HRX Abstract Happy Hour II

September 19, 2026 | 05:00 PM (EDT) - 06:30 PM (EDT)

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Speakers
Michel Abou Khalil
Medical Intern & Research Fellow
Tulane Research Innovation for Arrhythmia Discovery (TRIAD)
Faraz Ahmad
Medical Director for AI Strategy, Bluhm Cardiovascular Center for AI
Northwestern Medicine
Leart Ajvazaj
Head of Artificial Intelligence
91Life
Manav Bhushan
CEO & Co-Founder
Fourth Frontier
Kashif Chaudhry
Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology
Catawba Valley Medical Center
Ashley Cooper
Clinical Research Study Assistant
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Jordan Craig
Principal Data Scientist
Boston Scientific
Jacob Cushing
Internal Medicine Resident
University of Kansas Medical Center
Michiel De Wever
PhD researcher
Ziekenhuis Oost Limburg
Alex El Darzi
Cardiology Post-Doc
TRIAD-Tulane University
Shaun Evans
Electrophysiology Fellow & PhD Candidate
Centre for Heart Rhythm Disorders in Adelaide
Derek Exner
Chief Medical Officer | Professor
HelpWear Inc. | Cumming School of Medicine at University of Calgary
Sanjaya Gupta
Electrophysiologist
Saint Luke's Mid-America Heart Institute
Yaariv Khaykin
Chief Medical Information Officer
Myant Health
Jonathan Lipton
Cardiologist Electrophysiologist
Fiona Stanley Hospital
Yingshuo Liu
Biostatistician
Tulane University School of Medicine
Christian Massad
Research Fellow
TRIAD
Yazan Mohsen
Research Scientist
Johns Hopkins University
Daniel Musikantow
Cardiac Electrophysiologist
Mount Sinai Hospital
Alexei Nakonechnyi
Research Assistant Professor
University of Rochester
Anthony Pompa
Pediatric Electrophysiologist
Washington University
Lisa Roelle
Pediatric Electrophysiology Physician Assistant
Washington University in St. Louis & St. Louis Children's Hospital
Uttsav Sandesara
Cardiovascular Disease Fellow
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
Kavya Sinha
Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Science
Texas Heart Institute at Baylor College of Medicine
Raghav Sriram
Researcher
University of Michigan
Ajay Tripuraneni
Cardiac Electrophysiologist
Baylor Scott & White Health
Gaurav Upadhyay
Professor of Medicine
The University of Chicago Medicine
Jomole Varghese Vadakkan
Research Scholar
Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad, Kerala, India
Rohan Viswanathan
Cardiology Fellow
Deborah Heart and Lung Center
Tae Kyung Yoo
Cardiology Fellow
Boston Medical Center
Apo Youssef
PGY-2 Internal Medicine Resident
Valley Health System - ISMMS
Yuanyuan Zhang
Postdoctoral Associate
University of Georgia
Moderators
Thomas Deering
Chief, Cardiovascular Centers of Excellence | Chief, Arrhythmia Center
Piedmont Heart Institute
Nassir Marrouche
Director of Heart and Vascular Institute
Tulane University School of Medicine
Jennifer N. Avari Silva
Co-Founder & CMO | Associate Professor & Director of Pediatric Electrophysiology
SentiAR, Inc. | Washington University in St. Louis
Konstantinos Siontis, MD, FHRS
Cardiac Electrophysiologist | Assistant Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic | Director of the Cardiac Radioablation
Mayo Clinic
Benjamin Steinberg
Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology
Denver Health Medical Center
Emma Svennberg, MD, PhD
Assistant professor | Electrophysiologist
Karolinska University Hospital

HRX Abstract Happy Hour II

Abstract Happy Hour - Main Stage 1, Main Stage 2, Roundtable 1, Roundtable 2, Roundtable 3, ConneXions Lounge
September 19, 2026 | 05:00 PM (EDT) - 06:30 PM (EDT)

The HRX Abstract Happy Hour session provides an opportunity for abstract presenters to share their work in an informal, lively, and engaging setting designed to foster connection, discussion, and collaboration. Attendees can explore emerging research, exchange ideas with colleagues, and engage directly with presenters in a relaxed networking environment.

AI Tools Transforming Clinical Care – Main Stage 1:

Moderator: Konstantinos Siontis

5:00 PM – 5:12 PM

Artificial Intelligence Assisted Triage of Emergent Conditions During Hospital Admissions – Jacob Cushing

5:12 PM – 5:24 PM

RhythmGuide: A Clinician-Supervised, Source-Grounded AI Assistant for Electrophysiology Guideline Navigation Introduction – Kashif Chaudhry

5:24 PM – 5:36 PM

Triaxial Bodyseismography for Contactless Blood Pressure Monitoring Using Physics-Constrained Deep Learning- Yuanyuan Zhang

5:36 PM – 5:48 PM

The Patient History Assistant for Navigating Treatment and Outcome Management (PHANTOM): A Conversational AI Framework for Enhancing Atrial Fibrillation Data Quality and Risk Stratification – Ajay Tripuraneni

5:48 PM – 6:00 PM

LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL CLASSIFICATION OF CLINICAL NOTES TO FACILITATE LIFESTYLE INTERVENTION IN PATIENTS WITH ATRIAL FIBRILLATION – Alexei Nakonechnyi

6:00 PM – 6:12 PM

PPG-derived burden-survival curves after AF ablation reveal recurrence and burden differences between ablation techniques – Michiel De Wever


Digital Biomarkers and AF Detection from Wearables II – Main Stage 2:

Moderator: Thomas Deering

5:00 – 5:12 PM

Smartwatch-Derived Atrial Fibrillation Burden Is Associated With All-Cause Hospitalization in the HEARTBEAT Study – Michel Abou Khalil

5:12 PM – 5:24 PM

Smartwatch-Derived Biometrics Enable Early, Clinically Relevant Detection of Impending Emergency Visits: Findings from the Heartbeat Study – Alex El Darzi

5:24 – 5:36 PM

Dynamic evolution of serial PPG-derived AF risk scores after AF ablation identifies patients at risk of recurrence – Michiel De Wever

5:36 PM – 5:48 PM

Personalizing the Blanking Period Through Machine-Learned AF Burden Profiles – Christian Massad

5:48 PM- 6:00 PM

Supervised Pretraining Enables Diastolic Blood Pressure Screening From Passive Wearable PPG – Yingshuo Liu

6:00 PM – 6:12 PM

Evaluation of Cloud Based Aggregation Platforms in a Pediatric Cardiac Device Remote Monitoring Clinic – Lisa Roelle

6:12 PM – 6:24 PM

Conditional Interpretation of RR Variability, Not Model Complexity, Drives Specificity in Single-Lead AF Screening – Kyung Tae Yoo


Next-Generation Ablation and Cardiac Device Technologies – Roundtable 1:

Moderator:  Jennifer N. Avari Silva

5:00 PM – 5:12 PM

ULTRA-LOW ENERGY ATRIAL CARDIOVERSION BY LEFT ATRIAL MULTI-SITE PACING: A NOVEL PARADIGM FOR FUNCTIONAL SINUS RHYTHM RESTORATION – Kavya Sinha

5:12 PM – 5:24 PM

ROBOTIC MAGNETIC NAVIGATION FOR COMPLEX PVC ABLATION IN A COHORT AT HIGH RISK FOR RECURRENCE – Ashley Cooper

5:24 PM – 5:36 PM

A CALL TO ACTION: ALIGNMENT OF IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR DEFAULTS WITH GUIDELINES RECOMMENDATIONS TO IMPROVE OUTCOMES – Shaun Evans

5:36 PM – 5:48 PM

Comparison of Rhythm Monitoring Strategies for Detection of Atrial Arrhythmia Recurrence Following Pulsed Field Ablation in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation – Apo Youssef

5:48 PM – 6:00 PM

Integrating CTI and PVI on a Single PFA Platform: First Clinical Experience with a Novel Linear-Tip Catheter – Jonathan Lipton

6:00 PM – 6:12 PM

East vs. West in AI Diagnostics: Benchmarking International LLMs in Differentiating Ventricular Tachycardia – Rohan Viswanathan

6:12 PM – 6:24 PM

General-Purpose LLMs for WCT Classification: Not Ready for Prime Time – Rohan Viswanathan


ECG Artificial Intelligence: From Signal to Clinical Insight – Roundtable 2:

Moderator: Benjamin Steinberg

5:00 PM – 5:12 PM

Artificial intelligence detection of cardiac amyloidosis using electrocardiograms: interim results from the multicenter CONCERTO study – Faraz Ahmad

5:12 PM – 5:24 PM

Robust Collection of ECG Signals from a Non-traditional Location, Regardless of Patient Self-Adjustment – Derek Exner

5:24 PM – 5:36 PM

Inter-Annotator Agreement in Ambulatory ECG Rhythm Annotation: A Large-Scale Study of Classification Reliability, Transition Timing, and PVC Localization Across 19 Clinicians – Leart Ajvazaj

5:36 PM – 5:48 PM

No Cath, No Problem? Electrocardiographic Artificial Intelligence (ECG-AI) for Non-Invasive Classification of Mean Pulmonary Capillary Wedge Pressure – Uttsav Sandesara

5:48 PM – 6:00 PM

TrustECGAnalytics: A Quality-Aware and Rhythm-Aware ECG Analytics Framework for Trustworthy Cardiac Arrhythmia Recognition and Continuous Cardiac Health Monitoring – Amanda Kremer

6:00 PM -6:12 PM

Scaling Laws in ECG Foundation Models: Pre-training Data Volume Drives Performance Gains Across Rhythm, Form, Diagnosis, and Structural Heart Disease Tasks – Raghav Sriram

6:12 PM – 6:24 PM

Chasing Perfection in ECG AI: Impact of Validation Methods and Datasets – Jordan Craig


Wearable and Contactless Cardiac Monitoring – Roundtable 3:

Moderator: Emma Svennberg

5:00 PM – 5:12 PM

The Two Minute Floor: Modeling the Structural Atrial Fibrillation Burden Detection Asymmetry Between Implantable Cardiac Monitors and Continuous E-textile Wearables – Yaariv Khaykin

5:12 PM – 5:24 PM

Ventricular Tachycardia Incidence During Exercise and Activities of Daily Living – Manav Bhushan

5:24PM – 5:36 PM

Contactless Bed-Based Bodyseismography for Sleep Staging and Sleep Apnea Monitoring – Yuanyuan Zhang

5:36 PM – 5:48 PM

Context-Aware Contactless AFib Detection from Bed-Based Bodyseismography – Yuanyuan Zhang

5:48 PM – 6:00 PM

A Virtual Atrial Fibrillation Clinic Integrating Wearables to Deliver Scalable Lifestyle Risk Factor Modification – Sanjaya Gupta

6:00 PM – 6:12 PM

A NON-RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIAL FOR THE VALIDATION OF A PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY BASED ALGORITHM FOR DETECTION OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION VIA A WEARABLE DEVICE – Sanchit Kumar

6:12 PM -6:24 PM

CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH ON BLOCKING THE VICIOUS CYCLE OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION, HEART FAILURE AND SLEEP APNEA IN THE ELDERLY: BASED ON THE NATIONAL STANDARDIZED DATABASE LED BY OUR TEAM AND THE SELF-DEVELOPED DUAL-MODAL AI WEARABLE SYSTEM – Jia Wang


Clinical Innovation & First-in-Human Technologies – ConneXions Lounge:

Moderator: Nassir Marrouche

5:00 PM – 5:12 PM

Real-Time Digital Twins for Intraprocedural Decision Support: Multi-Center Validation of a Cross-Platform Framework – Yazan Mohsen

5:12 PM -5:24 PM

Attempted Conduction System Pacing and Mortality: Insights from the CONSPIRE Registry with Core Lab Adjudication – Gaurav Upadhyay

5:24 PM – 5:36 PM

Interim Results of a Point PFA Catheter in the Treatment of Focal Ventricular Arrhythmias (FOCUS-PFA) – Daniel Musikantow

5:36 PM – 5:48 PM

Mobile Electrophysiology System with Mixed Reality Virtual Screens for Pediatric Ablation – Anthony Pompa

5:48 PM – 6:00 PM

A Novel Cardio-Respiratory Physiological Assist Technology for Synchronizing the Heart Rhythm to Respiratory Dynamics for Alleviating Pulmonary Congestion in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure, First-In-Human Study – Amir Ronen