2026 Cardiology Conference: THMA Cardiovascular Forum
September 16-18, 2026
Boston, MA
Engage Directly with Health System Cardiovascular Leaders
The Cardiovascular Forum is an invitation-only cardiology conference for cardiovascular service line leaders at leading health systems and the industry executives who partner with them. Each Forum is a two-and-a-half-day, in-person convening built around member-led sessions on cardiovascular access, capacity, care model design, and growth strategy.
The Health Management Academy's Cardiovascular Forum convenes cardiovascular service line leaders and heads of function from leading health systems nationwide. Together, they work through the priorities that define the service line, including scaling access for patients, managing utilization, designing new care models, and setting cardiovascular growth strategy.
For industry executives, the Forum offers direct insight into how cardiology leaders set priorities and evaluate partners, which sharpens strategic alignment and product-market fit.
Upcoming Event Dates and Locations
Join us at the Cardiovascular Forum. You can explore dates, locations, and agendas below.
Health System Forum Members
The THMA Difference Lies in Access, Intentional Design, and a Strict Focus on Community
The Cardiovascular Forum creates a purpose-built space for executive-level engagement. Every session, social setting, and touchpoint is designed to produce candid dialogue among cardiovascular service line leaders, heads of function, and select industry innovators, most commonly CEOs, Chief Growth Officers, and strategic product leaders.
Industry Forum Members
Key Cardiovascular Forum Topics:
Service Line Strategy and Evolution: Explore specialty service line governance, heart team structure, portfolio optimization, and how organizations evaluate where to invest, expand, or partner as markets grow more complex.
Care at the Intersection of Policy, Practice, and Economics: Examine how payment models, coverage design, and utilization management intersect with pathway governance, prior authorization, and site-of-care decisions, and what the resulting regulatory and financial risk means for cardiology programs.
Solving Cardiovascular Capacity and Access Through System Optimization: Learn how leading cardiovascular programs shorten wait times and reach more patients by optimizing workflows, care models, and utilization, including virtual and distributed ambulatory access.
Leveraging Data and Analytics for Strategic Performance and Cost Management: Explore how analytics infrastructure guides cardiovascular decision-making around procedural variation, therapy use, resource allocation, and quality improvement.
The AI Evolution in Cardiovascular Care, Today and Tomorrow: Discover how AI is moving from experiment to operational reality across documentation, diagnostic interpretation, patient identification, and treatment optimization.
Clinical Priorities That Drive Service Line Strategy. Where clinical management shapes the operating model, sessions go there directly, including guideline-directed medical therapy gaps in heart failure and arrhythmia management, cardiac risk screening and chronic disease monitoring, and cardio-oncology programs for patients whose cancer treatment carries cardiovascular disease risk.
The Cardiovascular Forum Experience
Each Cardiovascular Forum is a two-and-a-half-day, in-person convening. Sessions are member-led, which means the agenda tracks what cardiology leaders are working on now rather than a fixed curriculum. Peers present what they have tried, what worked, and what did not, and the room works through the problem together.
The format is built for candor. Tabletop discussions, issues forums, fireside chats, and shared meals are structured so the conversation continues outside the session room.
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Cardiovascular Forum FAQs
What is the Cardiovascular Forum?
The Cardiovascular Forum is an invitation-only cardiology conference hosted by The Health Management Academy for cardiovascular service line leaders at leading U.S. health systems and the industry executives who partner with them. Each Forum runs two and a half days in person and is built around member-led working sessions rather than podium lectures.
Who attends the Cardiovascular Forum?
Attendance is limited to executives accountable for cardiovascular performance and the industry leaders who serve them. On the health system side, that includes Service Line Vice Presidents, Chiefs of Cardiology, physician executives, and the operations and strategy leaders responsible for cardiology access and capacity. On the industry side, participation varies, but we often recommend Market Access, Sales, and Brand leads from pharmaceutical companies along with commercial leaders in Business Development, Sales, and Marketing.
What topics does the Cardiovascular Forum cover?
Cardiovascular Forum sessions focus on the strategic and operating questions facing cardiology service lines, including access and capacity, care model redesign, physician alignment and compensation, reimbursement and regulatory risk, data and analytics, and the practical use of AI in cardiovascular care. Clinical subject matter reaches the agenda where it drives strategy, such as guideline-directed medical therapy in heart failure and arrhythmia management, cardiac risk screening, and cardio-oncology.
How do I attend the Cardiovascular Forum?
Attendance is by application rather than open registration. The Health Management Academy reviews each application to keep the room balanced between Health System Members and Industry Members and small enough for candid discussion. Use the Apply link on this page and a member of the team will follow up.
Is the Cardiovascular Forum held in person or virtually?
In person. The Cardiovascular Forum is held in person because its value comes from unscripted conversation among peers, which is difficult to reproduce virtually. Sessions, meals, and member activities are all scheduled on site.
How is the Cardiovascular Forum different from other cardiology conferences?
The Cardiovascular Forum is an executive convening rather than a scientific meeting. The agenda is set by members and centers on how cardiovascular programs are run, covering access, economics, workforce, and technology decisions, rather than on the presentation of new clinical research. For a view of the wider calendar, see our guide to top cardiology conferences.
About The Health Management Academy
Since 1998, The Health Management Academy has cultivated the premier membership-based community of healthcare’s most influential CXOs from top U.S. health systems, as well as decision makers from innovative industry companies.
We cultivate exceptional peer groups, providing original market insights, world-class leadership development programs, and novel member alliances to more than 2,000 health system senior executives and 200 industry organizations.
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