Cardiac Rhythm Device Summit: Implantation, Management, and Follow Up
June 19-21, 2025
In-Person or Livestream | The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel, Dana Point, CA
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Price: $950 - $1025 | Register by 5/18 to Save $100
Program
12:00 a.m.
THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 2025
7:00 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast | Pavilion Foyer
7:40 a.m.
Welcome and Pre-Test
7:55 a.m.
Cardiac Rhythm Devices: Guidelines and Future Technologies in Pacemakers
Moderator: Fred Kusumoto, MD
7:55 a.m.
Case of the Day
Fred Kusumoto, MD
8:00 a.m.
Anatomy of the Conduction System: Recognize Underlying Anatomy to Minimize Complications and New Technology for Cardiac Devices
Samuel Asirvatham, MD
8:30 a.m.
Who Should Get a Single Chamber or Dual Chamber Leadless Pacemaker? How Should I Do It and What Should I Watch For?
Yong Mei Cha, MD
9:00 a.m.
Questions and Answers
Samuel Asirvatham, MD, Yong Mei Cha, MD
9:10 a.m.
Rapid Fire Cases (Bradycardia)
Samuel Asirvatham, MD, Yong Mei Cha, MD, Siva Mulpuru, MD, Christoff van Niekerk, MD
Moderator: Fred Kusumoto, MD
9:40 a.m.
Refreshment Break - Pavilion Foyer
9:55 a.m.
Cardiac Rhythm Devices: Practical Clinical Challenges in ICDs.
Moderator: Siva Mulpuru, MD
10:00 a.m.
ICD for Sudden Death Prevention for Heart Failure in 2024
Fred Kusumoto, MD
10:20 a.m.
Inherited Arrhythmias: Who Should and Shouldn't Receive and ICD
Komandoor Srivathsan, MD
10:40 a.m.
Choosing ICD Type: Single Chamber, Dual Chamber, Transvenous, Subcutaneous, or EV ICD
Win-Kuang Shen, MD
11:00 a.m.
How to Optimally Program ICDs
Christoff van Niekerk, MD
11:20 a.m.
Questions and Answers
Fred Kusumoto, MD, Win-Kuang Shen, MD, Komandoor Srivathsan, MD, Christoff van Niekerk, MD
11:30 a.m.
Rapid Fire Cases (ICD)
Fred Kusumoto, MD, Komandoor Srivathsan, MD, Christoff van Niekerk, MD
Moderator: Win-Kuang Shen, MD
12:10 p.m.
Lunch Break - Pavilion Lawn
1:00 p.m.
Cardiac Rhythm Devices: Innovations and Practical Clinical Challenges
Moderator: Yong Mei Cha, MD
1:00 p.m.
Advances in Device Therapy: Where Did We Come From and What to Expect in the Future?
1:20 p.m.
Future of Device Therapy-or will we even have devices?
1:40 p.m.
Syncope Who Should Get an Implantable Monitor or a Pacemaker?
Win-Kuang Shen, MD
2:00 p.m.
Cryptogenic Stroke: How Do We Investigate?
2:20 p.m.
Cardiac Devices and Disparities in Care: Are We There Yet?
Melinda Barber, ARNP
2:40 p.m.
Question and Answers
Melinda Barber, ARNP, Win-Kuang Shen, MD
Moderator: Yong Mei Cha, MD
3:00 p.m.
Rapid Fire Cases
Win-Kuang Shen, MD, Komandoor Srivathsan, MD, Christoff van Niekerk, MD
Moderator: Yong Mei Cha, MD
3:40 p.m.
Case of the Day Discussion
Yong Mei Cha, MD
2:50 p.m.
Refreshment Break
4:00 p.m.
Adjourn
12:00 a.m.
FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 2025
7:15 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
7:30 a.m.
Early Bird Session: Interesting ECGs: Physiological Pacing, CRT, and More
Abhishek Deshmukh, MBBS
7:55 a.m.
Conduction System Physiological Pacing, Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT), and More
Moderator: Siva Mulpuru, MD
8:00 a.m.
Case of the Day
Siva Mulpuru, MD
8:05 a.m.
CRT in 2024: Obsolete?
Hicham El Masry, MD
8:20 a.m.
Conduction System Pacing: Too Much Hype?
Xiaoke Liu, MD, PhD
8:40 a.m.
Case Based Discussion: How I Manage Non-Responders to CRT or Conduction System Pacing
Vaibhav Vaidya, MBBS
9:00 a.m.
EP Issues in Cardiac Amyloid, sarcoid and end stage heart failure
9:20 a.m.
Questions and Answers
9:30 a.m.
Rapid Fire Cases (Physiologic Pacing): What Are The Options and What Should I Do?
Hicham El Masry, MD, Fatima Ezzeddine, MD, Xiaoke Liu, MD, PhD
Moderator: Siva Mulpuru, MD
10:10 a.m.
Refreshment Break
10:30 a.m.
CIED Lead Management, Infection, and Extraction
Moderator: Fred Kusumoto, MD
10:30 a.m.
CIED Lead Design considerations for implantation, management and extraction: How can we help patients with shared Decision Making on Lead Revision, Abandonment, or Extraction
10:50 a.m.
Lead and Device Imaging: What’s Real and What’s Fake
11:10 a.m.
CIED Related Infection: Early Diagnosis and Optimal Treatment
Danesh Kella, MBBS
11:30 a.m.
Lead Extraction: Technical Challenges, Tricks and Tips, and Outcomes
Siva Mulpuru, MD
11:50 a.m.
Questions and Answers
12:00 p.m.
Rapid Fire Device Infection Cases
12:40 p.m.
Case of the Day Discussion
12:50 p.m.
Adjourn
12:00 a.m.
SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 2025
6:50 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
7:00 a.m.
Cross-Cultural Communication (Requirement for meetings in California) Cultural and Linguistic Competency?
7:30 a.m.
Early Bird Session: Common Device Troubleshooting in the Device Clinic Case Presentations
8:10 a.m.
Post Test
8:25 a.m.
Case of the Day
Fred Kusumoto, MD
8:30 a.m.
CIED Programming, Trouble Shooting, and Follow-up
Moderator: Siva Mulpuru, MD
8:30 a.m.
Leadless Pacemaker Programming and Troubleshooting
Hicham El Masry, MD
8:50 a.m.
ICD Programming and Troubleshooting
Abhishek Deshmukh, MBBS
9:10 a.m.
CIED Monitoring: Best Practices in 2024
Christine Kneeland, RN
9:30 a.m.
Hospital Management of CIEDs Outside of the EP Laboratory: MRI, Radiation, Surgery
9:50 a.m.
Atrial High Rate Episodes: How Long is Too Long?
Vaibhav Vaidya, MBBS
10:10 a.m.
Chest X-rays and Devices
10:30 a.m.
Questions and Answers
10:50 a.m.
Device Programming and Patient Management Potpourri
11:15 a.m.
Case of the Day Discussion
Fred Kusumoto, MD
11:25 a.m.
Closing Remarks
11:30 a.m.
Adjourn
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