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6:00AM - 7:15AM EDT New York Hilton Midtown, Grand Ballroom Foyer
Continental Breakfast
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Welcome and Introduction to the 2023 Mitral Conclave
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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7:30AM - 9:00AM EDT New York Hilton Midtown, Grand Ballroom
Plenary I: The Foundations of Mitral Valve Reconstruction
Marc Moon, Baylor College of Medicine / Texas Heart Institute
Dr. Moon has been involved in AATS operations for more than a decade, originally as a program committee member for the Annual Meeting beginning in 2009. He has served on the Executive Board from 2012 to the present as Secretary, Vice President, and ultimately President at the 101st Annual Meeting in 2021. Dr. Moon's clinical focus in adult cardiac surgery includes aortic surgery and complex reoperative valvular surgery. Dr. Moon's educational platform focuses on advancing diversity and inclusion in the cardiothoracic community.
Tirone David, Toronto General Hospital
Doctor Tirone E. David is a Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto and the holder of the Melanie Munk Chair of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre. Doctor David has published more than 400 scientific papers, 38 chapters in medical textbooks as well as 5 surgical textbooks. He has developed numerous operative procedures to treat patients with heart valve disease, complications of myocardial infarction, and thoracic aneurysms and prospectively followed these patients during the past 4 decades. One of these procedures is known as “David operation”. He has been a member of the editorial board of several medical journals. Doctor David is active member of numerous surgical and medical societies and is honorary member of 14 international medical societies. He was President of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery in 2004-2005 and the recipient of its Scientific Achievement Award in 2016, and Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020. He was awarded the Order of Rio Branco from the Brazilian Government in 2018. He received the Order of Ontario in 1993 and the Order of Canada in 1996, the highest honor given to civilians in Canada. He was elected University Professor in 2004, the highest honor the University of Toronto bestows to its professors.
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Plenary II: Mitral Conclave Lifetime Achievement Award
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.
Ottavio Alfieri, San Raffaele University Hospital
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Ottavio Alfieri MD is Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the S.Raffaele University Hospital in Milan, Italy.
He is author or co-author of more than 600 peer-reviewed papers, related to many areas of cardiac surgery and cardiology.
He is member of the editorial board of several scientific journals.
His main interest is surgery for valvular heart diseases (particularly mitral valve repair). He developed several patents mainly related to treatment of heart valve disease. More than 20 years ago, he originally developed a method of mitral valve repair (the edge to edge technique) which is the basis of the currently most used type of percutaneous correction of mitral regurgitation.
In 2011, he served as president of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic
Surgery (EACTS). In 2018 he received the gold medal from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).
He is currently member of the STS, AATS, ESC, EACTS and President of the Alfieri Heart Foundation, based at the San Raffaele Hospital, created to support education, research and innovation.
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9:30AM - 9:45AM EDT
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9:45AM - 11:15AM EDT New York Hilton Midtown, Trianon Ballroom
Advanced Valve Repair I: Expert Videos: Complex Mitral Valve Prolapse
Ottavio Alfieri, San Raffaele University Hospital
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Ottavio Alfieri MD is Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the S.Raffaele University Hospital in Milan, Italy.
He is author or co-author of more than 600 peer-reviewed papers, related to many areas of cardiac surgery and cardiology.
He is member of the editorial board of several scientific journals.
His main interest is surgery for valvular heart diseases (particularly mitral valve repair). He developed several patents mainly related to treatment of heart valve disease. More than 20 years ago, he originally developed a method of mitral valve repair (the edge to edge technique) which is the basis of the currently most used type of percutaneous correction of mitral regurgitation.
In 2011, he served as president of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic
Surgery (EACTS). In 2018 he received the gold medal from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).
He is currently member of the STS, AATS, ESC, EACTS and President of the Alfieri Heart Foundation, based at the San Raffaele Hospital, created to support education, research and innovation.
Francis Wells, Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Trust
I trained at UAB under the late Dr's Kirklin and Pacifico as senior research fellow and at Brompton Under Matthias Paneth and Royal Papworth with Sir Terence English. I have been a consultant cardiac surgeon with a special interest in Mitral surgery for 38 years. I ran a series of Mitral surgery training meetings with live surgery for 10 years in Cambridge UK where I am senior consultant cardiac surgeon. I have lectured and operated internationally for many years.
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Moderators:
Ottavio Alfieri, San Raffaele University Hospital
Francis Wells, Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Trust
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Moderators:
Ottavio Alfieri, San Raffaele University Hospital
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9:45AM - 11:15AM EDT New York Hilton Midtown, Petit Trianon
Deep Dive I: Image-Guided Valve Intervention
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).
Daniel Drake, University of Michigan Medical School
Daniel H. Drake, MD graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1982. Following his trauma and general surgery residency at Parkland Memorial Hospital/UTSW, he returned to the University of Michigan in 1988 to complete a fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery (CTS).
Dr. Drake co-founded Munson Medical Center’s CTS program in 1990 and practiced in the Cardiothoracic Surgeons of Grand Traverse until 2018. During his tenure, the program was frequently nationally recognized for excellence. He retains honorary privileges. Dr. Drake served as President of the Michigan Society of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgeons (MSTCVS) from 1999 until 2001. The Quality Assurance Initiative was created during his presidency. Dr. Drake directs the MSTCVS Mitral Initiative. His twelve-year investigation on image-guided valve reconstruction was published in Circulation along with invited commentaries in NEJM. Dr. Drake speaks nationally and internationally on imaging for mitral and tricuspid valve intervention. He has authored numerous scientific publications and textbook chapters.
After a long clinical career, Dr. Drake transitioned to translational research and teaching at the University of Michigan. He prepared for the transition by spending two years as a research fellow in the Department of Surgery. His research focus is extracorporeal life support (ECLS), organ banking and nitric oxide (NO). In March 2020, it was necessary to re-focus his NO research to SARS-CoV-2 at the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). He has since returned to research on secondary mitral disease, ECLS and ex vivo evaluation of the working heart in preparation for transplantation.
Dr. Drake has served on the STS Standards and Ethics Committee, Cardiothoracic Ethics Forum, AATS Thoracic Education Committee, American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) Council on Perioperative Echocardiography, ASE Governance and Compliance Board, and Editorial Board of the ASE Journal CASE.
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9:45AM - 11:15AM EDT New York Hilton Midtown, Grand Ballroom
Innovations I: Building a Minimal Access Valve Program
Tom C. Nguyen, University of California San Francisco
Dr. Tom C. Nguyen is a minimally invasive and robotic heart surgeon with expertise in performing complex heart operations through the smallest possible incision. He has a particular interest in minimally invasive mitral, aortic, atrial septal defect (ASD) closures, and robotic heart surgery. He is currently the Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of California San Francisco.
Vinod Thourani, Piedmont Heart Institute
Dr. Vinod Thourani is the Bernie Marcus Chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at Piedmont Healthcare and the Marcus Heart and Vascular and Valve Center of the Piedmont Heart Institute (PHI) in Atlanta, Georgia. He is also the Surgical Director of the PHI Structural Center of Excellence.
He is Past- President of the Heart Valve Society (2020-2022), Past-President of the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association (2019-2021), Past-President of the South Atlantic Cardiovascular Society (2019-2021), and the President-Elect of the International Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery (ISMICS). He serves on the Board of Directors of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) and is the Treasurer (2022-2025). He is on the Board of Trustees of ISMICS, Board of Directors of the Heart Valve Society, Heart Valve Voice, and is on the Surgeons Council of the American College of Cardiology. He was the adult cardiac tract co-chair of the 100th (2020) and 101th (2021) Annual Meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS, 2020-2021). He is co-chair of the STS/ACC National Transcatheter Valve Therapies (TVT) database and the chair of the STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Database Research sub-committee.
Dr. Thourani has authored over 620 peer-reviewed articles and is Principal Investigator or on the steering committee for 10 valve trials in the U.S. and the NIHLBI Cardiothoracic Surgery Network. He specializes in valve surgery and has a busy clinical schedule with over 300 cardiac cases per year. Specifically, he is passionate about working with a multidisciplinary team allowing options for traditional, minimally invasive, and transcatheter surgical options.
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9:45AM - 11:15AM EDT New York Hilton Midtown, Mercury
Toolbox I: Basic Techniques I
W. Clark Hargrove, Penn/Presbyterian Medical Center
Clinical Professor of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Gébrine El Khoury, Cliniques Universitaires St-Luc
Professor of Surgery
Head of Cardiovascular and thoracic Surgery
Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc
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9:45AM - 11:15AM EDT New York Hilton Midtown, Rendezvous Trianon
Deep Dive II: Surgical Treatment for Arrhythmias and Rhythm Disorders (STARS) at the Mitral Conclave I
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.
James Edgerton, Washington University at St. Louis
James R Edgerton, MD, FACS, FACC, FHRS is an Adjunct Professor of Surgery with the cardiothoracic surgery division at Washington University in St Louis working mainly in clinical research. He also serves as Senior Clinical Scientist at Baylor, Scott and White Health in Dallas, Texas. He completed a general surgery residency at University of Florida, Gainesville Florida and a cardiothoracic residency at Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina. He is board certified in both general and cardiothoracic surgery. He is a member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) and the American Association of Thoracic Surgery (AATS) and a Fellow in the American College of Surgeons, American College of Cardiology, and the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS). He holds and has held leadership positions in HRS, STS, AATS, and the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery. He serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Atrial Fibrillation and Journal of the Heart Surgery Forum. Additionally, he is a reviewer for seven tier one peer reviewed journals. He is a sought-after lecturer speaking at multiple international scientific meetings and has demonstrated surgical technique, operating on five different continents.
He continues to impact the field through research, involvement in various guidelines statements, and educational lecturing internationally. His research interests lie in the fields of cardiac arrhythmias and quality assurance.
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11:15AM - 11:30AM EDT
Coffee Break & Industry Interaction
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11:15AM - 11:30AM EDT
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11:30AM - 1:00PM EDT New York Hilton Midtown, Trianon Ballroom
Advanced Valve Repair II: Decision Making
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11:30AM - 1:00PM EDT New York Hilton Midtown, Rendezvous Trianon
Deep Dive III: Complications
Francis Wells, Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Trust
I trained at UAB under the late Dr's Kirklin and Pacifico as senior research fellow and at Brompton Under Matthias Paneth and Royal Papworth with Sir Terence English. I have been a consultant cardiac surgeon with a special interest in Mitral surgery for 38 years. I ran a series of Mitral surgery training meetings with live surgery for 10 years in Cambridge UK where I am senior consultant cardiac surgeon. I have lectured and operated internationally for many years.
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,
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11:30AM - 1:25PM EDT New York Hilton Midtown, Petit Trianon
Deep Dive IV: Mitral and Tricuspid Surgery in Children and Young Adults
Pedro 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”.
Christian Brizard, Royal Children's Hospital
Professor Christian Brizard, MS, MD. Director of the Department of Cardiac Surgery, The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
Christian Brizard was born in France and trained in Paris and Melbourne. Dr Brizard is the Director of the Cardiac Surgery Department since 2000. He has research interests which include Fontan Physiology, Stem Cells, Pericardial Cross-linking and has published 13 book chapters and over 230 peer-reviewed articles. Dr Brizard is a Professor of the University of Melbourne and is associated with Cardiac Centres in Vietnam, Lebanon, and Hong Kong.
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11:30AM - 1:00PM EDT New York Hilton Midtown, Grand Ballroom
Innovations II: Transcatheter Edge to Edge Repair
Thomas Modine, Hôpital Haut leveque
MD, PhD, MBA
Cardiac and interventional surgeon, innovation, inventor
R&D
Ottavio Alfieri, San Raffaele University Hospital
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Ottavio Alfieri MD is Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the S.Raffaele University Hospital in Milan, Italy.
He is author or co-author of more than 600 peer-reviewed papers, related to many areas of cardiac surgery and cardiology.
He is member of the editorial board of several scientific journals.
His main interest is surgery for valvular heart diseases (particularly mitral valve repair). He developed several patents mainly related to treatment of heart valve disease. More than 20 years ago, he originally developed a method of mitral valve repair (the edge to edge technique) which is the basis of the currently most used type of percutaneous correction of mitral regurgitation.
In 2011, he served as president of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic
Surgery (EACTS). In 2018 he received the gold medal from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).
He is currently member of the STS, AATS, ESC, EACTS and President of the Alfieri Heart Foundation, based at the San Raffaele Hospital, created to support education, research and innovation.
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11:30AM - 1:00PM EDT New York Hilton Midtown, Mercury
Toolbox II: Basic Techniques II
Joanna Chikwe, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Dr. Chikwe is Chairman of the Department of Cardiac Surgery and the Irina and George Schaeffer Distinguished Chair in Cardiac Surgery at Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles which is currently ranked by U.S News and World Report among the top 3 programs nationally, thanks to deep expertise in heart and lung transplantation, structural heart, and robotic cardiac surgery. Dr. Chikwe’s clinical focus is robotic mitral valve repair.
Editor-in-Chief of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Dr. Chikwe’s research encompasses the interface between interventional and surgical therapies for valvular heart and coronary artery disease, with over 250 peer reviewed publications including contributions in The New England Journal of Medicine andThe Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). She is Principal Investigator of the NHLBI pivotal randomized trial of Percutaneous or surgical Repair In Mitral prolapse And Regurgitation in patients >65 Years PRIMARY trial ( NCT05051033) sponsored by the Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network.
Patrick Perier, Heart and Vascular Center Bad Bevensen
Patrick Perier obtained his medical degree at the Paris V University in France. In 1982, he started his senior residency in the department of Professor Alain Carpentier at the Broussais Hospital where he became a member of staff. In 1990, he joined the team of the Herz und Gefäss Klink (Bad Neustadt/Saale) in Germany to develop mitral valve surgery and started the development of the 'Mitral Group'. Since 20 years, he has refined the techniques of minimally invasive mitral valve repair.
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1:00PM - 1:30PM EDT New York Hilton Midtown, Grand Ballroom Foyer
Session Break & Industry Interaction
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1:30PM - 2:45PM EDT New York Hilton Midtown, Trianon Ballroom
Cutting Edge Techniques in Mitral Valve Repair and Replacement, Sponsored by Edwards Lifesciences
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1:30PM - 2:45PM EDT
Mitral Valve Repair and Replacement: A Case-based Discussion Focused on Patient Lifetime Management, Sponsored by Medtronic
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1:30PM - 2:45PM EDT New York Hilton Midtown, Americas
Mitral Repair Hands-On Skills Lab, Sponsored by Medtronic
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1:30PM - 2:45PM EDT
Replacing Mitral Valves: When, Why, and How from an Expert Panel, Sponsored by Abbott
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1:30PM - 2:45PM EDT New York Hilton Midtown, Mercury
Deep Dive V: Management of Mitral and Atrial Disease – What's Next?
Matthew Romano, Michigan Medicine University of Michigan
Dr. Matthew A. Romano, M.D. is an Associate Professor of Cardiac Surgery and the Director of the Multidisciplinary Mitral Valve Clinic. He joined the faculty in 2009 following the completion of thoracic surgery and surgical critical care residencies at the University of Michigan. He received additional advanced training in the surgical treatment of complex valvular heart disease and heart transplantation. His clinical interests and expertise include mitral and tricuspid valve repair, minimally invasive valve surgery, percutaneous and catheter based mitral and tricuspid valve repair and replacement, and treatment of atrial fibrillation. He was recently awarded the American Heart Association/Mitral Foundation Mitral Valve Reference Surgeon distinction for his high rate of mitral valve repair and excellent outcomes. He has established a minimally invasive surgical program for isolated treatment of atrial fibrillation. His research is focused on mitral valve disease as well as atrial fibrillation and heart failure and is the lead investigator of numerous clinical trials.
Vinay Badhwar, West Virginia University
Dr. Vinay Badhwar is the Gordon F. Murray Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery of West Virginia University, and the Executive Chair of the WVU Heart and Vascular Institute and Service Line based in Morgantown, West Virginia, USA. He is an author of over 300 peer-reviewed publications and he serves as the Associate Editor of the Journal of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery.
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1:35PM - 2:45PM EDT
Deep Dive VI: Managing Concomitant Aortic and Mitral Valve Disease in Young Adults
Ismail El-Hamamsy, Mount Sinai Hospital
Ismail El-Hamamsy, MD PhD
Ismail El-Hamamsy, MD, PhD, FRCSC, is System Director of Aortic Surgery at the Mount Sinai Health System and is honored to serve as Mount Sinai’s inaugural Randall B. Griepp Professor of Surgery. His principal surgical focus is aortic root reconstructive surgery in young adults, including patients with heritable and connective tissue disorders.
Before joining Mount Sinai, Dr. El-Hamamsy directed the Montreal Heart Institute’s aortic surgery program, one of the busiest complex aortic surgery programs in North America, and was Associate Professor at the University of Montreal. He founded the Montreal Heart Institute’s Aortic and Connective Tissue Clinics, and helped establish several Ross programs across North America, Europe and Asia. Altogether, he has performed more than 700 Ross procedures and valve-sparing operations, which are among the world’s most complex and challenging aortic surgeries.
Dr. El-Hamamsy completed his medical education and cardiac surgery training at the University of Montreal, followed by a 4-year fellowship in London under the mentorship of Sir Magdi Yacoub. During this period, he completed a PhD entitled “The Living Aortic Valve” at Imperial College London. He currently leads a research team exploring the natural history of aortic disease, as well as innovative therapeutic approaches to diseases of the aorta and aortic valve.
Dr. El-Hamamsy has authored or co-authored several book chapters, as well as more than 150 scientific articles in The Lancet, Circulation, JACC and other leading peer-reviewed journals. He serves on the Editorial Boards of The American Heart Journal, Journal of Heart Valve Disease, Structural Heart and the Canadian Journal of Cardiology, and is an elected member of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery. He also serves on the Heart Valve Society’s Board of Directors, and – among other humanitarian projects – helped establish the Aswan Heart Center in Egypt.
Tirone David, Toronto General Hospital
Doctor Tirone E. David is a Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto and the holder of the Melanie Munk Chair of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre. Doctor David has published more than 400 scientific papers, 38 chapters in medical textbooks as well as 5 surgical textbooks. He has developed numerous operative procedures to treat patients with heart valve disease, complications of myocardial infarction, and thoracic aneurysms and prospectively followed these patients during the past 4 decades. One of these procedures is known as “David operation”. He has been a member of the editorial board of several medical journals. Doctor David is active member of numerous surgical and medical societies and is honorary member of 14 international medical societies. He was President of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery in 2004-2005 and the recipient of its Scientific Achievement Award in 2016, and Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020. He was awarded the Order of Rio Branco from the Brazilian Government in 2018. He received the Order of Ontario in 1993 and the Order of Canada in 1996, the highest honor given to civilians in Canada. He was elected University Professor in 2004, the highest honor the University of Toronto bestows to its professors.
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2:45PM - 3:00PM EDT
Coffee Break & Industry Interaction
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2:45PM - 3:00PM EDT
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3:00PM - 4:45PM EDT New York Hilton Midtown, Grand Ballroom
Plenary III: Clinical Trials and ACC Update
Thomas Modine, Hôpital Haut leveque
MD, PhD, MBA
Cardiac and interventional surgeon, innovation, inventor
R&D
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.
Roxana Mehran, Mount Sinai Hospital
Roxana Mehran, MD, FACC, FACP, FCCP, FESC, FAHA, MSCAI
Director, The Women’s Heart and Vascular Center at Mount Sinai Heart
Director, The Center for Interventional Cardiovascular Research and Clinical Trials
Endowed Mount Sinai Professor in Cardiovascular Clinical Research and Outcomes
Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
Professor of Population Health Science and Policy
Clinical Interests:
Antithrombotic Therapy for Secondary Prevention
Contrast-Induced Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)
Cardiovascular Disease in Women
Dr. Roxana Mehran is an internationally renowned interventional cardiologist and clinical research expert. She built a globally-respected academic research center focused on developing randomized clinical trials and has served as principal investigator for global studies, developed risk scores for bleeding and acute kidney injury, participates regularly in developing clinical guidelines, and has authored >1300 peer-reviewed articles. Dr. Mehran is a current member of the ACC Board of Trustees. She is many times listed as Clarivate Analytics Most Cited Researchers – Top 1%, and Thomson Reuters list of The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds.
Dr. Mehran leads the Lancet Commission on Women’s Cardiovascular Disease and was named Director of the Women Heart and Vascular Center at Mount Sinai. In 2019, she founded Women as One, dedicated to advancing opportunities for women in medicine.
She was recently named Director of the Women Heart and Vascular Center at Mount Sinai Heart; and is recipient of numerous awards, including the 2016 ACC Bernadine Healy Leadership in Women’s CVD award, the 2018 Nanette Wenger Award for Excellence in Medical Leadership, the 2019 Ellis Island Medal of Honor, and the 2019 ESC Silver Medal and Andreas Grüntzig Lecture plaque. Most recently, she received the 2022 AHA Women in Cardiology Mentoring Award; and 2022 CRF Pulse-Setter Champion Award.
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4:45PM - 5:00PM EDT
Coffee Break & Industry Interaction
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4:45PM - 5:00PM EDT New York Hilton Midtown
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5:00PM - 6:30PM EDT New York Hilton Midtown, Grand Ballroom
Advanced Valve Repair III: Expert Videos: Managing Limited Tissue
Marc Moon, Baylor College of Medicine / Texas Heart Institute
Dr. Moon has been involved in AATS operations for more than a decade, originally as a program committee member for the Annual Meeting beginning in 2009. He has served on the Executive Board from 2012 to the present as Secretary, Vice President, and ultimately President at the 101st Annual Meeting in 2021. Dr. Moon's clinical focus in adult cardiac surgery includes aortic surgery and complex reoperative valvular surgery. Dr. Moon's educational platform focuses on advancing diversity and inclusion in the cardiothoracic community.
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.
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Moderators:
Marc Moon, Baylor College of Medicine / Texas Heart Institute
Gilles Dreyfus, Hopital European Georges Pompidou
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Moderators:
Marc Moon, Baylor College of Medicine / Texas Heart Institute
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5:00PM - 6:30PM EDT New York Hilton Midtown, Rendezvous Trianon
Deep Dive VII: Cardiomyopathy
Edward Soltesz, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Edward Soltesz, MD, MPH, is the Donna and Ken Lewis Endowed Chair in Cardiothoracic Surgery and the Surgical Director of the Kaufman Center for Heart Failure and Recovery at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, OH. He also is the Course Director for the American Austrian Foundation/Open Medical Institute Cardiac Surgery Medical Seminar held annually in Salzburg, Austria, and the Director of Cardiac Surgery Affiliate Programs at Cleveland Clinic where he oversees quality and outcomes of more than 15 affiliated programs and 45 surgeons.
A native of Cleveland, Dr. Soltesz graduated as valedictorian of St. Ignatius High School in Cleveland and received a full academic scholarship to the College of the Holy Cross. There, he obtained degrees in both Classics and Chemistry, was awarded the British Marshall Scholarship, and graduated summa cum laude as the class valedictorian. Dr. Soltesz then went on to receive his medical degree from Harvard Medical School where he was awarded the Harvard National Scholarship. Dr. Soltesz stayed at Harvard to complete his residences in general surgery and cardiothoracic surgery at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Dr. Soltesz also earned a Master of Public Health from Harvard University School of Public Health with a focus on clinical effectiveness. Dr. Soltesz then returned to Cleveland to complete an additional fellowship in complex aortic and endovascular surgery at Cleveland Clinic, where he was subsequently appointed to the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery in 2008.
Dr. Soltesz’s research program focuses on large-scale assessment of cardiac surgical outcomes from a public health perspective, quality improvement and safety, clinical outcomes of valve surgery, and heart failure. He has lectured and served as a visiting professor both nationally and internationally.
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.
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5:00PM - 6:30PM EDT New York Hilton Midtown, Petit Trianon
Deep Dive VIII: Rheumatic / Global
Manuel Antunes, Universidade de Coimbra
Manuel J Antunes, MD, PhD, DSC
Born in Leiria, Portugal 20JULY1948
Emeritus Professor, University of Coimbra Medical School; Past-Director of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Transplantation of Thoracic Organs of the University Hospital of Coimbra. Deputy Director of the Portuguese Journal of Cardiology; Associate Editor of the Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery; Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and another 10 international journals. Fellow European Society of Cardiology, and American College of Cardiology; Honorary Member of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland; Honorary President of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology; Past-President of the National Academy of Medicine of Portugal; Author of more than 490 scientific papers published in indexed scientific journals and about 1,200 presentations in congresses and other scientific meetings. Author of Mitral Valve Repair (color atlas of surgical technique), 1989. Surgical Experience: More than 25,000 open heart procedures, including more than 10,000 valve operations (about 3,000 mitral and aortic valvuloplasties) and 350 heart transplantations. As a member and current President of Cadeia da Esperança (Chain of Hope) Portugal, organized and participated in 20 annual surgical missions to the Maputo Heart Institute, since 2001 with more than 350 patients operated, mostly rheumatic mitral valve repairs.
Taweesak Chotivatanapong, Central Chest Institute of Thailand
Bio Dr. Taweesak Chotivatanapong
Dr.Taweesak Chotivatanapong is now The Chairman of International Academic Institute Program and Senior Consultant at Central Chest Institute of Thailand.
He is now also serving as a Senior Consultant , Vejthani Hospital, Thailand , Bangkok, Thailand. He is a councilor member of the ASCVTS, active member of AATS.During last several years he set up Heart Care Foundation that he serves as the President of the foundation. The main activities of this foundation are to provide operations for valvular heart patients in the long waiting list and training for young surgeons under " Train The Trainer" program throughout Thailand. Several Center Of Excellences for valve repair are now successfully established under this program.
He also serves as Chairman COE of National Cardiovascular and Thoracic Disease Ministry of Public Health. After received his training for CVT surgery in Thailand, he got his further training in Australia and USA. He is the Former President of Society of Thoracic Surgeons of Thailand.
Most of his research focused on Mitral Valve Repair , Ross operation for infective AV and especially in Rheumatic Valve Repair.In February 2020, he was the Congress President of the 28th Annual Meeting of The Asian Society of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery (ASCVTS) which was organized in Chiangmai, Thailand. It was very successful and well attended.
Update 2022
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5:00PM - 6:30PM EDT New York Hilton Midtown, Grand Ballroom
Innovations III: Transcatheter Valve Replacement
Thomas Modine, Hôpital Haut leveque
MD, PhD, MBA
Cardiac and interventional surgeon, innovation, inventor
R&D
Basel Ramlawi, Lankenau Heart Institute
Basel Ramlawi, M.D, serves as System Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Main Line Health System and Co-Director of the Lankenau Heart Institute in Philadelphia, PA. Dr Ramlawi's clinical expertise includes heart valve repair using catheter-based and minimally invasive techniques, thoracic aortic & root surgery, arrhythmia surgery, complex cardiac surgery, and transplant & assist devices.
Prior to joining Main Line Heath, Dr. Ramlawi was at Valley Health System in Virginia, where he was the chairman The Heart & Vascular Center and founding director of the Advanced Valve & Aortic Center. Dr. Ramlawi previously held a positions at The Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center and the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Columbia University and NY-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. He completed an NIH-funded postdoctoral fellowship and earned the MMSc degree from Harvard Medical School. He subsequently completed an advanced clinical fellowship in heart failure and minimally invasive valve surgery at Columbia University.
He has co-authored over 145 medical and scientific papers, abstracts and book chapters. He is an active speaker at international cardiovascular conferences. Research interests include Valve Repair Surgery, Thoracic aortic repair, Neurologic Outcomes and Ventricular Assist Devices.
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5:00PM - 6:30PM EDT New York Hilton Midtown, Mercury
Toolbox III: Advanced Techniques
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.
Rakesh Suri, Cleveland Clinic
Rakesh M. Suri, MD, DPhil, is the past President of International Operations and Professor of Surgery at Cleveland Clinic He served as CEO at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi between 2017-2021. Dr. Suri was appointed to Cleveland Clinic staff in 2015 as Chief of Staff and Chair of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. Prior to that he was a consultant in the Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Professor of Surgery and Chair of the Enterprise Robotic Practice at Mayo Clinic. He was the Director of the Cardiovascular Fellowship Program at Mayo Clinic, past JTCVS Editorial Board Member and past President of the Heart Valve Society. Dr. Suri earned his undergraduate degree at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, medical degree with honors from the University of Toronto and a doctorate at Magdalen College, Oxford, UK, as a Rhodes Scholar. He trained in general surgery and performed a cardiovascular surgery fellowship at the University of Toronto. He completed cardiothoracic surgical residency at Mayo Clinic and is ABTS board-certified.
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6:30PM - 6:30PM EDT New York Hilton Midtown, Grand Ballroom Foyer
Moderated E-Posters
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6:30PM - 7:30PM EDT New York Hilton Midtown, Grand Ballroom Foyer
Mitral Conclave Welcome Reception
