8:30 am - 8:45 am

Welcome Message — Geoff Stevens, Thorsten Hanke, MD

8:45 am - 10:45 am

Epicardial/Endocardial Strategies for Advanced AF Treatment — Thorsten Hanke, Konstantin Krieger

• Progress and Challenges in Advanced AF Treatment — Claudio Tondo, MD


• The Complexity of Activation Patterns in Persistent Forms of AF — Randall Lee, MD


• What Recent Studies Tell Us About LAPWI — Riyaz Kaba, MD


• The Role of Hybrid Ablation at the Times of PFA Revolution — Nitesh Sood, MD


• Hybrid Ablation Evidence — Nicolas Doll, MD


• Panel Discussion

11:15 am - 11:35 am

Why the LAA Should Be Incorporated During a Hybrid Procedure: The Role of LAA in AF — Syed Ahsan, MD

11:35 am - 1:00 pm

The Hybrid AF™ Convergent Therapy — Jaswinder Gill, MD, Konstantinos Zannis, MD

• From the Surgeon Point of View: Technique and Lesion Set — Thomas Barker, MD


• From the EP Point of View: Managing Patients After an Epicardial Ablation — Faizel Osman, MD


• Case-based Presentations


• What I Understood by Mapping in the OR — Nitesh Sood, MD


• Why I Treat De Novo Patients — Eduardo Celentano, MD


• How to Reduce Peri-Operative Complications Risk — Christoph Thomas Starck, MD


• Panel Discussion

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Physicians-Patients Interactions in the Age of Social Media — Edin Smailhodzic

2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

The Hybrid Total Thoracoscopic Ablation Therapy — Manuela Cireddu, MD, Elisabetta Lapenna, MD

• From the Surgeon Point of View: Technique and Lesion Set — Bart van Putte, MD


• From the EP Point of View: Managing Patients After an Epicardial Ablation — David Filgueiras Rama, MD


• Case-based Presentations


• Why Considering the All-Box-Clamp Technique — Timo Weimar, MD


• Why Thinking About Single-Stage, Unilateral Approach — Mark La Meir, MD


• How to Face the Challenges of High BMI Patients — Manuel Carnero Alcázar, MD


• Panel Discussion

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Hybrid Sinus Node Sparing: Principles and Perspectives — Carlo de Asmundis, MD