A COMMITMENT TO LIFELONG FELLOWSHIP
The Cardiac Society was founded to provide an avenue for the exchange of ideas relating to the clinical and research activities among the present and former cardiology fellows, trainees, and teaching staff of The Texas Heart Institute.
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Agenda subject to change
Agenda
7:00 am Pharmaceutical Company Exhibits/Video Presentations
8:00 Welcome/Opening Remarks
Joanna Molina-Razavi, MD | President, Texas Heart Institute Cardiac Society
Joseph G. Rogers, MD | President and CEO, The Texas Heart Institute
8:15 Conduction System vs. Biventricular Pacing. What’s best for resynchronization?
Mihail Chelu, MD, PhD | Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
8:30 The Emergence of Pulse Field and HPSD Ablation
Mohammad Saeed, MD | Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
8:45 Left Atrial Appendage Closure Options
Abdi Rasekh, MD | Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
9:00 Early Intervention in Atrial Fibrillation
John Seger, MD | Houston Electrophysiology Associates, Houston, Texas
9:15 Updates in Ventricular Tachycardia
David Burkland, MD | Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia, Houston, Texas
9:30 Mapping the Heart: Using Imaging to Guide EP Procedures
Brian Greet, MD | Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia, Houston, Texas
9:45 EP Panelists
Drs. Mehdi Razavi, Francia Rojas-Delgado, and Ilyas Colombowala
10:00 Mid-Morning Break
10:15 Current Guideline-Direct Medical Therapy in Heart Failure
Biykem Bozkurt, MD, PhD | Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
10:30 LVAD Update: A Post HVAD World
Andrew Civitello, MD | Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
10:45 Novel Device-based Treatment of Heart Failure
Reynolds Delgado III, MD | Delgado Cardiology, Houston, Texas
11:00 Pulmonary Hypertension and Right Heart Disease
Ajith Nair, MD | Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
11:15 Stem Cell Update: What’s Next after DREAM HF?
Emerson Perin, MD, PhD | The Texas Heart Institute Center for Cardiovascular Care, Houston, Texas
11:30 The Future of Large Bore Vascular Closure
Zvonimir Krajcer, MD | The Texas Heart Institute Center for Cardiovascular Care, Houston, Texas
11:45 Heart Failure Panelists
Drs. O.H. (Bud) Frazier, William (Billy) Cohn, and Alexis Shafii
12:00 LUNCH AND KEYNOTE SPEAKER (The Texas Heart Institute Cardiology Grand Rounds)
John Cooke, MD, PhD | Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, Texas
1:15 Peripheral Arterial Disease
Mehran Massumi, MD | Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, Houston, Texas
1:30 Critical Limb Ischemia: Hybrid Revascularization
Jonathan Aliota, MD | Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, Houston, Texas
1:45 Beyond the Angiogram: Using IVUS and OCT to Guide Revascularization
Robert Bagwell, MD | Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, Houston, Texas
2:00 Impella Assisted PCI: Applications in ACS and Beyond
Samar Sheth, MD | Texas Heart & Vascular Specialists, Houston, Texas
2:15 IVL “Coronary Lithotripsy” for PCI
Neil Strickman, MD | Hall-Garcia Cardiology at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
2:30 Interventional Panelists
Drs. R. David Fish, George Younis, Zvonimir Krajcer, and Alexander Postalian
2:45 Mid-Afternoon Break
3:00 Beyond Clot Dissolution: Innovations in Device Management of Pulmonary Embolism
Jorge Escobar, MD | The Texas Heart Institute Center for Cardiovascular Care, Houston, Texas
3:15 A Pill to Treat Aortic Stenosis: Is it Possible?
Alexander Postalian, MD | The Texas Heart Institute Center for Cardiovascular Care, Houston, Texas
3:30 Alternative Access for TAVR
Robert Aertker, MD | Woodlands North Houston Heart Center, The Woodlands, Texas
3:45 Cerebral Embolic Protection Devices in TAVR
Salman Bandeali, MD | Texas Heart & Vascular Specialists, Houston, Texas
4:00 Transcatheter Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Interventions: Current and Future Outlook
Guilherme Silva, MD | Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
4:15 Structural Panelists
Drs. Briana Costello, Leo Simpson, Srikanth Koneru, and Samar Sheth
4:30 pm Announcements and Adjournment
