A Message from The Lead Podcast Team for the Week of April 20, 2026

About this episode

The Lead Podcast team shares updates from Heart Rhythm 2026 and announces a break in episodes.

Greetings from The Lead Podcast team! This week we are in Chicago at Heart Rhythm 2026. We are on-site and in-person, recording episodes from the conference, with a special focus on late-breaking clinical trials. We're very exited to share these with you! For this reason, there will not be a Lead episode released the week of April 20. Please join us the week of April 27 for our next, cutting-edge episode. We hope to see you in Chicago!

People in this episode

Host: The Lead Podcast team

Topics covered

• Heart Rhythm 2026
• clinical trials
• podcast updates
• conference coverage

Keywords

• Heart Rhythm
• clinical trials
• Chicago
• podcast
• conference

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Lead Podcast

Places: Chicago

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