Symposia at Scientific Sessions 2023

Pre-Sessions Symposia & Early Career Day: November 10, 2023
Scientific Sessions: November 11–13, 2023
Pennsylvania Convention Center | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Spend Friday, November 10, 2023 at one of these specialized symposia for all career levels.

The programming below will be held in the Philadelphia Convention Center. Room assignments still to come.

(If you are looking for the Resuscitation Science Symposium, visit the link for separate registration and programming details.)

The program for this symposium is still being developed. Check back to this page later this summer, or see Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatric Cardiology Symposium in the Online Program Planner.

This symposium is still being planned. Keep checking back later this summer and early fall, and see Heart/Kidney Symposium programming in the Online Program Planner

The Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Symposium at Scientific Sessions 2023 program features a debate, a session on health equity, an interactive session, and two abstract-based sessions: the Early Career Investigator Award Finalists, and the Rapid Fire Oral Session. Connect, network with your QCOR peers during the Networking Lunch! The QCOR program will be of interest to clinicians, researchers, medical students and trainees, nurses, pharmacists, administrators, healthcare and managed care professionals, policymakers, and other professionals interested in the quality of care and outcomes research in cardiovascular disease and stroke.

Follow abstracts for QCOR at Sessions in the Online Program Planner.

QCOR at Scientific Sessions 2023 - November 10, 2023
Time	Activity
8:00am–9:15am	Hot Takes: Contemporary Debates in Cardiac Care MODERATORS: Joseph Ebinger, MD, Cedars-Sinai Christopher Knoepke, PhD, University of Colorado Physician and Non-Physician Providers: Appropriate Division of Labor This debate highlights the unique contributions of advanced practice providers and physicians in providing appropriate therapeutics in patients with various cardiovascular diseases. Empowering APPs: APPs should handle most medical conditions 5 min MD - Ben Scirica, MD, Brigham Young and Women's Hospital 5 min APP - Colleen McIlvennan, PhD, DNP, MS, BSN, UCHealth Doctor Knows Best (MDs should handle almost all medical conditions) 5 min MD and 5 min APP Jason Wasfy, MD, MPhil, Massachusetts General Hospital Leslie Davis, PHD, RN, ANP-BC, University of North Carolina TAVR for Low-Risk Patients This debate explores data supporting the appropriate risk profile for patients to undergo TAVR vs SAVR. As low as you can go (pro low-risk TAVR) Suzanne Arnold, MD, MHA, UMKC School of Medicine High risk = High reward (TAVR should be used only in high-risk patients) Aakriti Gupta, MD, Cedars-Sinai Should the modified rules allowing for video visits and remote prescribing be continued as the public health emergency ends? Debaters will discuss the role of telehealth in the post-pandemic period Video killed the cardio star (pro-virtual visits) Steven Bradley, MD, MPH, Allina Health Bring ‘em out (to the clinic) (con-virtual visits) Ty Gluckman, MD, Providence
9:15am–9:45am	Break
9:45am–11:00am	Interactive Session: Artificial Intelligence—Utopia vs Dystopia MODERATORS: Umesh Khot, MD, Cleveland Clinic Emily O’Brien, PhD, Duke University
11:00am–12:15pm	Early Career Investigator Award Finalists MODERATORS: Madeline Sterling, MD, Weill Cornell Medicine Michael Thompson, PhD, University of Michigan Disaggregating The Burden Of Cardiovascular Risk Factors And Disease Among Asian Subpopulations In The United States Sudheesha Perera, The Warren Alpert Medical Sch of Brown Univ, Providence, RI Discussant: Adam Bress, PhD, PharmD, MS, University of Utah Visit Volume Influences the Effectiveness of Electronic Tools to Improve Heart Failure Care Amrita Mukhopadhyay, New York Univ Sch of Med, New York, NY Discussant: TBD Healthcare Access and Cardiovascular Risk Factor Management in Low-Income Working-Age Adults After the COVID-19 Pandemic Lucas X Marinacci, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Ctr, Harvard Medical Sch, Boston, MA Discussant: TBD Deep Learning-based Natural Language Processing of Discharge Summaries for Automated Identification of HFrEF Arash Aghajani Nargesi, Brigham and Women's Hosp, Boston, MA Discussant: TBD Novel Approach to Quantifying Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy Accounting for Treatment Intensity Mirza S Khan, Univ of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO Discussant: TBD
12:30pm–1:45pm	Career Development Lunch MODERATORS: Susmita Parashar, MD, MPH, Emory University Abdullah Damluji, MD, PhD, INOVA Table Leaders – Approximately 15 minutes per table Mentorship – how to find a mentor; qualities to look for in a mentor Martha Gulati, MD, Cedars-Sinai Rishi Wadhera, MD, MPP, MPhil, Harvard University Academics – what are the triumphs/challenges in academia; grant writing (TBD) (TBD) QCOR – how do you become engaged in QCOR research; key skills set John Spertus, MD, University of Missouri Kansas City Tracy Wang, MD, PCORI Women in cardiology – get more engaged in; get more support Pamela Peterson, MD, MPH, MSPH, University of Colorado Prateeti Khazanie, MD, UC Health Career transitions – early career to mid-career transitions (TBD) Fred Masoudi, MD, Ascension Health
1:45pm–3:00pm	Rapid Fire Oral Abstract Session MODERATORS: John Spertus, MD, University of Missouri Kansas City Kori Zachrison, MD, MSC, Massachusetts General Hospital Payer-Negotiated Prices for Cardiac Electrophysiology Procedures at 2022-2023 Top 100 US News &World Report for Cardiology and Heart Surgery Hospitals Sanket Dhruva, UCSF Sch of Med, San Francisco, CA; Kunal Gupta, Tulane Univ Sch of Med, New Orleans, LA; Ravi Gupta, John Hopkins Sch of Med; Roy Xiao, Vinay Rathi, Harvard Univ; Elliott Miller, Yale Univ, New Haven, CT; Joseph S Ross, Yale Univ Sch Med, New Haven, CT Decline In Temporal Trends Of Medicare Physician Reimbursement For Cardiovascular Procedures Kannu Bansal, Saint Vincent Hosp, Worcester, MA; Bharat Rawlley, SUNY Upstate, Syracuse, NY; Nihar R Desai, Yale Sch of Med, New Haven, CT; Robert W Yeh, Beth Israel Deaconess Med Ctr, Boston, MA; Dhaval S Kolte, Massachusetts General Hosp, Boston, MA Economic Impact Of Frailty In Patients Undergoing Elective Percutaneous Left Atrial Appendage Closure (LAAC) With Watchman Device Shivaraj Patil, Sahana Tito, Albert Einstein Medical Ctr, Philadelphia, PA; Chaitanya Rojulpote, St. Louis Univ, St. Louis, MO; Viha Atri, Kasturba Medical Coll, India; Avica Atri, Albert Einstein Medical Ctr, Philadelphia, PA, United States; Abhijit Bhattaru, Albert Einstein Medical Ctr, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Coppell, TX; Ola Khraisha, Albert Einstein Medical Ctr, Philadelphia, PA, United States Appropriateness And Cost Analysis Of Adult Inpatient Transthoracic Echocardiograms In A Community Hospital Swecha Goel, Kevin Bliden, Sahib Singh, Aravind Dilli Babu, Nivedita Kharkongor Chengappa, Chiranjeevi Sainatham, Lekshminarayan Raghavakurup, Damian Sidorski, Paul Gurbel, Sinai Hosp of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD Rate of 30-Day Readmission and Economic Burden of Sickle Cell Disease Patients Who Underwent Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Procedure for ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction Muayad Alzamara, Trihealth, OH; Oluwasegun Akinti, OBH Brookdake Univ Hosp, Medical Ctr, Queens, NY; Kenneth Nworie, OBH Brookdake Univ Hosp, Medical Ctr, Queens, NY, Ojo, Lagos State; Henry Aiwuyo, Brookdale Hosp Medical Ctr, Brooklyn, NY; funlola bada, ADESINA ORIGBEMISOYE, Brookdale Hosp Medical Ctr, Brooklyn, NY, St Anns Bay, Jamaica; Catherine Illah, Patrick Coello, OBH Brookdake Univ Hosp, Medical Ctr, Queens, NY; Emmett Brennan, One Brooklyn Health, Brooklyn, NY; Alexa Kahn, One Brooklyn Health System, Brooklyn, NY; Michael Fatuyi, Trihealth Good Sam Hosp, Cincinnati, OH Cost Effectiveness Analysis Of The Percutaneous Revascularization For Ischemic Left Ventricular Dysfunction REVIVED Trial Data Carlos Chivardi, Mark Sculpher, Univ of York, York, United Kingdom; Matthew Dodd, London Sch of Hygiene and Tropical Med, London, United Kingdom; Holly Morgan, Kings Coll London, Liss; Matthew J Ryan, St Thomas Hosp, London; Richard Evans, London Sch of Hygiene and Tropical Med, York, United Kingdom; C Aldo Rinaldi, London Sch of Hygiene and Tropical Med, York, United Kingdom, London; Peter O'Kane, Royal Bournemouth Hosp, Dorset,, United Kingdom; Tim Clayton, London Sch of Hygiene, London; Mark Petrie, Univ of Glasgow, Glasgow; Divaka Perera, St. Thomas' Hosp, London, United Kingdom; Pedro Saramago, Univ of York, York, United Kingdom Economic Burden Of Pregnancy Among Privately Insured Women With Congenital Heart Disease Anushree Agarwal, USCF, San Francisco, CA; Rong Duan, Nasim C Sobhani, Aarthi Sabanayagam, UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO, San Francisco, CA; Gregory M Marcus, UCSF, San Francisco, CA; Michelle Z Gurvitz, Michelle Wichman, Dover, MA Assessing The Evidence Base Of Cardiology-Specific Oncology Guideline Recommendations: Implications For Health Policy Nikita Jhawar, Artur Schneider, Fred Kusumoto, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL Rate of 30-Day Readmission and Economic Burden of End-Stage Renal Disease Patients Who Underwent Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Procedure for ST - Elevation Myocardial Infarction Michael Fatuyi, Trihealth Good Sam Hosp, Cincinnati, OH; Muayad Alzamara, Oluwasegun Akinti, OBH Brookdake Univ Hosp, Medical Ctr, Queens, NY; Henry Aiwuyo, Brookdale Hosp Medical Ctr, Brooklyn, NY; Kenneth Nworie, Brookdale Hosp Medical Ctr, Brooklyn, NY, Ojo, Lagos State; funlola bada, Brookdale Hosp Medical Ctr, Brooklyn, NY, Ojo, Lagos State, St Anns Bay, Jamaica; ADESINA ORIGBEMISOYE, Brookdale Hosp Medical Ctr, Brooklyn, NY, Ojo, Lagos State, St Anns Bay, Jamaica, Queens, NY; Patrick Coello, Catherine Illah, Brookdale Hosp Medical Ctr, Brooklyn, NY, Ojo, Lagos State, St Anns Bay, Jamaica, Queens, NY, Chicago, IL; Joseph Amoah, Univ Hosp, Cleveland, OH; Yonael Ayinalem, Emmett Brennan, OBH Brookdake Univ Hosp, Medical Ctr, Queens, NY; Alexa Kahn, One Brooklyn Health System, Brooklyn, NY
3:00pm–3:30pm	Break
3:30pm–4:45pm	QCORS.05 - QCOR at Scientific Sessions 2023: Health Equity MODERATORS: Modele Ogunniyi, MD, MPH, Emory University Dapo Iluyomade, MD, Baptist Health Panelists: Paving the Road to Health Equity in the Current Landscape of Health Policies Karen Joynt Maddox, MD, MPH, Washington University in St Louis Emerging trends in innovation and health equity Aubrey Grant, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital Ensuring Equitable Access to Care (high quality and timely cardiovascular care) Nasrien Ibrahim, MD, Harvard University Equitable Cardiovascular Care and Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Partho Sengupta, MD, Rutgers University Clinical Case (5 minutes) Health-equity Focused Clinical Case Highlighting Social Determinants of Health and Access to Equitable Cardiovascular Care Jelani Grant, MD, Johns Hopkins University

This popular symposium is growing each year. Keep checking back for the program, or see the State-of-The-Art Cardiovascular Care 2023 in the Online Program Planner.