2008 Cardiothoracic Track Agenda

Date: April 18, 2008 - April 20, 2008 (3 days)

Location: To be held at the University of Cincinnati Center for Surgical Innovation and the Marriott Kingsgate Conference Center.

Course Participants: 60 Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellows from across North America.

Note: The 2008 CT Symposium will feature two parallel tracks - Cardiothoracic and Cardiovascular - to better suit the career interests of the partipants.

Friday, April 18, 2008

7:30 am - 9:00 am

Arrhythmia Surgery

Indications & Techniques for Concomitant Atrial Fibrillation Ablation

John R. Doty, MD; LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah

Minimally Invasive CryoMAZE

L. Wiley Nifong, MD; East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Cardiac Surgery

OPCAB: Controversies and Getting Started

Y. Joseph Woo, MD; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Non-Sternotomy Cardiac Surgery

John R. Mehall, MD; Penrose St. Francis Heart Institute, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Update on Percutaneous Valve Technology

Vinod Thourani, MD; Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

1:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Cardiothoracic Surgery

Aortic Dissection

Wilson Y. Szeto, MD; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Failure to Wean from CPB: Short Term Ventricular Assist Devices

Shahab Akhter, MD; University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois;

VATS Lobectomy a Step-by-Step Guide

Daniel L. Miller, MD; Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia;

Non-Surgical Approaches to Esophageal Cancer

Daniel L. Miller, MD; ; Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Industry Sponsor Reception & Dinner

Saturday, April 19, 2008

7:30 am - 8:30 am

Endovascular Overview

Endovascular Overview

Ali Khoynezhad, MD & Wilson Szeto, MD; University of Nebraska & University of Pennsylvania

9:00 am - 12:00 pm

General Thoracic

RFA & Cyberknife

Arjun Pennathur, MD; University of Pittsburgh

VATS Sympathectomy

Daniel L. Miller, MD; Emory University, Altlanta, Georgia

VATS Thymectomy

Daniel Boffa, MD; Yale University, New Haven, Conneticut

Barretts Esophagus

Daniel L. Miller, MD; Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

Lung Cancer Staging

Dan Boffa, MD ; Yale University

1:30 pm - 5:30 pm

VATS Lobectomy & General Thoracic Wet-Lab

Live animal and cadaver wet-lab teaching VATS Lobectomy and other cardiothoracic techniques.

Sunday, April 20, 2008

7:30 am - 8:30 am

Valve Surgery

Aortic And Mitral Valve Techniques

J. Michael Smith, MD & Walter H. Merril, MD; Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati, OH & University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

8:30 am - 10:00 am

Mitral Valve Repair Wet-Lab

Porcine Heart wet-lab demonstrating mitral valve analysis and various repair techniques. All participants will have a porcine heart, insturments, sutures, and a variety of mitral annulpolasty rings.

10:00 am - 11:30 am

Aorti Root Techniques Wet-Lab

A porcine heart wet-lab demonstrating various aortic root reconstruciton techniques. All participants will have a porcine heart, insturments, sutures, and various materials for aortic root reconstruction.