Full Schedule

7:00 AM - 8:15 AM PT

Breakfast Symposium: A New Treatment for Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (oHCM): Clinical Perspectives and Practical Uses Supported by Cytokinetics

7:00 AM - 5:30 PM PT

Registration Hours

Location: Sapphire North Foyer

8:20 AM - 8:30 AM PT

Opening & Fellows Announcement

Presenter: – Medical University of South Carolina

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM PT

T1 - Keynote: Mastering the Art of Patient Care

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

CE: .75

9:15 AM - 10:00 AM PT

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

CE: 0.75

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM PT

Exhibit Hall Hours & Coffee Break

Location: Sapphire CD

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM PT

Product Theater Supported by Analog Devices

10:30 AM - 11:15 AM PT

T3 - General Session: New Opportunities with Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists to Improve Outcomes in Heart Failure Supported by an Independent Grant from Bayer

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

Faculty: – PENN Medicine Lancaster General Hospital

CE: 0.75

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM PT

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

CE: 1

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM PT

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

Faculty: – University of Minnesota

Faculty: – UCLA

CE: 1

12:15 PM - 1:50 PM PT

Exhibit Hall Hours & Lunch

Location: Sapphire CD

12:15 PM - 1:45 PM PT

Lunch Symposium: Cardiac Amyloidosis in Focus: Nuclear Imaging Insights and Treatment Strategies Supported by Pfizer

1:45 PM - 2:15 PM PT

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

Faculty: – Duke University School of Medicine

CE: 0.5

2:20 PM - 3:20 PM PT

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

Faculty: – Cedars Sinai Medical Center

Faculty:

CE: 1

2:20 PM - 3:20 PM PT

T8 - Global: Quality Improvement Abstract Presentations

Presenter: – Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute

Presenter: – Scripps Health

Presenter: – Duke Health

CE: 1

2:20 PM - 2:40 PM PT

T8 - Cardiogenic Shock: Igniting Knowledge Through Simulation

Presenter: – Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute

2:40 PM - 3:00 PM PT

T8 - Improving Exercise Tolerance of Heart Patients in Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation

Presenter: – Scripps Health

Presenter: – Scripps health

3:00 PM - 3:20 PM PT

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

Presenter: – Duke Health

2:20 PM - 3:20 PM PT

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

Faculty: – Intermountain Health

Faculty: – Cedars Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center

CE: 1

2:20 PM - 3:20 PM PT

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

Lead Faculty: – Ascension Saint Thomas West Comprehensive Heart Failure Clinic

Faculty: – Vanderbilt University School of Nursing

Faculty: – Duke University Hospital

CE: 1

3:20 PM - 3:50 PM PT

Exhibit Hall Hours & Coffee Break

Location: Sapphire CD

3:20 PM - 3:50 PM PT

Product Theater: Path to Diagnosis and Treatment: Navigating hATTR-PN Supported by AstraZeneca

Faculty: – Cardiology Associates of North Mississippi

3:50 PM - 4:50 PM PT

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

Faculty: – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Faculty: – Intermountain Health

CE: 1

3:50 PM - 4:50 PM PT

T12 - Global: Research Abstract Presentations

CE: 1

3:50 PM - 4:10 PM PT

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

Presenter: – University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

4:10 PM - 4:30 PM PT

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 PT

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 PT

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

Lead Faculty: – Ascension Saint Thomas West Comprehensive Heart Failure Clinic

Faculty: – Vanderbilt University School of Nursing

Faculty: – Duke University Hospital

CE: 1

3:50 PM - 4:50 PM PT

T14 - Practical Management of Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis Supported by an Independent Educational Grant From Alnylam

Faculty: – Columbia University Medical Center

Faculty:

CE: 1

4:55 PM - 5:25 PM PT

T15 - General Session: (In)equity in Heart Failure Care: Current Landscape and Potential Solutions

Faculty: – American College of Cardiology

CE: 0.5

5:30 PM - 6:45 PM PT

Dinner Symposium: Heart Failure with a Plot Twist: Patient-Focused Data on Living Longer, Fuller Lives Supported by Abbott

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM PT

Dessert Reception Hosted by BridgeBio