HonorHealth Heart Care took center stage at Scottsdale Interventional Forum (SIF) 2025, expanding its impact beyond healthcare professionals to the broader community. On March 2, at the A Heart to Heart About Cardiovascular Disease event, HonorHealth provided free, expert-led heart health education to over 600 attendees at The Westin Kierland Resort & Spa in Scottsdale.

Community members attending HonorHealth’s A Heart to Heart About Cardiovascular Disease event at SIF 2025.

Community impact

Led by HonorHealth Heart Care, the evening featured:

• Live cardiac procedure: A live case performed by David Rizik, MD, Douglas Drachman, MD, and Alok Sharma, MD, streamed from HonorHealth Scottsdale Shea Medical Center
• Expert presentations by physicians:
  • Christina Reuss, MD – Women and heart disease: Understanding the signs and symptoms
  • Sirisha Vadali, MD – Getting healthy: Strategies to prevent heart disease
  • Geoffrey Jao, MD – The growing field of heart failure management
  • Robert Burke, MD – Catheter-based treatment options for valvular heart disease
  • David Cox, MD – Advances in coronary artery disease management
• Interactive Q&A: Community members engaged directly with a panel of experts, including Daniel Eads, MD, Rebecca Chester, MD, Steven Yakubov, MD, and James Hermiller, MD.

Panel of cardiovascular specialists at SIF 2025.

Attendees left with valuable, practical heart health knowledge, furthering the goal of community education and prevention.

Professional development at SIF

As a sponsor of SIF, HonorHealth also supported the professional side of the forum, where cardiologists, cardiovascular surgeons, fellows, radiologists and cath lab team members explored:

• Emerging technologies in structural heart disease and complex procedures.
• Novel stent platforms and FDA approval pathways.
• New methods for plaque modification.
• Panel discussions on imaging, clinical trials and antiplatelet therapy.

Looking ahead

The community event emphasized the importance of making clinical innovations accessible to the public. Since 2004, SIF has played a key role in advancing cardiovascular care, with HonorHealth actively working to bridge the gap between medical expertise and community health.

Stay tuned for updates on next year’s SIF at SIF2026.com.