HRX Live 2025 Highlights

From record-breaking abstract submissions to brand-new program elements, HRX Live 2025 brought a powerful lineup.

Throughout HRX Live, the hallways, lounges and stages buzzed with conversations among partners, colleagues, and key opinion leaders. Inaugural programs like the Innovation Summit, CEO Forum, and Allied Professional Shark Tank, powered by Medtronic, the Board Review Course, and meetings with the FDA and USPTO, brought a mix of clinical expertise, entrepreneurial vision, and cross-disciplinary collaboration that was unconventional and unforgettable.

Congratulations to the HRX 2025 Pitch Competition Winners!

First Place

Second Place

People’s Choice

Learn more about the winners

Congratulations AP Shark Tank Winners!

It was an outstanding first year for the Allied Professional Shark Tank, powered by Medtronic, a high-energy, high-impact program where Allied Professionals (APs) pitch bold ideas that will transform cardiovascular care to a live audience of peers, clinicians, and health tech leaders.

First Place

Karen Monroe

Reducing Device Check Burden via Alert-Based Care

Second Place

Zain Shariff

AICathDesigner: AI-Guided Catheter Design

Congratulations Top Five Scored AbstracX!

The top five scored AbstracX, from a record breaking 113 submissions, presented research during four Main Stage sessions at HRX Live 2025.

Presenting Researchers and Topics:

Novel Resizable Soft Robotic Catheter for Rapid Whole Chamber Mapping
Bobak Mosadegh, Weill Cornell Medicine

Utilizing a Large Language Model to Assign Billing Codes and Improve Clinical Documentation
Victor Abrich, MercyOne Waterloo Medical Center

Studying Left Atrial Arrhythmias Using a Real-Time, Interactive Digital Twin
Bryant Wyatt, Tarleton State University

Clinical Performance of an Atrial Fibrillation Burden Tracking Algorithm: Comparisons Against Reference Public and Clinical e-Textile Data
Yaariv Khaykin & Meysam Pirbaglou, Myant Health

Prediction of Undiagnosed Atrial Fibrillation by Artificial Intelligence Using 12-Lead Sinus Rhythm Electrocardiograms in Patients with Embolic Stroke of Undetermined Source
Nobunari Tomura, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine

All accepted AbstracX are published in the online supplement of Heart Rhythm O² and on the HRX Innovation Hub.

Heart Rhythm TV in Atlanta

Each day of the conference our Heart Rhythm TV correspondents Nashwa Abdulsalam, MBBS; Mikhael F. El-Chami, MD, FHRS; Jessica Mullenix NP, CEPS, FHRS; Deepthy Varghese, DNP, ACNP, FNP; and Oliver J. Monfredi, MBChB, PhD, FHRS were onsite to provide live coverage and daily recaps.

For more coverage, please visit the HRX 2025 Playlist on Heart Rhythm TV.

Day 1 Recap Day 2 Recap Day 3 Recap