dechert | Ann Arbor, USA)
- ILR in Children: Friend or Foe (Olen | Miami, USA)
- Finding a Needle in a Haystack: Managing the Data of Remote Monitoring (A. Walsh | Boston, USA)
9:00 – 10:00
Break
Break
10:30 – 12:00
Lecture Sessions 2
Huntington Ballroom II & III: Ablation
- Moderators: Moore & Van Hare
- Risk Stratification in WPW: Is It Ever Safe to Defer Ablation? (Etheridge | Salt Lake City, USA)
- How to Approach an “Epicardial” Accessory Pathway (Paul | Göttingen, Germany)
- Catheter Ablation of Difficult Pathway Locations (Baskar | Cincinnati, USA)
- Preexcitation-Induced Cardiomyopathy (Miyazaki | Shizuoka, Japan)
Huntington Ballroom I: Cardiac Rhythm Management Devices
- Moderators: Janousek & Mah
- “Yes We Can!” MRI and Devices (Miyake | Houston, USA)
- Lead Extraction in CHD (Cecchin | New York, USA)
- Stroke of Genius? Endocardial Pacing in Systemic Circulation (Khairy | Montreal, Canada)
- ICDs: Transvenous vs. Non-Transvenous Systems (McLeod | Glasgow, Scotland)
10:30 – 12:00
Lunch/Visit Posters
Lunch/Visit Posters
13:15 – 14:45
Lecture Sessions 3
Huntington Ballroom II & III: Clinical EP
- Moderators: O’Leary & Blom
- When Should You Treat “High-Burden” Idiopathic Ventricular Ectopy? (Cohen | Fairfax, USA)
- Mitral Valve Prolapse and Ventricular Ectopy: When to Worry? (Pappaginannis | Athens, Greece)
- Concerning Syncope With Negative Evaluation: What to Do Next? (Kornyei | Budapest, Hungary)
- How I Risk-Stratify HCM and Why I’m Still Confused (Abrams | Boston, USA)
Huntington Ballroom I: Global Health
- Moderators: Davis & Marcondes
- How to Practice Effective EP with Variable Resources: My World Experience (Tsao | Hong Kong, China)
- Ethnic-Specific Genomic Databases (Wolf | Munich, Germany)
- Ivabradine: A New Panacea for All Arrhythmias? (Shah | Philadelphia, USA)
- Improving Communication Within the International EP Community (Knecht | Krakow, Poland)
13:15 – 14:45
Break
Break
15:00 – 16:30
Lecture Sessions 4
Huntington Ballroom II & III: Fetal Arrhythmias
- Moderators: Alexander & Law
- Update on Congenital Complete Heart Block (Hamilton | Toronto, Canada)
- (Mothers With) LQTS and Fetal Death (Strasburger | Milwauke, USA)
- Fetal Manifestations of HCN4 Mutations (Jaeggi | Toronto, Canada)
- Update on Fetal Therapy for SVT (Dionne | Boston, USA)
Huntington Ballroom I : Adult Congenital Heart Disease
- Moderators: Deisenhofer & de Groot
- Techniques and Results for VT Ablation in Adult CHD (Zeppenfeld | Leiden, Netherlands)
- Update on Risk-Stratification Schemes for VT in CHD (Atallah | Edmonton, Canada)
- Substrate Mapping for VT Ablation (Tedrow | Boston, USA)
- Panel Discussion (All)
15:00 – 16:30
16:30 – 18:00
Debate Sessions
Huntington Ballroom II & III
- Moderators: Miyake & Pflaumer
- Debate #1: Brockenbrough is Superior to Magnetic Navigation for Complex Ablation in CHD
- (pro) Moore | Los Angeles, USA
- (con) Khairy | Montreal, Canada
- Debate #2: Patients With VT Should Get an ICD Even if Ablation Is Successful
- (pro) Berul | Washington DC, USA
- (con) Zeppenfeld | Leiden, Netherlands
Huntington Ballroom I
- Moderators: Webster & Karpawich
- Debate #1: Class I & III Drugs Should Only Be Started as an Inpatient
- (pro) Pass | New York, USA
- (con) McLeod | Glasgow, UK
- Debate #2: All TOF Patients Need Preop EPS Prior to PVR
- (pro) Van Hare | St. Louis, USA
- (con) Davis | Melbourne, Australia
16:30 – 18:00
19:00 – 21:30
Gala Dinner
Boston Ballroom
19:00 – 21:30
7:00 – 8:00
Breakfast/Registration
7:00 – 8:00
8:00 – 9:00
“Ask the Experts” Audience Q&A
Huntington Ballroom II & III
- Moderators: Walsh & Triedman
- Discussants: Van Hare, Celiker, Karagoz, & Hessling
- Potential Topics:
- Emergency Ablation in Infants
- Posteroseptal Accessory Pathways
- Management of CPVT
- Audience Questions
8:00 – 9:00
9:00 – 10:00
Lecture Sessions 1
Huntington Ballroom II & III: Clinical EP
- Moderators: Cohen & Knecht
- Diagnosing and Managing Tachycardia-Induced Myopathy (Pflaumer | Melbourne, Australia)
- Ivabradine: When All Else Fails, or Before Anything Else? (Janson | Philadelphia, USA)
- Risks and Benefits of IV Amiodarone in Infants (Marcondes | Auckland, New Zealand)
Huntington Ballroom I: Digital Health/New Technology
- Moderators: Shah & Pass
- Artificial Intelligence in EP (Silva | St. Louis, USA)
- Safe Management of Patients with Remote Monitoring (Mah | Boston, USA)
- Assessing New Technology: It Looks Fancy, but is it Useful? (Von Bergen | Madison, USA)
Braemore-Kenmore Room: Associated Professionals
- Moderators: Dechert-Crooks & Olen
- Pearls and Pitfalls of Genetic Testing (Hylind | Boston, USA)
- Psychosocial Considerations in Genetic Testing (Cherny | Chicago, USA)
- Practical Applications of Post-mortem Genetic Testing (MacLeod | Elmhurst, USA)
9:00 – 10:00
Break
Break
10:30 – 12:00
Lecture Sessions 2
Huntington Ballroom II & III: Ablation
- Moderators: Karagoz & Berul
- Thoughtful Slow Pathway Ablation and Relevance of Low-Voltage Bridge (Drago | Rome, Italy)
- Leftward Slow Pathway Extension and Left Atrial Ablation for AVRNT
- Junctional Ectopic Tachycardia (Law | Iowa City, USA)
- Twin AV Nodes: Past and Present (Moore | Los Angeles, USA)
Huntington Ballroom I: Cardiac Rhythm Management Devices
- Moderators: Atallah & Baskar
- Abandon and Cap, or Extract? (Karpawich | Detroit, USA)
- Leadless Pacemakers (Shah | Philadelphia, USA)
- Pacemaker and ICD Technology: The Next Generation (Berul | Washington, USA)
- Device Pocket Infections: Incidence, How to Avoid, Management (Cecchin | New York, USA)
10:30 – 12:00
Lunch/Visit Posters
Lunch/Visit Posters
13:15 – 14:45
Lecture Sessions 3
Huntington Ballroom II & III: Genetics and Cellular EP
- Moderators: Maltret & Bezzerides
- Current Role of Genetic Testing for Heritable Heart Disease in Children (Ackerman | Mayo Clinic, USA)
- Genetics of Brugada Syndrome – It’s Complicated! (Wilde | Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- Polygenic Contributions to “Monogenic” Disorders (Kannankeril | Nashville, USA)
- Sports Restriction in Genotype + / Phenotype – ARVC (Abrams | Boston, USA)
Huntington Ballroom I: Adult Congenital Heart Disease
- Moderators: Hessling & Papagiannis
- Pregnancy, Medications, and Arrhythmia Issues in Adult CHD (Valente | Boston, USA)
- Lead Management and Extraction In Adult CHD (Mah | Boston, USA)
- S-ICD and Reappraisal of Primary Prevention ICD in Eisenmenger Syndrome (Rosenthal | United Kingdom)
- Role of Arrhythmia Surgery in Adult CHD (Feins | Boston, USA)
13:15 – 14:45
Break/Visit Posters
Break/Visit Posters
15:00 – 16:30
Lecture Sessions 4
Huntington Ballroom II & III: Abstract Competition
- Judges: Hessling, Van Hare, Celiker, Karogoz, Davis, & Alexander
- Complications & Risks with CRT (Chubb | Stanford, USA)
- Outcomes of Cardioversion of Atrial Tachycardia (Dionne | Boston, USA)
- Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation in Adult CHD (Griffiths | London, UK)
- Precision Dosing of Ivabradine (Sylva | Rotterdam, Netherlands)
- Thromboembolic Complications from Atrial Tachycardia (Whitehill | Atlanta, USA)
Huntington Ballroom I: Digital Health/New Technology
- Parade of New Technologies (Moderators: Silva | Von Bergen)
- Introduction: Silva & Von Bergen
- AtriAmp (Von Bergen | Madison, USA)
- Command EP (Silva | St. Louis, USA)
- Minimally Invasive Epicardial Pacing (Berul | Washington DC, USA)
- Virtual Heart Modeling and EP Mapping (Feins | Boston, USA)
- AliveCor and Other Smart Phone Apps (Silva | St. Louis, USA)
- TBD (Von Bergen | Madison, USA)
15:00 – 16:30
16:30 – 18:00
Special Seminar: Conduction System Anatomy
Huntington Ballroom II & III
- Moderators: Walsh & Hessling
- Embryology of the Conduction Tissues (Blom | Leiden, Netherlands)
- Anatomy of the Conduction Tissues in CHD (Asirvatham | Mayo Clinic, USA)
- Intraoperative Mapping of Conduction Tissues in CHD (DeWitt & O’Leary | Boston, USA)
16:30 – 18:00
19:00 – 21:30
Faculty Dinner
Lucie Restaurant
19:00 – 21:30
7:00 – 8:00
Breakfast
7:00 – 8:00
8:00 – 9:30
Lecture Session 1
Huntington Ballroom II & III: Genetics and Cellular EP
- Moderators: Abrams & Kornyei
- Calmodulinopathies (Ackerman | Rochester, USA)
- TECRL Phenotypes: CPVT, LQTS, Both? (Webster | Chicago, USA)
- TANGO2-Related Arrhythmias (Miyake | Houston, USA)
- Timothy Syndrome (Etheridge | Salt Lake City, USA)
Huntington Ballroom I: Clinical EP
- Moderators: Cecchin & Rosenthal
- T Waves and Early Repolarization: When Not to Ignore (Blom | Leiden, Netherlands)
- Holter Findings That Worry Me (Maltret | Paris, France)
- Judgment Call in V1: Brugada, Epsilon, or Normal? (Pass | New York, USA)
- Utility of Exercise Testing for Arrhythmias (Alexander | Boston, USA)
8:00 – 9:30
Break
Break
9:45 – 11:15
Lecture Session 2
Huntington Ballroom II & III: Ablation
- Moderators: Zeppenfeld & Drago
- Use of Magnetic Navigation for Ablation in CHD (Khairy | Montreal, Canada)
- Ablation in Ebstein Anomaly (Walsh | Boston, USA)
- Ablation in the Fontan Patients (Triedman | Boston, USA)
- Ablation in Mustard/Senning Patients (Kriebel | Kaiserslautern, Germany)
Huntington Ballroom I: Cardiac Rhythm Management Devices
- Moderators: Etheridge & McLeod
- His Bundle and Left Bundle Pacing (Chubb | Palo Alto, USA)
- RV Pacing for Resynchronization in TOF (Janousek | Prague, Czech Republic)
- Resynchronization for Systemic RV and Single Ventricle (Mah | Boston, USA)
9:45 – 11:15
11:15 – 12:15
Special Seminar: Past, Present, and Future of Pediatric and Congenital EP
Huntington Ballroom II & III
- Moderators: Celiker & Chubb
- The Roots of Our Subspecialty (Walsh | Boston, USA)
- Current Status of Pediatric and Congenital EP (Triedman | Boston, USA)
- Predictions for the Future (Van Hare | St. Louis, USA)
11:15 – 12:15
Lunch/Farewell
Lunch/Farewell