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  Valves in the Heart of the Big Apple: Evalutation and Management of Valvular Heart Diseases 2001  
  February 15, 2001

Cardiovascular Research

 
     
  Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York CIty
May 10 - 12, 2001


Thursday, May 10, 2001

12:00-1:30 Registration

1:30 – 1:40 Daniel J. Williford, M.D., Ph.D.
President, New York Cardiological Society of the American College of
Cardiology, New York State Chapter and President-elect, American College of Cardiology, New York State Chapter

1:40 – 2:00 Introduction and Symposium Goals
Jeffrey S. Borer, MD; O. Wayne Isom, M.D.

2:00 – 3:20 OVERVIEW
Chairman: O. Wayne Isom, M.D.

2:00 – 2:20 THE HONORS LECTURE
Historical Perspectives on Valve Disease Management
David C. Sabiston, Jr.

2:20 – 2:40 The Epidemiology of Valvular Heart Diseases: An Emerging Public Health Problem
Phyllis Supino, Ed.D.

2:40 – 3:00 The cellular and molecular basis of heart failure in valvular diseases: basis for future therapy
Jeffrey S. Borer, M.D.

3:00 – 3:20 Diastolic Function and the Pathophysiology of Heart Failure in Valvular Diseases
Martin St. John Sutton, M.D.

3:20 – 3:40 Coffee Break

3:40 – 5:20 AORTIC STENOSIS
Chairman: Blase Carabello, M.D.

3:40 – 3:55 Cholesterol and progression of aortic stenosis: is there a mandate for lipid modification in patients with non-critical AS?
Allan Schwartz, M.D.

3:55 – 4:20 Selection of patients for operation: the asymptomatic patient and the patient with poor LV function
Blase Carabello, M.D.

4:20 – 4:35 Radionuclide-based assessment: biological information and impact on need for pre-operative coronary arteriography
Steven Horowitz, M.D.

4:35 - 4:55 Congenital aortic stenosis – is repair an option? Current techniques, comparative statistics
John Lamberti, M.D.

4:55 – 5:20 Factors determining selection of valve prosthesis – tissue or mechanical: current status
Timothy Gardner, M.D

6:00 – 7:00 Cocktail Reception


Friday, May 11, 2001

7:00 – 8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:00 – 10:30 AORTIC REGURGITATION
Chairman: Robert O. Bonow, M.D.

8:00 – 8:20 Etiology and the role of vascular pathology: is the face of the disease changing?
Valentin Fuster, M.D., Ph.D.

8:20 – 8:35 Is there a role for pharmacologic prophylaxis?
Robert O. Bonow, M.D.

8:35 – 9:05 Selection of asymptomatic patients for operation
Jeffrey S. Borer, M.D.

9:05 – 9:20 Surgical approaches when AR is associated with aortic root disease
Leonard Girardi, M.D

9:40 – 10:00 Is the aortic valve autograft a viable surgical option? Current techniques, comparative statistics
Paul Stelzer, M.D

10:00 – 10:30 Panel Discussion: Illustrative cases
Chairman: Edmund Herrold, M.D., Ph.D
Panelists: Drs. Bonow, Borer, Stelzer, Girardi

10:30 – 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 – 11:50 INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS
Chairman: Jeffrey Gold, M.D.

10:50 – 11:10 Infective agents, natural history and the changing face of prophylaxis
Barry Hartman, M.D.

11:10 – 11:30 Timing of surgery, medical/surgical therapy comparison
Jeffrey Gold, M.D.

11:30 – 11:50 Echocardiographic assessment of the vegetation: are there characteristics that mandate prophylactic surgery?
Marvin Berger, M.D.

12:15 – 1:45 Luncheon
Speaker to be announced

2:00 – 5:30 MITRAL REGURGITATION
Chairman: Mark Starling, M.D.

2:00 – 2:20 Natural history in operated and unoperated patients
Clare Hochreiter, M.D.

2:20 – 2:40 Prognosis and complications of mitral valve prolapse
Robert M. Jeresaty, M.D.

2:40 – 3:00 The emerging cell biology of MR: implications for future therapy
Mark Starling, M.D.

3:00 – 3:25 Predictors of outcome: when to operate
Maurice Enrique Sarano, M.D.

3:25 – 3:45 The importance of the right ventricle in decisions to operate
Jeffrey S. Borer, M.D.

3:45 – 4:15 Debate: When mitral regurgitation is caused by ischemia, combined coronary bypass and mitral valve surgery should be performed before mitral regurgitation is severe.
Pro: Lawrence Cohn, M.D.
Con: John Elefteriadis, M.D.

4:15 – 4:35 Repair of congenital mitral valve anomalies: selection of patients, current techniques and statistics
Jan Quagebeur, M.D

4:35 – 4:55 When should transplantation replace mitral valve surgery for the patient with mitral regurgitation?
Niloo Edwards, M.D.

4:55 – 5:30 Illustrative and Controversial Cases: Panel Discussion
Chairperson: Claire Hochreiter, M.D.
Panelists: Drs. Starling, Sarano, Cohn, Borer, Isom, Elefteriades, Edwards

Saturday, May 12, 2001

7:00 – 8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:00 – 8:20 THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION LECTURE
Aortic Valve Disease: Current Perspective
William C. Roberts, M.D.
8:20 – 9:40 MITRAL STENOSIS
Chairman: William C. Roberts, M.D.

8:20 – 8:40 Catheter-based therapy: Does it really last as long and do as well as surgery?
Igor Palacios, M.D

8:40 – 9:00 Atrial fibrillation: implications for management decisions and pharmacologic therapy
John C. Somberg, M.D.

9:00 – 9:20 Surgical options: commissurotomy, heterografting, homografting, artificial prosthesis implantation: criteria for choice
O. Wayne Isom, M.D.

9:20 – 9:40 Rheumatic fever and valvulitis: is it still with us? New approaches to diagnosis
Jagat Narula, M.D., Ph.D.

9:40 – 10:00 Coffee Break

10:00 – 11:20 NEW APPROACHES TO SURGICAL MANAGEMENT
Chairman: Karl Krieger, M.D.

10:00 – 10:20 Emerging role of complementary medicine in valvular surgery
Mehmet Oz, M.D.

10:20 – 10:40 Strategies for blood conservation in valvular surgery
Karl Krieger, M.D.

10:40 – 11:20 “Minimally invasive” valve surgery: is it truly an advantage?

10:40 – 11:00 Aortic valve replacement
Craig Smith, M.D

11:00 – 11:20 Mitral valve replacement and repair
Aubrey Galloway, M.D

11:20 – 11:30 Concluding remarks
Drs. Isom and Borer

11:30 – 12:00 Participants complete and submit course evaluation

12:00 ADJOURN





 
 
Organized by: The Howard Gilman Institute for Valvular Heart Diseases
Invited Speakers: Course Directors

Jeffrey S. Borer, M.D.; Gladys & Roland Harriman Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine in Radiology and in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Medical College; Co-Director, The Howard Gilman Institute for Valvular Heart Diseases, Weill Medical College; Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Pathophysiology, New York - Presbyterian Hospital New York Weill Cornell Center.

O. Wayne Isom, M.D.; Professor and Chairman, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; Co-Director, The Howard Gilman Institute for Valvular Heart Diseases, Weill Medical College; Chairman, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, New York - Presbyterian Hospital New York Weill Cornell Center.

Faculty:

Marvin Berger, M.D.; Professor of Clinical Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Director, Echocardiography Laboratory, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York City

Robert O. Bonow, M.D.; Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Chief, Division of Cardiology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL

Blase Carabello, M.D.; The W.A. “Tex” and Deborah Moncrief Jr. Professor of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine; Vice Chairman, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine; Medical Care Line Executive, Houston VA Medical Center, Houston, TX

Lawrence Cohn, M.D.; Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School; Chief, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA

Niloo Edwards, M.D.; Assistant Professor of Surgery, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City

John Elefteriadis, M.D.; Professor and Chief, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

Valentin Fuster, M.D., Ph.D.; Richard Gorlin M.D./Heart Research Foundation Professor of Cardiology; Director, The Zena and Michael A. Weiner Cardiovascular Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City

Aubrey Galloway, M.D.; Professor of Surgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery, New York University School of Medicine, New York City

Timothy Gardner, M.D.; William M. Measey Professor of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Leonard Girardi, M.D.; Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York City

Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D.; Professor and Chairman, The University Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Cardiothoracic Surgeon-in-Chief, The Montefiore – Einstein Heart Center, New York City

Barry Hartman, M.D.; Clinical Professor of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York City

Edmund Herrold, M.D., Ph.D.; Associate Professor of Medicine and of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; Director, Section of Biomechanics, Division of Cardiovascular Pathophysiology, New York – Presbyterian Hospital New York Weill Cornell Center, New York City

Clare Hochreiter, M.D.; Associate Professor of Medicine and of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; Director, Section of Clinical Trials and Clinical Research, Division of Cardiovascular Pathophysiology, New York – Presbyterian Hospital New York Weill Cornell Center, New York City

Steven Horowitz, M.D.; Professor of Medicine and Nuclear Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Chief, Division of Cardiology, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York City

Robert M. Jeresaty, M.D.; Professor of Medicine, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT; Emeritus Chief, Division of Cardiology, St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford, CT

Karl Krieger, M.D.; Bergerac Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Medical College of Cornell University;Vice Chairman, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, New York – Presbyterian Hospital New York Weill Cornell Center, New York City

John Lamberti, M.D.; Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York City

Jagat Narula, M.D., Ph.D.; Professor of Medicine and Associate Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, MCP Hahnemann University; Director, Centers of Molecular Cardiology and Heart Failure Transplantation and Research, Hahnemann University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA

Mehmet Oz, M.D.; Irving Associate Professor of Surgery, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City

Igor Palacios, M.D.; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories and Interventional Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Jan Quagebeur, M.D Professor of Surgery, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University; Adjunct Professor of Surgery, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York City

William C. Roberts, M.D.; Dean, A. Webb Roberts Center of Continuing Education, Baylor University Medical Center; Medical Director, Baylor Cardiovascular Institute, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX; Editor, American Journal of Cardiology

David C. Sabiston, Jr.; James B. Duke Professor of Surgery and Chairman Emeritus of Surgery; Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, N.C.

Maurice Enrique Sarano, M.D.; Associate Professor of Medicine, Mayo Medical School; Consultant, Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Allan Schwartz, M.D.; Harold Ames Hatch Professor of Clinical Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University; Chief, Division of Cardiology, New York – Presbyterian Hospital Columbia – Presbyterian Medical Center, New York City

Craig Smith, M.D.; Professor of Surgery, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University; Chief of Cardiac Surgery, New York – Presbyterian Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York City

John C. Somberg, M.D.; Professor and Chief, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Rush Medical School, Rush – Presbyterian Medical Center, Chicago, IL; Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of Therapeutics

Martin St. John Sutton, M.D.; John Bryfogel Professor of Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Director, Cardiovascular Imaging Program, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Mark Starling, M.D.; Professor of Internal Medicine and Associate Chief, Division of Cardiology, University of Michigan Medical School; Chief, Cardiology Section, VA Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI

Paul Stelzer, M.D.; Associate Professor of Surgery, Albert Einstein College of Medicine;
Beth Israel and St. Luke’s – Roosevelt Hospitals, New York City

Phyllis Supino, Ed.D.; Associate Research Professor of Public Health in Medicine and Clinical Associate Professor of Public Health, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; Director, Section of Data Management and Educational Programs, Division of Cardiovascular Pathophysiology, New York – Presbyterian Hospital New York Weill Cornell Center, New York City












 
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VALVES IN THE HEART OF THE BIG APPLE:
Evaluation and Management of Valvular Heart Diseases 2001


May 10 - 12, 2001


To register, please complete the registration form below and return it by mail or fax. Registration fee includes tuition, course syllabus, Thursday evening reception, Friday and Saturday continental breakfasts, Friday luncheon and daily refreshment breaks.

Mail form to: Valves in the Heart of the Big Apple
254 East 68th Street
Suite #4F
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Or, fax form to 212/452-2027


For more information: call 212/561-1627 or e-mail: msljy@lesliejyerman.com



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Early registration (prior to March 23, 2001) – $500
ACC members – $525
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Course Cancellation Policy

If you must cancel your registration, a refund of tuition minus a $50 administrative fee will be made if notification is received prior to April 20, 2001. No refunds will be made after April 20, 2001.




























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