PFA Live Case Summit 2024

Welcome to the PFA Live Case Summit!

Register to secure your spot at the CME-accredited PFA Live Case Summit. The Summit features 16 interactive cases from renowned institutions across five sessions. The expert faculty will lead informative discussions about the cases, share their experiences, and answer attendee questions. Abstracts, manuscripts, and concepts will be intermittently presented to encourage lively and thought-provoking exchanges.

This Summit offers participants a unique opportunity to directly engage with faculty, gain valuable insights, and expand their knowledge and skills in PFA technologies and techniques.

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Date
Thursday, May 16, 2024

Times
• 8:00 – 9:00 AM EST: Breakfast/Check-In
• 9:00 – 6:30 PM EST: Educational Program

Location
Boston Convention and Exhibition Center • Room 210BC • 415 Summer Street Boston, MA

Two Attendance Options • In-Person or Virtually in Real-Time
The Summit offers complimentary In-Person Attendance at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center or paid Virtual Attendance that permits access through the immersive Real-Time Live Stream. Complimentary virtual registration is provided to all Trainees, including Fellows, Residents, and Students.

Agenda

Agenda
8:00 – 9:00 AM		Breakfast/Check-In
9:00 – 9:10 AM		Welcome and Introductions Vivek Reddy, MD
9:10 – 10:40 AM		Session I – Live/Recorded PFA Cases *Moderator:* Vivek Reddy, MD *Digital Moderator:* Shephal Doshi, MD *Panelists:* Boris Schmidt, MD, Andrea Sarkozy, MD, Damijan Miklavčič, PhD, Prashanthan Sanders, MD, PhD, Andreas Metzner, MD, and Serge Boveda, MD Live Case: PVI with Focal Lattice-Tip (Affera™-Sphere-9™; Medtronic) *Live Case Site:* University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg *Live Case Operator:* Andreas Rillig, MD Recorded Case: Single-Shot PVI with Balloon-Basket Array (Volt™; Abbott) *Recorded Case Site:* Na Homolce Hospital *Recorded Case Operators:* Petr Neuzil, MD, PhD, and Vivek Reddy, MD Live Case: PVI with Pentaspline & LAAC (FARAWAVE™/WATCHMAN FLX Pro™, Boston Scientific) *Live* Case Site: Mount Sinai Hospital *Live* Operators: Srinivas Dukkipati, MD, Jacob Koruth, MD, and Mohit Turagam, MD
10:40 – 11:00 AM		Break
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM		Session II – Live/Recorded PFA Cases *Moderator:* Gerhard Hindricks, MD, PhD *Digital Moderator:* Nassir Marrouche, MD *Panelists:* Nishaki Mehta, MD, Pierre Jaïs, MD, Tobias Reichlin, MD, Hans Kottkamp, MD, Philipp Sommer, MD, and Daniel Scherr, MD Live Case: PVI + PWA with Variable Loop (VARIPULSE™; Biosense Webster) *Live Case Site:* Massachusetts General Hospital *Live Case Operator:* Moussa Mansour, MD Recorded Case: PVI with Multielectrode Array (Globe^®; Kardium) *Recorded Case Site:* Sutter Health, AF & Complex Arrhythmia Center *Recorded Case Operator:* Christopher Woods, MD, PhD Live Case: PVI+PWA+CTI (iv NTG) with Pentaspline (FARAWAVE™; Boston Scientific) *Live Case Site:* Mount Sinai Hospital *Live Case Operators:* Srinivas Dukkipati, MD, Jacob Koruth, MD, and Mohit Turagam, MD
12:30 – 1:30 PM		Lunch
12:35 – 1:20 PM		e-Satellite Lunch Symposium • Exclusive Live Stream Programming Safety, Efficacy, and Durability of FARAPULSE PFA and Future Perspectives *Moderator:* Amin Al-Ahmad, MD Panelists: KR Julian Chun, MD, Ignacio García-Bolao, MD, and Jose Osorio, MD Learn More >>
1:30 – 3:00 PM		Session III - Live/Recorded PFA Cases *Moderator:* Devi Nair, MD *Digital Moderator:* Vivek Reddy, MD *Panelists:* Oussama Wazni, MD, Isabel Deisenhofer, MD, Atul Verma, MD, Luigi Di Biase, MD, PhD, Andrea Natale, MD, and Amin Al-Ahmad, MD Recorded Case: PVI with Large Focal PFA (OMNYPULSE™; Biosense Webster) *Recorded Case Site:* OLV Hospital *Recorded Case Operator:* Tom De Potter, MD Live Case: PVI with Circular Array (PulseSelect™; Medtronic) *Live Case Site: Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute Live Case Operator:* David Burkhardt, MD, and Andrea Natale, MD Live Case: PVI+ with Nanosecond PFA (CellFX^® nsPFA™; Pulse Biosciences) *Live Case Site:* Na Homolce Hospital *Live Case Operators:* Jan Petru, MD, and Moritoshi Funasako, MD, PhD
3:00 – 3:15 PM		Break
3:00 – 3:10 PM		Exclusive Live Stream Programming PFA Discussion with the Experts Shephal Doshi, MD and Tobias Reichlin, MD
3:15 – 4:45 PM		Session IV - Live/Recorded PFA Cases *Moderator:* Francis Marchlinski, MD *Digital Moderator:* Elad Anter, MD *Panelists:* Mélèze Hocini, MD, PhD, Pasquale Santangeli, MD, PhD, Andre D’Avila, MD, PhD, Thomas Deneke, MD, Karl-Heinz Kuck, MD, and Lucas Boersma, MD, PhD Recorded Case: PVI with a Lattice Single-shot (Affera™ - Sphere360™; Medtronic) *Recorded Case Site:* Na Homolce Hospital *Recorded Case Site Operators:* Petr Neuzil, MD, PhD, and Vivek Reddy, MD Recorded Case: Papillary PVC with Focal PFA (FARAPOINT™; Boston Scientific) *Recorded Case Site:* Mount Sinai Hospital *Recorded Case Operator:* Vivek Reddy, MD Recorded Case: VT with Focal Lattice-Tip (Affera™-Sphere-9™; Medtronic) *Recorded Case Site:* Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine *Recorded Case Operator:* Josef Kautzner, MD Recorded Case: VT with Focal Force-Sensing PFA (FieldForce™; Field Medical) *Recorded Case Site:* Na Homolce Hospital *Recorded Case Operators:* Petr Neuzil, MD, PhD, and Vivek Reddy, MD
4:45 – 5:00 PM		Break
5:00 – 6:30 PM		Session V - Live/Recorded PFA Cases *Moderator:* Vivek Reddy, MD *Digital Moderator:* Melanie Gunawardene, MD *Panelists:* Dinesh Sharma, MD, Andrea Natale, MD, Edward Gerstenfeld, MD, Kars Neven, MD, PhD, Moussa Mansour, MD, and Richard Schilling, MD Live Case: Redo AF Ablation with Pentaspline Catheter (FARAWAVE™; Boston Scientific) *Live Case Site:* Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute *Live Case Operators:* Joseph Gallinghouse, MD, and Andrea Natale, MD Recorded 360° Case: Single-Shot PVI with Balloon-Basket Array (Volt™; Abbott) *Recorded Case Site/Operator:* University Heart Center Lübeck *Recorded Case Operators:* Roland Tilz, MD, Julia Vogler, MD, and Roman Mamaev, MD Recorded Case: PVI with 8Fr RFA/PFA (THERMOCOOL SMARTTOUCH^® SF Dual-Energy; Biosense Webster) *Recorded Case Site:* HCA Florida Miami *Recorded Case Operator:* Jose Osorio, MD

Faculty

Program Chairs
Vivek Reddy, MD The Mount Sinai Hospital New York, NY		Srinivas Dukkipati, MD The Mount Sinai Hospital New York, NY
Faculty
Amin Al-Ahmad, MD Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute Austin, TX Elad Anter, MD Shamir Medical Center University of Tel Aviv Tel Aviv, Israel Lucas Boersma, MD, PhD St Antonius Hospital Nieuwegein, The Netherlands Serge Boveda, MD Clinic Pasteur Toulouse, France David Burkhardt, MD Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute Austin, TX Andre d’Avila, MD, PhD Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston, MA Isabel Deisenhofer, MD German Heart Centre Munich Munich, Germany Thomas Deneke, MD Klinikum Nuremberg University Hospital of the Paracelsus Medical University Nuremberg, Germany Tom De Potter, MD OLV Hospital Aalst, Belgium Luigi Di Biase, MD, PhD Montefiore Medical Center New York, NY Shephal Doshi, MD Providence Saint John’s Health Center Pacific Heart Institute Santa Monica, CA Moritoshi Funasako, MD, PhD Na Homolce Hospital Prague, Czech Republic Joseph Gallinghouse, MD Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute Austin, TX Edward Gerstenfeld, MD University of California San Francisco San Francisco, CA Melanie Gunawardene, MD Asklepios Hospital St. Georg Hamburg, Germany Gerhard Hindricks, MD, PhD Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin (DHZB) Berlin, Germany Mélèze Hocini, MD, PhD Bordeaux University Hospital Bordeaux, France Pierre Jaïs, MD CH Bordeaux, University of Bordeaux Liryc Institute Pessac, France Josef Kautzner, MD Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine Prague, Czech Republic Jacob Koruth, MD Mount Sinai Hospital New York, NY Hans Kottkamp, MD Sana Hospitals Düsseldorf Düsseldorf, Germany Karl-Heinz Kuck, MD LANS Cardio Hamburg, Germany Roman Mamaev, MD University Heart Center Lübeck Lübeck, Germany Moussa Mansour, MD Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA Francis Marchlinski, MD University of Pennsylvania Health System Philadelphia, PA		Nishaki Mehta, MD Corewell William Beaumont University Hospital Royal Oak, MI Andreas Metzner, MD University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf Hamburg, Germany Damijan Miklavčič, PhD University of Ljubljana Ljubljana Slovenia Devi Nair, MD St. Bernard’s Heart & Vascular Center Jonesboro, AR Andrea Natale, MD Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute Austin, TX Petr Neuzil, MD, PhD Na Homolce Hospital Prague, Czech Republic Kars Neven, MD, PhD Krupp Hospital Essen, Germany Jose Osorio, MD HCA Florida Miami Miami, FL Jan Petru, MD Na Homolce Hospital Prague, Czech Republic Tobias Reichlin, MD Bern University Hospital – Inselspital Bern, Switzerland Andreas Rillig, MD University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg Hamburg, Germany Prashanthan Sanders, MD, PhD Royal Adelaide Hospital Adelaide, Australia Pasquale Santangeli, MD, PhD Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH Andrea Sarkozy, MD University Hospital of Brussels Brussels, Belgium Daniel Scherr, MD Medical University of Graz Graz, Austria Richard Schilling, MD St Bartholomew’s Hospital London, United Kingdom Boris Schmidt, MD Cardiovascular Center Bethanien Frankfurt, Germany Dinesh Sharma, MD Rooney Heart Institute at NCH Naples, FL Philipp Sommer, MD University of Bochum Bad Oeynhausen, Germany Roland Tilz, MD University Heart Center Lübeck Lübeck, Germany Mohit Turagam, MD Mount Sinai Hospital New York, NY Atul Verma, MD Southlake Regional Health Centre Montreal, Québec, Canada Julia Vogler, MD University Heart Center Lübeck Lübeck, Germany Oussama Wazni, MD Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, OH Christopher Woods, MD, PhD Sutter Health AF & Complex Arrhythmia Center San Francisco, CA

Case Sites and Operators

HCA Florida Miami • Miami, FL
Jose Osorio, MD

Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine • Prague, Czech Republic
Josef Kautzner, MD

Massachusetts General Hospital • Boston, MA
Moussa Mansour, MD

Mount Sinai Hospital • New York, NY
Srinivas Dukkipati, MD, Jacob Koruth, MD and Mohit Turagam, MD

Na Homolce Hospital • Prague, Czech Republic
Moritoshi Funasako, MD, PhD, Petr Neuzil, MD, PhD, Jan Petru, MD and Vivek Reddy, MD

OLV Hospital • Aalst, Belgium
Tom De Potter, MD

Sutter Health, AF & Complex Arrhythmia Center • San Francisco, CA
Christopher Woods, MD, PhD

Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute • Austin, TX
David Burkhardt, MD, Joseph Gallinghouse, MD, and Andrea Natale, MD

University Heart and Vascular Center • Hamburg, Germany
Andreas Rillig, MD

University Heart Center • Lübeck, Germany
Roland Tilz, MD, Julia Vogler, MD, and Roman Mamaev, MD

Accreditation

Claiming Credits
The PFA Live Case Summit is CME-accredited for both onsite and virtual attendees. CME Credits for Physicians or Contact Hours for Nurses may be claimed at the immediate conclusion of the Conference directly on this webpage. 1 CME Certificate is supplied electronically for the cumulative credits earned commensurate with the extent of participation in the activity.

Target Audience
This educational activity has been designed for Electrophysiologists, Fellows-in-Training, and other Physician Groups and Allied Healthcare Professionals who are dedicated to the management of patients with cardiac arrhythmias.

Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this educational activity, participants will be able to:

Discuss the results of PFA clinical trials and apply evidence-based results to guide treatment decisions in daily practice.
Observe optimal clinical decision-making strategies and PFA ablation procedural approaches in the real-world clinical setting and assess its potential for improved safety, efficacy, efficiency, and versatility in treating a wide range of arrhythmias.
Appraise patient identification and selection criteria to determine appropriate ablation strategies.
Implement new evidence-based PFA technologies and techniques into clinical practice for the care of patients.
Examine the role of traditional thermal ablation in the PFA era.

Accreditation Statement
Jointly Accredited Provider TM To support the improvement of patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by MediaSphere Medical and Ciné-Med. Ciné-Med is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Ciné-Med designates this educational activity for a maximum of 8 AMA PRA CATEGORY 1 Credit(s)™.
Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Ciné-Med designates this activity for 8 Contact Hours for Nurses.

Disclosure Policy
MediaSphere Medical and Ciné-Med adhere to accreditation requirements concerning industry support of continuing medical education. Speakers are required to openly disclose any limitations of data and/or any discussion of any off-label, experimental, or investigational uses of drugs or devices in their presentations. Speakers will disclose any relationships at the beginning of their presentations.

All MediaSphere Medical and Ciné-Med employees in control of content have indicated that they have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.

It is the policy of MediaSphere Medical and Ciné-Med to ensure balance, independent objectivity, and scientific rigor in all the supported educational programs. All faculty members participating in educational activities are required to disclose to the program audience any real or apparent conflicts of interest held within the past 12 months.

MediaSphere Medical and Ciné-Med implement a mechanism to identify and resolve all conflicts of interest prior to delivering the educational activity to learners.

Non-Endorsement Statement
MediaSphere Medical and Ciné-Med verify that sound education principles have been demonstrated in the development of this educational offering, as evidenced by the review of its objectives, teaching plan, faculty, and activity evaluation process. MediaSphere Medical and Ciné-Med do not endorse or support the actual opinions or material content as presented by the speaker(s) and/or sponsoring organization.

Industry Partners
The Summit is supported through educational grants from:
Boston Scientific • Biosense Webster, Inc. • Medtronic • Abbott • Field Medical • Kardium • Pulse Biosciences

Global Premier Live-Stream Sponsor
Boston Scientific

Organizer:
MediaSphere Medical

Joint Providership:
MediaSphere Medical, LLC and Ciné-Med

Registration

Registration
The Summit offers complimentary In-Person Attendance at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center or paid Virtual Attendance that permits access through the immersive Real-Time Live Stream. Complimentary virtual registration is provided to all Trainees, including Fellows, Residents, and Students.

Please complete the registration form for your applicable attendance category.

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In-Person Attendance Registration
Complimentary registration to attend in person permits full session admission, complimentary F&B functions, CME certification, and advanced access to the on-demand archive.

Group registrations are permitted. Although walk-ins are welcomed, advanced registration is recommended.

Date
Thursday, May 16, 2024

Times
• 8:00 – 9:00 AM EST: Breakfast/ Check-In
• 9:00 – 6:30 PM EST: Educational Program

Location
Boston Convention and Exhibition Center • Room 210BC 415 Summer Street Boston, MA

Register >>

Virtual Attendance Registration
Virtual attendance and engagement in real-time are made possible from the convenience of a computer or mobile device through the immersive global live stream. Registration permits access to every session, along with exclusive educational programming that is unique to virtual attendees, the ability to directly engage faculty, CME Certification, and advanced access to the on-demand archive.

Date and Time
Thursday, May 16, 2024 • 9:00 AM – 6:30 PM EST

Accessing the Live Stream
A confirmation email will be issued upon successful registration, which includes your Unique Live-Stream Digital Pass that provides universal access to the real-time stream across your multiple devices.

The Live Stream Agenda will follow Eastern Standard Time. Access the World Clock to find the local time from where you will be viewing the activity.

Category	Registration Fees
Physicians Biomedical, Pharmaceutical, or Medical Device Employees Allied Healthcare Professionals *Trainees, including Fellows, Residents, and Students	$150 $150 $75 Complimentary

*Complimentary virtual registration is provided to all Trainees, including Fellows, Residents, and Students, thanks to the generous support of Boston Scientific, the Global Premier Live Stream Sponsoring Partner.

Industry Partners

Partners In Educational Advancements

The PFA Live Case Summit is partly made possible through our Industry Partners' generous support.

Industry Partners
The Summit is supported through educational grants from:
Boston Scientific • Biosense Webster, Inc. • Medtronic
Abbott
Field Medical • Kardium • Pulse Biosciences

Global Premier Live-Stream Sponsor
Boston Scientific

e-Satellite

e-Satellite Lunch Symposium • Exclusive Live Stream Programming

12:35 – 1:20 PM

Safety, Efficacy, and Durability of FARAPULSE PFA and Future Perspectives
Moderator: Amin Al-Ahmad, MD
Panelists: KR Julian Chun, MD, Ignacio García-Bolao, MD, and Jose Osorio, MD

Faculty
	Amin Al-Ahmad, MD Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute Austin, TX	Ignacio García-Bolao, MD Clínica Universidad de Navarra Pamplona, Spain

	KR Julian Chun, MD Cardioangiologisches Centrum Bethanien Frankfurt, Germany	Jose Osorio, MD HCA Florida Miami Miami, FL

Attendance
The session is accessible through the Conference Live Stream for registered virtual attendees of the PFA Live Case Summit. The Unique Live-Stream Digital Pass that is supplied upon registration provides universal access to every session including this e-Satellite symposium.

“This special session is not part of the PFA Live Case Summit Official Sessions as planned by the Program Committee. The event is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the PFA Live Case Summit

“This program is not part of Heart Rhythm 2024 as planned by the Heart Rhythm Program Committee.
This event is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Heart Rhythm Society”