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Aortopathy and Aortic Root
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.
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Aortic Arch and Frozen Elephant Trunk (FET)
Joseph Coselli, Baylor College of Medicine
Dr. Coselli is the Executive Vice-Chair of the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, holds the Cullen Foundation Endowed Chair, and is Professor of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at BCM. He serves as Chief of Adult Cardiac Surgery at THI, and Associate Chief of the Cardiovascular Service at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, located in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas. He is Program Director of the Thoracic Surgery Residency at THI/BCM and directs the Aortic Fellowship Program at BCM.
Dr. Coselli specializes in diseases of the aorta, and was mentored by the pioneering aortic surgeon, Dr. Crawford, as well as legendary cardiothoracic surgeons, Drs. Cooley and DeBakey. He has performed more than 10,000 aortic repairs, including over 3,600 of thoracoabdominal aorta, for which he is world-renowned. He has published more than 580 medical manuscripts and delivered nearly 900 presentations in 30 countries. In 2008, along with colleague Scott A. LeMaire, Dr. Coselli was coeditor of the book Aortic Arch Surgery: Principles, Strategies and Outcomes published by Wiley-Blackwell.
Dr. Coselli was the two-time recipient of the Michael E. DeBakey Excellence in Research Award (2001 and 2017) for his research on the surgical treatment of aortic aneurysms, aortic dissection, and Marfan syndrome. In 2018, Dr. Coselli received the DeBakey Surgery Award from the Michael E. DeBakey International Surgical Society as well as the Ray C. Fish Award for Scientific Achievement from the Texas Heart Institute recognizing his innovative work in aortic aneurysm surgery. In 2019, he received the Leader of Distinction Award for The Marfan Foundation and in 2021 he received the Medical Honoree Hero with a Heart award for his 29-year commitment to The Marfan Foundation and the field of cardiovascular surgery.
Hitoshi Ogino, Tokyo Medical University Hospital
Full Name (First Name, Last Name): Hitoshi Ogino, MD, PhD
Present Position: Professor and chairman of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tokyo Medical University
Academic or Medical Associations Position: Professor and chairman of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tokyo Medical University
Educational background & professional experience (in sequence of the latest year):
1976 - 1982 Hiroshima University
1992 Ph.D. from Kyoto University
1982 - 84 Resident of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Kobe General Hospital, Kobe, Japan
1984 - 87 Senior resident of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Kobe General Hospital, Kobe, Japan
1987 - 91 Staff surgeon of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan
1991 - 92 Staff surgeon of Cardiovascular Surgery, Takeda Hospital, Kyoto, Japan
1992 - 94 Senior registrar of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Harefield Hospital, Middle-sex, U.K.
1994 - 97 Staff surgeon of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tenri Hospital, Nara, Japan
1997 - 2000 Vice-director of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tenri Hospital, Nara, Japan
2000 - 01 Consultant surgeon of Cardiovascular Surgery, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan
2001 - 11 Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan
2011 - present Professor and Chairman of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
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Type B Dissection and Thoracoabdominal Aorta
Yoshikatsu Saiki, Tohoku University Hospital
Short biography
Yoshikatsu Saiki, M.D., Ph.D.
Nationality: Japanese
Work Address: Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, 1-1 Seiryomachi, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8574. Japan
TEL: +81-22-717-7222 FAX: +81-22-717-7227 Email: yoshisaiki@med.tohoku.ac.jp
Education
Ph. D. 1998 Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine M.D. 1990 Tohoku University School of Medicine
Employment:
2010-present Professor and Chairman, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai.
2005-2010 Associate professor, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai.
2003-2005 Assistant professor, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai.
2002-2003 Clinical fellow, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School Training of congenital heart surgery and ECMO
2001-2002 Clinical fellow, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tohoku University Hospital
2001 Transplant fellow, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Training of heart and lung transplantation
1999-2000 Clinical fellow, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Training of congenital heart surgery
1998-1999 Staff Surgeon, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Yamagata General Hospital, Yamagata Practice in acquired cardiac surgery
1996-1997 Research Fellow, Cardiovascular Research Group, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Experiment on myocardial protection of immature hearts
1995-1996 Research Fellow, Cardiovascular Research Institute Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Canada
1992-1994 Cardiac Surgical Resident, Sakakibara Heart Institute, Tokyo
1990-1992 Surgical Resident, Takeda General Hospital, Fukushima
Roberto Di Bartolomeo, University of Bologna
Actually Professor ALMA MATER, University of Bologna, Italy. Past President Cardiac Italian Society .