All relevant financial relationships of faculty and planners were resolved prior to the symposium.
CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES:
- To share the latest and currently developing knowledge of the critical issues around atrial fibrillation and related systems involvement including, but not limited to stroke prevention, GI and gastroenterology involvement, and post-ablation bleeding.
- To facilitate a focus on new, global technologies, recent research findings, and new procedures available for improved patient care.
- To support the development and use of cost-effective procedures and treatments including but not limited to anti-fibrotic drugs, new EP techniques, and other pharmacologic agents.
- To stimulate consensus building on treatment choices for recurrent arrhythmias pre and post -ablation, mobile health applications, ablation techniques, mapping and other current and developing technologies and interventions.
- To provide a forum for global information sharing and integration of all concepts in the fields working on atrial fibrillation.

Nazem Akoum, MD *
No relevant financial relationships

Jason Andrade, MD
Cardiologist, Self/UBC
Research Grants, Baylis Medical
Speaker, Biosense Webster
Researcher & Speaker, Medtronic

Tina Baykaner, MD, MPH
No relevant financial relationships

Patrick M Boyle, PhD, PEng, FHRS
Cardiac Systems Simulation (CardSS) Lab
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, University of Washington
No relevant financial relationships

Hugh Calkins, MD
Director of EP & Professor of Medicine, John Hopkins
Consultant, Abbott Medical
Consultant, Atricure
Consultant, Biosense
Consultant, Boston Scientific
Honararia, Boehringer Ingelheim
Consultant, Honararia, Medtronic

Phillip S. Cuculich, MD
Consultant, Medtronic
Consultant, Varian Medical Systems

John D. Day, MD
Consultant & Speaker, Abbott
Consulting, Boston Scientific
Speaker, Medtronic

Luigi Di Biase
Consultant, Biosense Webster
Consultant, Boston Scientific
Consultant, Abbott (formerly St. Jude Medical)
Speaker, Medtronic
Speaker, Atricure
Speaker, Pfizer
Speaker, Bristol Myers
Speaker, Biotronik

Uzodinman C. Emerenini, MD
No relevant financial relationships

Hamid Ghanbari, MD, MPH
Consultant, Preventic
Researcher, Toyota

David E. Haines, MD
Beaumont Health, OUWB School of Medicine
Affera, Consultant
Biosense Webster, Consultant/Speaker
Boston Scientific, Consultant/Investigator
Medtronic, Consultant/Investigator
Philips Healthcare, Consultant

Jonathan C. Hsu, MD, MAS
Consultant/Speaker, Abbott
Equity, Acutus Medical
Consultant/Speaker, Biosense-Webster
Consultant/Speaker, Biotronik
Consultant/Speaker, Boston Scientific
Consultant/Speaker, Bristol-Myer Squibb
Consultant/Speaker, Janssen Pharmaceuticals
Consultant & Speaker, Medtronic
Equity, Vektor Medical

Elaine M. Hylek, MD, MPH
Consultant,Lecturer- Boehringer Ingelheim
Consultant, Research -Bristol Myers Squibb/Pfizer
Consultant, Research,-Janssen
Consultant-Medtronic

Eugene Kholmovski, MD
Consultant & Ownership Interest, Marrek, Inc.
Contractor, MRI Interventions, Inc.

Randall J. Lee, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Consultant, SentreHEART/Atricure, Inc.

John Mandrola, MD
Cardiac Electrophysiologist, Baptist Health Louisville
[email protected]
No relevant financial relationships

Moussa Mansour, MD
Consultant & Researcher, Abbott, Equity, Affera, Consultant & Researcher, Biosense Webster, Research Grant, Bohringer-ingelheim
Consultant, Boston Scientific, Equity, EPD Solutions, Consultant, Medtronic, Equity, NewPace Ltd, Research Grant, Pfizer

Suneet Mittal, MD
Director, EP, Valley Health System
Consultant, Abbott
Consultant, Boston Scientific
Consultant, Medtronic

Mario Njeim, MD
Cardiologist & Cardiac Electrophysiologist, Hotel Dieu de France Hospital, Saint Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon
Travel Grant, Abbott
Speaker, Boehringer
Speaker/Travel Grant, Boston Scientific
Travel Grant, Medtronic
Speaker, Pfizer

David C. Peritz, MD
No relevant financial relationships

Vivek Reddy, MD
Boston Scientific, Unpaid Consultant
Biosense Webster, Upaid Consultant
Abbott, Unpaid Consultant
Surecor, Equity Ownership

Jeanne E. Poole, MD
Executive Committee, Medtronic
Research, Biotronik
Research, Atricure

Boris Schmidt, MD
No relevant financial relationships

Luis Carlos Saenz Morales, MD
Speaker, Abbott
Speaker, Biosense Webster
Spekaer, Medtronic

Mintu Turakhia, MD, MAS
Apple, Grant
Equity, AliveCor
Grant, BMS-PFIZER
Grant, Bayer
Consultant, Medtronic
Consultant, Janssen
Consultant, Pfizer
Consultant, Myokardia

Oussama M. Wazni, MD

David J. Wilber, MD
ACCF, Consultant
Biosense Webster, Consultant, Research Grant
Abbott, Research Grant
Sentre Heart, Research Grant

Takanori Yamaguchi
Speaker/Research, Abbot Medical Japan
Speaker/Research, Nihon Koden Corporation

Sana Al-Khatib, MD, MHS, FHRS
Professor of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center / Duke Clinical Research Institute
Speaker & Consultant, Medtronic Consultant, Milestone Pharmaceuticals

Feras Bader, MD, MS, FACC
Vice Chair, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Director, Section of Heart Failure & Transplant, Heart & Vascular Institute
No relevant financial relationships

Felipe Bisbal, MD, PhD, FESC
EP Consultant
Hospital Universitari Germans Trias I Pujol
Consultant, Abbott Consultant, Bayer Consultant, Biotronik Consultant & Advisory role, Johnson & Johnson

Michael R. Bristow, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Cardiology, University of Colorado
President/CEO, Arca Biopharma

David John Callans, MD
Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System
Consultant, Abbott
Consultant, Biosense Webster
Consultant, Medtronic

Emile Daoud, MD
Chief, Electrophysiology Section & Professor of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University
Advisory Board, Biotronik
Equity/Co-Founder, S4 Medical

Thomas F. Deering, MD, MBA
No relevant financial relationships

Rahul N. Doshi, MD
Consultant & Researcher, Abbott Medical
Consultant, Biosense Webster
Consultant/Research, Boston Scientific

Roger A. Freedman, MD
Consulting, Abbott
Consulting, Cook
Consulting, Merit
Consulting, Microport

Michael R. Gold, MD, PhD
Michael E. Assey Professor of Medicine, MUSC
Consultant, Boston Scientific
Consultant, Medtronic

Janet K. Han, MD, FACC, FHRS
Speaker, Abbott

Chao Huang, PhD *

Ahmad Abdul Karim, MD, FHRS
No relevant financial relationships

Sammy Khatib, MD
Speaker, Abbott Laboratories
Speaker-Biotronik Medical

Bradley P. Knight, MD
Director, Cardiac EP, Northwestern Medicine Group
Consultant and/or Speaker, Abbott Laboratories, Inc.
Consultant and/or Speaker American Board of Internal Medical (ABIM)
Consultant and/or Speaker, Applied Clinical Intelligence
Consultant and/or Speaker, Arrhythmia Education, Inc.
Consultant and/or Speaker, Biotronik
Consultant and/or Speaker, Boston Scientific Corporation (includes Guidant Corporation)
Consultant and/or Speaker HMP Communications, LLC
Consultant and/or Speaker, ITAGroup, Inc.
Consultant and/or Speaker, Medtronic Logistics, LCC (Medtronic, Inc.)
Consultant and/or Speaker, Medtronic, Inc.
Consultant and/or Speaker, Regents of The University of California
Consultant and /or Speaker, Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. (Wolters Kluwer NV)

Christian Mahnkopf, Dr
Deputy Chief of Cardiology, Clinical Center Coburg, Germany
No relevant financial relationships

Christopher J. McGann, MD
No relevant financial relationships

Gregory F. Michaud, MD
Honoraria, Consultant- Biosense Webster
Honoraria,-Medtronic
Honoraria, Consultant-Boston Scientific
Honoraria, Consultant-Abbott
Honoraria, Biontronik

Sanjiv M. Narayan, MD, PhD
Professor of CV Medicine, Stanford University Medical Center
Consultant, Abbott
Consulting, ACC
Grants, NIH
Patents, UCSD
Royalties, Uptodate

Douglas L. Packer, MD
Research Grant, Abbott, Research Grant, Biosense Webster, Consultant, Biotronik, Research Grant, Boston Scientific/EPT, Research Grant, CardioFocus, Research Grant, CardioInsight, Research Grant, Endosense, Equity, External Beam Ablation Medical Devices, Research Grant, Hansen Medical, Consultant, MediaSphere Medical, Research Grant, Medtronic, Research Grant, National Institute of Health, Royalties, Oxford, Research Grant, Robertson Foundation, Research Grant, Siemens, Research Grant & Royalties, St. Jude Medical, Research Grant, Thermedical, Royalties, Wiley & Sons

Nicholas S. Peters, Professor
No relevant financial relationships

Prash Sanders, MBBS, PhD, FHRS
Director of Cardiac DP & Pacing, Univesity of Adelaide & Royal Adelaide
Advisory Board, Research, Consultant, Abbott
Advisory Board, Research, Consultant, Boston Scientific
Advisory Board, Research, Consultant, Medtronic
Research, Microport
Advisory Board, Pacemate

Andrea M. Russo, MD
Apple, Boston Scientific, Steering Committee (no Honoraria)
Up-To-Date, Editing/Writing

Khaldoun G. Tarakji, MD, MPH
Advisory Board & Consultant, AliveCor
Consultant, Boston Scientific
Advisory Board & Consultant, Medtronic

Edward J. Schloss, MD, FHRS
Consultant, AliveCor
Consultant, Medtronic

Natalia Trayanova PhD, FHRS, FAHA
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine
Co-Director, Alliance for Cardiovascular Diagnostic and Treatment innovation (ADVANCE)
No relevant financial relationships

Gaston R. Vergara, MD
No relevant financial relationships

Bassam Wanna, MD
No relevant financial relationship

Christine M. Albert, MD, MPH
St Jude Medical, Grand Support
Abbott, Grant Support
Roche Diagnostics, Grant Support
Roche Diagnostics, Consultant

Alex Baher, MD
No relevant financial relationships

Carina Blomstrom Lundquist
No relevant financial relationship

Thomas Jared Bunch, MD
Medical Director, Electrophysiology Laboratory, University of Utah School of Medicine
Research Grant, Altathera
Research Grant, Boehringer Ingelheim
Research Grant, Boston Scientific

Mihail G. Chelu, MD, PhD
No relevant financial relationships

Ralph J. Damiano, Jr. MD
Speaker/Research Support Receipient, Atricure
Speaker, Edwards Life Sciences
Speaker, LivaNova
Consultant, Medtronic

Thomas Deneke, Prof, Dr, MD
No relevant financial relationships

Mikhael El-Chami, MD, FHRS, FACC
Consultant, Biotronik
Consultant, Boston Scientific
Consultant, Medtronic

Edward P. Gerstenfeld, MD
Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Biosense-Webster, Research Grant
Boston-scientific, Speaker Honoraria
Abbott, Speaker Honoraia
Cadiofocus, Advisory Board
Medtrontic, Speaker Honoraria

M. Edip Gurol, MD
Director, High Hemorrhage Risk Stroke Prevention, Massachusetts General Hospital
Research, AVID
Research, Boston Scientific
Research, Pfizer

Mellanie True Hills, CSP
No Relevant Financial Relationships

Pierre Jais, MD
Rees/Shares, Farapulse

Mark Ibrahim, MD, FACC
Assistant Professor of Medical Radiology
University of Utah
HeartFlow, Inc, Research Grant

Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, MD
Executive Medical Director, The Kansas City Heart Rhythm
No relevant financial relationships

Wolfgang Alexander Leber, Prof
No relevant financial relationships

Nassir Marrouche, MD, FHRS *
Professor of Medicine & Director of Cardiac EP, Tulane University
Consultant, Abbott, Consultant & Researcher, Biosense Webster, Consultant, Biotronik, Consultant & Researcher, Boston Scientific, Consultant, Medtronic

Debbe McCall, MBA
No relevant financial relationships

Andrea Natale, MD, FACC, FHRS, FESC
Executive Medical Director, Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia, St. Davids
Consulting fee/Honoraria, Abbott
Consulting fee/Honoraria, Baylis Medical
Consulting fee/Honoraria, Biosense Webster
Consulting fee/Honoraria, Boston Scientific
Consulting fee/Honoraria, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Consulting fee/Honoraria, Medtronic

Saman Nazarian, MD, PhD, FHRS,FAHA
Research Grant, Biosense Webster
Consultant, CardioSolv
Research Grant, ImriCor
Research Grant, Siemens
Speaker, Circle Cardiovascular

Eric N. Prystowsky, MD
Consultant, CardioNet
Consultant, Medtronic

Frank Sachse

Alexies Ramirez
No relevant financial relationships

Christian Sohns, MD
No relevant financial relationship

Melvin Scheinman, MD, Prof
Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Speaker, Abbott
Speaker, Biosense Webster
Speaker, Biotronik
Speaker, Medtronic

Krishna M. Sundar, MD, FCCP

Atul Verma
David J. WilberDirector, Heart Rhythm Program, Self-Employed
Honorarium, Abbott
Research/Honorarium, Bayer
Research, BMS
Research, Medtronic
Honorarium, Servier

Darryl S. Wells, MD, MBA
Speaker/Trainer, Medtronic
Consultant, Phillips

Brent D. Wilson, MD, PhD
GE Healthcare, Research Grant
No relevant financial relationships