THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2008
Morning

7:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
Moderator: Thomas A. Traill, FRCP

8:00 Conference Goals
Gordon Tomaselli, MD

8:05 Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation: Current Consensus
Hugh G. Calkins, MD

8:30 Non-sustained Ventricular Tachycardia (VT):
A Perennial Clinical Challenge
Joseph Marine, MD

9:00 Acquired and Congenital Prolongation of the QT:
When to Worry
Gordon Tomaselli, MD

9:30 Refreshment Break

10:00 When Implanted Devices Do Bad Things
Ronald D. Berger, MD, PhD

10:30 What a Cardiologist Should Know about Thyroid Disease
David S. Cooper, MD

11:00 Anticoagulants and the Elderly
Susan J. Zieman, MD

11:30 Clinical Rounds
Nicholas J. Fortuin, MD

12:00 Lunch

Afternoon
Moderator: W. Lowell Maughan, MD, MBA

1:00 Where Are We with Cardiac CT?
David Bush, MD

1:30 Theory and Practice of Imaging Plaque
Joao Lima, MD, MBA

2:00 MRI: Sometimes Safer than You Think, Sometimes Not
Henry R. Halperin, MD

2:30 Clincal Rounds
Roy Ziegelstein, MD

3:00 CONCURRENT SESSIONS
(Please select either the ACLS Course (additional fee) or Meet the Expert Sessions/Clinical Problem Solving Symposium on the Registration Form. Non-ACLS registrants will attend two of the Meet the Expert sessions on Thursday and the Symposium on Friday.)

Advanced Cardiac Life Support Certification Course (ACLS)
Henry R. Halperin, MD

OR

Meet the Experts – Session I
A . Susan A. Mayer, MD
Echocardiography
B . Wendy S. Post, MD
Preventive Strategies
C . Sheldon Gottlieb, MD
Diabetic Management
D . David D. Spragg, MD
Electrophysiology for the Non-EP Trained
E . Ilan S. Wittstein, MD
Heart Failure Management
F . Thomas R. Aversano, MD
How to Meet the 90 Minute Door to Balloon Expectation in Acute MI

4:00 Refreshment Break

4:30 Meet the Experts – Session II
( Same topics as offered at 3:00 p.m.)

5:30 Adjourn

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2008
Morning

7:30 Continental Breakfast
Moderator: Nicholas J. Fortuin, MD

8:00 Pulmonary Vascular Disease and the Right Ventricle
Hunter C. Champion, MD, PhD

8:30 Cardiac Resynchronization: What Have We Learned and
Where Are We Going?
David A. Kass, MD

9:00 The Leptin Story
Lili Barouch, MD

9:30 Genetics of Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Daniel P. Judge, MD

10:00 Refreshment Break

10:30 Drugs that Hurt the Heart
Stuart Russell, MD

11:00 Sleep Apnea Syndromes and the Heart
Nancy A. Collop, MD

11:30 Clinical Rounds
Thomas A. Traill, FRCP

12:15 Lunch

Afternoon
Moderator: W. Lowell Maughan, MD, MBA

1:30 What’s New in Acute Coronary Care
Steven P. Schulman, MD

2:00 A Little Piece of My Mind: Platelets and Neurotransmitters
Charles J. Lowenstein, MD

2:30 Pericardial Disease
Richard A. Lange, MD

3:00 Advanced Cardiac Life Support Certification Course – Day 2
OR
3:00 Clinical Problem Solving Symposium
Duke E. Cameron, MD
Nicholas J. Fortuin, MD
Steven P. Schulman, MD
Thomas A. Traill, FRCP

4:00 Refreshment Break

4:30 ACLS (continued)

4:30 Clinical Problem Solving Symposium (continued)

5:30 Adjourn

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2008
Morning

7:30 Continental Breakfast
Moderator: Richard A. Lange, MD

8:00 How to Evaluate Patients with Peripheral Vascular Disease
Matthews Chacko, MD

8:30 More Stent Controversy: COURAGE and the Clinician
Edward K. Kasper, MD

9:00 Managing Carotid Disease
Bruce A. Perler, MD

9:30 New Interventional Procedures in the Cath Lab
Jon R. Resar, MD

10:00 Refreshment Break

10:15 Update on Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
David Yuh, MD

10:45 Curmudgeon Rounds
David R. Thiemann, MD

11:15 Cardiac Surgery Rounds
Duke E. Cameron, MD

12:00 Adjourn
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