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10:00AM - 12:00PM GMT+9
Cardiac Surgical Tips and Tricks
S. Chris Malaisrie, Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Dr. S. Chris Malaisrie is a Professor of Surgery in the Division of Cardiac Surgery at Northwestern University and Attending Cardiac Surgeon at Northwestern Medicine. Within the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, he directs the Comphrehensive Aortic Center. He specializes in cardiovascular surgery for valvular heart disease, the aorta, and pulmonary artery and the procedures he performs are minimally invasive valve repair, valve-sparing aortic root replacement, Ross procedure, and pulmonary thromboendarterectomy. His research focus is on transcatheter and endovascular therapies for heart valves and aorta.
Dr. Malaisrie serves as the Program Director for Thoracic Surgery Residency (Integrated and Traditional) at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. As Chairman of the Blood Transfusion Committee, he seeks to advance patient blood management and responsible blood transfusion practices at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He is a Medical Advisory Board Member of NUVention Medical Innovation Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a member of the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Kellogg’s School of Management, and Northwestern University School of Law. Outside of Northwestern Medicine, he co-chairs the AATS Cardiac Clinical Practice Standards Committee, chairs the STS Taskforce for International Meetings, and is chair for the ACC Cardiac Surgery Team Section Council.
Yuichi Ueda, Nara Prefectural Hospital Organization
Yuichi Ueda, MD, Ph.D., is currently the secretary-general of ASCVTS. He was a Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cardiac Surgery at Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine between 1999 and 2011. He was the Chairman of the Japanese Society for Cardiovascular Surgery Board between 2012 and 2018.
Dr. Ueda began his medical training at Scholl of Medicine, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan. Upon graduation in 1976, He entered his two-year internship in general internal medicine and surgery at Tenri Hospital, Nara, Japan, which is one of the major affiliated teaching hospitals of Kyoto University with 1,000 beds. Dr. Ueda then completed a four-year residency in cardiovascular surgery at Tenri Hospital in 1982. Upon completing the residency, he joined the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at Tenri Hospital as a staff surgeon for three years. He then spent one year as a registrar at the Department of Surgery, National Heart Hospital, London, U.K., and was greatly inspired by two great surgeons, Mr. Donald N. Ross and Mr. Magdi Yacoub. He is interested in various surgical treatments for congenital heart disease, valvular heart disease, and thoracic aortic aneurysms. Retrograde cerebral perfusion for brain protection during aortic arch surgery, which attracted attention in the 1990s, is due to his contribution.
Dr. Ueda is a member of AATS, STS, EACTS, and ASCVTS and a council member of the Workforce on International Relationships of STS, AATS, EACTS, and ASCVTS.Ko Bando, Jikei University Hospital
Dr. Ko Bando was born in Tokushima, Japan and attended Okayama University Medical School where he was valedictorian of his class. He stayed at Okayama University Hospital for general surgery and cardiovascular surgery training and completed a PhD course under the direction of Prof. Shigeru Teramoto.
Dr. Bando completed his PhD course with a Maguna Cum Laude distinction, and was recruited as a research fellow by Dr. Bruce Reitz and Dr. Bill Baumgartner at Johns Hopkins University. At Hopkins, he researched cardiopulmonary preservation for heart-lung transplantation and the effects of leukocyte depletion on reducing pulmonary injury during cardiopulmonary bypass.
In 1990, he was chosen as the 40th Graham Travelling Follow of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery. He was invited by Dr. Gordon Danielson and Dr. Hartzell Schaff to an advanced clinical fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in 1993.
In 1994, he became a junior faculty member in the department of cardiothoracic surgery at Indiana University where he studied complex pediatric and adult cardiac surgery with Dr. John Brown and Dr. Mark Turrentine. He was then invited to the National Cardiovascular Center (NCVC) in Japan to act as consultant cardiac surgeon with their heart transplant program.
Dr. Bando has trained more than 20 residents and the majority of them currently hold academic leadership positions in both US and Japan. Finally, in 2012, he was recruited to the Jikei University School of Medicine, one of the most prestigious private medical schools in Japan, as professor of surgery.
Considered a true academic surgeon by his peers, Dr. Bando has written or coauthored approximately 180 scientific articles, 120 abstracts, 15 book chapters and edited five textbooks on nearly every topic in adult cardiac surgery. He has been serving on the editorial boards of four journals including The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery andThe Annals of Thoracic Surgery.
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10:00AM - 11:00AM GMT+9
Sublobar Resections for NSCLC
Hasan Batirel, Marmara University Hospital
SHORT CV (HASAN BATIREL, MD, PhD)
1988-1994 Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
1994-1999 Residency, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Marmara University Faculty of Medicine
Sept 1997- Feb 1998 Research associate in Columbia Presbytarian Medical Center, New York, USA, Mehmet Oz lab.
1999-2001 Clinical Fellow in the Division of Thoracic Surgery Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
2002 Assistant Professor, Marmara University Faculty of Medicine
2005 Associate Professor, Marmara University Faculty of Medicine
2010-2021 Professor, Marmara University Faculty of Medicine
2021-Current Professor, Biruni University Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
Professional Experience:
2005-2008 Executive Board Member (Representative of Associate Professors), Marmara University Faculty of Medicine
2008-2009 Deputy Physician in Chief, Marmara University Hospital
2010-2014 Dean, Marmara University Faculty of Medicine
2003-2013 Short term academic visits (1-4 weeks) to University of Leuven, Belgium; University of Pittsburgh, USA; University of Pennsylvania, USA and Showa University, Yokohama, Japan.
2013-2017 Councillor, European Society of Thoracic Surgeons.
2017-2021 Director of Education, European Society of Thoracic Surgeons.
2021-Current Secretary General, European Society of Thoracic Surgeons.
2013 Member, American Association for Thoracic Surgery
Thomas D'Amico, Duke University Medical Center
Dr. Thomas A. D’Amico is a graduate of Harvard University (BA) and the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University (MD). He received training in General Surgery and Thoracic Surgery at Duke University Medical Center. After completing a Fellowship in Thoracic Surgical Oncology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. D’Amico joined the faculty at Duke University Medical Center in 1996. He is currently the Gary Hock Endowed Professor, Chief of General Thoracic Surgery, and Director of the Thoracic Oncology Program of the Duke Cancer Institute
Dr. D’Amico is in leadership positions in the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, including the Board of Directors, the Membership Committee, and the Ethics Committee. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and serves on the editorial board of the Annals of Surgery and the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. Finally, he is the active in the NCCN, as a member of NCCN Board of Directors and Guidelines Steering Committee, the Chair of the Quality and Outcomes Committee, as well as a member of the Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and Small Cell Lung Cancer Guidelines Committees and co-chair of the Esophageal Cancer Guidelines Committee.
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10:00AM - 12:00PM GMT+9
Aortic & Mitral Theme
Emile Bacha, Columbia University Pediatric Research Fund
Dr. Emile Bacha is a US board-certified cardiothoracic surgeon with a subspecialization in pediatric cardiac surgery. Dr. Bacha is a tenured Professor of Surgery at Columbia University and currently the Chief of the Division of Cardiac, Thoracic, and Vascular Surgery at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, and Director of Congenital Heart Surgery at NYP/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital and Komansky-Weill-Cornell Children’s. Prior to that, he was Senior Associate in Cardiac Surgery at the Children's Hospital Boston and Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Bacha received his medical degree at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. He completed his surgical residency at MGH and Emory, followed by a research fellowship at the Hopital Marie-Lannelongue of Paris-Sud University. He then completed a fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery at MGH in 1989. He has been supported by grants from the NIH, AATS, and TSFRE. Dr. Bacha is one of the early developers of the "hybrid stage I" procedure for hypoplastic left heart syndrome. He is also the principal developer of a widely accepted technical competency metric for pediatric heart surgeons. Dr. Bacha has published more than 250 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He is a past-Associate Editor of the Journal for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, and a member of the AATS, STS, the Congenital Heart Surgeons' Society (CHSS), the ACC and ACS. He currently serves as the Treasurer for the AATS and as Secretary of the CHSS.
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Moderators:
Emile Bacha, Columbia University Pediatric Research Fund
Kisaburo Sakamoto, Mt. Fuji Shizuoka Children's Hospital
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Moderators:
Emile Bacha, Columbia University Pediatric Research Fund
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11:00AM - 12:00PM GMT+9
Evolution in Multi-Disciplinary Care for Esophageal Cancer
Thomas D'Amico, Duke University Medical Center
Dr. Thomas A. D’Amico is a graduate of Harvard University (BA) and the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University (MD). He received training in General Surgery and Thoracic Surgery at Duke University Medical Center. After completing a Fellowship in Thoracic Surgical Oncology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. D’Amico joined the faculty at Duke University Medical Center in 1996. He is currently the Gary Hock Endowed Professor, Chief of General Thoracic Surgery, and Director of the Thoracic Oncology Program of the Duke Cancer Institute
Dr. D’Amico is in leadership positions in the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, including the Board of Directors, the Membership Committee, and the Ethics Committee. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and serves on the editorial board of the Annals of Surgery and the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. Finally, he is the active in the NCCN, as a member of NCCN Board of Directors and Guidelines Steering Committee, the Chair of the Quality and Outcomes Committee, as well as a member of the Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and Small Cell Lung Cancer Guidelines Committees and co-chair of the Esophageal Cancer Guidelines Committee.
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Moderators:
Thomas D'Amico, Duke University Medical Center
Hong Kwan Kim, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine
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Moderators:
Thomas D'Amico, Duke University Medical Center
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1:30PM - 3:00PM GMT+9
Advances in Operable NSCLC
Bernard Park, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Bernie Park is a general thoracic surgeon that specializes in thoracic surgical oncology. He is Deputy Chief of Clinical Affairs of the Thoracic Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He has a particular interest in advanced minimally invasive techniques and has developed and studied robotic approaches for treatment of thoracic malignancy since 2002.
Jang-Ming Lee, National Taiwan University Hospital
Graduated from Medical School, and acquiring his PhD degree in the Medical Research Institute in National Taiwan University, Prof. Lee is currently the Professor of Surgery in the National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) and has been the chief of Thoracic Surgical Department of the NTUH between 2011 and 2017. He is one of the important pioneers in the development of minimal invasive surgery in thoracic and esophageal space in Asia. He possesses comprehensive understanding of both surgery development and medical environment of Taiwan. He is deeply devoted in development and education of minimally invasive thoracic surgery especially in the complex procedures including minimally invasive esophagectomy, robotic surgery or endoscopic surgery of the esophagus. Elected as president of Asia Thoracoscopic Education Platform (ATEP) (2018-2022) and Taiwan Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (2017-2019), he voices for the society to the government sector, policy makers, the patients and other healthcare stakeholders and led the education of study for surgery in Taiwan. He also actively participates in the editorial or review board in many distinguished international medical journals and has published more than 150 scientific papers.
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1:30PM - 3:00PM GMT+9
Conotruncal Anomalies
Christopher Caldarone, Baylor College of Medicine
Dr Caldarone is fully dedicated to improving quality of care for patients with congenital heart disease through working with Heart Centers and individuals to optimize Mission. Structure, Process, and Culture. In the past, he served as a member of the Board of Directors for the AATS, and as the Chief of Cardiac Surgery (Texas Children's Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine). Other prior appointments include Surgeon-in-Chief at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Chair of the Division of Cardiac Surgery (University of Toronto), and Director of Congenital Heart Surgery at the Children's Hospital of Iowa. His surgical training for cardiothoracic surgery was at the Deaconess Hospital with a one-year clinical fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Childrenand a research fellowship under the mentorship of Dr Sidney Levitsky. He served as a member of the JTCVS Editorial Board from 2007 to 2014 and then as an Associate Editor from 2014 to 2021. He also served as the Managing Director of the CHSS Data Center and currently serves on the CHSS Execfutive Committee as the Chair of the Quality and Outcomes Committee..
Yasuhiro Kotani, Okayama University Hospital
2007 PhD, Okayama University
2009-2010 Research Fellow, University of Wisconsin
2011-2012 Clinical Fellow, Sickkids, Toronto
2013 Clinical Fellow, St. Michael Hospital, Toronto
2014 Assistant Professor, Okayama University
2019- Associate Professor, Okayama University
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1:30PM - 3:00PM GMT+9
AATS Aortic Masterclass: Complex Scenarios
Marc Moon, Baylor College of Medicine
Dr. Moon has been involved in AATS operations for more than a decade, originally as a program committee member for the Annual Meeting beginning in 2009. He has served on the Executive Board from 2012 to the present as Secretary, Vice President, and ultimately President at the 101st Annual Meeting in 2021. Dr. Moon's clinical focus in adult cardiac surgery includes aortic surgery and complex reoperative valvular surgery. Dr. Moon's educational platform focuses on advancing diversity and inclusion in the cardiothoracic community.
Yutaka Okita, Kobe University Graduate School Of Medicine
Dr. Okita was born in 1952 and was graduated from Kobe University Medical School in 1978. He was trained in Tenri Hospital, Nara, Japan and became the staff surgeon. He moved to the National Cardiovascular Center, Osaka in 1993 and was promoted as the Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kobe University in 1999. In 2018, he retired from the Kobe University and was appointed as the chief, Cardio-Aortic Center, Takatsuki General Hospital, Osaka. His main interest has been the surgery of thoracic aorta and adult cardiac surgery. He served as the Society President of the Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery from 2015 to 2019 and and as the Editor-in-Chief, General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery from 2011 to 2019. Currently, he is the 30th President, the Asian Society of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery and the Eitor-in-Chief, The Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals.
Kay-Hyun Park, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital
Dr. Kay-Hyun Park
- Graduated from Seoul National University (SNU) College of Medicine in 1987
- Thoracic and cardiovascular surgery resident training in SNU Hospital till 1992
- Staff cardiac surgeon in Samsung Medical Center from 1995 through 2005
- Visiting doctor in Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas, USA) for 1 year in 2002
- Current affiliation: Director of cardiovascular surgery in SNU Bundang Hospital since December 2005 & tenured professor in SNU College of Medicine since 2012
- Almost 100 publications in English journals and > 50 presentations or lectures in international scientific meetings
- Organizer of the biannual Bundang Aortic Surgery Symposium (BASS) which started with a live surgery of thoracoabdominal aneurysm repair in 2008
- Council member / vice secretary general / aortic domain chief of the Asian Society for Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery (ASCVTS) since 2019
- Congress president of ASCVTS 2023 Annual Meeting in Busan, Korea
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3:30PM - 5:00PM GMT+9
AATS Guidelines and Expert Consensus Update
Leonard Girardi, Weill Cornell Medical Center
Professor and Chairman, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine
Cardiothoracic Surgeon-in-Chief, New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
Marc Moon, Baylor College of Medicine
Dr. Moon has been involved in AATS operations for more than a decade, originally as a program committee member for the Annual Meeting beginning in 2009. He has served on the Executive Board from 2012 to the present as Secretary, Vice President, and ultimately President at the 101st Annual Meeting in 2021. Dr. Moon's clinical focus in adult cardiac surgery includes aortic surgery and complex reoperative valvular surgery. Dr. Moon's educational platform focuses on advancing diversity and inclusion in the cardiothoracic community.
Song Wan, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong
Song Wan was a Clinical Fellow (April 1994–March 1998) at Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, in Brussels, Belgium, where he also obtained his Doctor of Medical Science degree with Plus Grande Distinction in 1997. He received a Young Investigators Award of American College of Chest Physicians in 1996. He joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in April 1998 and is currently Professor and Honorary Advisor in Cardiothoracic Surgery at Prince of Wales Hospital, CUHK, Hong Kong, China. He is a Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons of England, American College of Cardiology, Hong Kong College of Cardiology, and College of Surgeons of Hong Kong. Being a senior Consultant surgeon in adult cardiac surgery over the past 2 decades, his major clinical and research interests include reconstructive valve surgery and prevention of vein graft failure. To date, he has published more than 200 peer reviewed articles and 18 book chapters.
Professor Wan is a Councilor of Asian Society for Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery (ASCVTS). He is member of 12 learned professional bodies, such as American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) and Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS). He has been awarded Visiting Professorship at 10 leading medical schools. Professor Wan is an Assistant Editor of Heart Surgery Forum and an editorial board member of 14 international referred journals, including Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals. He also serves as a member of AATS Membership Committee and AATS Foundation Asian Scholarship Committee.
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3:30PM - 5:00PM GMT+9
Extended Resections: Minimally Invasive?
Masaaki Sato, The University of Tokyo Hospital
Masaaki Sato, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Organ Transplantation Center, the University of Tokyo
Dr. Sato is a general thoracic surgeon at the University of Tokyo Hospital and associate professor at the Organ Transplantation Center, the University of Tokyo, graduate school of medicine. He graduated Kyoto University, Faculty of Medicine in 1999 and earned his PhD degree in University of Toronto. His focuses are 1) lung transplantation; 2) lung mapping for precise minimally invasive lung resection, and 3) education. He has been a director of new lung transplant program in Tokyo since 2015 and it is now one of the largest programs in Japan. In research, he proposed the concept of restrictive allograft syndrome (RAS) as a novel phenotype of chronic rejection after lung transplantation in 2010 while he was a surgical trainee in Toronto and since then, he has significantly contributed to the establishment of the new disease entity in the international society. In 2012 when he was an assistant professor in Kyoto University, he developed a novel technique of virtual assisted lung mapping (VAL-MAP), which is a bronchoscopic pre-operative lung mapping technique using virtual images, allowing for precise minimally invasive lung resection. As a principal investigator, he has led three prospective multicenter clinical trials using VAL-MAP and its new version (VAL-MAP 2.0), finally making the technique covered by public health insurance in Japan. Through these clinical and academic experience, he has written multiple text books regarding medical research, presentation, and academic writing, playing a leading role for young investigators.
In Kyu Park
Current Position
Professor, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
Education
1990 - 1996: Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, M.D.
1998 - 2001: Yonsei University Graduate School, Seoul, Korea. Master degree
2004 – 2009: Yonsei University Graduate School, Seoul, Korea. Ph.D.
Training & Professional Career
1996 - 1997: Intern, Severance Hospital
1997 – 2001: Resident, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine
2001 - 2004: Captain, Armed Forces Capital Hospital, Armed Forces Medical Command of Republic of Korea
2004 - 2006: Clinical fellow, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine
2006 - 2011: Assistant Professor / Associate Professor, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine
2011 – : Associate Professor/ Professor, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine
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3:30PM - 5:00PM GMT+9
Miscellaneous
Sitaram Emani, Boston Children's Hospital
Sitaram Emani is Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Complex Biventricular Repair Program at Boston Children's Hosptial.
Iki Adachi, Texas Children's Hospital
Dr. Adachi is an associate professor of surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, and Director of Mechanical Circulatory Support and Heart Transplant at Texas Children’s Hospital. Dr. Adachi received his medical doctorate from Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine and completed cardiovascular training at National Cardiovascular Center, Japan. As a recipient of the Fontan prize from European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Dr. Adachi spent two years conducting clinical studies at the Royal Brompton Hospital and Imperial College London in England. Dr. Adachi’s career has been deeply inspired by his interaction with Professor Francis Fontan, the inventor of the ‘Fontan operation’ that has saved numerous lives of children with complex single-ventricle congenital heart disease. It is increasingly becoming evident that, even after a perfect Fontan operation, these patients are faced with an inevitable fate of late attrition. Dr. Adachi has set his career goal to develop a method to improve the outlook for patients with single-ventricle heart disease using Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) technology.
To fulfill this goal, Dr. Adachi joined Texas Children’s Hospital in 2010 and has been serving as the Director of VAD program since 2012. Texas Children’s Hospital VAD program is considered as the largest of its kind and is an integral part of the busiest pediatric thoracic (heart and lung) organ transplant program. Development of a newer generation of VADs and their clinical application drive Dr. Adachi’s academic interest. The devices Dr. Adachi has worked on previously or currently in the laboratory under NIH grant support include Jarvik 2015 VAD and BiVACOR implantable total artificial heart.