2026 Device Meeting: From Mechanisms to Implementation
Program Overview

This is included as part of registration for the HFSA HFSA Devices Meeting 2026, held October 9, 2026.


This product provides registered attendees of the HFSA Devices Meeting 2026 with access to meeting materials, including presentation slides, session recordings, and additional educational resources from the main program.

The HFSA Devices Meeting 2026 is a standalone, full-day event held prior to the HFSA Annual Scientific Meeting and focused on the evolving role of devices in heart failure care. The program explores device-based therapies, remote monitoring, congestion management, development of device and monitoring clinics, and emerging innovations in the field.

Agenda

HFSA DEVICE LIVE AGENDA

Device Meeting • Live Program

TIME

SESSION

DETAILS

8:00 AM

Open Breakfast

 

8:30 AM - 8:50 AM

Welcome and Introductions

The Changing Landscape of Heart Failure?

Speaker: Marat Fudim, MD

Panel: Scott Lundgren, Marat Fudim, Hima Vidula, Jennifer Cowger, Liviu Klein, Chris Chien


8:50 AM - 9:20 AM

How Do You Build a Device Clinic?

Speaker: Dmitry Yaranov, MD

Panel: Scott Lundgren, Marat Fudim, Hima Vidula, Jennifer Cowger, Liviu Klein, Chris Chien

9:20 AM - 9:50 AM

How Do You Build a Remote Monitoring Clinic?

Speaker: Darshak Karia, MD

Panel: Scott Lundgren, Marat Fudim, Hima Vidula, Jennifer Cowger, Liviu Klein, Chris Chien

9:50 AM - 10:35 AM

Discussion Forum Sessions

Attendees rotated throughout the four sessions.

When to Use RHC and Exercise Testing

Faculty: Mark Belkin, MD; Josh Rushakoff, MD

Making a Choice: CCM or Barostim
Faculty: Elizabeth Volz, MD; Rachel Garcia, MD

Choosing the Remote Monitoring Tool
Faculty: Tim Fendler, MD; Pooja Prasad, MD

Controversies in Rate and Arrhythmia Management in HF
Faculty: Susan Joseph, MD; Nassir Marrouche, MD

10:35 AM - 10:50 AM

Break

Exhibit Hall open

10:50 AM - 11:20 AM

Up for Debate: Shock and Advanced Heart Failure: Are we moving too fast or too slow towards pumps?

Speaker: Jennifer Cowger, MD

Panel: Howard Eisen, Adam DeVore, Jennifer Thibodeau, Marwan Jumean

11:20 AM - 11:50 AM

Up for Debate: When Is It Time to Trigger Device Based Therapy?

Speaker: William Abraham, MD

Panel: Howard Eisen, Adam DeVore, Jenifer Thibodeau, Marwan Jumean

11:50 AM - 1:20 PM

Lunch

Vendor demonstrations and exhibit hall open

1:20 PM - 1:30 PM

How Do We Measure Congestion?

Discussion: Devices/Strategies for Decongestion talk

Speaker: Marat Fudim, MD

Panel: Deepak Sharma, Daniel Bensimhon, Karl-Philipp Rommel Shelley Zieroth

1:30 PM - 1:40 PM

Devices/Strategies for Decongestion

Discussion: Devices/Strategies for Decongestion talk

Speaker: Liviu Klein, MD

Panel: Deepak Sharma, Daniel Bensimhon, Karl-Philipp Rommel, Shelley Zieroth

1:40 PM - 1:55 PM

Discussion

Panel: Deepak Sharma, Daniel Bensimhon, Karl-Philipp Rommel, Shelley Zieroth

1:55 PM - 2:55 PM

Trial Tinder: Choose My Trial

Moderators: Himabindu Vidula, MD; Marat Fudim, MD

Fluid Management of Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Subjects Treated With Reprieve System (FASTR-II) — Reprieve Cardiovascular Inc. — Mark Packyna

Doraya-HF Pivotal Trial — ReVamp Medical — Ulrich Jorde

DiuRetics Alone vs. AortIx ENdovascular Device for Acute Heart Failure — Procyrion, Inc. — Robby Wu

NORM-HF: Measuring Congestion at Its Source, and Putting Action in the Patient’s Hands — FIRE1 (Foundry Innovation & Research 1 Ltd.) — Rami Kahwash

VOICE-HF: Prospective Multicenter Validation of a Voice-Based Digital Biomarker for Detecting Worsening Heart Failure — Noah Labs GmbH — Leonhard Riehle

The ALLAY Trial Program: Safety and Efficacy of the Alleviant System for No-Implant Interatrial Shunt Creation in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure (ALLAY-HF) and Safety and Efficacy of the Alleviant No-Implant Interatrial Shunt in Patients With Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction (ALLAY-HFrEF) — Alleviant Medical — JoAnn Lindenfeld

Barostim-Enabled NEurohormonal Intervention For Improving Treatment of Heart Failure (BENEFIT-HF) — CvrX — Farooq H. Sheikh

C-MIC IV: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Sham-Controlled Study of Cardiac Microcurrent Therapy in Patients with Symptomatic Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction: A Double Blind, Randomized, Sham Controlled Parallel-group Study, Evaluating The Performance Of The Berlin Heals Cardiac Microcurrent (C-MIC) System With A Subcutaneously Implanted Left Ventricular Lead In Patients With Chronic Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction Stratified By Disease Etiology — Berlin Heals — Stefan Anker

RELIVE: Randomized Evaluation of Less Invasive Ventricular Enhancement — BioVentrix — Marat Fudim

Treatment of Heart Failure With Pulmonary Artery Denervation: The PULSE-LHD Trial — Pulnovo Medical — Sean Pinney

Restore-HF Study — A Randomized, Double-Blind, Sham-Controlled Study of the UPright System in Patients with Symptomatic Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction — Restore Medical — Gilad Marom

2:55 PM - 3:15 PM

Break

Exhibit Hall open

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM

The Future of AI-Enabled Heart Failure Care: The ARPA-H ADVOCATE Program

Speaker: Haider Warraich, MD

Panel: Nir Uriel, Jason Katz, Sanjiv Shah, Haider Warraich

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM

Heart Tank: The Future in the Making

Moderators: Nir Uriel, MD; Nosheen Reza, MD

Panel: Aditi Nayak, Jacob Abraham, Phil Adamson

Skin-based WEArable Decongestion Therapy for Heart Failure patients [SWEAT-HF] — AQUAPASS Medical — Noam Josephy

Subcutaneous Multi-Sensor Cardiac Monitor — Future Cardia — Jaeson Bang

Preserving the Substrate While Treating the Rhythm — Maxwell Biomedical — Randy Werneth

An Assessment Of A Method For Alleviating Lung Congestion, By Modulating The Cardiac Rhythm In Cadence With The Respiratory Dynamics (CPRC-1) — Levron Medical Ltd — Amir Ronen

Starling Health: The Next Generation Remote Heart Failure Monitoring Technology — Starling Health — Josh Bhathal

Pulsatile Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (pECMO) — SummaCor — Pratyaksh Srivastava

4:45 PM - 5:15 PM

Closing Session and Reception

Vendor demonstrations open. Vendors may leave early if needed to move to the main ASM exhibit hall.

 

HFSA • Device Live Program

Accreditation Statement
The Device meeting offers up to 4 CME, 4 AAPA CME, and 4 NCPD continuing education credits.

Claim your credit before January 7, 2027.  Claim Credit!  Log in with your last name (you registered with) and your registration ID number.

Questions: info@hfsa.org.
Supporters
The Heart Failure Society of America acknowledges the following for providing in-kind educational donations to support this year's Device Hands on Breakout Session.

Supported by in-kind education donations from:

Abbott

Analog Devices

Bodyport

Cardiosense

CVrX

Edwards

Impulse Dynamics

Zoll

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