Texas Heart Institute Cardiac Society Fourteenth Symposium

7:00 AM    Pharmaceutical Company Exhibits/Video Presentations

8:00 AM    Welcome/Opening Remarks
Mehran Massumi, MD, President, Texas Heart Institute Cardiac Society
Joseph Rogers, MD, President, Texas Heart Institute

8:15 AM    ACC/AHA Heart Failure Guidelines Update
Biykem Bozkurt, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

8:30 AM    Novel Device-Based Treatment of Heart Failure
Ajith Nair, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

8:45 AM    LVAD Update: A Post-HVAD World
Andrew Civitello, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

9:00 AM   Stem Cell Update: The DREAM HF Trial
Emerson Perin, MD, Texas Heart Medical Group, Houston, Texas

9:15 AM    Heart Failure Panelists
Drs. O.H. Frazier, William “Billy” Cohn, Reynolds Delgado, Alexis Shafii

9:30 AM    MID-MORNING BREAK

9:45 AM    Updates in Interventional Heart Failure
Priyanka Sen, MD, Texas Heart & Vascular Specialists, Houston, Texas

10:00 AM  Impella-Assisted PCI: Applications in ACS and Beyond
Samar Sheth, MD, Texas Heart & Vascular Specialists, Houston, Texas

10:15 AM   IVL “Coronary Lithotripsy” for PCI
Neil Strickman, MD, Hall-Garcia at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

10:30 AM   Venous Thromboembolism Intervention Options:
Who Benefits and What Treatment Options are Available?
Jorge Escobar, MD, Texas Heart & Vascular Specialists, Houston, Texas

10:45 AM   Is Major Amputation the only Solution for the “no-Option” CLI Patient?
Novel Frontiers in Complex BTK Revascularization
Miguel Montero, MD, Houston Limb Preservation Experts, Houston, Texas

11:00 AM    Critical Limb Ischemia: Hybrid Revascularization
Jonathan Aliota, MD, Kelsey-Seybold, Houston, Texas

11:30 AM   Peripheral Arterial Disease
Mehran Massumi, MD, Kelsey-Seybold, Houston, Texas

11:45 AM   Interventional Panelists
Drs. R. David Fish,  George Younis, Zvonimir Krajcer, Alexander Postalian

12:00 PM   NOON LUNCH BREAK

1:00 PM     Introduction of Keynote Speaker
Joseph Rogers, MD, President, Texas Heart Institute

1:15 PM     CV Surgery in the Post Structural Cardiology Era
Marc Moon, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

1:45 PM     Leaflet Thrombosis in TAVR
Robert Aertker, MD, Woodlands North Houston Heart Center, The Woodlands, Texas

2:00 PM    Updates in Large-Bore (Teleflex) Access Techniques
Zvonimir Krajcer, MD, Texas Heart Medical Group, Houston, Texas

2:15 PM     Cerebral Embolic Protection Devices in TAVR
Salman Bandeali, MD, Texas Heart & Vascular Specialists, Houston, Texas

2:30 PM     Transcatheter Mitral Valve Intervention: Current and Future Outlook
Guilherme Silva, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

2:45 PM     Structural Panelists
Drs. Briana Costello, Leo Simpson, Srikanth Koneru, Samar Sheth

3:00 PM     AFTERNOON BREAK

3:15 PM      Conduction System Pacing. Will it Replace CRT?
Mihail Chelu, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

3:30 PM     Cardiac Neuromodulation
Joanna Molina Razavi, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

3:45 PM     Ablation Technologies: The Emergence of Pulsed Field Ablation
Medhi Razavi, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

4:00 PM    Left Atrial Appendage Closure Options
Abdi Rasekh, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

4:15 PM     Early Intervention in Atrial Fibrillation
John Seger, MD, Houston Electrophysiology Associates, Houston, Texas

4:30 PM    Updates in Ventricular Tachycardia
David Burkland, MD Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Houston, Houston, Texas

4:45 PM     Electrophysiology Panelists
Drs. Mohammad Saeed, Santhisri Kodali, Ilyas Colombowala

5:00 PM     Announcements and Adjournment

Registration is closed. Please contact Jackie Berry if you have any questions.