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2024 Recordings

Date	Presenter	Presentation Title
May 29, 2024	3rd Year Fellows	3rd Year Fellow Research
May 22, 2024	3rd Year Fellows	3rd Year Fellow Research
May 15, 2024	Jeff Olgin, MD, Jorge Kizer, MD, and Priscilla Hsue, MD	UCSF/VA/ZSFG State of the Division
May 8, 2024	2nd Year Fellows	2nd Year Fellow Research
April 24, 2024	Akhilesh K. Sista, MD	The PE-TRACT trial: origins, rationale, and conduct
April 17, 2024	Matt Springer, PhD and Leila Mohammadi, MD, PhD	Cardiovascular effects of marijuana and tobacco, and the UCSF CANDIDE Study of marijuana users
April 11, 2024	ACC Recap with 2nd Year Fellows	ACC Recap
April 3, 2024	Mary McGrae McDermott, MD	Diagnosis and management of peripheral artery disease
March 27, 2024	Tor Biering-Sørensen, MD, PhD	Using Nationwide Registries to Conduct Pragmatic Randomized Trials
March 20, 2024	Fatima Rodriguez, MD	AI for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention: Hype, Hope, and ChatGPT
March 13, 2024	Uday N. Kumar, MD and Ethan Weiss, MD	Solving Unmet Needs: A Fireside Chat on Entrepreneurship
March 6, 2024	Donald M Lloyd-Jones, MD Sampson Lecture	Current and Future Approaches to Cardiovascular Risk Assessment
February 28, 2024	Cara Pellegrini, MD	Atrial Fibrillation: The Heart of the Matter
February 21, 2024	Julio Lamprea Montealegre, MD, PhD	Linking Paths: Enhancing Cardiovascular Health through Early CKD Detection and Treatment
February 14, 2024	Sean Agbor-Enoh, MD, PhD	Cell-free DNA Detects Disease Early: Transplant Rejection and Other Diseases
February 7, 2024	Ajay Kirtane, MD	Catheter-Based Renal Denervation for the Treatment of Hypertension
January 31, 2024	Vasanth Vedantham, MD, PhD and Julianne Wojciak, MS, LGC	Incorporating Genetics into Cardiovascular Care: Current State of the Art and Future Directions
January 24, 2024	Michelle Kittleson, MD, PhD	Hot Topics in Heart Transplantation
January 17, 2024	Romit Bhattacharya, MD, Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School	The OurHealth Study: Lifestyle, Genomics and Elevated Cardiometabolic Risk in South Asians
January 10, 2024	Rachel Marcus, MD, Regional Director of Echocardiography for Medstar North	Zebras, Hammers, and Chagas Cardiomyopathy

2023 Recordings

Date	Presenter	Presentation Title
December 13, 2023	Michelle A. Albert, MD, Professor, UCSF	Adversity in Academic Medicine: Career Truths, Recruitment, Retention, and Success According to Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
December 6, 2023	Philippe Pibarot, DVM, PHD, Department of Medicine of Laval University	New Frontiers in the Diagnosis and Management of Aortic Stenosis
November 29, 2023	Sammy Elmariah, MD, Associate Professor, UCSF	Optimizing the management of aortic stenosis: The paradox of progress
November 15, 2023	UCSF Cardiology First Year Fellows	First Year Fellow AHA Review, Clinical Trials from American Heart Association November 2023
November 8, 2023	Christine E. Seidman, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital	Cardiomyopathies: Does Defining Genotype Really Matter?
November 1, 2023	Elisa Bradley, MD, Penn State College of Medicine	SHePREG: The study of heart function before and after pre-eclampsia
October 25, 2023	Samia Mora, MD, Harvard Medical School	Primary Prevention of ASCVD: Where are we in 2023 Precision Medicine or Population Health?
October 11, 2023	Lorrel Toft, MD, University of Nevada	Emotional Preparation to Perform CPR: A New Era in Lay Rescuer CPR Training
October 4, 2023	Andrew Krahn, MD, University of British Columbia	Sudden Cardiac Death Genetics
September 27, 2023	Erin Michos, MD, Johns Hopkins University	Obesity Management for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention: New Tools in the New Era
September 20, 2023	Jennifer Tremmel, MD, Stanford University	Evaluation and Treatment of Angina With nonobstructive Coronary Arteries (ANOCA)
September 13, 2023	Catherine Tcheandjieu, DVM, PhD, UCSF	Why Current Polygenic Risk Scores for Coronary Artery Disease Lack Portability in Diverse Populations
September 6, 2023	Michael Alexanian, PhD, UCSF	Modulating Cell States in Heart Failure
May 31, 2023	Rahul Goli, MD, Leila Haghighat, MD and Megan Mclaughlin, MD, 3rd year UCSF Cardiology Fellows	3^rd Year Fellow’s Research
May 24, 2023	Amir Munir, MD, Ram Venkateswaran, MD and Jackie DesJardin, MD, 3rd year UCSF Cardiology Fellows	3^rd Year Fellow’s Research
May 10, 2023	Shawn Li, MD, Anjali Thakkar, MD, James Salazar, MD and Luisa Ciuffo, MD, 2nd year UCSF Cardiology Fellows	2^nd Year Fellow’s Research Plans for 3rd Year Cardiology Fellowship
May 3, 2023	Allison Kratka, MD, Shannon Walker, MD and Colette DeJong, MD, 2nd year UCSF Cardiology Fellows	2^nd Year Fellow’s Research Plans for 3rd Year Cardiology Fellowship
April 26, 2023	Lior Gepstein, MD, PhD, Director of the Cardiology Division at Rambam Health Care Campus in Israel	Advanced Biological Solutions for the Study and Treatment of Cardiac Disorders
April 19, 2023	Marko Boskovski, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, UCSF	Towards a Living Aortic Valve: Aortic Valve Repair and the Ross Procedure
April 12, 2023	Judith Hochman, MD, Director of the Cardiovascular Clinical Research Center at NYU Langone Health	Sampson Lecture: The Role of Revascularization in SIHD: a Deep Dive into ISCHEMIA
April 5, 2023	James Pirruccello, MD, Assistant Professor, Medicine, UCSF	Aortopathy, deep learning, and complex trait genetics
March 29, 2023	Bettina Heidecker, MD, Head of Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy at the Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin	Myocarditis and the COVID-19 Pandemic
March 22, 2023	William Fearon, MD, Professor of Medicine, Director of Interventional Cardiology, Stanford	PCI vs CABG for Multivessel Coronary Disease: The FAME 3 Trial
March 15, 2023	Victoria Parikh, MD, Assistant Professor, Stanford	Improving diagnosis and precision care for patients with inherited cardiovascular disease
March 8, 2023	American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2023 Meeting Fellow Review	ACC Second Year Fellows - Clinical Trial Reports
March 1, 2023	Jennifer Cowger, MD, Medical Director of the Mechanical Circulatory Support Program and Co-Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Henry Ford Hospital and Associate Professor at Wayne State University	Cardiogenic shock: Managing the macrocirculation, microcirculation, and expectations
February 15, 2023	Luc Djousse, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Director of Research Brigham and Women's Hospital	Marine Omega-3 for CVD Prevention: Controversy and Facts from Recent Randomized Clinical Trials
February 8, 2023	Dipti Itchhaporia, MD, Director of disease management for Hoag Heart and Vascular Institute, and Professor at the University of California, Irvine	Digital Transformation and the Road to Equity
February 1, 2023	David Morrow, MD, Director, Levine Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School	Preparing Critical Care Cardiology for the Next Era: Can we move from ‘best’ practice to evidence-based care?
January 25, 2023	Jonathan Tobis, MD, Professor of Medicine, UCLA	The Heart-Brain Connection: PFO Associated Stroke, Migraine, and Hypoxemia
January 18, 2023	Joe-Elie Salem, MD, Associate professor at Sorbonne Université	Management of myocarditis induced by immune checkpoint inhibitors
January 11, 2023	William Lombardi, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of Washington	The Effect of Competencies on Patient Care and Trial Outcomes of Therapeutic Procedures

2022 Recordings

Date	Presenter	Presentation Title
December 14, 2022	Kenneth Ellenbogen, MD, Kimmerling Professor of Cardiology, VCU School of Medicine	The A, B, Cs of Conduction System Pacing
December 7, 2022	Andrew Ambrosy, MD, Assistant Medical Director, Clinical Trials Program, Kaiser Permanente Northern California	The Understanding Inpatient and Outpatient Care and Outcomes in a Learning and Integrated Healthcare Delivery Organization Due to Worsening Heart Failure (UTILIZE-WHF) Study
November 30, 2022	Rebecca Hahn, MD, Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Director of Interventional Echocardiography Structural and Valve Center	Defining the Heart Team : New Roles for the Interventional Imager
November 9, 2022	Noel Bairey Merz, MD, Professor and Ednowed Chair at Cedars Sinai, Director Barbra Streisand Women's Health Center	Ischemic Heart Disease in Women: Update 2022 (Sokolow Lecture)
November 2, 2022	Jonathan Davis, MD, Associate Professor, Medicine, UCSF	Heart Failure Guideline Updates
October 27, 2022	David Ouyang, MD, Cardiologist, Cedars Sinai	Development to Deployment of Cardiovascular AI
October 12, 2022	Aaron Baggish, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of Lausanne	Sports Cardiology: Past Progress and Future Challenges
October 5, 2022	Candice Silversides, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada	The Emerging Field of Cardio-Obstetrics
September 28, 2022	Lloyd Klein, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF	Guidelines 2022: Appraising Decision Making in SIHD Management
September 21, 2022	Khadijah Breathett, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine at Indiana University	Heart Failure Equity: Inspiring a Culture of Change
September 14, 2022	Matt Durstenfeld, MD, Assistant Professor, Medicine, UCSF	Deciphering Cardiac Involvement in Long COVID
September 7, 2022	Javid Moslehi, MD, Associate Professor, Medicine, UCSF	Cardio-Oncology and Cardio-Immunology: New Frontiers in Cardiology
May 11, 2022	Uli Jorde, MD, Chief for Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support and Cardiac Transplantation as well as vice chief of cardiology at the Montefiore / Einstein Heart and Vascular Center	Medical Therapy in HF (and what to do when it fails)
May 4, 2022	Karen Stout, MD, Associate Chief of Cardiology at the University of Washington Medical Center and Adjunct Professor of Pediatric Cardiology	The 2018 Adult Congenital Heart Disease Guidelines AHA/ACC Guidelines – 10 Lessons Learned
April 27, 2022	Robert Bonow, MD, Professor of Cardiology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	Reflections on 50 years studying aortic valve disease
April 20, 2022	Jorge Kizer, MD, Professor of Medicine, UCSF	HIV and Cardiac End-Organ Damage: Insights from the Women's Interagency HIV Study
April 13, 2022	Geoff Tison, MD, Assistant Professor, UCSF	Using Artificial Intelligence to Expand what is Possible in Medicine
March 23, 2022	Richard Cheng, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor, UCSF	Interventional and Device-Based Therapies for the Heart Failure Patient: Cardiogenic Shock and Beyond
March 16, 2022	Beth Cohen, MD, Professor of Medicine, UCSF	The Mind-Heart Connection: Stress and Trauma as Cardiovascular Risk Factors
March 9, 2022	Aarthi Sabanayagam, MD, Assistant Professor, UCSF	Sliding Doors: The High Risk Cardiovascular Patient and Pregnancy
March 2, 2022	Marc Simon, MD, Professor of Medicine, UCSF	The Right Ventricle in Pulmonary Hypertension and Beyond: Structure, Functional Assessment, Translational Insights, and Therapeutic Implications
February 23, 2022	Francesca Delling, MD, Associate Professor, UCSF	Arrhythmic Risk Stratification in Mitral Valve Prolapse: From Imaging to Genetics
February 16, 2022	Barry Borlaug, MD, Mayo Clinic	Heart Failure in the 21st Century: The Emerging Importance of Obesity
February 9, 2022	Liviu Klein, MD, Professor of Medicine, UCSF	Leveraging Technology to Reinvent Heart Failure Care
February 2, 2022	Isha Jain, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics, UCSF and Gladstone Institutes	Turning the Oxygen and Vitamin Dials
January 26, 2022	Bruce Conklin, MD, Professor of Medicine, UCSF and Gladstone Institutes	Decoding and Repairing Genetic Disease with CRISPR and iPS cells
January 11, 2022	Tom Nguyen, MD, Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery, UCSF	What is our Why and Why is our Why?

2021 Recordings

Date	Presenter	Presentation Title
December 15, 2021	Ted Abraham, MD, Professor of Medicine, UCSF	The Evolving Management of HCM
December 8, 2021	Shafkat Anwar, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Radiology, UCSF	3D+: Redefining Possible in Adult Congenital and Structural Heart Disease
November 3, 2021	Nisha Parikh, MD Associate Professor, UCSF	Pregnancy and Cardiometabolic Outcomes: Opportunities to Improve CVD Prevention
October 27, 2021	Cheryl Anderson, MD, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health	Diet and Cardiovascular Health Disparities
October 20, 2021	Zoltan Arany, MD, Perelman School of Medicine	Understanding Peripartum Cardiomyopathy
October 13, 2021	Jonathan Davis, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, UCSF	Organizing Teams to Address Healthcare Disparities for Patients with Heart Failure
October 6, 2021	Greg Marcus, MD, Professor of Medicine, UCSF	Patient-Centered Research into Cardiac Arrhythmias
September 29, 2021	Rita Redberg, MD, Professor of Medicine, UCSF	FDA Device Regulation: Innovation with Evidence
September 22, 2021	Sanjay Rajagopalan, MD, Professor of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University	Convergent Connected Cardiovascular Health: Looking Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic
September 15, 2021	Hani Jneid, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine	Updates in AS and TAVR
September 8, 2021	Priscilla Hsue, MD, Professor of Medicine, UCSF, Chief of Cardiology, Zuckerberg San Francisco General	Immunomodulation and CVD: Lessons from HIV and COVID-19
May 25, 2021	Michael Heller, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, UCSF and Alexander Lam, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, UCSF	Chronic Venous Insufficiency: Presentation and Management
April 28, 2021	Joan Reede, MD, Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School	From Awareness to Action: Actionable Ways to Effect DEI Efforts
April 21, 2021	Anu Agarwal, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, UCSF	Addressing the Needs of Adult Congenital Heart Disease Population: First few steps on a long journey
April 14, 2021	Rachel Lampert, MD, Professor of Medicine, Yale University	After the Diagnosis: Return to Play for Athletes with Cardiovascular Disease
April 7, 2021	Robert Rushakoff, MD, Professor of Medicine, UCSF	Diabetes Drugs and Cardiac Disease
March 31, 2021	Ahmed Tawakol, MD, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital	Stress and Cardiovascular Disease: New Data and Clinical Implications
March 24, 2021	Lloyd Klein, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF	Development of a Decision Tree for the Management of Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest
March 17, 2021	Stephen B. Thomas, MD, Professor of Health Policy and Management at University of Maryland	Shedding Light on the Long Shadow of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study: Advancing Equitable Distribution of COVID-19 Vaccinations in Communities of Color
March 9, 2021	Nanette Wenger, MD, Professor of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine	Understanding the Journey: The Past, Present, and Future of CVD in Women
March 3, 2021	Kirsten Tolstrup, MD, Professor, UCSF	The Tricuspid Valve in 2021 - the forgotten valve no longer
February 10, 2021	Krishan Soni, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor, UCSF and Lucas Zier, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor, UCSF	Complex High Risk Indicated Coronary Intervention and the role for Chronic Total Occlusion PCI
February 3, 2021	Jonathan Linder, MD, Professor of Cardiology, Oregon Health and Science University	Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging for Developing the Drugs of Tomorrow
January 27, 2021	Randall Lee, MD, Professor, UCSF	Impact of Ablation and LAA Closure on AF and Stroke Prevention: Are the Data Convincing?
January 20, 2021	Sharonne Hayes, MD, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic	Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection: New Insights About this Not-So-Rare Condition
January 13, 2021	Alicia Fernandez, MD, Professor, UCSF and Ashley McMullen, MD, Assistant Professor, UCSF	Dealing with Racist Patients

2020 Recordings

Date	Presenter	Presentation Title
December 16, 2020	Melvin Scheinman, MD, Professor, UCSF	Pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, treatment, and cure of the Brugada syndrome
December 9, 2020	Rebecca Cogswell, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota	Sarcopenia in Heart Failure: Lessons Learned in the Advanced Heart Failure Population
December 2, 2020	John Teerlink, MD, Professor, UCSF	Cardiac myotropes: A new direction for Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction
November 18, 2020	UCSF First-Year Fellows	American Heart Association (AHA) Meeting Recap
November 4, 2020	Allan Klein, MD, Professor, Cleveland Clinic	Multimodality CV Imaging of Patients with Pericardial Disease: Imaging Guided Therapy
October 28, 2020	Maria Rosa Constanzo, MD, Medical Director, Heart Failure Research, Advocate Heart Institute	Central Sleep Apnea: How to screen, how to treat
October 14, 2020	Alka Kanaya, MD, Professor, UCSF	Cardiometabolic Disease in South Asians: Findings from the MASALA Study
October 7, 2020	Sandro Galea, MD, Professor, Boston University	Health Have Health Have Nots in the Time of COVID-19
September 30, 2020	Mandar Aras, MD, Assistant Professor, Medicine	Cardiac Amyloidosis: More than a rare disease
September 16, 2020	Anne Thorson, MD, Professor, UCSF Alexis Beatty, MD, Associate Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics	Cardiac Rehabilitation: Past, Present, and Future
September 9, 2020	Jeffrey Olgin, MD Chief of Cardiology, UCSF	The Consequential Year of 2020: How COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter Collided to Shape a New Decade
June 3, 2020	Ethan Weiss, MD Associate Professor, Medicine, UCSF	What's New in Nutrition?
May 27, 2020	Alexandra (Jay) Teng, MD, Clinical Fellow, UCSF Benjamin Kelemen, MD, Clinical Fellow, UCSF Gregory Judson, MD, Clinical Fellow, UCSF	Third Year Fellow Research Presentations, Part 2
May 20, 2020	Krishan Soni, MD, MBA Assistant Professor, Medicine, UCSF	Evolving Algorithms for the Treatment of Acute MI Complicated by Cardiogenic Shock
May 13, 2020	Shadi Kalantarian, MD, Clinical Fellow, UCSF Alan Baik, MD, Clinical Fellow, UCSF Teresa Wang, MD, Clinical Fellow, UCSF	Third Year Fellow Research Presentations, Part 1
May 6, 2020	Nelson Schiller, MD Professor of Medicine, UCSF	The Heart and Soul Study (2000-2020): The study that keeps on giving
April 29, 2020	Daniel Sims, MD, Associate Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Nisha Parikh, MD, Associate Professor, UCSF Bruce Conklin, MD, Professor, UCSF Gregory Judson, MD, Clinical Fellow, UCSF Benjamin Kelemen, MD, Clinical Fellow, UCSF	Follow-up on Cardiac Considerations in the COVID Era
April 22, 2020	Vera Rigolin, MD Professor of Medicine, Cardiology, Northwestern University	Time flies when you're having fun with Aortic Stenosis
April 15, 2020	Suzanne Oparil, MD Professor Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham	The SPRINT Marathon: The Race Goes On
April 8, 2020	Javid Moslehi, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, Director, Cardio-Oncology Program, Vanderbilt University Medical Center	Cardio-Oncology and Cardio-Immunology how Advances in Oncology and Immunology can bring new Perspective to Clinical Cardiology
April 1, 2020	UCSF Faculty and Fellows	UCSF at ACC Presentations from the Lost Conference
March 25, 2020	Bruce Conklin, MD Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco Nisha Parikh, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco	Cardiovascular Considerations in COVID-19 Infection
March 11, 2020	Dan Roden, MD Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University	Using the Electronic Health Record for Discovery and Implementation in Cardiovascular Personalized Medicine
March 4, 2020	Doreen DeFaria Yeh, MD Assistant Professor Harvard Medical School, Co-Director MGH Cardiovascular Disease and Pregnancy Program, Associate Director, MGH Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program	Healthy Moms and Healthy Babies: High-Risk Cardiac Disease in Pregnancy 2020
February 26, 2020	Carlin S. Long, MD Professor of Medicine, Director, Center for the Prevention of Heart and Vascular Disease, University of California San Francisco	The Role of Aspirin in Primary Prevention of CAD
February 19, 2020	V.S. Mahadevan, MD Professor of Medicine, Director, Structural and Adult Congenital Cardiac Interventions, University of California San Francisco	Future Non-Surgical Treatment Modalities for Patients with Structural Heart Disease
February 12, 2020	Alexis Beatty, MD, MAS Associate Professor Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Medicine, University of California San Francisco	Human-Centered Design for Cardiovascular Digital Health Technology
February 5, 2020	Rita Redberg, MD, MS Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco Lucas Zier, MD, MS Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco	Cardiology Grand Rounds Debate: No Patients with Stable Ischemic Heart Disease Should Recieve PCI
January 29, 2020	Christopher M. Kramer, MD George A. Beller MD/Lantheus Medical Imaging Distinguished Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Chief, Cardiovascular Division University of Virginia Health	Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging: 2020 and Beyond
January 22, 2020	Brian L. Black, PhD Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco	Identification and Analysis of Heart Regeneration Enhancers in the Zebrafish
January 15, 2020	Edward P. Gerstenfeld, MD Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco	PVCs Revisited: Etiology Significance and Management
January 8, 2020	T. Jared Bunch, MD Professor of Medicine Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, University of Utah Health Sciences Center	Atrial Fibrillation, Stroke, and Dementia; Mechanisms of Risk and Pathways of Prevention