Nashville Regional Seminar
Location: Vanderbilt University Medical Center – Light Hall 202
2215 Garland Ave, Nashville, TN 37232
Light Hall 202 (located on VUMC Plaza, across from Panera Bread)
Date: Saturday, March 22 2025
Join us for our free Family Seminar in Nashville, TN in partnership with Vanderbilt University Medical Center to ask local medical experts questions and get to know other families with inherited heart conditions!
Here are a few benefits to joining us in Nashville on Saturday morning, March 22:
- Vanderbilt medical experts include: Drs. Harikrishna Tandri (Chief, Arrhythmia Service & Director, ARVC Program), Aarti Dalal (Director, Pediatric EP) ,Prince Kannankeril (Co-Director, Vanderbilt Center for Pediatric Precision Medicine) and Dan Roden, (Sr VP for Personalized Medicine and Professor of Pharmacology & Biomedical Informatics).
- Ask experts your questions and learn the latest about your cardiac condition
- Programming for your whole family – including kids and teens (ages 8-17)
- Meet other families from your area – and make lifelong friends in the SADS community
Hotel accommodations: Vanderbilt University has a list of discount hotels for those visiting Nashville. Check out your options HERE
SADS Foundation Nashville Family Regional Seminar
8:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Agenda
8:30 – 9:00 AM: Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:05 AM: Welcome – Hari Tandri, MD, Vanderbilt University Med Center
Genevie Echols, SADS Family Support, Advocacy & Research Director
9:05-9:15 AM: Multidisciplinary inherited arrhythmia clinics – Megan C. Lancaster, MD, PhD
9:15-9:25 AM: New VUMC ACM clinic – Hari Tandri, MD
9:25-9:40 AM: Exercise in SADS Conditions – Aarti Dalal, DO
9:40–10:00 AM: Management of SADS Pregnancy in Cardio-Obstetrics Clinic – Kathryn J Lindley, MD
10:00-10:15 AM: Clinical Q&A/Panel discussion: Drs. Lancaster, Tandri, Dalal, Lindley
10:15 AM: Break
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Research Updates in SADS conditions
- 10:30-11:00 AM: A Historical Perspective on SADS conditions – Dan Roden, MD
- 11:00-11:20 AM: Solving the VUS problem – Andrew M. Glazer, PhD
- 11:20-11:40 AM: New Drug and Gene therapy trials – Hari Tandri, MD
- 11:40-12:00 PM: In Utero Diagnosis & Management of SADS conditions – Stacy Killen, MD
12:00-12:20 PM: Research Q&A/Panel discussion: Drs. Roden, Glazer, Tandri, Killen
12:20-12:30 PM: Closing remarks – Dr. Tandri
Kids & Teens Agenda
8:30 AM Check-in/Collect Parents’ cell phone #/Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM -12:30 PM Kids/Teens Get Acquainted Activities
- How does my SADS heart work?
- Coping strategies: using music therapy to easy anxiety
- No parents allowed, ask an expert
- How do I remember to take my medication? Helpful tips and why beta blockers important
- Extract DNA from a Strawberry? (Cassie)
- How do I tell others about my condition?
- CPR and AED training
