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Adult Cardiac

New Frontiers in Heart Failure

Saturday, January 25, 2025
10:15am - 11:45am PT
Location: 403B

    Moderator(s)

  • Ashish Shah, MD

    Chairman Department of Cardiac Surgery
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Nashville, Tennessee, United States

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

  • Leora Yarboro, MD

    Chief, Section of Cardiac Surgery
    University of Virginia Medical Center
    Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

    Disclosure(s): Arthrex: Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Terminated, September 22, 2024)

Disclosure(s):
Ashish Shah, MD: No financial relationships to disclose
Leora T. Yarboro, MD: Arthrex: Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Terminated, September 22, 2024)

Presentations:

  • 10:15am - 10:23am PT
    Richard E. Clark Memorial Paper for Perioperative and Critical Care: The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Intermacs National Database Risk Model for Durable Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation

    Presenting Author: Francis D. Pagani, MD, PhD – University of Michigan Hospital

  • 10:23am - 10:31am PT
    Richard E. Clark Memorial Paper Discussant for Perioperative and Critical Care

    Discussant: Robert S.D Higgins, MD,MSHA (he/him/his) – Rush University System for Health

  • 10:31am - 10:34am PT
    Audience Q&A
  • 10:34am - 10:42am PT
    LVAD Support in Patients >75 Years of Age

    Invited Speaker: Arman Kilic, MD – Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina

  • 10:42am - 10:50am PT
    Are LVAD Patients at a Disadvantage Awaiting Heart Transplantation: Mortality of LVAD Patients on the Waiting List

    Invited Speaker: Ahmet Kilic, MD (he/him/his) – The Johns Hopkins Hospital

  • 10:50am - 11:00am PT
    Early Incidence of Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy in Donation After Circulatory Death Heart Transplantation in the United States

    Presenting Author: Syed Shahyan Bakhtiyar, MBBS, MBE (he/him/his) – University of Colorado

  • 11:00am - 11:10am PT
    Interhospital Variability in Infections After Durable Left Ventricular Assist Device: Analysis of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Intermacs Database

    Presenting Author: Shiwei Zhou, MD (she/her/hers) – Michigan Medicine

  • 11:10am - 11:20am PT
    Is the Increased Utilization of Impella 5.5 Instead of Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump for Bridging Heart Transplant Patients Justified? An Analysis of the UNOS Database

    Presenting Author: Athanasios Tsiouris, MD, PhD, FACS – University of Mississippi Medical Center

  • 11:20am - 11:28am PT
    Xenotransplantation in Practice: When Will It be Ready for Primetime?

    Invited Speaker: Bartley P. Griffith, MD (he/him/his) – University of Maryland

  • 11:28am - 11:45am PT
    Panel Discussion