Event category: Innovation Summit

Events

September 04, 2025

2025-09-04

11:20 AM (EDT) - 12:25 PM (EDT)

Innovation Stage

Innovation Summit

Innovation Summit Section IV: Diagnosis, Risk Stratification & Treatment of Arrhythmias

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Jennifer N. Avari Silva

Co-Founder & CMO | Associate Professor & Director of Pediatric Electrophysiology

SentiAR, Inc. | Washington University in St. Louis

Yaariv Khaykin

Chief Medical Information Officer

Myant Health

Zak Loring

Cardiac Electrophysiologist

Duke University Medical Center

Steven Lubitz

Director of Translational Medicine

Novartis

Devi G Nair, MD, FHRS

Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology & Research

St. Bernards Medical Center & Arrhythmia Research Group

Sotirios Nedios

PD/Ass. Prof. Cardiac Electrophysiology

Heart Center, University of Leipzig

Jagmeet Singh

Professor of Medicine | Cardiac Electrophysiologist & Founding Director of the Resynchronization and Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics Program

Harvard Medical School | Massachusetts General Hospital Heart Center

Jeffrey Winterfield

Hank and Laurel Greer Chair in Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology | Professor of Medicine

Medical University of South Carolina

Elaine Wan

Esther Aboodi Associate Professor of Medicine in Cardiology and Cardiac Electrophysiology | Attending Physician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital

Columbia University Medical Center, College of Physicians and Surgeons | New York-Presbyterian Hospital

Patrick Boyle

Associate Professor of Bioengineering

University of Washington

2025-09-04

10:15 AM (EDT) - 11:20 AM (EDT)

Innovation Stage

Innovation Summit

Innovation Summit Section III: Pacing & Implanted Device Therapy

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Ulrika Birgersdotter-Green

Cardiac Electrophysiologist | Professor of Medicine

UC San Diego Health System

Mikhael El-Chami

Electrophysiologist | Professor of Medicine

Emory University

Avi Fischer, MD, FHRS

Senior Vice President, Medical Affairs and Innovation

Orchestra BioMed, Inc.

Devi G Nair, MD, FHRS

Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology & Research

St. Bernards Medical Center & Arrhythmia Research Group

Venkatakrishna Tholakanahalli

Professor of Medicine | Chief-Cardiac Electrophysiology

University of Minnesota | Minneapolis VA Health Care System

Niraj Varma

Cardiac Electrophysiologist & Professor of Medicine

Cleveland Clinic

Ed Manicka

Founder

Calyan Technolgies, Inc.

Guangqing Yang

Graduate Student, Researcher

University of Chicago

Emily Zeitler, MD, MHS

Associate Professor of Medicine

Geisel School of Medicine and The Dartmouth Institute

Uday Kumar

Founder, President & CEO

Element Science, Inc.

September 18, 2026

2026-09-18

09:10 AM (EDT) - 12:00 PM (EDT)

Main Stage 1

Innovation Summit

Innovation Summit Session II: Beyond Conventional EP – PFA, Devices, Access, and Stroke Prevention

The Innovation Summit continues across the expanding boundaries of EP: new PFA strategies, non-invasive mapping, ventricular ablation, LAA therapy, physiologic pacing, pericardial access, imaging, sleep-apnea workflows, and stroke prevention. Short, focused presentations will highlight technologies with credible paths to clinical impact.

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Tina Baykaner, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor

Department of Internal Medicine | Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and Electrophysiology | Stanford University

Michael Curley

President

Thermedical

Matthew Hakimi

Cardiac Electrophysiologist

Cedars Sinai Medical Center

Gordon Ho

Associate Clinical Professor, Staff Cardiac Electrophysiologist

UC San Diego

James Ip

Professor

Weill Cornell Medicine

Srijoy Mahapatra

World Wide General Manager, Left Atrial Appendage Management

Abbott

Rohit Mehta

Founder & CEO

Heart Rhythm Partners PLLC and Global Cardiac EP, LLC

Steven Mickelsen

CEO | Board Member | Cardiac Electrophysiologist

Field Medical | Atraverse Medical, Inc. | Scripps Health

Jonathan Piccini

Cardiac Electrophysiologist & Professor of Medicine and Population Health | Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology section

Duke University Hospital and the Duke Clinical Research Institute | Duke Heart Center

Ishu Rao, MD

Medical Director & Senior Vice President of Medical Affairs

Impulse Dynamics

Vivek Y. Reddy

Director of Cardiac Arrhythmia Services

Mount Sinai Health System

Andrea Sarkozy

Professor of Cardiology & Free University of Brussels Director

Ventricular Arrhythmia & Sudden Death Unit, UZ Brussel

Nicholas Serafini

Electrophysiologist | Director, Electrophysiology Laboratory

Advocate Aurora Health Lutheran General Hospital

Wilber Su

Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology | Professor of Medicine

Banner-University Medical Center | University of Arizona College of Medicine

Rob Taft

Vice President, R&D

Nidus Biomedical

Usha Tedrow

Director, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Program | Associate Professor of Medicine

Brigham and Women's Hospital | Harvard Medical School

J. Peter Weiss

Cardiac Electrophysiologist

Banner University of Arizona Medical Center Phoenix (BUMCP)

Ian Woollett

Cardiac Electrophysiologist | Director of the Electrophysiology Laboratory

Sentara Norfolk General Hospital

Devi G Nair, MD, FHRS

Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology & Research

St. Bernards Medical Center & Arrhythmia Research Group

Prashanthan Sanders

Cardiac Electrophysiologist & Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology

University of Adelaide

2026-09-18

07:30 AM (EDT) - 09:10 AM (EDT)

Main Stage 1

Innovation Summit

Innovation Summit Session I: Mapping, Imaging, and Ablation

A rapid-fire tour of the technologies reshaping AF care. From predictive planning and 4D imaging to global mapping, digital models, novel PFA, neuromodulation, and semi-autonomous ablation. Innovators will show what is ready now, what is approaching the clinic, and what could redefine the procedure.

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