New Frontiers in Heart Failure

Moderator(s)

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  Ashish Shah, MD

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

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

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