In partnership with the Cardiac Electrophysiology Society (CES) for the second year, the Basic/Translational Science Forum includes the Douglas P. Zipes Lectureship presentation and the Opening Plenary session.

Translation from Bench to Bedside
Wednesday, May 9
8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Room 052A

The Basic/Translational Science Forum is an all day program comprised of state-of-the-art talks relevant to basic and clinical electrophysiology, mechanisms of heart rhythm disorders and novel experimental methods and therapeutics. This year’s forum places particular emphasis on translation from bench to bedside, using emerging technologies and strategies relevant to arrhythmia mechanisms and therapy.

How Do Cells and Ion Channels 'Talk' to One Another?
Chair:
Geoffrey S. Pitt, MD, Ph.D, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC

• Signaling Pathways
  Joseph A. Hill, MD, Ph.D. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Internal Medicine, Dallas,TX
  
• Sensing Intracellular Ca2+
  David E. Clapham, MD, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
  
• Sensing Energy Stores
  Brian O'Rourke, MD, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
  
• Moderated Discussion

How Do We 'Talk' to Cells: Flexible and Stretchable Electronics
Chair:
Igor R. Efimov, Ph.D., FHRS. Washington University, Biomedical Engineering, St. Louis, MO

• Inorganic Stretchable Electronics
  John Rogers, Ph.D. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, IL
  
• Flexible Organic Electronics
  (TBD)
• Stretching Electronics into the Future of Cardiac Electrophysiology
  Marvin Slepian, MD. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  
• Moderated Discussion

How Do We 'Trick' Cells: Dynamic Clamp Methodology
Chair:
Ye Chen-Izu, Ph.D. UC Davis, Davis, CA

• Dynamic Clamp in Cardiac Electrophysiology
  Ronald Wilders, Ph.D. Academic Medical Center— Dept of Physiology, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  
• Dynamic Clamp: Practical Considerations and Implementation
  (TBD)
  
• Using the Dynamic Clamp for Model Tuning
  David J. Christini, Ph.D. Cornell University—Weill Medical College, New York, NY
  
• Moderated Discussion

How Do We 'Listen' to the Heart: Non-invasive Electrocardiographic Imaging
Chair:
Milan Horacek, Ph.D. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

• Non-invasive Electrocardiographic Imaging of the Epicardium
  Yoram Rudy, Ph.D., FHRS. Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
  
• Non-invasive Electrocardiographic Transmural Imaging
  Bin He, Ph.D. University of Minesota, Minneapolis, MN
• Non-invasive Imaging of Epicardial and Endocardial Action Potentials
• Alexander Kalinin, Ph.D. Moscow State University— Bakoulev Center, Moscow, Russia
  
• Moderated Discussion

How Do We 'Read' Genes: Genomic Frontiers in Cardiac Biology
Chair:
  (TBD)

• Whole Genome Sequencing
  (TBD)
  
• MicroRNA's
  Yigal M. Pinto, MD, Ph.D. The Heart Failure Research Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  
• Non-coding RNA's
  (TBD)
  
• Moderated Discussion

2012 Douglas P. Zipes Lecture —
Heart to Heart: Treating Arrhythmias Using Personalized Medicine
Dan M. Roden, MD. Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN

Heart Rhythm 2012 Opening Plenary Session
4:15–5:45 p.m.
The Opening Plenary Session is included with the Basic/Translational Science Forum.