Session Proposals 2025

Below are the suggested session topics for 2025. If your proposal does not align with these topics, you may select "Other" during the submission process.

1. Advanced heart failure, durable mechanical circulatory support, and transplantation
2. Basic and translational science, biomarkers, -omics, precision medicine
3. Business of heart failure (health policy and economics)
4. Caregiving, patient perspectives, palliation and end of life
5. Cardio-oncology
6. Cardiogenic shock, temporary mechanical circulatory support, and critical care cardiology
7. Comorbidities (kidney disease, diabetes, lung disease, sleep disorders, anemia, COVID-19)
8. Epidemiology and global heart failure
9. Genetics and inherited cardiomyopathies
10. HFpEF clinical care, management strategies, new interventions
11. HFrEF/HFimpEF/HFmrEF clinical care, management strategies, new interventions
12. Hospitalized HF, readmissions
13. Infiltrative cardiomyopathies (sarcoidosis, amyloidosis) and myocarditis
14. Leadership and education
15. Non-MCS heart failure devices (remote monitoring, EP devices, structural, other innovations)
16. Nutrition, metabolism, obesity, and exercise
17. Population health, social determinants of health and disparities of care, outcomes research
18. Pulmonary hypertension and right heart failure
19. Quality improvement and implementation

To submit a session proposal, log in to the HFSA 2025 Submission Portal using your HFSA Member Portal credentials.

1. Complete your disclosures by following these steps:

   • Click your name in the top-right menu and select “Disclosure.”
   • Enter and finalize your disclosures in the HFSA Disclosure Portal. Note: Incomplete disclosures will block submission.
   • Click “Return to Dashboard” to return to the Submission Portal.

2. Scroll to the bottom of the page and select “+ Add New” next to Proposals.

   • If the option is unavailable, check the deadline or ensure your disclosures are finalized.

After completing the "Session Information" Submission Step, you will be prompted enter a session moderator. Each proposal must include at least one moderator. 

Adding a Moderator

To add a moderator:

1. Search for your moderator using their last name or email in the portal.
2. If the moderator cannot be found, you must manually enter the following information:
   • First Name and Last Name
   • Degrees
   • Email Address
   • Institution
   • Professional Category
   • Gender and Ethnicity* (optional, for diversity and inclusion purposes)

Eligibility of Moderators

Moderators cannot be employed, a principal owner, or a partner of an ineligible company.

Ineligible Companies:
Organizations whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Examples include:

• Advertising, marketing, or communication firms whose clients are ineligible companies
• Bio-medical startups that have begun a governmental regulatory approval process
• Compounding pharmacies that manufacture proprietary compounds
• Device manufacturers/distributors
• Diagnostic labs that sell proprietary products
• Growers/distributors/manufacturers/sellers of medical foods and dietary supplements
• Manufacturers of health-related wearable products
• Pharmaceutical companies or distributors
• Pharmacy benefit managers

*Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging. The HFSA is committed to fostering programs that reflect its core values – of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. HFSA supports and promotes diversity of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, discipline, career-stage and geography, among other domains across all areas of the association. To achieve our commitment to DEI programming, we are requesting additional information regarding diversity. If you do not wish to provide a response, please select “Decline to respond”. Declining to respond will not affect your proposal.

After completing the "Moderator" Submission Step, you will be prompted to enter speaker and presentation information.

Adding a Speaker 

Each presentation must have at least one speaker. Speaker alternates are not required but are highly encouraged.

To add a speaker:

1. Search for your speaker using their last name or email in the portal.
2. If the speaker cannot be found, you must manually enter the following information:
   • First Name and Last Name
   • Degrees
   • Email Address
   • Institution
   • Professional Category
   • Gender and Ethnicity* (optional, for diversity and inclusion purposes)

Eligibility of Speakers

Speakers cannot be employed, a principal owner, or a partner of an ineligible company.

Ineligible Companies:
Organizations whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Examples include:

• Advertising, marketing, or communication firms whose clients are ineligible companies
• Bio-medical startups that have begun a governmental regulatory approval process
• Compounding pharmacies that manufacture proprietary compounds
• Device manufacturers/distributors
• Diagnostic labs that sell proprietary products
• Growers/distributors/manufacturers/sellers of medical foods and dietary supplements
• Manufacturers of health-related wearable products
• Pharmaceutical companies or distributors
• Pharmacy benefit managers

Adding Presentation Information

Each session must include at least one presentation. You will need the following details for each presentation:

• Presentation Title
• Presentation Length (in minutes)
• Presentation Description: 1,500-character limit

*Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging. The HFSA is committed to fostering programs that reflect its core values – of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. HFSA supports and promotes diversity of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, discipline, career-stage and geography, among other domains across all areas of the association. To achieve our commitment to DEI programming, we are requesting additional information regarding diversity. If you do not wish to provide a response, please select “Decline to respond”. Declining to respond will not affect your proposal.

After completing the "Presentations" Submission Step, you will be prompted to enter the following information under the Submitter step:

• First Name
• Last Name
• Degrees
• Email
• Institution
• Professional Category
• Gender and Ethnicity* (optional, for diversity and inclusion purposes)

*Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging. The HFSA is committed to fostering programs that reflect its core values – of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. HFSA supports and promotes diversity of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, discipline, career-stage and geography, among other domains across all areas of the association. To achieve our commitment to DEI programming, we are requesting additional information regarding diversity. If you do not wish to provide a response, please select “Decline to respond”. Declining to respond will not affect your proposal.

After completing each submission step, you will reach the "Summary" Submission Step, which provides an overview of your proposal. You will also have the option to print the summary for your records.