Conferences & Seminars

Cardiology Conferences and Seminars

Fellows attend regularly scheduled Cardiovascular Medicine conferences and participate in planning and producing these conferences. Please see below for a typical weekly schedule. Click here for Grand Rounds Recordings.

Monday

  • 7:30 am: Electrophysiology Rounds
  • 8:00 am: Electrophysiology Didactic Session
  • 12:00 pm: Advanced Non-invasive (Cardiac MR, Cardiac CT, Nuclear) Conference

Tuesday

  • 7:00 am: Core Curriculum Lecture Series (daily during summer, then weekly)
  • 7:30 am: Electrophysiology Rounds
  • 8:00 am: Clinical Conference
  • 12:00 pm: ECG Conference
  • 5:00 pm: CMR Reading Session

Wednesday

  • 7:00 am: Interventional Conference
  • 7:30 am: Electrophysiology Rounds
  • 8:00 am: Echocardiography Conference
  • 11:00 am: Zoll Firm Conference for fellows and house staff
  • 5:30 pm: Nuclear Reading Session

Thursday

  • 7:00 am: Fellow Report
  • 8:00 am: Medical Grand Rounds
  • 12:00 pm: Basic Research Seminars (Cardiovascular Research Seminar, Educational Seminar, Journal Club and Works In Progress)
  • 2:00 pm: CMR Reading Session
  • 5:30 pm: Nuclear Reading Session

Friday

  • 7:30 am: Electrophysiology Rounds
  • 8:00 am: Cardiovascular Grand Rounds
  • 12:00 pm: Cardiology Journal Club / Fellow Research Conference / Combined Multimodality Imaging Conference (alternating)

Summer Lecture Series

  • 7:00 am daily during July and August

Grand Rounds Recordings

Please contact gdipiet2@bidmc.harvard.edu for access to password protected files.
See our CV Med Grand Rounds YouTube Playlist for additional lectures.

TitleDateSpeakers
Exercise and cardiometabolic health: what is its role in the GLP-1RA era?9/5/25Drs. Robert Gerszten and Jeremy Robbins 
Is HFpEF All Obesity-Driven? The Evolving Heart Failure Landscape9/12/25Drs. Jennifer Ho and Leah Kosyakovsky
Moving the Needle with VT Ablation9/19/25Drs. Andre d'Avila and Timothy Maher
Acute Pulmonary Embolism: Filling the Gaps with a Team-Based Approach10/3/25Drs. Brett Carroll and Enrico Ferro
Role of Iron in Cardiovascular Disease10/10/25Dr. Hossein Ardehali
Approach to Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction10/24/25Dr. Michelle Maya Kittleson
Navigating the Tsunami of Cardiovascular Disease in Tumultuous Times10/31/25Dr. Robert M. Califf
Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS) Revisited: Major Shifts in Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Management HMS Combined Grand Rounds11/6/25Drs. Peter Libby, Ik-Kyung Jang, and Robert W. Yeh
AMI Shock: New Tricks for an Old Dog11/21/25Drs. Grandin, Sabe, and Quintero
Thromboembolic Risk and Prophylaxis in AF: Past, Present and Future12/19/25Dr. Peter Zimetbaum
Artificial Intelligence in Echocardiography: Friend or Foe?1/9/26Dr. Jordan Strom
Anomalous Aortic Origin of the Coronary Arteries1/16/26Dr. Jane Newburger
Updates on Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement: Will it Ever be TAVR1/23/26Drs. McCabe, Inglessis, Shah
Heart failure Risk Among Women with Breast Cancer: Opportunities for Prevention1/30/26Dr. Ana Barac
The 2025 ACS Guidelines: Something old, something new, something borrowed, some things left to do2/6/26Dr. Sunil V. Rao
Molecular Manipulation in HCM: A New Era2/13/26Dr. Ahmad Masri
Familial Hypercholesterolemia: Charting the Next Era of Care2/27/26Dr. Amit Khera
Learning While Caring: Integrating Patient-Centered Care with Learner-Centered Education3/13/26Dr. Kathryn Berlacher
Recent Advances in the Management of Myocarditis - Kociol Lecture4/10/26Dr. Leslie Cooper
Pragmatic Comparative Effectiveness Trials to Change Policy and Practice: The RAPTOR-CIED Study4/17/26Dr. Daniel Kramer
Advances in Cancer Care and the Evolution of Cardio-Oncology5/1/26Dr.Jenica Upshaw
Exercise Stress Testing: Past, Present, and Future - Honoring Ernie Gervino5/8/26Dr. Jeremy Robbins