Sunday, February 8, 2026 - 7:00am to Monday, February 9, 2026 - 7:00pm
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Program:
Sunday, February 8th, 2026
LOCATION |
TIME |
SPEAKER |
TITLE |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Opening Keynote: UA Health Sciences Innovation Building - Forum |
11:30 - 1:00 | Joseph Wu, MD, PhD | Stem Cells, Genomics, and AI for Drug Discovery |
| El Conquistador Resort, Presidio Ballroom Session I: Vascular-Myocardial Interaction, Hemodynamics, & Pulmonary/Cardiac Stress |
3:00 - 4:25 |
Nazish Sayed, MD, PhD |
Endothelial-Myocardial Crosstalk in Cardiovascular Injury From Pressure to Phenotype: Rethinking the Diagnosis of PH in HFpEF Title TBA Economic and Quality of Life Outcomes after CABG or PCI: The FAME3 Trial |
| 4:25 - 4:40 | Coffee Break | ||
| Session II. Imaging, Electrophysiology & Precision Cardiovascular Medicine | 4:40 - 6:00 | Jose Antonio Enriquez, PhD Koen Nieman, MD Julia Indik, MD, PhD Roderick Tung, MD |
Title TBA |
| Poster Session I & Exhibits | 6:00 - 7:00 | Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres served |
Monday, February 9th
LOCATION |
TIME |
SPEAKER |
TITLE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linda Vista Trail | 9:00 - 11:30 | Henk Granzier, PhD | Hiking with Henk |
| El Conquistador Resort, Presidio Ballroom Session III: Genomics, Precision Medicine, & Mechanistic Regulation in Cardiovascular Disease |
2:00 - 3:00 | Sean M. Wu, MD, PhD Mingyu Liang, MB, PhD Hossein Ardehali, MD, PhD |
Transcriptional Regulation of Cardiac Development: Lessons from Stem Cells Title TBA Title TBA |
| 3:00 - 3:20 | Coffee Break | ||
| Session IV: Polygenic Risk, Cardiomyocyte Identitym & Genetic Engineering | 3:20 - 4:20 | Victoria Parikh, MD Nipavan Chiamvimonvat, MD Paul Wang, MD |
Scalable Base Editing in iPSCs to Model RBM20 Variant Effects Title TBA Title TBA |
| 4:20 - 4:40 | Coffee Break | ||
| Session V: Environmental Stress, Injury, and Cardiac Protection | 4:40 - 6:00 | Patricia Nguyen, MD Casey Romanoski, PhD Chris Glembotski, PhD Eldrin Lewis, MD |
The Interplay between the Environment, the Immune System, and Atherosclerosis Title TBA Title TBA Title TBA |
| 6:00 - 6:20 | Abstract Finalists | Lightning Rounds | |
| 6:20 - 7:20 | Poster Session II & Exhibits | ||
| 7:20 - 7:30 | Hesham A. Sadek, MD, PhD | Presentation of Poster Winner | |
| El Conquistador Restaurant | 7:30 - 9:00 | Conference Dinner |
Event Coordinator:
Cara Deery
520-626-2901
Event Contact Department:
Sarver Heart Center, Outreach and Education.