Events

Myocardial Recovery: Alternative and Novel Concepts for MCS

Continuous-flow VADs have dominated MCS-therapy for the past two decades. However, despite significant progress challenges remain. Minimally invasive applicable new pulsatile and polymer/cellular-based devices might provide an alternative.

2025 ISHLT/ICA CTEPH Conference

This course provides an in-depth exploration of the diagnosis, assessment, and management of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH). Participants will gain insights into the latest radiologic techniques, case-based clinical decision-making, and innovative treatment approaches.

2025 ISHLT Lung Failure & Transplantation Core Academy

Enhance your experience in Boston with the full day LTX Core ISHLT Academy course, available on Saturday, 26 April, one day before ISHLT2025 begins. This highly interactive course includes six sessions spanning the lung transplant journey from candidate selection to post transplant management and quality of life.

2025 Cardiogenic Shock Academy

This course is for attendees of all career stages and is designed to enhance the understanding of cardiogenic shock through dynamic and varied teaching methods, ensuring participants leave with actionable knowledge and practical skills.

Strategies for Global Equitable Access to Heart and Lung Transplantation (2025 DEIA Workshop)

Building on the success of the DEIA Workshop at ISHLT2024, the 2025 DEIA workshop will be a highly interactive session dedicated to advancing equitable access to quality care for advanced heart and lung failure patients.

Women in Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support (WiTMCS) Educational Session

This educational session by Women in Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support (WiTMCS) will include a panel with leading experts discussing, “The treatment of PGD in patients with VADs who were bridged to transplant.”

Women in Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support (WiTMCS) Reception

Annual reception for Women in Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support (WiTMCS).

International Consortium of Circulatory Assist Clinicians (ICCAC) Annual Meeting

Join ICCAC in Boston, MA during ISHLT2025 for a networking dinner. This will be your chance to connect with colleagues and friends before the conference. Registration is required

45th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions

John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center

ISHLT2025: Early Career Scientist Award Finalist Presentations

This award aims to recognize excellence in research in the field of basic and translational science with the goal of encouraging non-clinicians in the early stages of their careers to submit their work for presentation at the ISHLT Annual meeting.

ISHLT2025: First Time Attendee Orientation Breakfast

Supported by SANOFI. An orientation to the Annual Meeting over breakfast, where you’ll make new connections and get ready for a great meeting.

ISHLT2025: Industry Symposia - Sunday

Sunday features Industry Symposia from CareDx, Johnson & Johnson MedTech | Heart Recovery, Lung Bioengineering, Natera, and XVIVO.

ISHLT2025 (Symposium 13): Making the Team Work, Together: Interactive Cases for the Early Career Professional

This session follows an early career professional through a series of real life, practical challenges presented in an interactive case-based format, aiming to stimulate discussion and debate in the symposium hall and afterwards.

ISHLT2025: Early Career & Trainee Clinical Case Dilemmas - The Best of the Best Award Session

This award recognizes excellence by early career and trainees from top abstracts submitted in the Early Career Clinical Case Reports category.

ISHLT2025: Early Career Mentor Meetup

Trainees and early career attendees of ISHLT2025 may attend this reception to invited to connect with mentors for career guidance on a variety of topics.

Pediatric Heart Transplant Society (PHTS) Lifetime Achievement Reception & Spring Annual Meeting

PHTS members will gather to celebrate Dr. Daphne Hsu, the recipient of the 2025 PHTS Lifetime Achievement Award, followed by the PHTS Spring Annual Meeting. Registration is required.

ISHLT2025: Mechanical Circulatory Support Interdisciplinary Network Breakfast

Connect to your community during this breakfast for the MCS IDN.

VAD Wean Recovery Network – Investigator’s Meeting

Additional details coming soon.

ISHLT2025: Pulmonary Vascular Disease Interdisciplinary Network Breakfast

Connect to your community during this breakfast for the PVD IDN.

Addressing Knowledge Gaps in Adult Congenital Heart Failure Meeting

This meeting is intended for clinicians and investigators interested in collaborating on research efforts relevant to adult congenital heart disease and heart failure.