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6:00AM - 7:15AM EDT Sheraton Boston, Grand Pre-Function
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7:15AM - 9:45AM EDT Sheraton Boston, Constitution
Mitral Valve Disease - Case Based Learning
David Adams, Mount Sinai Health System
Dr. David H. Adams is the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Cardiac Surgeon-in-Chief of the Mount Sinai Health System. He is internationally recognized as a thought leader in the field of mitral valve reconstruction, and leads a specialized team that performs over 400 mitral valve operations per year. He is a co-author of the acclaimed valve textbook, Carpentier’s Reconstructive Valve Surgery, and has co-invented multiple valve repair prostheses used throughout the world. He is the author of over 300 peer-reviewed publications, and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Dr. Adams was the 99th President of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery.
Anelechi Anyanwu, Mount Sinai Health System
Dr. Anyanwu is Professor and Vice-Chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery in the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His clinical interests include mitral valve surgery, reoperative surgery, and surgery for heart-failure. Dr. Anyanwu has served the AATS in various roles, including serving on the Program Committee for prior Mitral Conclave and Annual Meetings. He currently serves on the AATS Board.
Randolph Martin, Emeritus Professor-Emory Medical School
Dr. Martin attended Emory University School of Medicine, graduating summa cum laude in 1969. He then went on to do training in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at Stanford University Medical Center, where he became one of the pioneers in the field of Noninvasive Cardiology, using ultrasound – echocardiography – to diagnose cardiovascular conditions.
Dr. Martin then went on to hold faculty positions and clinical staff positions at Stanford University, the University of Virginia, and the Mayo Medical School and Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minnesota, where he was a Consultative Cardiologist, as well as Associate Professor of Medicine.
In 1989, Dr. Martin returned to Atlanta and to Emory University School of Medicine and The Emory Clinic to become Professor of Medicine and Director of Noninvasive Cardiology – a position he held up until September of 2009. During his tenure at Emory, Dr. Martin served as Associate Dean in the School of Medicine as well as Associate Director of The Emory Clinic. In September of 2009, Dr. Martin received the academic appointment of Emeritus Professor of Medicine [Cardiology], Emory University School of Medicine, after he joined Piedmont Heart Institute as Medical Director of Cardiovascular Imaging and Chief of Structural & Valvular Heart Disease. In September, 2012, in addition to his continuing leadership role as Chief of the Structural and Valvular Center of Excellence at the Piedmont Heart Institute, Dr. Martin was appointed Physician Principal Advisor, Educational Programs, Marcus Heart Valve Center a position he held till January 2017
Dr. Martin is the past president of the American Society of Echocardiography – an organization of >20,000 cardiovascular specialists. Dr. Martin is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the European Society of Cardiology, and the American Society of Echocardiography.
In December 2022 Dr Martin was appointed Clinical Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery at Mount Sinai in Department of CV Surg
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Moderators:
David Adams, Mount Sinai Health System
Anelechi Anyanwu, Mount Sinai Health System
Randolph Martin, Emeritus Professor-Emory Medical School
Plenary Advanced Mitral Valve Repair Conclave Toolbox Deep Dive Innovation -
Moderators:
David Adams, Mount Sinai Health System
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9:45AM - 10:15AM EDT Sheraton Boston, Grand Pre-Function
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10:15AM - 12:00PM EDT Sheraton Boston, Constitution
Advanced Mitral Valve Repair I
David Adams, Mount Sinai Health System
Dr. David H. Adams is the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Cardiac Surgeon-in-Chief of the Mount Sinai Health System. He is internationally recognized as a thought leader in the field of mitral valve reconstruction, and leads a specialized team that performs over 400 mitral valve operations per year. He is a co-author of the acclaimed valve textbook, Carpentier’s Reconstructive Valve Surgery, and has co-invented multiple valve repair prostheses used throughout the world. He is the author of over 300 peer-reviewed publications, and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Dr. Adams was the 99th President of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery.
W. Randolph Chitwood, East Carolina University/ECU Health System
Dr. Chitwood graduated from Hampden-Sydney College and received his medical degree from the University of Virginia. He completed the 10-year general and cardiothoracic surgical residency program at Duke University under Dr. David C. Sabiston. He then started a new cardiac surgery program at the East Carolina University School of Medicine. There, he was Chairman of the Department of Surgery from 1995 to 2003 and founded in 2007 the new East Carolina Heart Institute and Department of Cardiovascular Sciences. The Robotic Surgical Center at East Carolina University has trained over 450 surgeons worldwide. He performed the first daVinci robotic mitral valve operation in the United States and twelve countries. Clinically, he was very active having performed nearly10,000 cardiac operations during his operating career. He has authored over 300 peer reviewed scientific and clinical articles, as well as many book chapters and several monographs. Dr. Chitwood has given over 60 invited national and international lectures and has published the Atlas of Robotic Cardiac Surgery. He is a member of 25 professional societies, including the American Association for Thoracic Surgery. He is a past president of the Society for Thoracic Surgeons, the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery, and the International Society for Heart Valve Diseases (now the Heart Valve Society). In May 2015, he received the AATS Mitral Conclave Career Achievement Award for his accomplishments in the field of mitral valve surgery. In 2020 he received the prestigious AATS Scientific Achievement Award. His current interests relate to the development of innovative less invasive heart valve repair and robotic surgical devices as well as heart center program development and teaching surgeon’s safe patient application of new technology.
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Moderators:
David Adams, Mount Sinai Health System
W. Randolph Chitwood, East Carolina University/ECU Health System
Advanced Mitral Valve Repair -
Moderators:
David Adams, Mount Sinai Health System
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10:15AM - 12:00PM EDT Sheraton Boston, Back Bay AB
Conclave Toolbox I
Gilles Dreyfus, Hopital European Georges Pompidou
Professor Gilles DREYFUS
Professor Gilles Dreyfus obtained his medical degree at the University of Paris in 1978.
He worked for nearly 10 years with Professor Alain CARPENTIER, along with him he developed a Heart transplantation and LVAD program as well as mitral valve repair expertise.
He became Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery in 1989 in Paris University.
He moved from Broussais Hospital to Foch Hospital, where he became Chief in 1995.
He published new techniques for mitral valve repair (papillary muscle repositioning) and used extensively LVAD as bridge to transplantation.
Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub asked Professor Dreyfus to join him in 2000 and Professor Dreyfus moved in 2001 as Consultant in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at The Royal Brompton Hospital and Harefield NHS Trust in London and became as well Professor of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery at Imperial College London School of Medicine, NHLI (with a Chair). He also was Director of Transplantation and Director of Surgery for many years.
Professor Vincent DOR asked him to take over in 2010 at Monaco.
He was Medical Director at the Monaco Cardio Thoracic Centre, from 2010 until 2018. His main clinical interest in Adult Cardiac Surgery concerns valve repairs mostly mitral and tricuspid. He also developed a robotic program using the Da Vinci Xi.
Since November 2018 , Professor of Cardiac Surgery at Institut Mutualiste Montsouris , Paris , France ; he performs mostly mitral valve repairs and HOCM surgery
Since May 2022, Professor of Cardiac Surgery at Hopital Europeen Georges Pompidou , Paris, France ; he performs mainly mitral valve repairs and HOCM
He also attends as speaker most of major International Meetings such as; AATS, EACTS, ESC, Mitral Conclave, ACC. He publishes on a regular basis in scientific journals such as The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and in The Journal of The American College of Cardiology .
Member of ATTS, STS, EACTS, ESC.
Conclave Toolbox -
10:15AM - 12:00PM EDT Sheraton Boston, Back Bay CD
Deep Dive I: Atrial Fibrillation, Ventricular Arrhythmia & Recurrent Regurgitation
Niv Ad, Adventist White Oak Medical Center
Niv Ad, MD
A cardiac surgeon at White Oak Medical center in Maryland and an adjunct professor of Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Ad is the past president of The International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery (ISMICS) the Editor in Chief of INNOVATIONS.
Dr. Ad’s research is focused on Atrial Fibrillation, patients’ outcome and minimally invasive valve surgery and techniques. He led numerous clinical trials and is very well published in the field.
Marc Gerdisch, Franciscan Health Heart Center
Dr. Gerdisch trained in general and then cardiovascular and thoracic surgery at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago. During fellowship, he visited Dr. Alan Carpentier in Paris, where he gained early insight into heart valve repair. He remains on staff at Loyola Medical Center, as an associate clinical professor of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery. Dr. Gerdisch is a fellow of American College of Surgeons, American College of Cardiology and Heart Rhythm Society.
He is a partner of 27 years, in Cardiac Surgery Associates, the largest private cardiac surgical group in the country. Dr. Gerdisch has been instrumental in the expansion of his group from five to thirty-two surgeons providing care in twenty-four hospitals across the Midwest. Dr. Gerdisch became Chief of Cardiothoracic surgery at Franciscan Health in 2006. With focus on heart valve disease, he has developed a recognized center for heart valve repair and innovation including lead enrollment in multiple pivotal trials, and first in man with devices and regenerative procedures.
Dr. Gerdisch has published and presented on next generation valve devices and repair, surgery for atrial fibrillation and rigid sternal fixation. He trains surgeons in heart valve repair and surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation and his practice ranges from multi-valve redo operations to transcatheter procedures. He is a founding board member of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery – Cardiac Society. An approach combining minimally invasive and advanced closure techniques with rapid mobilization and recovery has made Dr. Gerdisch an advocate for enhanced recovery, even for the most complex patients.
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10:15AM - 12:00PM EDT Sheraton Boston, Republic
Innovation I: Transcatheter Therapies
Vinayak Bapat, Abbott Northwestern Hospital
Dr. Bapat completed his medical education in Mumbai, India and pursued further career opportunities in Canada and UK. After completing Fellowship in Toronto General hospital in 1999, he moved to UK and completed Cardiothoracic training in UK and obtained FRCS.CTh in 2005. He was appointed as a consultant at the Guys and St. Thomas’ hospital in 2007 with special interest in aortic surgery.
He was the surgical lead for the Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) program at St. Thomas’ Hospital, where he pioneered new methods of performing TAVI (trans-aortic approach), led the original research and guidance on valve-in-valve indication and has developed smartphone Apps, which are used all over the world as a reference tool for valve-in-valve. Dr. Bapat has trained over 100 centers in TAVI all over the world.
He has been involved in early feasibility study of the Transcatheter mitral valve implantation and has performed first-in-man implant of Edward’s FORTIS device in February 2014 and also of Medtronic’s Intrepid device prior to its acquisition. He was the PI for the global feasibility trial investigating Intrepid device.
Similarly, he has led bench and clinical application of newer tricuspid replacement and repair devices such as Navigate, Intrepid and Vdyne.
Dr. Bapat has a large research and innovation program to help advance the field and has over 150 publications. He is an invited faculty for all major cardiology and cardiac surgical meeting. Dr. Bapat moved to Columbia University Medical Center in New York three years ago and is the lead for advance Mitral and Tricuspid therapy. In June 2020 he accepted the appointment at the Abbott Northwestern Hospital and Minneapolis Heart Institution as Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery.
Thomas Modine, Hôpital Haut leveque
MD, PhD, MBA
Cardiac and interventional surgeon, innovation, inventor
R&D
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12:30PM - 1:15PM EDT
Industry Lunch Symposia
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12:30PM - 1:15PM EDT Sheraton Boston, Republic
Abbott Lunch Symposium: Innovative Approaches to Optimize Lifetime Treatment of Mitral Valve Disease
Marc Gillinov, Cleveland Clinic
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.
Gorav Ailawadi, University of Michigan
Dr. Gorav Ailawadi joined the University of Michigan as the Chair of Cardiac Surgery in September of 2020. Previously, he served as the Chief of Cardiac Surgery, Co-Director of the Cardiac Valve Center, and Director of the Medical Device Innovation Center at the University of Virginia.
While completing a surgery residency at the University of Michigan, Dr. Ailawadi spent two research years investigating and understanding the development of aortic aneurysms. His work was recognized by the NIH/Lifeline Association and was chosen as the top research project in 2003. While at Michigan, he received the Top Resident and Young Investigator Awards. He then completed his training and joined the faculty at the University of Virginia in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery.
Dr. Ailawadi has internationally-recognized expertise in mitral and aortic valve disease with vast experience in minimally invasive cardiac surgery, and percutaneous/transcatheter valve therapies having performed over 600 minimally invasive procedures and roughly 3000 heart operations. He has been invited to national and international conferences to share his expertise with novel minimally invasive approaches, valve disease, reoperative and AF surgery.
At Virginia, Dr. Ailawadi was the first surgeon in the U.S. to perform hybrid AF ablation, the first U.S. Surgeon to perform the MitraClip procedure, and the world’s first transcaval TEVAR procedure. He has been the principal investigator for a novel left atrial appendage clip to prevent strokes in patients with atrial fibrillation.
Dr. Ailawadi has been funded by the NIH, AHA, among other grants. His research lab studies novel mechanisms and new treatments for aortic aneurysms. He has published over 400 peer-reviewed manuscripts in journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Circulation, and JACC.
Vinayak Bapat, Abbott Northwestern Hospital
Dr. Bapat completed his medical education in Mumbai, India and pursued further career opportunities in Canada and UK. After completing Fellowship in Toronto General hospital in 1999, he moved to UK and completed Cardiothoracic training in UK and obtained FRCS.CTh in 2005. He was appointed as a consultant at the Guys and St. Thomas’ hospital in 2007 with special interest in aortic surgery.
He was the surgical lead for the Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) program at St. Thomas’ Hospital, where he pioneered new methods of performing TAVI (trans-aortic approach), led the original research and guidance on valve-in-valve indication and has developed smartphone Apps, which are used all over the world as a reference tool for valve-in-valve. Dr. Bapat has trained over 100 centers in TAVI all over the world.
He has been involved in early feasibility study of the Transcatheter mitral valve implantation and has performed first-in-man implant of Edward’s FORTIS device in February 2014 and also of Medtronic’s Intrepid device prior to its acquisition. He was the PI for the global feasibility trial investigating Intrepid device.
Similarly, he has led bench and clinical application of newer tricuspid replacement and repair devices such as Navigate, Intrepid and Vdyne.
Dr. Bapat has a large research and innovation program to help advance the field and has over 150 publications. He is an invited faculty for all major cardiology and cardiac surgical meeting. Dr. Bapat moved to Columbia University Medical Center in New York three years ago and is the lead for advance Mitral and Tricuspid therapy. In June 2020 he accepted the appointment at the Abbott Northwestern Hospital and Minneapolis Heart Institution as Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery.
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12:30PM - 1:15PM EDT Sheraton Boston, Back Bay AB
AtriCure Lunch Symposium: Concomitant Surgical Ablation and Atrial Fibrillation: Overcoming Barriers and Improving Outcomes
Patrick McCarthy, Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Patrick M. McCarthy, M.D., is Vice President of Northwestern Medical Group, and Executive Director of the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute (BCVI) which employs approximately 1600 physicians and staff at 11 Northwestern hospitals. He trained at the Mayo Clinic and Stanford University and practiced at the Cleveland Clinic from 1990 until 2004 as Surgical Director of Heart Transplantation and the Kaufman Center for Heart Failure. The Northwestern heart and heart surgery program rapidly ascended in the U.S. News & World Report rankings from unranked in 2004 to a top 10 U.S. program, and the highest ranked in Illinois and surrounding states. Dr. McCarthy also has a joint appointment with the Department of Biomedical Engineering of Northwestern University, is a member of AOA, and has invented several medical products. Applying a philanthropic gift from Neil Bluhm, Dr. McCarthy founded the unique Center for Artificial Intelligence in Cardiovascular Disease in 2018 to advance the use of AI in CV disease and launch a Master of Science in AI degree granting program for CV trainees. His primary focus is on clinical integration of Northwestern Medicine programs across the health system.
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12:30PM - 1:15PM EDT Sheraton Boston, Constitution
Edwards Lunch Symposium: Treating Mitral Regurgitation - Repair and Replace
David Adams, Mount Sinai Health System
Dr. David H. Adams is the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Cardiac Surgeon-in-Chief of the Mount Sinai Health System. He is internationally recognized as a thought leader in the field of mitral valve reconstruction, and leads a specialized team that performs over 400 mitral valve operations per year. He is a co-author of the acclaimed valve textbook, Carpentier’s Reconstructive Valve Surgery, and has co-invented multiple valve repair prostheses used throughout the world. He is the author of over 300 peer-reviewed publications, and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Dr. Adams was the 99th President of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery.
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1:45PM - 3:30PM EDT Sheraton Boston, Constitution
Advanced Mitral Valve Repair II
Advanced Mitral Valve Repair -
1:45PM - 3:30PM EDT Sheraton Boston, Back Bay AB
Conclave Toolbox II
Pavan Atluri, MD, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Atluri is Director of Mechanical Circulatory Support and Heart Transplant and Director of Minimally Invasive and Robotic Cardiac Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania.
Serguei Melnitchouk, Massachusetts General Hospital
Serguei Melnitchouk, MD, MPH is a board-certified cardiac surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital. He specializes in minimally invasive / robotic mitral valve surgery and very complex valve operations. Dr. Melnitchouk is assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. He is the surgical co-director of the heart valve program at the MGH heart center.
Dr. Melnitchouk received his Medical Doctor (MD) degree at Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg, Germany and his Master's of Public Health (MPH) degree at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Melnitchouk completed his general surgery residency at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital and a cardiothoracic surgery residency at the New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center.
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Moderators:
Pavan Atluri, MD, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Serguei Melnitchouk, Massachusetts General Hospital
Conclave Toolbox -
Moderators:
Pavan Atluri, MD, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
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1:45PM - 3:15PM EDT
Congenital and Rheumatic Mitral Valve Symposium
Pedro J. del Nido, Boston Children's Hospital
Dr. Pedro J. del Nido, is Chief of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital, and the William E. Ladd Professor of Child Surgery at Harvard Medical School. His clinical focus is on surgical techniques for achieving bi-ventricular circulation in children with complex heart disease, and repair of congenital heart valve defects. He is Past-President of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, a leading international organization of academic Cardiothoracic Surgeons. He has received continuous NIH funding for his laboratory research work for over 20 years. His current research work aims to design and develop novel medical devices and procedures that address the specific needs of pediatric patients. He has over 500 peer reviewed publications, and 29 issued and pending patents, including for “del Nido Cardioplegia”.
Sertac Cicek, Heart and Vascular Center, Liv Vadistanbul Hospital
Dr. M. Sertaç Çiçek completed his medical education at Ankara University Faculty of Medicine and GATA Gülhane Faculty of Medicine, graduating summa cum laude in 1985. He then completed a five-year residency in Cardiovascular Surgery at GATA, followed by fellowships in cardiac surgery and cardiopulmonary transplantation at the Texas Heart Institute and the Mayo Clinic. He also had an extended pediatric cardiac surgery and transplantation fellowship at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Dr. Çiçek eventually returned to his home country, Turkey, to establish adult and pediatric cardiac surgery programs at many hospitals including Siyami Ersek Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Training Hospital, which is one of the largest heart centers in Europe and where he also served as the Physician-in-Chief. He served as Director of Heart and Vascular Care Center at Anadolu Medical Center, an affiliation of Johns Hopkins Medicine in Istanbul. He has recently served as professor and senior associate consultant at Mayo Clinic and chief of pediatric cardiac surgery at WVU Heart and Vascular Institute and Children’s Hospital in US and has recently returned to Turkey to establish the heart program at Istinye University-Liv Vadistanbul Hospital. In addition to pediatric and congenital heart surgery, Dr. Çiçek has extensive experience as an adult cardiac surgeon as well. He serves on multiple Editorial Boards and is an Associate Editor of World Journal of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery.
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1:45PM - 3:30PM EDT Sheraton Boston, Republic
Innovation II: Minimal Access Surgery
W. Clark Hargrove, Penn/Presbyterian Medical Center
Clinical Professor of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Aubrey Galloway, NYU Langone Health
Aubrey C. Galloway, M.D.
Dr. Galloway is the Seymour Cohn Professor and Director of the Mitral Valve Repair Program at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and NYU Langone Health. He did his General Surgery Residency at the University of Colorado with Dr. Thomas Starzl, a research fellowship with Dr. Judan Folkman at Boston Children's Hospital, and his Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency with Dr.Frank Spencer at NYU, where he joined the faculty in 1985. He has a track record of extensive clinical and translational research and served as Director of the NYU Cardiac Surgery Research Program for over 20 years. Dr. Galloway is widely recognized as an expert in surgery for mitral valve repair and surgery for complex valvular heart disease. He was an early developer of minimally invasive techniques for valve repair and has published seminal articles on the mechanisms and prevention of post mitral repair SAM. He has invented and received numerous medical device related patent and has published over 300 manuscripts and book chapters. He was Director of the Thoracic Surgery Residency Program for 15 years, Chief of the Divison of Adult Cardiac Surgery for 5 years and Department Chair of 15 years (2006-2021). During his tenure as chair, the department recruited nationally recognized faculty and developed nationally renowed programs in all areas of cardiothoracic surgery. He has trained over 80 practicing cardiothoracic surgeons in the U.S. and abroad. 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,
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3:30PM - 3:45PM EDT Sheraton Boston, Grand Pre-Function
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3:45PM - 5:00PM EDT Sheraton Boston, Constitution
Advanced Mitral Valve Repair III
Advanced Mitral Valve Repair -
3:45PM - 5:00PM EDT Sheraton Boston, Back Bay AB
Conclave Toolbox III
Steven Bolling, Michigan Medicine
Dr. Steven F. Bolling is a Professor of Surgery in the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Michigan. Both his undergraduate and medical school education was at the University of Michigan. Following this, he trained in general and thoracic surgery at Johns Hopkins.
He joined the Cardiac Surgery faculty at the University of Michigan in the mid-1980s and helped create and direct the multi-disciplinary mitral valve clinic. He is an active participant in all the major cardiac surgical societies and a recognized expert in mitral valve surgery. He is the author of over 350 peer-reviewed publications and holds numerous grants, including NIH, AHA, and industry grants.
His expertise and innovative approach to mitral valve repair in patients with end-stage left ventricular failure and outstanding ability to repair even the most challenging mitral valve abnormalities have received widespread international acclaim. He continues to run a basic science laboratory and the MMRG.
Clifford Barlow, Southampton General
Mr Barlow completed his medical degree at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and was trained in cardiothoracic surgery at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford and Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge. He was subsequently Transplant Fellow in Heart and Lung transplantation at Stanford University, California, USA.
After returning to the UK, Mr Barlow joined Southampton General Hospital as a Consultant Cardiac Surgeon in 2000, focussing entirely on adult cardiac surgery after 2007. He has performed over 6000 heart operations since 2000 and has one of the largest practices in the UK, performing over 300 major heart operations a year. He undertakes all the major adult cardiac heart operations including coronary artery bypass surgery and valve replacement surgery. He has a particular interest in mitral valve repair surgery, coronary artery bypass surgery with a focus on individual patient focussed conduit choice, redo-surgery for both heart valve and coronary disease and quality control for all cardiac surgery.
Mr Barlow has one of the three largest practices in the UK with a particularly complex case mix and consistently outstanding survival outcomes.
Mr Barlow leadership roles include being unit Representative, Meeting Secretary and serving on the Executive of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland (SCTS). He is Cardiac Surgical Lead for the Wessex Cardiac Network and Representative for Cardiothoracic Surgery for South Central England with the Royal College of Surgeons Professional Affairs Board. He is on the Intercollegiate Cardiothoracic Examination Board Committee for the FRCS final cardiothoracic examination. Mr Barlow is the first International Chair of the Membership Committee of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery.
Conclave Toolbox -
3:45PM - 5:00PM EDT Sheraton Boston, Republic
Innovation III: Innovative Approaches to Challenging Problems
W. Randolph Chitwood, East Carolina University/ECU Health System
Dr. Chitwood graduated from Hampden-Sydney College and received his medical degree from the University of Virginia. He completed the 10-year general and cardiothoracic surgical residency program at Duke University under Dr. David C. Sabiston. He then started a new cardiac surgery program at the East Carolina University School of Medicine. There, he was Chairman of the Department of Surgery from 1995 to 2003 and founded in 2007 the new East Carolina Heart Institute and Department of Cardiovascular Sciences. The Robotic Surgical Center at East Carolina University has trained over 450 surgeons worldwide. He performed the first daVinci robotic mitral valve operation in the United States and twelve countries. Clinically, he was very active having performed nearly10,000 cardiac operations during his operating career. He has authored over 300 peer reviewed scientific and clinical articles, as well as many book chapters and several monographs. Dr. Chitwood has given over 60 invited national and international lectures and has published the Atlas of Robotic Cardiac Surgery. He is a member of 25 professional societies, including the American Association for Thoracic Surgery. He is a past president of the Society for Thoracic Surgeons, the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery, and the International Society for Heart Valve Diseases (now the Heart Valve Society). In May 2015, he received the AATS Mitral Conclave Career Achievement Award for his accomplishments in the field of mitral valve surgery. In 2020 he received the prestigious AATS Scientific Achievement Award. His current interests relate to the development of innovative less invasive heart valve repair and robotic surgical devices as well as heart center program development and teaching surgeon’s safe patient application of new technology.
Hartzell Schaff, MD, Mayo Clinic
Dr. Schaff is the Stuart W. Harrington Professor of Surgery and a consultant in the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota,
Dr. Schaff received his medical degree and training at the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine where he also completed an NIH Research Fellowship. He trained in general surgery and thoracic surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital and joined the staff at Mayo Clinic in 1980.
Dr. Schaff has delivered over 900 lectures on topics in adult and congenital cardiac surgery and has been visiting professor at over 70 medical schools and universities that include the Ira Page Lectureship, the Michael M. Frymus Lectureship, the Thomas B. Ferguson Visiting Professorship, Arthur DeBoer Lectureship, Terrence Donnelly Visiting Professorship, Julian Johnson Lectureship, Mortimer L. Buckley Visiting Professorship, Victor Chang Memorial Lecturer, the Anandi L. Sharma Visiting Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, the Laman A. Gray, M.D. Lecturer, Alfred A. Blalock Lecture (Johns Hopkins Hospital), and most recently the James K. Kirklin Endowed Visting Professorship at the University of Alabama.
Dr. Schaff has received many professional awards including Fulbright Visiting Professorship 1986, Teacher of the Year (surgery) 1998, the Distinguished Clinician Award at Mayo Clinic 2007, the Surgery Mentoring Award from the American Heart Association 2010, and the 2011 William W. L. Glenn Lecturer.
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5:15PM - 6:30PM EDT Sheraton Boston, Constitution Ballroom
The Future of Mitral Valve Intervention - Clinical Trials in Contemporary Practice
Anelechi Anyanwu, Mount Sinai Health System
Dr. Anyanwu is Professor and Vice-Chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery in the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His clinical interests include mitral valve surgery, reoperative surgery, and surgery for heart-failure. Dr. Anyanwu has served the AATS in various roles, including serving on the Program Committee for prior Mitral Conclave and Annual Meetings. He currently serves on the AATS Board.
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Plenary Advanced Mitral Valve Repair Conclave Toolbox Deep Dive Innovation -
6:30PM - 7:30PM EDT Sheraton Boston, Grand Pre-Function
Welcome Reception
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6:30PM - 8:00PM EDT Sheraton Boston, Commonwealth - 3rd Floor
Medtronic Hands-On: Mitral and Tricuspid Repair Techniques – Tips and Tricks
Arnar Geirsson, Yale New Haven Hospital
Professor of Surgery and Chief Cardiac Surgery at Yale, New Haven, Connecticut. Raised and received his medical education in Iceland. Trained in General Surgery at Yale New Haven Hospital and Cardiothoracic Surgery at University of Pennsylvania, 1998-2007. Faculty at Yale from 2007 until 2013 as Director of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery. Lived in Iceland from 2013-2016 and worked as Cardiothoracic Surgeon at Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland. Returned to Yale in 2016 and appointed as Chief, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Yale in 2017.
He maintains a very busy clinical practice which focuses on minimally invasive cardiac surgery and complex valve surgery, including robotic mitral valve repair and aortic valve repair. Research interest includes clinical outcome research focusing on valve diseases, endocarditis, heart transplant and aortic pathology as well as translational research projects focusing on pathogenesis of mitral valve prolapse.
Marc Gillinov, Cleveland Clinic
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.
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7:00PM - 7:30PM EDT Sheraton Boston, Exhibit Hall: Posters are displayed for the duration of the meeting
Mitral Conclave Workshop Posters