12:00 a.m.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2025
7:00 a.m.
Registration & Breakfast – Dorado Ballroom Foyer
7:45 a.m.
Introduction and Overview
Michael Ackerman, MD, PhD
8:00 a.m.
SESSION I – GENETICS/GENOMICS/PHARMACOGENETICS 101 – LAYING THE FOUNDATION TO INCREASE THE GENETIC CARDIO-IQ OF PRACTICING CARDIOLOGISTS/PAs/NPs & NURSES/TRAINEES/GCs
Moderator: Michael Ackerman, MD, PhD
8:00 a.m.
Genetics and Genomics 101: Pedigrees, Penetrance, and Purgatory
Michael Ackerman, MD, PhD
9:00 a.m.
Cardio-Genetic Counseling: What Do You and Your Patients Need to Know Before and After the Genetic Test
Teresa Kruisselbrink, MS, CGC
11:00 a.m.
SESSION II – GENETICS/GENOMICS/PHARMACOGENETICS 101 – BUILDING THE FOUNDATION TO INCREASE THE GENETIC CARDIO-IQ OF PRACTICING CARDIOLOGISTS/Pas/NPs & NURSES/TRAINEES/GCs
Moderator: Naveen Pereira, MD
11:00 a.m.
Monogenetic Heart Disease: Is That Reported Variant My Patient’s Disease-Causative Variant or Not?
Michael Ackerman, MD, PhD
1:00 p.m.
Grab Your Lunch & Return to Ballroom
1:30 p.m.
Product Theater – Chiesi, Focusing on LDL-C Goals in Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia (HoFH), Presented by Dr. Eliot Brinton, MD, FAHA, FNLA, FACE, President Utah Lipid Center
6:30 p.m.
- 8:30 p.m.
Social Reception and Dinner – Attendees, Faculty and Family Members Invited