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Adult Cardiac

STS/ASCVTS Joint Session: East Meets West in Innovation

Friday, January 24, 2025
1:00pm - 1:55pm PT
Location: 403A

    Moderator(s)

  • S. Chris Malaisrie, MD

    Cardiac Surgeon and Professor of Surgery
    Northwestern Medicine/Northwestern University
    Chicago, Illinois, United States

    Disclosure(s): Artivion: Consultant (Ongoing), Research Grant (includes principal investigator, collaborator or consultant and pending grants as well as grants already received) (Ongoing), Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing); AtriCure Inc: Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing); Edwards Lifesciences: Advisory Board (Ongoing), Consultant (Ongoing), Research Grant (includes principal investigator, collaborator or consultant and pending grants as well as grants already received) (Ongoing), Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing); Medtronic: Research Grant (includes principal investigator, collaborator or consultant and pending grants as well as grants already received) (Ongoing); Terumo Aortic: Consultant (Ongoing), Research Grant (includes principal investigator, collaborator or consultant and pending grants as well as grants already received) (Ongoing), Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing)

  • Kyung Hwan Kim, MD, PhD

    Professor Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
    Seoul National University Hospital
    Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, Republic of Korea

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Disclosure(s):
S. Chris Malaisrie, MD: Artivion: Consultant (Ongoing), Research Grant (includes principal investigator, collaborator or consultant and pending grants as well as grants already received) (Ongoing), Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing); AtriCure Inc: Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing); Edwards Lifesciences: Advisory Board (Ongoing), Consultant (Ongoing), Research Grant (includes principal investigator, collaborator or consultant and pending grants as well as grants already received) (Ongoing), Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing); Medtronic: Research Grant (includes principal investigator, collaborator or consultant and pending grants as well as grants already received) (Ongoing); Terumo Aortic: Consultant (Ongoing), Research Grant (includes principal investigator, collaborator or consultant and pending grants as well as grants already received) (Ongoing), Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing)
Kyung Hwan Kim, MD, PhD: No financial relationships to disclose

Presentations:

  • 1:00pm - 1:10pm PT
    Innovative Implantable LVAD

    Invited Speaker: Minoru Ono, MD, PhD – The University of Tokyo

  • 1:10pm - 1:20pm PT
    Novel Mitral Valve Repair Techniques

    Invited Speaker: Theo Kofidis, MD (he/him/his) – Dept of Heart Surgery / Head, International Heart Surgery Center , Athens Greece

  • 1:20pm - 1:30pm PT
    Transapical Beating-Heart Myectomy for HOCM

    Invited Speaker: Song Wan, MD, FRCS (he/him/his) – Huazhong University of Science and Technology

  • 1:30pm - 1:40pm PT
    DOAC for Mechanical AVR

    Invited Speaker: Joon Bum Kim, MD (he/him/his) – Asan Medical Center

  • 1:40pm - 1:55pm PT
    Panel Discussion