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7:00AM - 8:00AM EDT Omni King Edward Hotel
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8:00AM - 10:00AM EDT Omni King Edward Hotel, Vanity Fair Ballroom
Opening Plenary: Different Approaches for Heart and Lung DCD Transplant
Ashish Shah, Vanderbilt University
Dr. Ashish S. Shah is the Alfred Blalock Director and Chair of Cardiac Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He trained at Duke University Medical Center and served on the faculty of The Johns Hopkins Hospital for 10years before joining the faculty at Vanderbilt.
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.
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10:15AM - 11:45AM EDT Omni King Edward Hotel
Concurrent Session A1: Optimal Strategy in Heart Preservation
Nader Moazami, New York University
Nader Moazami, MD is the Surgical Director of Heart Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory support at NYU Langone Health. Dr. Moazami is a graduate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. He served his internship and residency at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, and completed a fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery at Cleveland Clinic in 2001. His major areas of focus have been in Mechanical Circulatory Support and more recently on Heart transplantation.
A prolific researcher, Dr. Moazami has published more than 100 scientific articles in leading peer-reviewed journals. He has been the principal investigator on over two dozen trials of new heart assist devices and other therapies for end-stage heart failure. Additionally he serves as a reviewer for several of the heart and transplantation journals.
Dr. Moazami is a frequent speaker and instructor with more than 200 presentations and educational sessions to his credit. His professional memberships include the International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation, Society of Thoracic Surgeons, Heart Failure Society of America, American Society for Artificial Internal Organs and American Association for Thoracic Surgery. His professional career has been dedicated to advancing the field of mechanical circulatory support and heart transplantation. His most recent accomplishments are in areas of expanding the donor pool for heart transplantation using NRP for DCD heart donations, use of hepatitis C viremic donor hearts, and ethical aspects of NRP. In summer of 2022, his team was the first in the world to complete pig-human xenotransplantation in 2 recently deceased recipients who donated their body to research.
Victor Pretorius
Victor Pretorius, MBChB, FRCSC
Professor of Clinical Surgery, Attending Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Surgical Director of Heart Transplant & Mechanical Circulatory Support Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CADr. Victor Pretorius completed medical school at the University of Pretoria South Africa. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada following a cardiac surgery residency at the University of Alberta, Canada.
Following a dedicated year of training in Pulmonary thromboendarterectomy and right heart failure at UCSD he became faculty and is currently professor of clinical surgery and surgical director of the heart transplant and mechanical circulatory support programs at UC San Diego Health.
Dr. Pretorius’ research and clinical interest is focused on adult cardiac surgery. He has participated in over 3000 cases of adult and pediatric cardiac surgery, including heart and lung transplantation and mechanical assist device implantation. Under his leadership the UCSD heart transplant program has grown to become one of the largest and most progressive programs in the nation. He has performed more than 1000 PTE surgeries over the past 14 years and further specializes in adult congenital heart diseases. Dr. Pretorius publishes papers about these procedures and presents his findings at conferences around the world.
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Moderators:
Nader Moazami, New York University
Victor Pretorius
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Moderators:
Nader Moazami, New York University
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10:15AM - 11:45AM EDT Omni King Edward Hotel, Sovereign Ballroom
Concurrent Session A2: Hot Topics in Lung Transplantation
Konrad Hoetzenecker, Medical University of Vienna
Konrad Hoetzenecker, MD PhD is a member of the surgical faculty of the Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, and the Director of the Vienna Lung Transplant Program. Besides lung transplantation he is specialized in airway surgery and extended thoracic procedures. Dr Hoetzenecker has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and is an editorial board member of the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. Dr Hoetzenecker has been awarded several prizes and grants including the Graham Memorial Traveling Fellowship from the American Association of Thoracic Surgery.
Jasleen Kukreja, University of California San Francisco
Jasleen Kukreja, M.D., M.P.H. is Professor of Surgery and Doris F. and Donald G. Fisher Distinguished Professor in Pulmonary Therapies and Science in the Division of Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), USA. Dr. Kukreja is Program and Surgical director of UCSF Lung Transplantation as well as Director of the Adult Respiratory Mechanical Circulatory Support (ECMO) program.
Dr. Kukreja earned her medical degree from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine, USA. She completed General Surgery residency and a two-year Thoracic Surgery fellowship under the illustrious late Dr. David Sugarbaker at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), Harvard Medical School in Boston. She attended Harvard School of Public Health where she earned a Master of Public Health Degree. Subsequently, she completed a fellowship training in Cardiothoracic Surgery at UCSF where she has remained as faculty.
Under her leadership, the UCSF Lung Transplantation Program has become one of the premiere programs in the country. Dr. Kukreja has received numerous professional honors including the Excellence in Teaching Award at Harvard Medical School, Outstanding Pulmonary Physician Specialist Award and the Special Recognition for Excellence Award from American Board of Cardiology, Top Doctors 2016, 2017, 2020, Exceptional Women in Medicine 2017, 2019, and the inaugural Trailblazing Women in Surgery Muriel Steele Society Award 2019.
Her research focuses on outcomes in Lung Transplantation. She has published extensively and has been invited nationally and internationally to share her expertise. She is proud to have trained the next generation of Lung Transplant surgeons who then went on to lead other Lung Transplant Programs in the country.
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11:45AM - 12:15PM EDT Omni King Edward Hotel
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12:15PM - 1:00PM EDT Omni King Edward Hotel, Vanity Fair Ballroom
Lunch Symposium: Enhancing Transplant Outcomes with Advanced Preservation Techniques | Sponsored by: Paragonix Technologies
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1:00PM - 1:30PM EDT Omni King Edward Hotel
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1:30PM - 3:00PM EDT Omni King Edward Hotel, Vanity Fair Ballroom
Concurrent Session B1: Managing the High Risk Donor - Disasters and Rescues
Marisa Cevasco, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Marisa Cevasco is a cardiac surgeon at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She is surgical director of Mechanical Circulatory Support. She has a clinical focus in heart transplant, MCS, and general adult cardiac surgery. She received training at Columbia University Medical Center and Brigham and Women's. She is also the Program Director for the integrated and traditional training programs in cardiac surgery.
Victor Pretorius
Victor Pretorius, MBChB, FRCSC
Professor of Clinical Surgery, Attending Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Surgical Director of Heart Transplant & Mechanical Circulatory Support Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CADr. Victor Pretorius completed medical school at the University of Pretoria South Africa. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada following a cardiac surgery residency at the University of Alberta, Canada.
Following a dedicated year of training in Pulmonary thromboendarterectomy and right heart failure at UCSD he became faculty and is currently professor of clinical surgery and surgical director of the heart transplant and mechanical circulatory support programs at UC San Diego Health.
Dr. Pretorius’ research and clinical interest is focused on adult cardiac surgery. He has participated in over 3000 cases of adult and pediatric cardiac surgery, including heart and lung transplantation and mechanical assist device implantation. Under his leadership the UCSD heart transplant program has grown to become one of the largest and most progressive programs in the nation. He has performed more than 1000 PTE surgeries over the past 14 years and further specializes in adult congenital heart diseases. Dr. Pretorius publishes papers about these procedures and presents his findings at conferences around the world.
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1:30PM - 3:00PM EDT Omni King Edward Hotel, Sovereign Ballroom
Concurrent Session B2: ARDS Management - Strategies to Improve Patient Outcomes
Caitlin Demarest, Vanderbilt University Hospital
Dr. Demarest is a Thoracic surgeon at Vanderbilt. She is the Associate Surgical Director of Lung Transplantation, a program that performed 95 transplants in 2023. She completed her general surgery residency at Columbia University, where her interest in lung transplantation and ECMO was developed. She took three years off of residency and moved to Pittsburgh to obtain a PhD in biomedical engineering and artificial lung development from Carnegie Mellon University. Subsequently, she returned to Columbia to finish residency, then proceeded with thoracic and lung transplant fellowship at the University of Michigan.
She is the Associate Program Director of Thoracic Surgery Residency, the medical student clerkship director, and the Cardiothoracic Surgery Representative to the Early Career & Trainee Committee for ISHLT. She is a member of both the Workforce on Technology and Innovation, as well as the Workforce for General Thoracic Surgery for the STS. She currently serves as the co-director of the Laboratory for Organ Regeneration, Recovery, and Replacement along with her mentor of over 14 years, Dr. Matthew Bacchetta. Their lab is focused on creating organ support systems that provide extended physiologic support for injured organs, bioengineering platforms for organ recovery and regeneration, and developing artificial cardiopulmonary assist systems. She is a mom of two small kids, a busy thoracic oncologist and lung transplanter - and she is an avid user of EVLP.
Eddy Fan, University of Toronto, University Health Network
Eddy Fan is a Professor in the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto and a Staff Intensivist at the University Health Network/Mount Sinai Hospital. Dr. Fan received his undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto, his medical degree from the University of Western Ontario and a PhD in Clinical Investigation from Johns Hopkins University. He is currently the Medical Director of the Extracorporeal Life Support Program at the Toronto General Hospital. Dr. Fan’s research has focused on advanced life support for acute respiratory failure and patient outcomes from critical illness.
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3:00PM - 3:15PM EDT Omni King Edward Hotel
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3:15PM - 4:45PM EDT Omni King Edward Hotel, Vanity Fair Ballroom
Concurrent Session C1: Taking To Long View - Recovery, Transplant or LVAD
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 served as the Editor in Chief of the ASAIO Journal 2013-2024.
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3:15PM - 4:45PM EDT Omni King Edward Hotel, Sovereign Ballroom
Concurrent Session C2: Lung Innovation: Organ Preservation Strategies (Non CME)
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
Sahar Saddoughi, Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN)
Dr Sahar A. Saddoughi is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN with joint appointments to both the Division of Thoracic Surgery and Department of Cardiovascular Surgery. She earned her MD & PhD degrees from Medical University of South Carolina, then completed general surgery and cardiothoracic surgery training at the Mayo Clinic. She then went onto fellowship in lung transplantation at Toronto General Hospital and has been back on staff at Mayo Clinic since July 2022. Her clinical interests include lung transplantation and thoracic oncology.
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5:00PM - 6:30PM EDT Omni King Edward Hotel
Welcome Reception and Poster Competition | Sponsored by: TransMedics
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