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7:30AM - 9:30AM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Room 718B
Adult Cardiac Scientific Session: Mitral Repair Techniques
Aubrey Galloway, NYU Langone Health
Aubrey C. Galloway, M.D.
Dr. Galloway is the Seymour Cohn Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at NYU Grossman School of Medicine-NYU Langone Healthand, and Director of the Mitral Valve Repair Program. He attended Tulane School of Medicine, did his General Surgery Residency at the University of Colorado Medical Center, a research fellowship with Dr. Judan Folkman at Boston Children's Hospital, and his Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship at NYU Medical Center with Dr.Frank Spener. He joined the NYU faculty in 1985. Dr. Galloway is recognized as an expert in surgery in mitral valve repair and was an early developer of minimally invasive techniques for valve surgery. He has a long history clinical and translational research, invented several valve repair and replacement devices, and has published over 250 manuscripts. He was director of the cardiothoracic surgery residence program at NYU for 11 years and was Chair of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery for 15 years (2006-2021). He is a member of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, the American College of Cardiology, the American College of Surgeons, the American Heart Association, the American Surgical Association and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons,
Hirokuni Arai, Hokushin General Hospital
Dr. Hirokuni Arai is the Professor Emeritus of Tokyo Medical and Dental University and President of Hokushin General Hospital in Nagano Japan. He completed his general surgery training and his cardiothoracic fellowship training at Tokyo Medical and Dental University and its affiliated hospitals. From1989 to 1991, he was a Research Fellow in Department of Surgery at St. Louis University, in St. Louis, USA, under Professor D. Glenn Pennington. From 1994 to 2000, he was a Director of Cardiothoracic Surgery in Hokushin General Hospital. From 2007 to 2022, he had been Chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at Tokyo Medical and Dental University and since this April he has been current position.
His specialties include mitral valve repair especially in the field of functional MR, off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCAB) and ventricular assist device. He invented various surgical devices mostly related to OPCAB and obtained over 20 Patents. He has contributed to more than 100 original articles in peer-reviewed journals and given over 200 invited lectures at regional and international conferences. He is also dedicated to international teaching especially in Asia, such as organizing annual OPCAB Workshop in Thailand.
He is assigned for Program Director of AATS/JATS Mitral Conclave 2022 in Japan, and is currently Society President of Japanese Association for Coronary Artery Surgery (JACAS) to host International Coronary Congress 2022 in Tokyo, Board of Directors of ISCAS/ICC, and Program co-Chair of ISMICS 2022. He was also past Congress President of Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery (JATS 2018) which is the counterpart of AATS in Japan, past Congress president of Japanese Association for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery (J-MICS 2019), and past Congress President of Japanese Society for Heart Valve Disease 2019.
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7:30AM - 9:30AM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Room 718A
Adult Cardiac Scientific Session: Moving Towards Perfection in the Aortic Root
Edward Chen, Duke University
Edward P. Chen, MD is Professor of Surgery at Duke University. He is a graduate of Stanford University, Duke Medical School, University of California San Francisco General Surgery, Emory Cardiothoracic Residency and the UT Houston Aortic Surgery Fellowship. He is internationally visible for his clinical expertise in reoperative thoracic aortic procedures, high-risk and complex adult cardiac surgery. He has published over 250 peer-review articles and his research has focused cerebral protection for aortic arch reconstruction, aortic root operations and valve-sparing aortic root replacement. He has been a PI and co-PI on numerous clinical trials focused on thoracic aortic surgery and structural heart disease. He has won awards for both his research and commitment to teaching including the Thoracic Surgery Residents Association (TSRA) Socrates Award in 2019, European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery (EACTS) at Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Research Award 4 times in 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2021 American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Aortic Symposium 2018 Griepp Research Award and Outstanding Teacher in Cardiothoracic Surgery at Emory in 2007, 2009 and 2010. Dr. Chen serves in several leadership positions in the AATS including the Cardiothoracic Residents Committee, Annual Meeting Didactic Committee, Chair of the Adult Cardiac Skills Course, Ethics Committee, Chair of the AATS Foundation Travel Award Committee, Advisory Council on Education, Aortic Symposium Program Committee, AATS Cardiac Clinical Practice Writing Group of Acute Aortic Type A Dissection, and Co-Chair of the Online Committee.
Laurent de Kerchove, Cliniques Universitaires St-Luc
Laurent de Kerchove graduated in 1999 as a medical doctor at the UCL University. After finishing his residency in cardiac surgery in 2006, Laurent completed his training focused on multiple arterial grafting, valve repair and Ross procedure at the Clinic Universitaire Saint-Luc in Brussels under supervision of Prof. Gebrine el Khoury. He work as staff surgeon in this institution since 2008. He made his PhD in 2014 on “The role of annuloplasty in aortic
valve repair”. Currently, he is Associate Head of Cardiothoracic Surgery Department at the Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc and President of the Belgian association of Cardiothoracic surgeon. His areas of interest are valve repair, multiple arterial revascularization, Ross
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7:30AM - 9:30AM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Room 716
Congenital Scientific Session: Strategies for Management of the Borderline Heart
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.
Igor Konstantinov, Royal Children's Hospital
Professor Igor E. Konstantinov graduated from the Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1992 and obtained his PhD from the University of Toronto in 2004. He has been Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at the Royal Children's Hospital and full tenured Professor of the University of Melbourne since 2008. He is also Director of the Melbourne Centre for Cardiovascular Genomics and Regenerative Medicine.
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7:30AM - 9:30AM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Room 714
ERAS for Cardiac Surgery: Next Steps in Perioperative Management
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7:30AM - 9:30AM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Room 715
Structural Heart Scientific Session: AATS/EACTS Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR)
Kendra Grubb, Emory university
Dr. Kendra J. Grubb, MD, MHA, FACC, Surgical Director Emory University Structural Heart and Valve Center, is dedicated to improving the lives of patients through innovation and building collaborative teams to promote patient-centered treatment of cardiovascular disease. Previously, she was Director of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery and the Heart Valve Program at University of Louisville.
Dr. Grubb has led and participated in numerous clinical trials of innovative technologies, including studies of transcatheter aortic valve replacement, mitral valve percutaneous therapies, endovascular treatment of descending thoracic aortic aneurysms, and transcatheter heart failure devices.
Dr. Grubb attended University of Southern California, where she received her MD degree from Keck School of Medicine and her Master of Health Administration. She completed general surgery residency at University of Illinois at Chicago (2010), fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery at University of Virginia (2012), and fellowship in interventional cardiology and transcatheter therapies at New York Presbyterian-Columbia University (2013).Patrick Myers, CHUV
Patrick Myers is a consultant cardiac surgeon at CHUV - Lausanne University Hospitals in Switzerland and Privat Docent at the Geneva University Medical School. After finishing medical school in Geneva, Patrick completed his cardiovascular surgery residency at the Geneva University Hospitals. He served as senior fellow in adult cardiac surgery at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and then as fellow in cardiac surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital. He was appointed instructor in surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School, before returning as attending surgeon in adult and congenital cardiac surgery in Geneva, Switzerland, where he was named associate of the chief of cardiac surgery. Since 2017, he has focused on adult cardiac surgery in his private practice in adult cardiac surgery in Geneva and serves as consultant cardiac surgeon at CHUV Lausanne. He has served as secretary of the European Board for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, chair of the EACTS Acquired Cardiac Diseases Domain, Secretary General of EACTS since 2022, and president of CTSNet. His areas of interest are multiple arterial coronary artery bypass grafting, evolving transcatheter techniques to treat structural heart disease, HOCM and critical appraisal of clinical trials and their discussions on social media.
Michael Borger, University of Leipzig
Dr. Michael Borger is the Director of the University Clinic for Cardiac Surgery at the Leipzig Heart Center, one of the largest cardiac surgery centers in Europe. He took over the position in 2017 from his friend and mentor, Dr. Fred Mohr. He finished his cardiac surgery training and PhD in 2001 in Toronto, Canada, under the mentorship of Dr. Tirone David. Dr. Borger's clinical and research interests include aortic surgery, minimal invasive and percutaneous valve procedures, aortic and mitral valve repair surgery, and ischemic mitral regurgitation. He is an author on over 500 peer-reviewed publications.
Frederick Chen, Boston Medical Center
Dr. Chen is an adult cardiac surgeon interested in general adult cardiac surgery, surgical education, and translational research.
Gry Dahle, Oslo University Hospital
Consultant, Dept. of Cardiothoracic- and vascular Surgery, Rikshospitalet, Oslo University HospitalDr Dahle is a female cardiac surgeon with special interest in new Innovations, cardiac catheter treatment, heart failure and imaging. She is Europe Director in the board of ISMICS, Chair of task force Catheter treatment in EACTS . For several years she has been in the faculty of CSI meeting Frankfurt and also in the HF-CSI. She completed CAS leadership course in Zurich on mitral and tricuspid treatment and later for Imaging. She is proctor for Tendyne (Abbott). She is in the Board of Medical Societies in the Norwegian Medical Association and is the past president of the Norwegian Association for Cardiothoracic surgery, continuing in the board. She is Cheir of the National Ethical committee for Clinical Testing of Medical Devices. She defended her thesis on “Implementation of transcatheter aortic valve implantation: clinical, patient experience, economical and occupational hazard issues 2020 .She is working on several projects on Holographic planning of surgical procedures.
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Michael Borger, University of Leipzig
Frederick Chen, Boston Medical Center
Gry Dahle, Oslo University Hospital
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Kendra Grubb, Emory university
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7:30AM - 9:30AM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Room 801
Thoracic Scientific Session: Early Stage Disease
Yolonda Colson, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Colson is the past President of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, having served in many roles since becoming a member in 2003, including as Co-chair of the 2015 Annual Meeting and Chair of the Advisory Council for the AATS Foundation. She is the Chief for the Division of Thoracic Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and Hermes C. Grillo Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. In addition to her cardiothoracic surgical training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, her academic training includes a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an M.D. from Mayo Medical School, and a Ph.D. and general surgery residency at University of Pittsburgh. Career awards include: the inaugural Michael A. Bell Family Chair in Healthcare Innovation, the George H.A. Clowes, Jr. Research Career Development Award from the American College of Surgeons, the Edward M. Kennedy Award for Health Care Innovation, and serving as the Exam Chair of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery from 2017-2021. She is the current PI/co-PI on five NIH R01/U01 Grants and has recently been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
She is co-inventor on three awarded patents and has received over twenty grants including the AATS Alton Ochsner Research Scholarship and eight "R" or "U" grants from the National Institutes of Health and National Cancer Institute. Dr. Colson's research focuses on the development of unique mechanisms of polymer and nanoparticle drug delivery aimed at preventing cancer recurrence, and the investigation of novel methods to identify hidden tumor that has spread to nearby lymph nodes. She has over 150 peer reviewed publications highlighting her previous work in transplantation and her most recent investigations in sentinel lymph nodes in lung cancer and polymer-mediated drug delivery. She has formally mentored well over 30 students, residents and junior faculty since becoming an attending thoracic surgeon.
Kenji Suzuki, Juntendo Hospital
POSITION TITLE Professor and Chairman, Department of General Thoracic Surgery Juntendo University School of Medicine
EDUCATION/TRAINING
INSTITUTUTION & LOCATION, DEGREE, YEAR(s), FIELD OF STUDY
National Defense Medical College, MD, 1990-1992, Residency
JSDF Yokosuka Hospital, MD, 1992-1995, General Surgery, Residency
US navy diving medical officer course, MD, 1993-1994
National Cancer Center Hospital East, MD, 1995-1997, General Thoracic Surgery
National Cancer Center Research Institute East, 1996-1997, Molecular biology and Pathology divisions
National Cancer Center Hospital East, MD, 1997-1999, General Thoracic Surgery, Chief resident
National Cancer Center Hospital, MD, 1999-2008, General Thoracic Surgery, Attending
Juntendo University School of Medicine, MD, 2008-, General Thoracic Surgery, Professor and Chair
AWARDS
1) Young Investigator Award of 8th World Conference in Lung Cancer in 1997
2) Merit Award in 34th Annual Meeting of American Society of Clinical Oncology in 1998.
3) Shinoi-Kawai Award in Japanese Lung Cancer Association in 1999
4) Investigator Award in Japan Cancer Association in 2004
5) Princess Takamatsuno-miya Award in 2005
6) Congress Award in Japanese Association for Chest Surgery in 2009
MEMBERSHIP
1) American Society of Clinical Oncology, active member
2) Society of Thoracic Surgeons, international member
3) European Society of Thoracic Surgeons, international member
4) European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery, member
5) International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), member
6) American Association for Thoracic Surgery, member
7) Japan Surgical Society
8) The Japan Lung Cancer Society
9) The Japanese Association for Chest Surgery
10) The Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery
The number of publications in English; 269
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7:30AM - 9:30AM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Room 803
Thoracic Scientific Session: Modern Treatment of Esophageal Cancer
Michael Lanuti, Harvard University
After receiving a Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Lanuti received his M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency in Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and a two year research fellowship in a Thoracic Oncology Laboratory focusing on novel treatments (gene therapy) for lung cancer. He completed a Cardiothoracic Fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He has been on staff in the Division of Thoracic Surgery since 2004, and holds a parallel appointment as Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He has been the Friedman-Lambert Scholar in Academic Thoracic Surgery at MGH/HMS since 2004. He is the Director of Thoracic Oncology for the Division of Thoracic Surgery and the Thoracic Surgery liaison to the MGH Cancer Center. Clinical interests include minimally invasive surgery for lung cancer, complex airway tumors, multimodality treatment of esophageal cancer, mediastinal tumors, thermal ablation of lung tumors.
Gail Darling, Central Zone Hospital
Dr Darling is Professor and Head of the Department of Surgery at Dalhousie University in Halifax Nova Scotia and Chief of Surgery for Nova Scotia Health Central Zone. She is the Editor in Chief of Pearson's Textbook of Thoracic Surgery and the STS etextbook of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Dr Darling previously was Professor of Surgery in the Division of Thoracic Surgery at the University of Toronto and Kress Family Chair in Esophageal Cancer at University Health Network and University of Toronto where she lead the Esophageal Cancer Program. Dr Darling is the current President of the Canadian Association of Thoracic Surgeons.
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9:30AM - 9:45AM EDT
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9:45AM - 12:00PM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Exhibit Hall FG
Leadership Plenary Session*
Lars Svensson, Cleveland Clinic
Dr. Svensson is the Chairman of the Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute at Cleveland Clinic and served on the Cleveland Clinic Health System Operations Council. Dr. Svensson is an internationally known cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon. His research has led to many innovative surgical treatments and techniques. He is a Professor of Surgery at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Svensson previously served on the AATS Council, has Chaired the AATS Guidelines Committee. He has chaired multispecialty guidelines writing committees for endovascular treatment with stents for the thoracic aorta, aortic valve surgery, and for the treatment of thoracic aortic disease.Dr. Svensson was born in Barberton, South Africa. He completed his undergraduate work at Treverton College in Mooi River, South Africa. He earned his medical degree and PhD in blood flow pathophysiology from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, where he received numerous fellowships and awards. He received his training in cardiology and general surgery at the Johannesburg Hospital, South Africa, and his training in cardiothoracic surgery at Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, for which he received a fellowship. He also completed a cardiovascular surgery fellowship and residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. In 2005, Dr. Svensson was named King James IV Professor of Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. His academic appointments have included Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Houston, TX; Clinical Instructor in Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Clinical Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Tufts University, Boston; and Assistant Professor of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston.
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12:00PM - 1:20PM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Room 718A
C. Walton Lillehei Resident Forum: Basic Science
Bradley Taylor, University of Maryland Medical System
Bradley Taylor, MD, MPH, is Professor and Chief, Division of Cardiac Surgery at The University of Maryland School of Medicine. He also serves as the Director of Coronary Revascularization and the Co-Director of the Center of Aortic Disease.
Dr. Taylor graduated from Oxford College of Emory University and Emory College with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. He received his Master’s in Public Health with a focus in Health Administration and a Medical Degree from the Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Taylor trained in both general and cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. There he studied the regulation and expression of the Human Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase (INOS) Gene. He has published manuscripts in both the Proceedings of National Academy of Science and the Journal of Biochemistry. After training, Dr. Taylor stayed at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center as an Assisted Professor in Cardiothoracic.
In 2006, Dr. Taylor completed a minimally invasive mitral valve cardiac surgery fellowship at the OLV Hospital in Aalst Belgium
Dr. Taylor joined the faculty at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 2012, after establishing a busy community-based practice in Cardiac and Vascular surgery in South Central PA. His clinical and research efforts have focused on the surgical treatment of aortic disease, coronary artery bypass grafting as well as the impact of cardiac surgery in the state of Maryland. He performs over 400 complex adult cardiac cases per year and leads a Cardiac Surgery team that performs more than 1800 cardiac operations per year. Dr. Taylor performs a full array of cardiac surgery and has been instrumental in developing and implementing an advanced endovascular aortic repair program.
Dr. Taylor was appointed Chief of the Division in 2021. Through his and his team's efforts, Maryland is now a leader in quality outcomes and market shares.
Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Toronto General Hospital
Dr. Kazuhiro Yasufuku is an internationally known Thoracic Surgeon with specific expertise in minimally invasive thoracic surgery and minimally invasive diagnostic procedures. He is the Head of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at the Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network. He is also Professor and Chair of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at University of Toronto. He holds the RFG Pearson – RJ Ginsberg Chair in Thoracic Surgery and William Coco Chair in Surgical Innovation for Lung Cancer. He serves as Director of Endoscopy and Director of the Interventional Thoracic Surgery Program at the University Health Network.
Dr. Yasufuku has been a leader in the field of minimally invasive diagnostics and therapeutics for thoracic malignancy. He co-developed the Convex Probe Endobronchial Ultrasound in collaboration with Olympus and has successfully introduced the clinical application of EBUS-TBNA in Thoracic Oncology. His clinical interests include minimally invasive diagnostic and surgery for thoracic oncology and lung transplantation. He leads the Thoracic Robotic Surgery Program and GTx Program at the University Health Network.
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Moderators:
Bradley Taylor, University of Maryland Medical System
Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Toronto General Hospital
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Bradley Taylor, University of Maryland Medical System
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Room 716
Industry Lunch Symposium: Tick Tock the AR Clock: Choosing Valve Replacement in Chronic Aortic Regurgitation | Sponsored by: Edwards Lifesciences *
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Room 803
Industry Lunch Symposium: Da Vinci 5: Transforming Surgery, Together. Again. | Sponsored by: Intuitive Surgical *
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Room 718B
Industry Lunch Symposium: SAVR Lifetime Management: Make it MAX! | Sponsored by: Abbott *
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Room 801
Industry Lunch Symposium: Transforming Care and Outcomes With Immunotherapy in Stage I-III Resectable NSCLC: A Case Exploration of New Standards and Emerging Approaches | Supported by: Bristol Myers Squibb and Merck & Co., Inc. | CME provided by: PVI
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1:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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1:15PM - 3:45PM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Room 717
Adult Cardiac Scientific Session: Multi-Arterial Grafting and Outcomes
Donna Kimmaliardjuk, Cleveland Clinic
Dr. Donna May Kimmaliardjuk is a cardiac surgeon at The Cleveland Clinic. She is the first Inuk
heart surgeon in Canada. She graduated medical school from the University of Calgary in 2014,
completed cardiac surgery residency at The University of Ottawa Heart Institute in 2020, and an
advanced cardiac surgery fellowship at The Cleveland Clinic in 2021. She has been presented to
The Senate of Canada for becoming the first Inuk heart surgeon and the first Nunavut land
claims beneficiary to become a MD, and has been presented to the House of Commons for
receiving the 2018 Inuit youth Indpsire award. She was featured in the Globe and Mail’s article
on 16 reasons to celebrate International Women’s Day 2018. Her interests in adult cardiac
surgery include off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting, multi-arterial grafting, and single vessel small thoracotomy bypass graftingFred Crawford, Medical University of SC
Fred A. Crawford, Jr., M.D. is currently Distinguished University Professor of Surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina where he also served as Chairman of the Department of Surgery (1988-2007), Chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery (1979-2009) and as Associate Dean for Finance. Dr.Crawford received his M.D. degree from Duke University (1967) where he was a member of Alpha Omega Alpha. His surgical residency was interrupted two years by service in the US Army as a Major including a one-year assignment at the 24th Evacuation Hospital in Vietnam. Following this, he returned to Duke to complete his general and cardiothoracic surgery residency, and in 1976 moved to Jackson, Mississippi as Chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine. He was recruited to SouthCarolina in 1979 as Professor of Surgery and Chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at MUSC, and was subsequently appointed Chairman of the Department of Surgery there in 1988. He was the first recipient of the HoraceG. Smithy Chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery at that institution in 1997. Under his leadership the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery has become nationally recognized. He has served three terms as President of University Medical Associates, the University’s faculty practice plan. Dr. Crawford has served as Chair of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery, on the ACGME Residency Review Committee for Thoracic Surgery, on the Board of Governors of the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Cardiology, and was the first chair of the Joint Council of Thoracic Surgery Education. Dr. Crawford served as President of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) in 2003.
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1:15PM - 3:45PM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Room 718B
Adult Cardiac Scientific Session: Novel Concepts in Cardiac Transplantation
Yoshifumi Naka, New york presbyterian
Yoshifumi Naka is the Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Surgical Director of Heart Failure, Heart Transplantation, and Mechanical Circulatory Support programs at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. He is an internationally renowned heart transplant surgeon and a pioneer in mechanical assist therapy. Under his leadership, the Heart Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support Programs at Columbia University Medical Center have earned international recognition for their contributions in developing and testing new cardiac devices and in training cardiothoracic surgeons around the world. The heart transplant program has done the largest number of heart transplants. He did a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Physiology Department, Columbia University, and a foreign clinical fellowship at the division of cardiothoracic surgery, Columbia University Medical Center. He stayed at Columbia University Medical Center for 22 years before moving to Weill Cornell Medicine. He has authored more than 400 articles published in peer reviewed medical journals, 22 book chapters and two books. He has been invited to present his work at national and international meetings. He is a member of the American Heart Association, American Association for Thoracic Surgery, Society of Thoracic Surgeons, Society of University Surgeons, American Society of Transplant Surgeons, International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, and ASAIO. He is committed to training the next generation of heart failure surgeons and has taught numerous surgeons under his supervision. A majority of them became chiefs of cardiac surgery divisions or directors of heart transplantation programs. He has served as a member of Annals of Thoracic Surgery Editorial Board, ad hoc reviewer for numerous medical journals, a member of American Association for Thoracic Surgery Graham Travel Fellowship Committee and Leadership member of Society of Thoracic Surgeons.
Mark Slaughter, University of Louisville/Jewish Hospital
Mark S. Slaughter, M.D. is the Legacy Foundation of Kentuckiana Professor and Chair of the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at the University of Louisville and the Cardiovascular Innovation Institute Medical Director. Dr. Slaughter serves as the Surgical Director of Heart Transplant and MCS at the UofL Heart Hospital. He is the past President of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs and the International Society of Rotary Blood Pumps. Dr. Slaughter currently serves as a reviewer for NIH SBIR grants and is the Editor in Chief of the ASAIO Journal.
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1:15PM - 3:45PM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Room 803
Thoracic Scientific Session: Pleura and Mediastinum - Recent Advances
Usman Ahmad, Cleveland Clinic
Usman Ahmad, MD, is a thoracic surgeon in the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart & Vascular Institute at Cleveland Clinic. He holds a joint appointment with the Taussig Cancer Institute. Dr. Ahmad is board-certified in surgery. He joined Cleveland Clinic in 2015.
Specialty interests: He is a general thoracic and lung transplant surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic. His clinical practice include thoracic oncology and end-stage lung disease management. He serves as the director of thoracic robotic surgery program and assistant surgical director of the lung transplant program.
Education and Training:
Dr. Ahmad earned his medical degree from the Aga Khan University Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan. He completed an immunology and vascular biology research fellowship at the Yale School of Medicine’s Vascular Biology and Transplantation program, New Haven, CT. His internship and residency in general surgery were also completed at Yale, where he also served as the Educational Chief. Dr. Ahmad completed his training in cardiothoracic surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and New York Presbyterian - Weil Cornell Medical Center, both in New York, NY.
Research and Leadership roles:
Dr. Ahmad and his research team focus on studying clinical outcomes in thoracic surgery, thoracic oncology and end stage lung disease. The group is uniquely positioned to study benign and malignant thoracic surgical disorders in lung transplant. Dr. Ahmad serves in various leadership roles in the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, American Association of Thoracic Surgery, and the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer.Jessica Donington, University of Chicago Medicine
Jessica S. Donington, MD, MSCR, is a thoracic surgeon with focus on the comprehensive and multidisciplinary care of benign and malignant chest diseases. Dr. Donington specializes in non-small cell lung cancer and treats people at all stages, providing a personalized approach to diagnosis and treatment using the latest technology and innovations.
In addition to her clinical practice, Dr. Donington is an avid researcher and respected leader in her field. Her research focus is on novel biomarkers for early detection and treatment of lung cancer and clinical trials that incorporate surgery into multi-modality lung cancer care.Dr. Donington is a past president of Women in Thoracic Surgery, New York Society for Thoracic Surgery and Western Thoracic Surgical Association. She is a member of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery and serves on the editorial boards for the Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Journal of Thoracic Oncology and CHEST.
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1:30PM - 3:45PM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Room 716
AATS/CHSS Summit: Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
Robert Jaquiss, Children's Medical Center
RDB "Jake" Jaquiss is Chief of Congenital Heart Surgery and Co-Director of the Heart Center at Children's Health System of Texas in Dallas and Professor of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery and Pediatrics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. After graduating from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, he did all of his post-graduate training in surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, and congenital heart surgery at Washington University in St. Louis.
David Overman, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
Dr. David M. Overman grew up in Chicago and Minneapolis. He completed his undergraduate education at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR, attended medical school at the University of Minnesota, and took a general surgery residency at Hennepin County Medical Center. He completed vascular surgery and cardiothoracic surgery fellowships at Rush Presbyterian – St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago and a fellowship in pediatric cardiac surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Upon completion of his training Dr. Overman joined The Children’s Heart Clinic, where he remains in practice today.
Dr. Overman is Chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Surgery at Children’s Minnesota and staff surgeon for the Mayo Clinic-Children’s Minnesota Cardiovascular Collaborative, with appointment as Adjunct Associate Professor of Surgery at Mayo Clinic Medical School. He is President of the Congenital Heart Surgeons Society, is a Senior Editor of the Annals of Thoracic Surgery and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and the International Journal of Cardiology - Congenital. He is a member of the STS CHSD Taskforce, and is an examiner for the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. He is Medical Director of Children’s HeartLink, a non-governmental organization that builds capacity for sustainable congenital heart disease programs in the developing world through partnerships between volunteer institutions in North America and Europe and partner institutions across the world.
Dr. Overman’s clinical interests include the surgical management of neonates, children and adults with congenital heart disease. He has specific expertise with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, complex neonatal repairs, and the Ross Procedure. His research interests include surgical manaagement of unbalanced atrioventricular septal defect, measurement and optimization of clinical outcomes, and systems of regionalization for congenital heart surgery.
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1:30PM - 3:45PM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Room 718A
Adult Cardiac Scientific Session: Advanced Surgical Approaches to the Aortic Valve
Elaine Tseng, University of California San Francisco
Dr. Tseng is Professor of Surgery at the University of California San Francisco and Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the San Francisco VA. Her academic research interests over the past 19 years have involved biomechanics, fluid dynamics, and computational simulations of aortic root surgery, including aortic stenosis, transcatheter aortic valves, Ross operation, ascending thoracic aortic aneurysm (aTAA) and dissection. She has been an NIH R01 funded surgeon-scientist investigating the biomechanics of ascending thoracic aortic aneurysms to determine better predictors of type A dissection than maximum diameter. Through the VA, she will investigate the impact of aTAA biomechanics on dissection, rupture, and death. Her clinical expertise is in structural heart disease and aortic surgery, including transcatheter aortic valve replacement, mitraclip, minimally invasive surgical valve repair and replacement, and ascending thoracic aneurysm repair. She has published >100 scientific papers and book chapters. Dr. Tseng serves on the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Workforce for New Technology and Workforce on Health Policy, Advocacy, & Reform, American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Research Foundation, and American Heart Association (AHA) Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia Council. She is completing her tenure as the Chair of the Thoracic Surgery Foundation Research Committee.
Joseph Bavaria, Thomas Jefferson University
Dr. Joseph Bavaria is currently the Roberts-Measey Professor of Surgery and Vice-Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. He was President of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (2016-2017) and is presently President of the Thoracic Surgery Foundation (TSF) (2019-2021). He is Director of the Thoracic Aortic Surgery Program at PENN which is a multidisciplinary program encompassing all aspects of aortic disease including thoracic aortic reconstruction and Marfan’s Syndrome. His primary interests include thoracic aortic surgery, aortic dissection, aortic root and ascending aortic reconstruction, aortic arch surgery and the circulation management necessary for successful thoracic aortic clinical outcomes. Additionally, Dr. Bavaria's clinical interests include thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm surgery. Dr. Bavaria's clinical interests include valvular heart surgery and he is the national primary investigator in over 20 industry sponsored, FDA IDE trials as well as ongoing NIH funding in the GenTAC study and the CTSNetwork.
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1:30PM - 3:45PM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Room 714
Perioperative Care Scientific Session: Challenging Topics in Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Support
Hitoshi Hirose, Cleveland Clinic
Dr Hirose was graduated from Nagasaki University School of Medicine in 1990, underwent general surgery residency at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital; then, Cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at Cleveland Clinic and Hahnemann University Hospital. He started cardiothoracic surgery practiced at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and appointed as Professor of Surgery. He moved to Virtua Health System in 2021 as a director of cardiac critical care. He was appointed Clinical Professor of Surgery at Rowan University Osteopathic Medicine and involved in the teaching of students, residents, and fellow. He has more than 300 peer review publications and he is serving editorial board in numerous cardiovascular and thoracic surgery related journals. He is member/fellow of STS, AATS, ACCP, and SCCM. His primary interest is cardiac critical care and mechanical circulatory assist device especially in ECMO.
Asad Usman
Dr. Asad Usman graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in mathematics and psychology. There he worked in the ECMO/MCS lab under the direction of Dr. Robert Bartlett focusing on cardiac contractility. After matriculating into medical school Asad completed his MD as well as his MPH in Biostatistics. He then completed his Anesthesiology Residency at Boston University and - Cardiac Anesthesiology & Critical Care Fellowships at The University of Pennsylvania. He is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care where he is part of the ECMO and Mechanical Circulatory Support teams. He focuses his research and clinical work on Perioperative Echocardiography and Mechanical Circulatory Support for heart and lung failure. He is supported by grants from the NIH, NHLBI, and the University of Pennsylvania.
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Moderators:
Hitoshi Hirose, Cleveland Clinic
Asad Usman
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Moderators:
Hitoshi Hirose, Cleveland Clinic
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1:30PM - 3:45PM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Room 715
Structural Heart Scientific Session: Mitral Valve Therapies
Stephanie Mick, Weill Cornell
Stephanie Mick is the Carrie and David Landew Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery and the Director of the Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery at New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medicine.
Olaf Wendler, Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute, Cleveland Clinic London
After his cardiothoracic surgical training at the Medical School Hannover/Germany, Professor Wendler worked as staff surgeon at the Heart Center Leipzig/Germany. He later became deputy of the Cardiothoracic Department at the University Hospital Saarland/Germany, where he completed his PhD on complete arterial revascularization. In 2004 Professor Wendler was appointed at King’s College Hospital, and held the position of clinical director for cardiovascular services from 2006 until 2012, when he was promoted Professor of Cardiac Surgery at King’s College London.
In June 2018 he was appointed as chair of the Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute of Cleveland Clinic London and in December 2019 he became Professor of Surgery at the CC Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University.
Professor Wendler has a particular interest in the treatment of heart valve disease and is sub-specialized in valve repair techniques including the aortic root, mitral and tricuspid valve. Due to his particular expertise in this area, Professor Wendler runs a service particularly specialized in the treatment of complex multiple heart valve surgery including patients with carcinoid disease. Through his close collaboration with the vascular surgical department and interventional radiology he has also established King’s College Hospital as one of the major centers for thoracic aortic surgery in London.
Professor Wendler has a particular interest in clinical innovation and in 2007 performed the first transapical Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) in the UK. He has established King’s College Hospital as one of the major international centers for this innovative treatment and over recent years the King’s Heart Team performed the UK’s first TAVI in a failing aortic bioprosthesis (2008), the first transcatheter valve implantation in a failing mitral bioprosthesis (2010) and the worlds first non-predilation transapical TAVI in 2011.
Marc Gillinov, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Since joining the Cleveland Clinic in 1997, A. Marc Gillinov has become one of the nation’s busiest heart surgeons. He is the Chair of the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and specializes in robotic and minimally-invasive heart valve repair and replacement. His patients range from Academy Award winner Robin Williams to his long-time barber, Vince.
Gilbert Tang, Mount Sinai Health System
Dr. Gilbert Tang is currently the Surgical Director of the Structural Heart Program at the Mount Sinai Health System and Professor in the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. He has >13 years of experience in treating structural heart disease and performed nearly 3500 cases of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), transcatheter mitral valve repair (MitraClip), transcatheter mitral valve replacement, and tricuspid valve repair and replacement procedures. He obtained his BA from Harvard University and MD from University of Toronto. Dr. Tang completed his residency training at the University of Toronto and also a Masters of Science there and an MBA at Harvard. He underwent subsequent training in transcatheter valve procedures at Leipzig Heart Center and University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Tang is leading a number of multicenter studies in structural heart disease, including the global EXPLANT-TAVR and CUTTING-EDGE registries. He pioneered the cusp-overlap technique to optimize self-expanding TAVR deployment and commissural alignment technique to help better orient TAVR devices (the ALIGN-TAVR study). He serves on multiple committees in the Heart Valve Collaboratory and PCR. His research has been published in many top peer-reviewed medical journals and presented at many international conferences. He has trained many physicians and heart teams to perform transcatheter valve procedures around the world. Dr. Tang is a member of the AATS, STS, AHA and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada (FRCSC), American College of Cardiology (FACC) and Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (FSCAI).
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Moderators:
Stephanie Mick, Weill Cornell
Olaf Wendler, Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute, Cleveland Clinic London -
Panelists:
Marc Gillinov, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Gilbert Tang, Mount Sinai Health System
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Moderators:
Stephanie Mick, Weill Cornell
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1:30PM - 3:45PM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Room 801
Thoracic Scientific Session: Lung Cancer: Improving Outcomes
Leah Backhus, Stanford Univ School of Medicine
Leah Backhus, MD MPH FACS trained at the University of Southern California and the University of California Los Angeles. She is Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Stanford University and has grant funding through the Veterans Affairs Administration and the NIH. Her research examines imaging surveillance following treatment for lung cancer. She holds several leadership roles within the STS, AATS, and WTS also serves as Chair of the Women and Lung Cancer Task Group of the National Lung Cancer Roundtable of the American Cancer Society and Chair of the ACGME Thoracic Residency Review Committee.
Haiquan Chen, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center
Dr. Chen holds the position of chairman and professor in the Department of Thoracic Surgery at the Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center. Additionally, he serves as the director of the Institute of Thoracic Oncology and the Lung Cancer Center. He holds the role of vice chief editor for the Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology and JTO Clinical and Research Reports. He is a member of the editorial board for several SCI journals, including the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. Dr. Chen is the leading principal investigator for more than 10 research programs, including two major programs funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has published over 250 papers in academic journals, including Cancer Cell, JCO, and CCR. Notably, his innovative discoveries in 33 of his papers have been referenced in 17 international guidelines for 41 times, such as guidelines from ASCO, ESMO, ACCP, and IASLC.
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3:45PM - 4:15PM EDT
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4:15PM - 5:30PM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Room 716
Congenital Innovation: Addressing the Patient with Complex Transposition*
Bahaaldin Alsoufi, Norton Children's Hospital
Professor and Chief of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery
University of Louisville School of Medicine
Co-Director of the Heart Institute
Norton Chidlren's Hospital
Stephanie Fuller, The University of Pennsylvania
Stephanie Fuller, MD, MS, is a Professor of Clinical Surgery in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Fuller performs the full range of reconstructive congenital operations, as well as cardiothoracic transplantation, in neonates to adults. She is the Thomas L. Spray, MD Endowed Chair in Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery at CHOP and the Surgical Director of the Philadelphia Adult Congenital Heart Center, a joint program of CHOP and Penn Medicine for adult survivors. Dr. Fuller is the Program Director of Congenital Cardiothoracic Fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Congenital CME Editor for The Annals of Thoracic Surgery and an oral board examiner for the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. She is the Congenital Committee Chair for the Thoracic Surgery Directors Association. Her research focuses upon long term outcomes of single ventricle disease, neurocognitive outcomes after congenital heart surgery, and adult congenital heart disease issues such as prosthetic valve longevity in young adults and combined heart liver transplantation for single ventricle patients. Dr. Fuller lectures internationally and has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in such journals as The Annals of Thoracic Surgery and The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.
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4:15PM - 5:30PM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Room 718A
Coronary Innovations*
Sigrid Sandner, Medical University of Vienna - MUW - Medizinische Universität Wien
Sigrid Sandner graduated from the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, in 1999. Following a research fellowship in transplantation immunology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital - Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School from 2000 to 2003, Dr. Sandner completed her clinical training in cardiac surgery (2011) and vascular surgery (2016) at the Medical University of Vienna. Currently, Dr. Sandner is an Associate Professor of Surgery at the Medical University of Vienna and Director of the Coronary Surgery Program at the Department of Cardiac Surgery, Vienna General Hospital - Medical University of Vienna. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine, NY. Dr. Sandner is the current Chair of the EACTS Coronary Task Force.
Jennifer Lawton, Johns Hopkins Univerity
Jennifer S. Lawton, MD, is the Richard B. Darnall Professor of Surgery, Chief of the Division of Cardiac Surgery, Director of Cardiac Surgery Research Laboratory, and Cardiac Surgeon – in – Charge, Johns Hopkins University and Hospital.
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4:15PM - 5:30PM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Room 714
Perioperative Care Innovation: Interventional Critical Care*
Ansar Hassan, Maine Medical Center
Dr. Ansar Hassan completed medical school and McGill University in Montreal, Canada and a residency in cardiac surgery at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. During his residency, he fufilled a PhD in clinical outcomes research and social epidemiology. He went on to do a fellowship in minimally invasive and robotic cardiac surgery with Dr. W Randolph Chitwood at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina after which he joined the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the New Brunswick Heart Centre in Saint John, New Brunswick. After nearly 13 years at the New Brunswick Heart Center, he has now joined the Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine and brings with him a wealth of experience in the field of minimally invasive cardiac surgery and, more specifically, minimally invasive mitral valve repair surgery. He is the sugical lead for the MMC Mitral Center of Excellence and is actively collaborting to grow the cardiac surgical research program.
Andrew Shaw, Cleveland Clinic
Dr Shaw is Chairman, Department of Intensive Care and Resuscitation at The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (UK), a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine and a Fellow of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (UK). He also holds a Master’s Degree in Healthcare Management from Vanderbilt University. He has practiced cardiothoracic anesthesiology and critical care medicine for more than 25 years in the UK, USA and Canada, and has authored 4 textbooks and more than 250 original publications, with an h-index of 76. His clinical practice is cardiothoracic, surgical intensive care and perioperative medicine. His translational research interests include biomarker discovery in acute illness and injury. His clinical research interests include observational and pragmatic interventional trials of candidate interventions to prevent and treat adverse outcomes following cardiac surgery, in particular the role of intravenous fluid therapy in acute kidney injury. His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the US Department of Defense, private philanthropy and by industry. He is the Immediate Past President of the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists and a founder Director of the Peri Operative Quality Initiative.
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4:15PM - 5:45PM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Room 715
Structural Heart Innovation: Novel Transcatheter Technology*
Aakriti Gupta, Department of Cardiology, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Dr. Aakriti Gupta is an Assistant Professor of Cardiology, practicing interventional and structural cardiology at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles. After obtaining her Doctor of Medicine degree from Panjab University in India, Dr. Gupta completed her Internal Medicine Residency at the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. She pursued her General Cardiology Fellowship and Interventional Cardiology Fellowship at Columbia University School of Medicine where she also pursued a Masters in Science degree in Patient-Oriented Research with full scholarship, while funded by T32 grant from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Gupta then came to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to pursue advanced training in structural heart disease interventions and gained tremendous expertise in performing transcatheter valvular interventions in addition to complex coronary interventions. Additionally, Dr. Gupta has authored over 80 scientific publications in leading medical journals including Nature Medicine, Lancet, JAMA, JACC and Circulation. Her clinical and research interests converge at the intersection of structural interventional cardiology and health services research, with a passion for leveraging applications of medical informatics and deep learning for strategic use of data from electronic health record systems, imaging, claims data and clinical registries to improve risk prediction and patient outcomes. She has served as a Section Editor for Circulation: Cardiovascular Outcomes and Research journal and currently serves as the Executive Associate Editor for JACC. Additionally, she has had the distinction to serve on the ACC/AHA NCDR Chest Pain MI Committee and ACC/AHA Data Standards for COVID-19 Committee. She has also authored book chapters in textbooks and is frequently invited as faculty at international cardiology meetings.
Jaffar Khan, St Francis Hospital
Jaffar is Director of Cardiovascular Innovation and Director of Interventional Electrosurgery at St Francis Hospital - Heart Center in New York.
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Moderators:
Aakriti Gupta, Department of Cardiology, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Jaffar Khan, St Francis Hospital
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Moderators:
Aakriti Gupta, Department of Cardiology, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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4:15PM - 5:30PM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Room 801
Thoracic Innovation: Advanced Technologies*
Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Toronto General Hospital
Dr. Kazuhiro Yasufuku is an internationally known Thoracic Surgeon with specific expertise in minimally invasive thoracic surgery and minimally invasive diagnostic procedures. He is the Head of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at the Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network. He is also Professor and Chair of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at University of Toronto. He holds the RFG Pearson – RJ Ginsberg Chair in Thoracic Surgery and William Coco Chair in Surgical Innovation for Lung Cancer. He serves as Director of Endoscopy and Director of the Interventional Thoracic Surgery Program at the University Health Network.
Dr. Yasufuku has been a leader in the field of minimally invasive diagnostics and therapeutics for thoracic malignancy. He co-developed the Convex Probe Endobronchial Ultrasound in collaboration with Olympus and has successfully introduced the clinical application of EBUS-TBNA in Thoracic Oncology. His clinical interests include minimally invasive diagnostic and surgery for thoracic oncology and lung transplantation. He leads the Thoracic Robotic Surgery Program and GTx Program at the University Health Network.
Lisa Brown, UC Davis Health
Dr. Lisa Brown is an Associate Professor of Thoracic Surgery at UC Davis Health with expertise in thoracic oncology and benign esophageal diseases. She completed her general surgery training at UCSF and cardiothoracic surgery training at Washington University. She has a Master of Advanced Study degree in Clinical Research from UCSF. She is an expert in Health Services Research and her research focus is on patient-centered care for thoracic surgical patients. In particular, she focuses on patient-reported outcomes, health-related quality of life, and pain managment and opioid use. She serves as an Associate Statistical Editor for JTCVS and is on the Editorial Boards of Annals of Thoracic Surgery and Annals of Surgery Open.
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4:15PM - 5:30PM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Room 717
Wellbeing Session
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5:30PM - 7:30PM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Exhibit Hall
Welcome Reception in the Exhibit Hall
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5:30PM - 7:30PM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Exhibit Hall, Poster Area
Resident Case Report Posters
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5:30PM - 6:15PM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Theater 2, Exhibit Hall
Early Outcomes and a Perspective on Porcine vs Bovine | Sponsored by: Abbott *
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5:30PM - 7:30PM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Exhibit Hall, Poster Area
Cardiothoracic Resident Poster Competition | Supported by: Cleveland Clinic *
Multi-Specialty -
5:30PM - 6:20PM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Theater 1, Exhibit Hall
General Thoracic Biology Club Scientific Session
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5:30PM - 7:30PM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Theater 3, Exhibit Hall
AATS / WTS / WITCA Reception
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6:20PM - 6:40PM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Exhibit Hall, Theater 2
Ultrasound Guidance with On-Pump Intracardiac Echocardiography for Septal Myectomy | Supported by: FUJIFILM *
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6:30PM - 7:30PM EDT Metro Toronto Convention Center, Theater 1, Exhibit Hall
Cardiothoracic Resident Case Report Competition
Bradley Taylor, University of Maryland Medical System
Bradley Taylor, MD, MPH, is Professor and Chief, Division of Cardiac Surgery at The University of Maryland School of Medicine. He also serves as the Director of Coronary Revascularization and the Co-Director of the Center of Aortic Disease.
Dr. Taylor graduated from Oxford College of Emory University and Emory College with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. He received his Master’s in Public Health with a focus in Health Administration and a Medical Degree from the Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Taylor trained in both general and cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. There he studied the regulation and expression of the Human Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase (INOS) Gene. He has published manuscripts in both the Proceedings of National Academy of Science and the Journal of Biochemistry. After training, Dr. Taylor stayed at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center as an Assisted Professor in Cardiothoracic.
In 2006, Dr. Taylor completed a minimally invasive mitral valve cardiac surgery fellowship at the OLV Hospital in Aalst Belgium
Dr. Taylor joined the faculty at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 2012, after establishing a busy community-based practice in Cardiac and Vascular surgery in South Central PA. His clinical and research efforts have focused on the surgical treatment of aortic disease, coronary artery bypass grafting as well as the impact of cardiac surgery in the state of Maryland. He performs over 400 complex adult cardiac cases per year and leads a Cardiac Surgery team that performs more than 1800 cardiac operations per year. Dr. Taylor performs a full array of cardiac surgery and has been instrumental in developing and implementing an advanced endovascular aortic repair program.
Dr. Taylor was appointed Chief of the Division in 2021. Through his and his team's efforts, Maryland is now a leader in quality outcomes and market shares.
Christopher Seder, Rush University Medical Center
Dr. Seder is the Arthur E. Diggs, MD and L. Penfield Faber, MD Chair of Surgical Sciences and Chief of Thoracic Surgey at Rush University Medical Center. His academic interests include investigating blood-based tumor markers to identify lung cancers at the earliest stage, outcomes research, and resident education. Dr. Seder is also the cardiothoracic surgery residency program director and has been awarded the L. Penfield Faber Teaching Award for excellence in education multiple times.
Michael Bowdish, Cedars-Sinai Health System
Dr. Bowdish serves as Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Bowdish’s clinical expertise focuses on aortic surgery, including aortic root reconstruction, valve-sparing root surgery, aortic arch surgery, hybrid repair techniques, in addition to heart transplantation, and mechanical circulatory support. Dr. Bowdish’s research focuses on pivotal randomized trials in cardiac surgery primarily through the NIH-sponsored Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network. Dr. Bowdish’s currently serves as Chair of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Adult Cardiac Surgery Database Task Force.
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Moderators:
Bradley Taylor, University of Maryland Medical System
Christopher Seder, Rush University Medical Center - Panelist: Michael Bowdish, Cedars-Sinai Health System
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Moderators:
Bradley Taylor, University of Maryland Medical System
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7:15PM - 9:00PM EDT Delta Hotel, SOCO Ballroom A
Industry Dinner Symposium: Segmentectomy in Focus: Perspectives on Technique and Decision-Making | Sponsored by: Medtronic *
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