Mass General at the 2020 AHA Scientific Sessions

Cardiovascular physicians and researchers from the Mass General Corrigan Minehan Heart Center will present groundbreaking research and highlight late-breaking developments in cardiac disease and prevention.  

Featured topics include:

• Arrhythmia
• Atherosclerosis
• Cardio-oncology
• Cardiovascular disease in women
• Cardiovascular performance
• Clinical trials
• Computed tomography
• Coronary artery disease
• COVID-19
• Electrophysiology
• Epidemiology and population studies
• Genomics
• Heart failure
• Hemodynamics
• Interventional treatments
• Metabolic syndrome
• Vascular disease

Presentations at this event will be live-streamed and available on demand.

Faculty

Jason Wasfy, MD
How to land your first job in cardiology

Weeranun Bode, MD, Theofanie Mela, MD
Predictors of Cardiovascular Implantable Electonic Device Dependence at Long-term Follow-up After Alcohol Septal Ablation in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Patients

Daniel Blumenthal, MD, MBA
Judge: Laennec Young Clinician Award

Tomas G. Neilan, MD, MPH
Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors for Cancer Are Associated With Increased Venous Thromboembolism Events

Zsofia D. Drobni, MD, PhD, Tomas G. Neilan, MD, MPH 
Decreased Absolute Lymphocyte Count and Increased Neutrophil Lymphocyte Ratio With Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors-associated Myocarditis

Amna Zafar, MD, Tomas G. Neilan, MD, MPH
Calcium Channel Blockers and Nitrates in 5-FU Vasospasm

Amy Sarma, MD
Finalist for the Elizabeth Barrett-Connor Research Award for Early Career Investigators in Training Competition: Multiple Prior Live Births Are Associated With Cardiac Remodeling and Heart Failure in Women

Jennifer Ho, MD
CPET in HFpEF: A Window into Phenotype?

Elizabeth Liu, Jennifer Ho, MD
Obesity is Associated With Incident Cancer in the Community

Helge Immo Lehmann, PhD, MD
Finalist in the 'Laennec Fellow in Training (FIT) Clinican Award' competition

Liana C. Brooks, Gregory D. Lewis, MD
High-Frequency In-Person Visits During Clinical Trial Enrollment is Associated with Relative Reduction in Event Rates in Heart Failure Patients Followed Longitudinally

Mark W. Schoenike, Gregory D. Lewis, MD
Clinical and Hemodynamic Correlates of Exaggerated Metabolic Cost of Exercise Initiation

Rohan R. Bhat, Gregory D. Lewis, MD
Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing With an In-Line Filter During the COVID-19 Pandemic

David S. Olshan, MD, Gregory D. Lewis, MD
Pulmonary Arterial Pressure During Recovery From Exercise Predicts Outcomes In Patients Undergoing Evaluation For Dyspnea

Gregory D. Lewis, MD
Percent Predicted Peak Oxygen Pulse Predicts Vascular Responses To Exercise In HFpEF

Emily Zern, MD, Jennifer Ho, MD
Pulmonary Artery Pulsatility Index is Associated With Greater Mortality Across a Broad Hospital-Based Cohort

Aaron Baggish, MD
Lingering Myocardial Involvement after COVID-19

Romit Bhattacharya, MD, James Pirruccello, MD, & Pradeep Natarajan, MD, MMSc
Improved Diet Quality is Associated With Lower Prevalence of Clonal Hematopoiesis of Indeterminate Potential

Michael Honigberg, MD, MPP, James Pirruccello, MD, Pradeep Natarajan, MD, MMSc
Clonal Hematopoiesis Links Premature Menopause to Cardiovascular Disease

Pradeep Natarajan, MD, MMSc
Chipping Away at Residual Risk: Clonal Hematopoiesis as an Emerging Risk Factor

Michael Honigberg, MD, MPP, Amy Sarma, MD, Nandita Scott, MD, Malissa Wood, MD, Pradeep Natarajan, MD, MMSc
Depression Modulates Polygenic Risk of Cardiovascular and Cardiometabolic Disease

Kaavya Paruchun, MD, Phoebe Finneran, Maria Vivaldi, MD, Kate Traynor, RN, MS FAACVPR, Pradeep Natarajan, MD, MMSc
Outcomes of a Smartphone-based Application With Live Health-coaching Post-percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Steven Lubitz, MD, MPH

• Wearing Your Heart On Your Sleeve: Screening for AF
• Screening For Atrial Fibrillation In Older Adults At Primary Care Visits Using Single Lead Electrocardiograms: The VITAL-AF Trial
• P2383 - Rare Variants for Electrocardiographic Traits Identify Arrhythmia Susceptibility Genes

Xinye Li, Steven Lubitz, MD, MPH
Contemporary Rhythm Monitor Utilization Following Acute Ischemic Stroke

Shaan Khurshid, MD, Steven Lubitz, MD, MPH
Comparative Clinical Effectiveness of Population-based Atrial Fibrillation Screening Using Wearable Devices: A Decision-Analytic Model

Shaan Kurshid, MD, Steven Lubitz, MD, MPH
Real-world Diagnostic Performance of Single-lead Handheld Electrocardiograms for Atrial Fibrillation Screening: The Vital-af Trial

Jeffrey Ashburner, PhD, Steven Lubitz, MD, MPH
12-lead ECG Utilization Following Screening With Single-lead ECG for Undiagnosed Atrial Fibrillation: The VITAL-AF Trial

Jennifer Halford, MD, Steven Lubitz, MD, MPH
Associations Between Alcohol Intake and Genetic Predisposition With Atrial Fibrillation Risk in a National Biobank

Shaan Khurshid, MD
Finalist for the Elizabeth Barrett-Connor Research Award for Early Career Investigators in Training Competition: Comparative Clinical Effectiveness of Population-based Atrial Fibrillation Screening Using Wearable Devices: A Decision-Analytic Model