UPMC Heart Valve Symposium 2024

UPMC Heart Valve Symposium (HVS 2024)

Pittsburgh, PA US

April 20, 2024

Target Audience

This meeting is open to physicians (including family practitioners, internists, residents, cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, thoracic surgeons, and anesthesiologists), advanced practice providers, nurses, researchers, medical students, and other health care professionals involved in the care of patients with complex valve and structural heart disease.

Learning Objectives

The UPMC Heart Valve Symposium intends to fulfill the following learning objectives:
• Increase understanding of screening, diagnosis, and prognosis of aortic, mitral, and tricuspid valvular heart disease in various patient populations.
• Explore advanced modalities utilized to image the aortic, mitral, and tricuspid heart valves.
• Increase knowledge of medical therapies and transcatheter and/or surgical interventions for treatment of heart valve disease, and the risks and benefits of the different therapeutic options.
• Enhance understanding of importance of multi-disciplinary approach to treatment of structural heart disease.
• Recognize impact of social determinants of health on structural heart disease outcomes.
• Conduct a deep dive into technical aspects of transcatheter and surgical interventions to manage aortic, mitral, and tricuspid heart valve disease.
• Explore landmark, recent and upcoming clinical trials, and their impact on the field of interventional cardiology and cardiac surgery.
• Explore complex and challenging cases in structural heart disease patients and tactics and techniques for management.

 
+ Topics:
8:00am: Welcome
Ibrahim Sultan, MD
Section I: Aortic Valve Disease (Moderator: Amber Makani, MD)
8:05am: Case #1 – 65-year-old man with severe symptomatic trileaflet aortic stenosis
Amber Makani, MD
8:15am: Debate: Why TAVR is the best therapy for this patient
Dustin Kliner, MD
8:25am: Debate: He should have surgery with a mechanical valve
Derek Serna-Gallegos, MD
8:35am: Debate: Did someone say Ozaki procedure?
Danny Chu, MD
8:45am: Debate Rebuttals and Deliberation
8:55am: Live TAVR from UPMC Presbyterian
Moderator: Ibrahim Sultan, MD
Presenter: Dustin Kliner, MD
Expert Panel:
Derek Serna-Gallegos, MD
Hemal Gada, MD Amber Makani, MD
Timothy C. Wong, MD
9:00—10:00am: Heart Valve Disease: Patient Experience Breakout Session
Elissa Castor, PA-C
Supervisor, Cardiac Surgery Outpatient Advanced Practice Providers
Elizabeth Christensen, MSN, CRNP
Advanced Practice Provider, Expert, TAVR Program
UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute
Katie Fatigante, PA-C
Supervisor, Structural Heart Team Advanced Practice Providers
UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute
9:25am: Heart Valve disease in Women: What do physicians and cardiologists need to know?
Malamo Countouris, MD, MS
9:35am: Bench to the Bedside: Aortic Stenosis
Cynthia St. Hilaire, PhD
9:45am: Expert Perspective: Are All TAVR Platforms the Same?
Hemal Gada, MD
9:55am: Panel Discussion and Audience Discussion
10:10am: Break
Section II: Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Disease (Moderator: Conrad Smith, MD)
10:25am: Case #2: A 75-year-old woman with P2 prolapse
Conrad Smith, MD
10:35am: Debate: TEER with no fear
Jeff Fowler, DO
10:45am: Debate: Robotic mitral valve repair is standard of care
Johannes Bonatti, MD
10:55am: Debate Rebuttals and Deliberation
11:05am: Live TEER from UPMC Harrisburg
Moderator: Conrad Smith, MD
Presenter: Hemal Gada, MD
Expert Panel:
Jeffrey Fowler, DO
Amber Makani MD
Johannes Bonatti, MD
William Katz, MD
Joshua Levenson, MD
11:35am: Tricuspid TEER for TR: Patients want better QOL
Conrad Smith, MD
11:45am: Transcatheter tricuspid replacement for TR: The new TAVR
Catalin Toma, MD
11:55am: Tricuspid valve surgery: What does the future look like?
Pyongsoo D. Yoon, MD
12:05pm: TEE Toolbox for Structural Heart Cases
Taz Mansoor, MD
Keynote Address:
12:15pm: Social Media, Heart Valve Patients & You
Adam Pick
12:30pm: Panel Discussion and Audience Discussion
12:45pm: Break
Section III: Structural Heart Potpourri (Moderator: Hemal Gada, MD)
1:00pm: Pulmonary embolism: where are we in 2024?
Belinda N. Rivera-Lebron, MD, MSCE
1:10pm: Live Pulmonary Embolism from UPMC Presbyterian
Moderator: Catalin Toma, MD
Presenter: Jeffrey Fowler, DO
Expert Panel Moderators:
Belinda N. Rivera-Lebron, MD, MSCE
Rabih Chaer, MD, MS
Torrey R. Schmidt, DO
1:40pm: When treating valvular heart disease: Don’t forget about AFIB and the left atrial appendage!
Stephen Waterford, MD
1:50pm: Advancements in LAAO: What does the future hold?
Sandeep K. Jain, MD
2:00pm: Live LAAO from UPMC Harrisburg
Moderator: Sandeep K. Jain, MD
Presenter: Chinmay P. Patel, MD
Expert Panel:
Dustin Kliner, MD
Virginia K. Singla, MD
Samir F. Saba, MD
Amber Makani, MD
Matthew Suffoletto, MD
2:30pm: Panel Discussion and Audience Discussion
2:45pm: Adjourn
Ibrahim Sultan, MD