American College of Cardiology 2019 New Orleans

• POSTER: The Impact of Atrial Fibrillation at Time of Cardiac PET Stress Testing on Results, Coronary Outcomes and Mace (Stacey Knight, PhD)
• POSTER: Coronary Artery Calcium is Associated with 90-day MACE at Any Level of Ischemic Burden in Patients Referred for PET/CT (Viet Le, PA-C)
• COLLABORATION POSTER: Independent Prognostic Values of Clinical Risk Scores, Right Ventricular Systolic Pressure, and N-Terminal Pro-B-Type Peptide in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: Insights from the Supervised and Unsupervised Models (Kirk Knowlton, MD)
• POSTER: Catheter Ablation Compared to Medical Management for Atrial Fibrillation Patients with Carotid Arterial Disease is Associated with Lower Rates of Dementia and Stroke (Jared Bunch, MD)
• COLLABORATION POSTER: Patterns of Statin Adherence Over Long Term Follow Up in an Insured Secondary Prevention Population with Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease (The Medicines Company)
• POSTER: In Patients with Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease, High Statin Adherence Over 5 Years of Follow-up is Associated with Improved Cardiovascular Outcomes: Results from the IMPRES Study (Brent Muhlestein, MD)
• ORAL POSTER: PET/CT Derived Ischemic Burden of 10% Predicts Optimal Treatment Strategy for Symptomatic CAD (Kent Meredith, MD)
• POSTER ORAL: Discovery of Novel TITIN (TTN) Gene Truncating Mutations Among a Consecutive Cohort of Patients Presenting with Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy (Jeffrey L. Anderson, MD)
• COLLABORATION POSTER: Utah Cardiac Recovery Score Effectively Predicts Myocardial Recovery in Patients Supported with Durable Left Ventricular Assist Devices (Benjamin Horne, PhD)
• PANELIST: Must Have Endovascular Skills: Fundamentals, Advanced Techniques and Complication Management (Viet Le, PA-C)
• PRESENTATION: Recent Insights into the Mechanisms of Myocarditis (Kirk Knowlton, MD)
• PRESENTATION: How I Evaluate Palpitations in the Athlete (Jared Bunch, MD)
• PANELIST: The Road to Transcatheter Mitral Valve Therapies (Brian Whisenant, MD)
• PRESENTATION: Patient Selection: Transcatheter Mitral Valve “Replacement” Therapies (Brian Whisenant, MD)
• PANELIST: Aortic Dilemmas in the Cardiology Clinic (David Min, MD)

During the three-day conference, visit the Intermountain Heart Institute booth (#1031) in the Exhibit Hall to discuss the latest research studies and clinical best practices.

Saturday, March 16

9:30-11:30 – T. Jared Bunch, MD Dementia, atrial fibrillation, catheter ablation, and stroke

11:30-1:30 – Benjamin Horne, PhD Air pollution on health, risk scores and fasting

1:30-3:30 – J. Brent Muhlestein, MD PCI Intervention, MI/CAD, statin use, and the INSPIRE registry

3:30-4:30 – Jeffrey L. Anderson, MD Management of acute coronary syndromes, coronary risk predictors and prevention, CV genetics and pharmacogenetics, advanced cardiac imaging and randomized clinical trials

Sunday, March 17

9:30-11:30 – Donald Lappe, MD General cardiovascular research at Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute, and implementation of clinical care in research

11:30-1:30 – David Minn, PhD Cardiac imaging - PET, CT, MRI, noninvasive diagnostic testing, risk stratification modeling, coronary artery disease, valvular heart disease, aortopathies, cardiomyopathies.

1:30-3:30 – Kirk Knowlton, MD Precision medicine, clinical pulmonary hypertension, viral myocarditis, heart failure and general research

3:30-4:30 – Kent Meredith, MD Interventional and nuclear cardiology

Monday, March 18

9:30-11:30 – Stacey Knight, PhD, MStat Family-based genetic studies, cardiovascular disease, and precision cardiovascular medicine

11:30-1:30 – Viet Le, PA-C Primary risk assessment, cardiac PET, coronary calcium imaging and mobile health