The Heart of the Matter: Innovations Symposium for Heart Disease Prevention & Management

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When:

September 6, 2025 | 7 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Where:

TGH-USF People Development Institute
39 Columbia Drive, Tampa, FL 33606

Who Should Attend:

Primary Care, Internal Medicine, General Cardiologists, Physicians, Advanced Practice Providers

Learning Objectives:

 As a result of participating in this activity, the learner will be able to:

  • Utilize new imaging tool and identify new biomarkers.
  • Implement new lifestyle modification strategies.
  • Describe earlier detection of coronary artery disease.
  • Discuss when it is appropriate to refer to Cardio OB specialist.

Agenda at a Glance:

7:00 - 8:00 a.m. Registration and Breakfast

8:00 - 8:15 a.m. Welcome and Introduction

Dany Sayad, MD

Section Chief, Cardiology, TGH Heart & Vascular Institute

Associate Professor of Medicine, USF Health Morsani College of Medicine

8:15 - 8:45 a.m. Cardiovascular Disease in Women: What Every Clinician Needs to Know

Daniela Crousillat, MD, FACC

Director, Women’s Heart Program, TGH Heart & Vascular Institute

Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, Department of Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology, USF Health Morsani College of Medicine

8:50 - 9:20 a.m. Cardiac Imaging: Current and Emerging Trends

Aarti Patel, MD

Director, Cardiac Imaging Center of Excellence, TGH Heart & Vascular Institute

9:25 - 10:00 a.m. Break & Vendor Visits

10:00 - 11:30 a.m. Carrot or Stent, You Pick!: Concepts in Lifestyle Medicine

Koushik Reddy, MD

Cardiologist, TGH Heart & Vascular Institute

10:35 - 11:05 a.m. Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists: Cardiovascular Outcomes and Mechanisms of Benefit in Type 2 Diabetes

Bayan Mesmar, MD, Dipl ABOM 

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Diabetes & Endocrinology, USF Morsani College of Medicine

11:10 - 11:40 a.m. Panel Discussion: Breaking Silos - Multidisciplinary Strategies to Combat Cardiometabolic Disease

11:40 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Lunch

12:30 - 1:00 p.m. Reducing Stroke Risk: The Collaborative Advantage, including Programmatic Pathways & Operations

Bibhu D. Mohanty, MD

Director, NeuroCardiac Program

Interventional Director, Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion (LAAO) Program, TGH Heart & Vascular Institute

1:00 - 1:30 p.m. Tales from the Crypt-g-genic Strokes, 2025

David Z Rose, MD

Co-Director of Neuro-Cardiac Program (NCP) and Neuro-ICU at Tampa General Hospital

Vascular Stroke Neurologist, Professor, USF Morsani College of Medicine

1:35 - 2:05 p.m. Managing through the Cardiometabolic Program: “A New Paradigm”

Shone Almeida, MD, FACC

Director, Cardiac CT, TGH Heart & Vascular Institute

Director, Cardiometabolic Disease Prevention, Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, Department of Internal Medicine, USF Health Morsani College of Medicine 

2:05 - 2:30 p.m. Closing Remarks