As noted, some Heart Rhythm 2008 functions require additional fees: The VT/VF Summit on Wednesday; Mini-Courses (MC) on Wednesday (below); Meet-the-Experts (ME) and Experts Unplugged (EU) Luncheons on Thursday and Friday; and the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Recertification Prep Course on Saturday.
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Wednesday, May 14 Mini-Courses— 8:00-11:00 a.m.
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MC01 — Pedi/Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Device-Based Cardiac Rhythm Management in Congenital Heart Disease
Chair(s)
Charles I. Berul, MD, FHRS, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA
James A. Johns, MD, Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, Nashville, TN
Devices in CHD: Who Needs Them?
Michael J. Silka, MD, Children's Hospital Los Angeles-USC, Los Angeles, CA
The Generators: Using Programmable Features to Optimize Hemodynamics
Peter S. Fischbach, MD, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
The Conductors: New Technologies, Optimizing Endocardial Lead Placement
Peter P. Karpawich, MD, Children's Hospital of Michigan/Wayne State Univ, Detroit, MI
Lead Performance in CHD Population
Gerald A. Serwer, MD, FHRS, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI
Resynchronization (and Prosynchronization) Strategies in CHD
Anne M. Dubin, MD, FHRS, Stanford University Pediatric Cardiology, Palo Alto, CA
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MC02 — Regulatory/Health Pol/Education
Physicians, Regulators & Engineers Collaborate: What is Learned from the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation Report
Chair(s)
Ross Fletcher, MD, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC
G. Frank O. Tyers, MD, British Columbia Cardiac Registry, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Cardiac Rhythm Management Device Committee: Overview & Role
Ross Fletcher, MD, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC
Interactions of Pacemakers and ICDs with RFID systems
Mitchell J. Shein, MS, US Food & Drug Administration, Rockville, MD
IS4 Connector Standard
Veronica Ivans, Medtronic CRDM, Minneapolis, MN
Battery Taskforce and Universal Magnet Response
Robert G. Hauser, MD, FHRS, Minneapolis Heart Institute, Minneapolis, MN
MRI Scanning of Pacemaker Patients
Prof. Robert A. Stevenson, BS/MA, Greatbatch, Inc., Santa Clarita, CA
iPods and Pacemakers: Is There Reason for Concern?
Roger G. Carrillo, MD, FHRS, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL
Dr. Doris Escher Pacemaker Glossary
Paul A. Levine, MD, FHRS, St. Jude Medical, Sylmar, CA
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MC03 — Catheter Ablation
Ablative Approach to Left Atrial Tachycardias
Chair(s)
Raul Weiss, MD, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Eric D. Good, DO, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Entrainment Mapping
Mélèze Hocini, MD, Hôpital Cardiologique du Haut Lévèque & University, Bordeaux-Pessac, France
3-D Mapping
Hiroshi Nakagawa, MD, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Cardiac Arrhythmia Research Institute, Oklahoma City, OK
Electrogram Based Mapping
Pierre Jais, MD, Hopital Du Haut-Leveque, Bordeaux-Pessac, France
Signal Processing Techniques to Localized Atrial Arrhythmias
Sanjiv Narayan, MD, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego VA Medical Center, San Diego,CA
Substrate Based Mapping of Atrial Arrhythmias
Shih-Ann Chen, MD, FHRS, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
Pacing Maneuvers to Localized AT
Uwais Mohamed, Northern Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Achieving Critical Isthmus Block for Left Atrial Macroreentry
Sabine Ernst, MD, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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MC04 — Heart Failure
Optimal Cardiac Imaging to Guide CRT Placement: Does It Make a Difference?
Chair(s)
Jerold S. Shinbane, MD, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
John Gorcsan, III, MD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Interpretation of Screening Echo's in CRT Candidates
Peter Sogaard, MD, DMSc, Gentofte University Hospital, Hellerup, Denmark
CRT Chronic Optimization Made Simple
Tasneem Z. Naqvi, MD, MRCP, FACC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Evidence of Reverse Remodeling after CRT — Real or Imagined?
John Gorcsan, III, MD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Invited Speakers
Christoph Stellbrink, MD, Bielefeld Medical Center, Bielefeld, Germany
Alan Cheng, MD, John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
Elyse Foster, MD, Univ of California-San Francisco Echo, San Francisco, CA
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MC05 — Noninvasive
SCD Risk Stratification: What We Need to Know For Clinical Practice in 2009
Chair(s)
Heikki V. Huikuri, Jr., MD, Ph.D., University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Michael E. Cain, MD, FHRS, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Population Genetics and Novel Risk Factors
Sumeet S. Chugh, MD, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR
Early After MI
Stefan H. Hohnloser, MD, FHRS, J. W. Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
Congenital Heart Disease
Peter A. Brady, MBChB, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
HCM and ARVD
William J. McKenna, MD, The Heart Hospital, London, United Kingdom
LQT, SQT, CPVT
Peter Schwartz, MD, University of Pavia / IRCCS Fondazione Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
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MC06 — Allied Professionals
Interactive EP Basics: Minimum Daily Requirements for Allied Professionals
Chair(s)
Carol J. Gilbert, RN, BSN, MBA, Aurora Sinai and St. Luke's Med. Ctrs, Milwaukee, WI
Patrick J. Tchou, MD, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
Arrhythmogenesis and Cellular Electrophysiology 101
Paul J. Wang, MD, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
Intracardiac Electrogram Recognition and Interpretation
Henry H. Hsia, MD, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Anatomy, Fluoroscopy and Electrogram: Putting it All Together
Craig Swygman, CVT, St. Vincent Hospital, Portland, OR
Doing it Right: EP Stimulation and Evaluation
David E. Haines, MD, FHRS, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI
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MC07 — Devices (Brady, Tachy)
How Experts Manage Difficult Device Cases and Minimize Complications
Chair(s)
Sanjeev Saksena, MD, Cardiac Electrophysiology PA, Warren, NJ
Massimo Santini, MD, Ospedale San Filippo Neri, Rome, Italy
How to Manage the Patient with High Defibrillation Thresholds
Sergio L. Pinski, MD, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL
How to Manage the Patient with Electrical Storm
Michele M. Gulizia, FESC, MD, Garibaldi-Nesima Hospital, Catania, Italy
How to Avoid Lead Infection and Manage the Patient with Redundant Leads
Maria Grazia Bongiorni, MD, CardioThoracic Department - University Hospital, PISA, Italy
How to Manage the Patient with Wireless ICD and CRT Devices
Werner Jung, MD, Academic Hospital Villingen, Villingen, Germany
Leadless ICD: How to Select the Appropriate Candidate
Gust H. Bardy, MD, Seattle Institute for Cardiac Research, Seattle, WA
How to Avoid Unnecessary Apical Pacing
Josef Kautzner, MD, Ph.D., Institute for Clinical/Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
How to Optimize the AV Delay and V-V Timing after CRT Implantation
Christophe Leclercq, MD, University Hospital, Rennes, France
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Wednesday, May 14 Mini-Courses — 1:00-4:00 p.m.
MC08 — Pedi/Adult Congenital Heart Disease
VT in Pediatric Patients with and without Congenital Heart Disease: Managing The Young and the Restless
Chair(s)
Christopher Johnsrude, MD, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
J. Philip Saul, MD, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
Normal Heart VTs: Natural History and Non-Ablative Rx
Christopher C. Erickson, MD, UNMC/CUMC/ Children's Hospital, Omaha, NE
Normal Heart VTs: Ablative Rx
Thomas Paul, MD, Georg-August-Univ./Med. Univ. Hospital, Gottingen, Germany
VT After Surgery for CHD: Risk Assessment
Paul Khairy, MD, Ph.D., Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada
VT After Surgery for CHD: Catheter Surgical Ablative Rx
Maully J. Shah, MD, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
CPVT: Diagnosis, Mimics, and Rx
Arthur A. M. Wilde, MD, Dept. of Cardiology Univ. of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Treatment Strategies for Young Patients with ARVD: Drugs, Defibrillators, and Then Some
Jane E. Crosson, MD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
VT in Children with Dilated, Hypertrophic, and Restrictive Cardiomyopathies
Jeffrey A. Towbin, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
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MC09 — Clinical EP/Pharmacology
Drug Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation: Optimizing Medical Treatment; Minimizing Complications
Chair(s)
Craig M. Pratt, MD, Methodist DeBakey Heart Center, Houston, TX
Jasbir S. Sra, MD, Aurora Sinai/Aurora St. Luke's Medical Centers, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health-Milwaukee Clinical Campus, Milwaukee, WI
How Substrate and Remodeling Affects Response to Drugs
Peter R. Kowey, MD, Mainline Health Heart Center, Wynnewood, PA
Is Amiodarone Really the Best Drug for AF
Steven N. Singh, MD, VA Medical Center, Washington, DC
Treatment in Patients with Heart Failure
Denis Roy, MD, Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada
Intermittent Therapy — When and How?
Stefan H. Hohnloser, MD, FHRS, J. W. Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
Anticoagulation — Is Warfarin the Only Answer?
James A. Reiffel, MD, FHRS, Columbia University, New York, NY
New Targets for Drug Therapy
Peter J. Zimetbaum, MD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
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MC10 — Devices (Brady, Tachy)
Performing Difficult Device Implantations: What Do Expect Pre-recorded Live Cases Show?
Chair(s)
Leonard I. Ganz, MD, Temple University School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
Thomas F. Deering, MD, FHRS, Piedmont Hospital, Atlanta, GA
How to Perform Sub-muscular Implants
Peter H. Belott, MD, FHRS, Sharp Grossmont Hospital, El Cajon, CA
How to Perform a Lead extraction in a Chronically Occluded Subclavian Vein to Create a Channel for Access or Upgrade
Charles J. Love, MD, FHRS, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
How to Perform Permanent His Bundle Pacing
Daniel L. Lustgarten, MD, Ph.D., University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
How to Place a Pacemaker or ICD from the Leg
G. Neal Kay, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
How to Perform Venoplasty to Allow Successful Left Ventricular Lead Placement in CRT
Seth J. Worley, MD, FHRS, The Heart Center at Lancaster General Hospital, Lancaster, PA
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MC11 — Catheter Ablation
Mapping and Ablation of Unusual Tachycardias: Where Do the Zebras Hide?
Chair(s)
Andre D'Avila, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Jonathan M. Kalman, MBBS, Ph.D., Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Use of Coronary Venous System to Ablate Epicardial VT
Vivek Y. Reddy, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
VT Triggered by CRT
Petr Peichl, MD, Ikem, Prague, Czech Republic
VPBs Precipitating VF: Location, Techniques for Ablation, Long-Term Results
Mélèze Hocini, MD, Hôpital Cardiologique du Haut Lévèque&University, Bordeaux-Pessac, France
Thermal Mapping of Outflow Tract Tachycardia
Christopher A. Clyne, MD, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT
VT Ablation in Hemodynamically Unstable Conditions
Roberto De Ponti, MD, University of Insubria-Varese, Varese, Italy
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MC12 — Catheter Ablation
Mechanisms and Ablation of Focal Atrial Tachycardias: Who Are the Players, How Do You Eliminate Them?
Chair(s)
Bruce Lerman, MD, Cornell University Medical Center, New York, NY
Albert C. Lin, MD, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Characterization of FAT Using High-Density Mapping
Prashanthan Sanders, MBBS, Ph.D., University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Adenosine Sensitivity of FAT
Steven M. Markowitz, MD, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
Multiple ATs in Normal Hearts and ATs in Unusual Locations
Jonathan M. Kalman, MBBS, Ph.D., Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Noncoronary Cusp AT
Matthias Antz, MD, Klinikum-Oldenburg, Heart Center, Oldenburg, Germany
Nonautomatic FAT in congenital heart disease
Frank Cecchin, MD, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA
AT from Mitral Annulus-Aorta Junction
Mario D. Gonzalez, MD, Penn State Heart & Vascular Institute, Hershey, PA
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MC13 — Allied Professionals
Workplace 2008: Enhancing the Quality and Efficiency of Device Evaluations
Chair(s)
Rosemary S. Bubien, RN, MSN, FHRS University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Jennifer A. Fraser, RN, FHRS, Kawartha Cardiology Clinic, Peterborough, ON, Canada
The In-Flight "Recorder: Managing Patients with Device Diagnostics"
Elizabeth A. Ching, RN, FHRS, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
Troubleshooting in Device Clinic: EGM Interpretation and Hardware Issues
Paul A. Friedman, MD, FHRS, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Advanced Practice Care in the Clinic Setting: Managing Complex Patient Issues
Aileen M. Ferrick, ACNP-C, FHRS, NYU Medical Center Heart Rhythm Center, New York, NY
The Device Clinic of the Future: Integrating Information Technology into Workflow
Julie B. Shea, MS, RNCS, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
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MC14 — Devices (Brady, Tachy)
Unconventional Applications of CRT: Extending the Benefit to More Patients
Supported by an unrestricted educational grant provided by Biotronik
Chair(s)
William T. Abraham, MD, The Ohio State University Heart Center, Columbus, OH
Anne M. Dubin, MD, Stanford University Pediatric Cardiology, Palo Alto, CA
CRT in Patients with NSR and an Indication for Pacing
Owen A. Obel, MD, UT Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX
The Role of CRT in Patients with AF: Do We have Enough Data?
Samir Saba, MD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
CRT Post-AVJ Ablation: Does LV Function Matter?
Angel R. Leon, MD, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Invited Speaker: Jean-Jacques Blanc, MD, Hopital De La Cavale Blanche, Brest, France
CRT in Patients with Wide QRS and Class I and II NYHA: What Are We Trying to Achieve?
Clyde W. Yancy, MD, FACC, FAHA, FACP, Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute, Dallas, TX
Multisite LV Pacing: Are We There Yet?
Jean-Claude Daubert, MD, Centre Cardio-Pneumologique, Rennes, France
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