7:00 am

REGISTRATION / CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
5th Floor Pre-Function

7:30 am

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
Top Ten Advances of Interventional Cardiology 2025 - 2026

Samin K. Sharma, MD

8:05 am

Subclinical Disease – A New Target for Cardiovascular Prevention?

Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD

8:30 am

ANANDI LAL SHARMA MEMORIAL KEYNOTE LECTURE | Artificial Intelligence: The Lens into the Future – The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Robert M. Califf, MD

9:00 am

Keynote Commentary / Panel Discussion

Robert M. Califf, MD; Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD; C. Michael Gibson, MD; Roxana Mehran, MD

9:15 am

LIVE CASE PRESENTATIONS #1 and #2
Complex Left Main Lesions and LV Support

Operator: Faculty
Moderator: Roxana Mehran, MD
Panel: C. Michael Gibson, MD; William Nicholson, MD; Arthur B. Reitman, MD; Jasvindar Singh, MD; Gregg W. Stone, MD; Paul Teirstein, MD

10:15 am

Prevention: Lipids / Inflammation

Paul M. Ridker, MD

10:27 am

Heart Failure: Drug Therapies

Muthiah Vaduganathan, MD

10:33 am

Heart Failure: LV Devices

Sean P. Pinney, MD

10:39 am

Multimodality Imaging

Victoria Delgado, MD, PhD

10:51 am

Intervention

Paul Teirstein, MD

11:03 am

Antithrombotics

C. Michael Gibson, MD

11:15 am

BREAK / VISIT EXHIBITS

11:30 am

LIVE CASE PRESENTATIONS #3 and #4
Calcified Bifurcation Lesions

Operator: Faculty
Moderator: Roxana Mehran, MD
Panel: Nitin Barman, MD; Ankur Kalra, MD; Upendra Kaul, MD; Parasuram Krishnamoorthy, MD; John M. Lasala, MD, PhD; Gregg W. Stone, MD; Paul Teirstein, MD

12:30 pm

CONTROVERSIES: CALCIUM MODIFICATION IN CALCIFIC LESIONS – WHICH DEVICE?

Rota is Superior

John M. Lasala, MD, PhD

Orbital Atherectomy: Easier to Use, Just as Good

Jasvindar Singh, MD

IVL: Good Enough

George D. Dangas, MD, PhD

12:51 pm

Panel Discussion

Roxana Mehran, MD; John M. Lasala, MD, PhD; George D. Dangas, MD, PhD; Jasvindar Singh, MD

1:00 pm

Novelties in Artificial Intelligence in Interventional Cardiology

Annapoorna S. Kini, MD

1:15 pm

LUNCH / VISIT EXHIBITS

2:00 pm

LIVE CASE PRESENTATIONS #5 and #6
Calcified Undilatable Lesions*

Operator: Faculty
Moderator: Pedro R. Moreno, MD
Panel: Srinivas Duvvuri, MD; John T. Fox, MD; Ankur Kalra, MD; Upendra Kaul, MD; Sameer Mehta, MD; William Nicholson, MD; Jasvindar Singh, MD; Ron Waksman, MD

2:45 pm

Protected PCI: Emerging Evidence / Emerging Devices

Gregg W. Stone, MD

3:00 pm

CONTROVERSIES Session #2: DRUG-COATED BALLOONS – HYPE OR HOPE?

DCB will Replace Stents in the Majority of Cases

Ron Waksman, MD

DCB is All Hype

William Nicholson, MD

3:20 pm

Panel Discussion

Panel: William Nicholson, MD; Gregg W. Stone, MD; Ron Waksman, MD

3:30 pm

BREAK / VISIT EXHIBITS

3:45 pm

LIVE CASE PRESENTATIONS #7, #8 and #9
Diffuse Calcified Bifurcation Lesions with Low EF

Operator: Faculty
Moderator: Pedro R. Moreno, MD
Panel: Srinivas Duvvuri, MD; Jason Freeman, MD; Parasuram Krishnamoorthy, MD; Sameer Mehta, MD; William Nicholson, MD; Ron Waksman, MD

5:00 pm

Top Five Lessons from the TUXEDO Trials

Upendra Kaul, MD

5:10 pm

COMPLEX CASES WITH THE MASTERS: TIPS & TRICKS

Panel: All Faculty

Case #1 – Bifurcation / Left Main: Getting Out of Trouble – Dedicated Stents

Ankur Kalra, MD

Case #2 – CTO: Imaging Makes the Difference

Nitin Barman, MD

Case #3 – Calcium: Choosing the Right Device for Calcific Nodule

Arthur B. Reitman, MD

Case #4 – Complex Atherectomy: Anomalous or Aneurysm

Amit Hooda, MD

Case #5 – Graft PCI: Dealing with Slow Flow

Sameer Mehta, MD

Case #6 – AS + CAD: Which to Treat First (If at All)

Parasuram Krishnamoorthy, MD

6:15 pm

Concluding Remarks and Future Directions

Samin K. Sharma, MD; Annapoorna S. Kini, MD; Roxana Mehran, MD

6:30 pm

CME SESSION ENDS

7:25 pm

GALA DINNER CRUISE AROUND MANHATTAN
Buses depart Marriott Marquis at 6:40 pm and return at approximately 10:30 pm

*Presented with the assistance of Medinbox AI Assistant in accordance with ACCME Standard 1.3, new and evolving topics