Event category: Concurrent Session

Events

September 20, 2026

2026-09-20

10:45 AM (EDT) - 11:30 AM (EDT)

Main Stage 2

Concurrent Session

Innovation & Development of New Tools for Lead Extraction

Ulrika Bergersdotter-Green | Pamela Mason | G. Stuart Mendenhall | Oliver Monfredi

Ulrika Birgersdotter-Green

Cardiac Electrophysiologist | Professor of Medicine

UC San Diego Health System

Pamela Mason

Professor of Medicine

University of Virginia Health System

George Stuart Mendenhall

Cardiac Electrophysiologist and Researcher | Chief Medical Officer

Scripps Memorial Hospital | Everbeat

Oliver Monfredi

Associate Professor of Medicine, Medical Director of the Complex Lead Management and Extraction Center of Excellence

University of Virginia

2026-09-20

10:45 AM (EDT) - 11:30 AM (EDT)

Main Stage 1

Concurrent Session

The Next PFA Frontier – Ventricular Ablation

Edward Gerstenfeld | Steven Mickelsen | Vivek Y. Reddy | Usha Tedrow

Steven Mickelsen

CEO | Board Member | Cardiac Electrophysiologist

Field Medical | Atraverse Medical, Inc. | Scripps Health

Vivek Y. Reddy

Director of Cardiac Arrhythmia Services

Mount Sinai Health System

Usha Tedrow

Director, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Program | Associate Professor of Medicine

Brigham and Women's Hospital | Harvard Medical School

Edward Gerstenfeld

Professor of Medicine

University of California, San Francisco

2026-09-20

08:50 AM (EDT) - 09:35 AM (EDT)

Main Stage 2

Concurrent Session

Latent Intelligence and Patient Needs: Clinical Judgment in AI-Driven Electrophysiology

Joshua Lampert | Bleron Baraliu | Ivan Nenadic Wood | Peter Noseworthy

Bleron Baraliu

CEO

91Life

Ivan Nenadic Wood

Cardiology Fellow, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Medical Technology Consultant

Duke University Health System

Peter Noseworthy

Professor of Medicine, Chair of the Division of Heart Rhythm Services, and Medical Director of Business Development

Mayo Clinic

Joshua Lampert

Cardiac Electrophysiologist & Medical Director of Machine Learning

Mount Sinai Heart in The Mount Sinai Hospital

2026-09-20

08:50 AM (EDT) - 09:35 AM (EDT)

Main Stage 1

Concurrent Session

Next Generation Mediastinal and Epicardial Technologies & Techniques

Ed Manicka | Kalyanam Shivkumar | Harikrishna Tandri | Venkatakrishna Tholakanahalli

Ed Manicka

Founder

Calyan Technolgies, Inc.

Kalyanam Shivkumar

Professor & Director, Center for Interventional Programs

UCLA Health System, UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center & EP Programs

Harikrishna Tandri

Professor of Medicine; Chief of Electrophsyiology

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Venkatakrishna Tholakanahalli

Professor of Medicine | Chief-Cardiac Electrophysiology

University of Minnesota | Minneapolis VA Health Care System

September 19, 2026

2026-09-19

04:05 PM (EDT) - 04:50 PM (EDT)

Main Stage 1

Concurrent Session

Leadless Pacing – Act II

Mikhael El-Chami | Daniel Cantillon | Christophe Garweg | Deepak Padmanabhan | Vivek Y. Reddy

Daniel Cantillon

Adult EP Cardiologist & Chief Medical Officer

Masimo Corporation

Christophe Garweg

Associate Professor & Cardiologist

UZ Leuven

Deepak Padmanabhan

Assistant Professor

Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research

Vivek Y. Reddy

Director of Cardiac Arrhythmia Services

Mount Sinai Health System

Mikhael El-Chami

Electrophysiologist | Professor of Medicine

Emory University

2026-09-19

04:05 PM (EDT) - 04:50 PM (EDT)

Main Stage 2

Concurrent Session

Nanoparticle Therapies in EP

Patrick Boyle | Igor Efimov | Natalia Trayanova | Miguel Valderrabano

Igor R. Efimov

Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Professor of Medicine

Northwestern University

Natalia Trayanova, PhD, FHRS

Professor | Director for AI Research

Johns Hopkins University

Miguel Valderrabano

Director

Division of Cardiac Electrophysiology at The Methodist Hospital

Patrick Boyle

Associate Professor of Bioengineering

University of Washington

2026-09-19

08:50 AM (EDT) - 09:35 AM (EDT)

Main Stage 1

Concurrent Session

Seeing the Future with ICE

Tina Baykaner | Christoph Hennersperger | Josef Kautzner | Dhanunjaya R. Lakkireddy | Paul Zei

Catheter-based treatment of cardiac arrhythmias and Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion has seen tremendous advances in the past decade, lastly with a stronger trend toward integrated concomitant procedures. With evolving clinical needs and interventional workflows, the community continues to aim at improved efficacy, efficiency and safety for patients and staff, ultimately leading to the best treatment across complex patient populations. For Intraprocedural guidance as a cornerstone enabling understanding and navigating within the human anatomy, main modalities of choice today are Electro anatomical Mapping (EAM) and Intracardiac Echocardiography (ICE) for ablation, as well as Fluoroscopy and Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE) for Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion. With a continued trend toward fully anatomically guided ablation approaches with modern PFA ablation systems, as well as concomitant treatment of LAAC, this session aims to discuss strategies and innovative technologies to enable individual and combined workflows through interventional cardiac image guidance using ICE. A specific focus here is to review where today’s workflows are challenged using different guidance solutions as well as the trend toward more integrated and combined procedures, and the need for reliable, intuitive, and precise navigation as a key requirement for optimal treatment.