2025 Best Science: Improving Outcomes in Congenital Cardiac Surgery

Moderator(s)

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  Fawwaz Shaw, MD

  Surgical Director of Pediatric Heart Transplantation; Associate Program Director Congenital Cardiac Surgery Fellowship
  Emory University/Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
  Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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  Christina Greene, MD (she/her/hers)

  Asst. Prof. of Surgery University of Washington
  Seattle Children's Hospital
  Seattle, Washington, United States

Presentations:

• 1:00pm – 1:02pm PT

  Introduction
  

  Invited Speaker: Christina L. Greene, MD (she/her/hers) – Seattle Children's Hospital
• 1:02pm – 1:07pm PT

  ABTS Update
  

  Invited Speaker: S Adil Husain, MD (he/him/his) – University of Utah Health / Intermountain Primary Childrens Medical Center
• 1:07pm – 1:15pm PT

  Annals Academy—Top 10 Research Questions in Congenital Surgery: From Ideas to Impact
  

  Invited Speaker: Andrew Goldstone, MD, PhD – New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center
• 1:15pm – 1:25pm PT

  Impact of Travel Burden and Access to Care on Survival Following Pediatric Heart Transplantation in the Contemporary Regionalization Era
  

  Presenting Author: Sara Sakowitz, MS MPH (she/her/hers) – UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
• 1:25pm – 1:35pm PT

  Atrioventricular Inflow Size Correlates with Ventricular Growth After Staged Recruitment for Unbalanced Atrioventricular Canal Defect
  

  Presenting Author: Yasuyuki Kobayashi, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Boston Children's Hospital
• 1:35pm – 1:45pm PT

  Accumulation of Branched-Chain Amino Acids in Cerebral Interstitial Fluid Following Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Neonatal Swine
  

  Presenting Author: Benjamin Smood, MD MS – Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
• 1:45pm – 1:55pm PT

  Center Volume Is Not Associated with Failure to Rescue in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
  

  Presenting Author: Dhaval Chauhan, MD – WVU Medicine Children's Hospital
• 1:55pm – 2:05pm PT

  Outcomes of 100 Berlin Heart Insertions at a Single Institution
  

  Presenting Author: Mark S. Bleiweis, MD (he/him/his) – University of Florida