Full Schedule

11:30 AM - 12:45 PM East Coast USA Time

Industry Supported Kickoff Lunch

12:45 PM - 1:00 PM East Coast USA Time

Opening

Presenter: – University of Minnesota

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM East Coast USA Time

W1 - Presidential Address

Faculty: – St. Vincent’s Medical Center

1:30 PM - 2:15 PM East Coast USA Time

W2 - General Session: Preventing Heart Failure: A Paradigm Shift

Faculty: – Intermountain Health

2:15 PM - 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time

W3 - General Session: Integrative Health Technologies and AI in Heart Failure Care: From Data to Decision-Making

Faculty: – University of Colorado

Faculty: – University of Rochester Medical Center

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time

W4 - Fundamental: Spotting Trouble Early: A Nurse’s Toolbox for Recognition of Heart Failure Cardiogenic Shock

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time

W5 - Global: Big Numbers, Big Cost: Update on HF STATS and Economic Burden

Faculty: – Baylor College of Medicine

Faculty: – Stanford University School of Medicine

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time

W6 - Advanced: Complex Cases in Cardiogenic Shock: Navigating Escalation and Decision-Making

4:35 PM - 5:35 PM East Coast USA Time

W7 - General Session: Hyperkalemia

Faculty: – Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University School of Medicine

Faculty: – Cleveland Clinic

Faculty: – Duke University Hospital

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM East Coast USA Time

W8 - Welcome Reception/Posters/Exhibit Hall

6:45 PM - 8:00 PM East Coast USA Time

Industry Supported Dinner Symposium

7:00 AM - 8:15 AM East Coast USA Time

Industry Supported Breakfast

8:15 AM - 8:30 AM East Coast USA Time

Opening

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM East Coast USA Time

T1 - Keynote: Mastering the Art of Patient Care

Keynote Speaker: – Cedars Sinai Medical Center/California Heart Center

9:15 AM - 10:00 AM East Coast USA Time

T2 - General Session: Joint AAHFN/CHFS Integrating Palliative Care into Heart Failure Nursing: Evidence, Models, and a Call to Action

Faculty: – University of South Florida

Faculty: – University of Vermont Medical Center

Faculty: – Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services

Faculty: – Regional Heart Failure Program, Providence Health Care/Vancouver Coastal Health, Vancouver BC

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM East Coast USA Time

Exhibit Hall Hours & Coffee Break

10:30 AM - 11:15 AM East Coast USA Time

T3 - General Session: New Opportunities with Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists to Improve Outcomes in Heart Failure

Faculty: – Assistant Professor, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM East Coast USA Time

T4 - Breakout Session: From Recognition to Referral: A Nurse’s Guide to Advanced HF Therapies

Faculty: – Baptist Memorial Hospital/ Stern Cardiovascular Center

Faculty: – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM East Coast USA Time

T5 - Breakout Session: Heart Failure by Design: Recognizing Genetic Phenotypes, Family Implications, and Rewriting the Future

Faculty: – University of Minnesota

Faculty: – UCLA

12:15 PM - 1:50 PM East Coast USA Time

Exhibit Hall Hours & Lunch

1:45 PM - 2:15 PM East Coast USA Time

T6 - Plenary 2026: What's new in heart failure?

Faculty: – Duke University School of Medicine

2:20 PM - 3:20 PM East Coast USA Time

T7 - Fundamental: Finding the Beat: Practical Rhythm Skills for the HF Nurse

Faculty: – Cedars Sinai Medical Center

Faculty:

2:20 PM - 2:40 PM East Coast USA Time

T8 - Cardiogenic Shock: Igniting Knowledge Through Simulation

Presenter: – Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute

2:20 PM - 3:20 PM East Coast USA Time

T8 - Global: Quality Improvement Abstract Presentations

2:40 PM - 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time

T8 - Improving Exercise Tolerance of Heart Patients in Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation

Presenter: – Scripps Health

3:00 PM - 3:20 PM East Coast USA Time

T8 - Mobilizing Heart Failure Care: The Impact of Leader-Led Mobility Rounds

Presenter: – Duke Health

2:20 PM - 3:20 PM East Coast USA Time

T9 - Advanced: The Crosswalk Between the Heart and the Liver: What HF Nurses Need to Know

Faculty: – Intermountain Health

Faculty:

2:20 PM - 3:20 PM East Coast USA Time

T10 - Simulation Experience: Putting Heart Failure Physical Exam Skills and Hemodynamics into Practice

Faculty: – Vanderbilt University School of Nursing

Faculty: – Ascension Saint Thomas West Comprehensive Heart Failure Clinic

Faculty: – Duke Health

3:20 PM - 3:50 PM East Coast USA Time

Exhibit Hall Hours & Coffee Break

3:50 PM - 4:50 PM East Coast USA Time

T11 - Fundamental: Women are Not Small Men: Sex Differences in Heart Failure

Faculty:

Faculty: – Intermountain Health

3:50 PM - 4:50 PM East Coast USA Time

T12 - Global: Research Abstract Presentations

3:50 PM - 4:10 PM East Coast USA Time

T12 - Predictors of Heart Failure Self-Care: A Socioecological Perspective

Presenter: – University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

4:10 PM - 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time

T12 - Palliative Care Interventions and Outcomes in Patients with Heart Failure: An Umbrella Review

Presenter: – University of Virginia School of Nursing

4:30 PM - 4:50 PM East Coast USA Time

T12 - Initial Validation of the Modified Fatigue Impact Scale in an Adult Heart Failure Sample

Presenter: – Florida Atlantic University

3:50 PM - 4:50 PM East Coast USA Time

T13 - Simulation Experience: Putting Heart Failure Physical Exam Skills and Hemodynamics into Practice

Faculty: – Vanderbilt University School of Nursing

Faculty: – Ascension Saint Thomas West Comprehensive Heart Failure Clinic

Faculty: – Duke Health

4:55 PM - 5:25 PM East Coast USA Time

T14 - General Session: (In)equity in Heart Failure Care: Current Landscape and Potential Solutions

Faculty: – American College of Cardiology

5:30 PM - 6:45 PM East Coast USA Time

Industry Dinner Symposium

6:45 PM - 7:45 PM East Coast USA Time

Dessert Reception Hosted by BridgeBio

7:00 AM - 8:15 AM East Coast USA Time

Industry Supported Breakfast Symposium

8:15 AM - 8:30 AM East Coast USA Time

Opening

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM East Coast USA Time

F1 - Incoming Presidential Address

Faculty: – Tufts Medical Center

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM East Coast USA Time

F2 - Keynote: Listen to the Music: Finding the Power of Perspective in Life and Leadership

Keynote Speaker: – MK Consulting

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM East Coast USA Time

F3 - General Session: HF Diagnostics and Interpretation: Everything a HF Nurse Should Know

Faculty: – Scripps Clinic

Faculty: – M Health Fairview

10:45 AM - 11:15 AM East Coast USA Time

Exhibit Hall Hours & Coffee Break

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM East Coast USA Time

F4 - Coffee with Leaders in Heart Failure Care

Panelist: – St. Vincent’s Medical Center

Panelist: – Duke University School of Medicine

Panelist: – Cleveland Clinic

Faculty: – University of Pennsylvania

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM East Coast USA Time

F5 - Global: HF Jeopardy!

Faculty: – University of Colorado

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM East Coast USA Time

F6 - Advanced: Mechanical Support, Human Body: LVAD Complications, Care, and the Changing Landscape

Faculty: – UCSF

Faculty: – Loma Linda University Medical Center

12:15 PM - 1:30 PM East Coast USA Time

Industry Supported Lunch Symposium

12:15 PM - 2:00 PM East Coast USA Time

Exhibit Hall Hours & Lunch

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM East Coast USA Time

F7 - Power Hour: Blueprints of Change: Building Sustainable Heart Failure Programs that Last

Faculty: – Cedars Sinia Medical Center

Faculty: – University of Utah Health

Faculty: – Duke University Hospital

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM East Coast USA Time

F8 - Power Hour: A Whole New World in HFpEF: Updates in treatment and how-to identify mimickers

Faculty: – University of California, San Francisco

Faculty: – Scripps Clinic

2:00 PM - 2:15 PM East Coast USA Time

F9 - Implementing a Standardized Blast-Page Workflow to Reduce Emergency Department Throughput Times for LVAD Patients: A Five-Year Quality Improvement Experience

Presenter:

2:15 PM - 2:30 PM East Coast USA Time

F9 - Heart Failure Bootcamp: Teaming Up to Beat the Odds

Presenter:

2:30 PM - 2:45 PM East Coast USA Time

F9 - Building Connections in Cardiac Rehab to Enhance Heart Failure Functional Capacity Outcomes

Presenter:

2:45 PM - 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time

F9 - Peer Power: Integrating Heart Failure Support Networks into the Care Continuum

Presenter:

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM East Coast USA Time

F10 - Hands-On POCUS:

Faculty: – Medical University of South Carolina

Faculty: – Cedars Sinai Medical Center

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM East Coast USA Time

Exhibit Hall Hours & Coffee Break

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time

F11 - Fundamental: Fragile Hearts: Understanding and Addressing Frailty and Cachexia in Heart Failure

Faculty: – University of Virginia

Faculty: – Oregon Health & Science University

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time

F12 - Global: When Systems Collide: Navigating the CKM Puzzle

Faculty: – Cleveland Clinic

Faculty: – University of Colorado

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time

F13 - Advanced: The Other Side of the Story: Advanced Nursing Approaches to RV Dysfunction

Faculty: – Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Faculty: – UCSF

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM East Coast USA Time

F14 - General Session: Wrapping Up the 2026 Annual Conference

Faculty: – Montefiore Medical Center

Faculty: – Intermountain Health

7:15 AM - 8:30 AM East Coast USA Time

Industry Supported Breakfast Symposium

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time

Pharmacology Workshop

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM East Coast USA Time

P1 - The Future of Pharmacological Management of patients with HF

Faculty: – Cleveland Clinic

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM East Coast USA Time

P2 - What about that Pressure: Pulmonary Hypertension

Faculty:

10:30 AM - 10:45 AM East Coast USA Time

Break

10:45 AM - 11:45 AM East Coast USA Time

P3 - Focus on the 2025 AHA/ACC Hypertension Guidelines

Faculty:

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM East Coast USA Time

P4 - De-prescribing Case Study

Faculty: – University of Colorado

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM East Coast USA Time

Lunch

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM East Coast USA Time

P5 - The Challenges in Pain Management: What Can I Use Other than Opiates

Faculty:

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time

P6 - The Role of Non-steroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist

Faculty: – University of California, San Francisco

3:00 PM - 3:15 PM East Coast USA Time

Break

3:15 PM - 4:15 PM East Coast USA Time

P7 - Beta Blockers in HFpEF

Faculty: – University of Colorado

4:15 PM - 4:50 PM East Coast USA Time

P8 - Interesting Case Study

Faculty:

4:50 PM - 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time

P9 - Final Wrap-Up

Faculty: – University of Colorado

Faculty: – Illinois State University

Faculty: – Cardiology Associates of North Mississippi

10:00 AM - 3:30 PM East Coast USA Time

Interactive MCS Workshop

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM East Coast USA Time

M1 - Maximizing Clinical Progression from Temporary to Durabble MCS

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM East Coast USA Time

M2 - Imaging in MCS

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM East Coast USA Time

M3 - Hands-on Breakout Session

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM East Coast USA Time

Lunch & Networking

1:00 PM - 1:50 PM East Coast USA Time

M4 - Hands-on Breakout Session

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time

M5 - Code Blue Best Practices, Simulations, Demonstration, and Panel Discussions

Faculty: – WakeMed Health & Hospitals

Panelist: – Duke University Hospital

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM East Coast USA Time

M6 - Jeopardy

Faculty: – Duke University Hospital

Faculty: