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7:30AM - 9:00AM EDT
Opening Plenary
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7:30AM - 9:30AM EDT Omni King Edward Hotel, Vanity Fair Ballroom
Transplant Organ Recovery Models and Distribution
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10:00AM - 11:45AM EDT Omni King Edward Hotel, Vanity Fair Ballroom
Innovation Award Presentation and Innovation Session
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12:00PM - 12:45PM EDT Omni King Edward Hotel, Sovereign Ballroom
Industry Lunch Symposium: The Benefits of Centralized EVLP for an Expanding Lung Program | Sponsored by: Lung Bioengineering
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1:00PM - 2:45PM EDT Omni King Edward Hotel, Sovereign Ballroom
DCD Donation/Current and Its Impact on Transplant
Nader Moazami, NYU Langone Health
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.
Ashish Shah, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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.
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1:15PM - 2:45PM EDT Omni King Edward Hotel, Vanity Fair Ballroom
Donor Lung Preservation: What Is New?
Marcelo Cypel, Toronto General Hospital
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
- Moderator: Marcelo Cypel, Toronto General Hospital
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3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT Omni King Edward Hotel, Sovereign Ballroom
Current Use of MCS and Future Technology
Mark Slaughter, University of Louisville/Jewish Hospital
Mark S. Slaughter, M.D. is the Professor and Chair of the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at the University of Louisville and the Cardiovascular Innovation Institute Medical Director and Distinguished Chair Jewish Hospitial. 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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3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT Omni King Edward Hotel, Vanity Fair Ballroom
New Technology in Lung Transplantation
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5:00PM - 6:30PM EDT Omni King Edward Hotel, Pall Mall & Palm Court
Mechanical Support and Thoracic Transplantation Summit Poster Competition