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7:00AM - 8:00AM EDT
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8:00AM - 9:30AM EDT Boston Marriott Copley Place, Salon F
Opening Plenary (Non CME)
Matthew Hartwig, Duke Hospital
Dr. Hartwig is a tenured Professor of Surgery within the Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at Duke University School of Medicine. He has particular clinical interests in lung transplantation, disorders of the esophagus, and robotic technology utilization in thoracic surgery.
- Moderator: Matthew Hartwig, Duke Hospital
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9:30AM - 9:45AM EDT
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9:45AM - 11:30AM EDT Boston Marriott Copley Place, Salon F
DCD Lung Transplantation (Non CME)
Mauricio Pipkin, University of Miami
Mauricio Pipkin, MD, is an associate professor of surgery at the University of Miami College of Medicine. Dr. Pipkin joined the Division of Thoracic Surgery, lung transplantation, this current year. After completing clinical fellowships in thoracic surgery and lung transplantation at the University of Toronto he joined the University of Florida for 5 years developing the thoracic surgery oncology with focus in lung cancer and sarcoma, extracorporeal life support and lung transplantation. During the COVID pandemic, performing ECMO and lung transplantation in patient with COVID/ARDS sequelae being one of the highest volume centers.
He was also a research fellow at the Latner Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratories at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Pipkin earned his medical degree at the Lutheran University of Brazil, followed by his general surgery residency at the same University and thoracic surgery residency at Pontifical Catholic University of Porto Alegre in Brazil.
At University of Miami, he is the Surgical Director of ECMO Program. His clinical interests include lung transplantation, thoracic surgical oncology, robotic surgery, and extracorporeal life support, while his research interests include pulmonary metastasis, lung cancer, extracorporeal life support and education in thoracic surgery.
Dr. Pipkin is a member of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation.
Marcelo Cypel, University Health Network
Marcelo Cypel MD, MSc, FACS, FRCSC
Surgical Director Ajmera Transplant Centre at UHN
Surgical Director UHN ECLS Program
Canada Research Chair in Lung Transplantation
Professor of Surgery, Division of Thoracic SurgeryUniversity of Toronto, University Health Network
Senior-Scientist, Toronto General Research Institute
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9:45AM - 11:30AM EDT Boston Marriott Copley Place, Salon E
Shock and MCS in Shock
John Trahanas, Vanderbilt University
Dr. John Trahanas is an Assistant Professor of Cardiac Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Prior to Vanderbilt Dr. Trahanas completed his cardiac surgery training at the Massachusetts General Hopsital with advanced training at Duke University Medical Center. He cares for the full spectrum of patients with adult cardiac disease, aortic disease as well as advanced heart failure. His reasearch interestes include heart preservation, heart tranplantation, with specific expertise in DCD heart recovery and transplantation. Along with the other surgeons at Vanderbilt, Dr. Trahanas has helped to standardize normothermic regional perfusion for the recovery of DCD heart donors.
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Moderators:
John Trahanas, Vanderbilt University
Jason Smith, UCSF
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Moderators:
John Trahanas, Vanderbilt University
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11:30AM - 12:00PM EDT
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12:00PM - 12:45PM EDT Boston Marriott Copley Place, Salon E
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12:45PM - 1:15PM EDT
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1:15PM - 2:45PM EDT Boston Marriott Copley Place, Salon F
ECMO In Lung Transplantation
Jacob Klapper, Duke University Hospital
Associate Professor of Thoracic Surgery
Duke University Medical Center
Co-Surgical Director ECMO Program
- Moderator: Jacob Klapper, Duke University Hospital
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1:15PM - 2:45PM EDT Boston Marriott Copley Place, Salon E
Heart Preservation Today
David D'Alessandro, Harvard University Medical School
David A. D’Alessandro, MD is the Associate Chief of Clinical Operations in Cardiac Surgery and the Surgical Director of Heart Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices in the Division of Cardiac Surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. D’Alessandro received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and his medical education at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. D’Alessandro completed his residency in General Surgery, a fellowship in Renal Transplantation and clinical and research fellowships in Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Columbia University Medical Center in New York. He has focused his clinical interests on surgical treatments of end stage heart failure including mechanical assistance and heart transplantation. He has extensive experience with acute and chronic mechanical circulatory support devices and has been an advocate for the use of ex vivo perfusion for the resuscitation of donor organs and strong proponent of the use of DCD cardiac allografts.
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3:00PM - 4:30PM EDT Boston Marriott Copley Place, Salon E
Emerging Topics in Heart Transplant and MCS
Keki Balsara, MedStar Georgetown/Washington Hospital Center
Professor of Surgery at Georgetown University School of Medicine and Surgical Director of the Heart Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support Program at Medstar Health.
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3:00PM - 4:45PM EDT Boston Marriott Copley Place, Salon F
Hot Topics in Lung Transplantation
Matthew Hartwig, Duke Hospital
Dr. Hartwig is a tenured Professor of Surgery within the Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at Duke University School of Medicine. He has particular clinical interests in lung transplantation, disorders of the esophagus, and robotic technology utilization in thoracic surgery.
- Moderator: Matthew Hartwig, Duke Hospital
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5:00PM - 6:30PM EDT
Welcome Reception and Poster Viewing Sponsored by Lung Bioengineering