Conference Schedule 

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Thursday,  July 19
 7:25 Welcome John Koster, MD
 7:30 Orientation: Goals of the Course Matt Maxwell, MD
  Session 1:Patho-Physiology of Mitral Regurgitation  
 7:35 Mechanisms & Consequences of Mitral Valve Failure:Chordal, Leaflet, Annular & Ventricular Kim Eagle, MD
 8:20 Mitral Valve Disease Masquerading as AFib Simone Musco, MD
 8:40 Timing, Indication and Guidelines for Mitral Valve Repair Robert Siegel, MD
 9:10 Perioperative Imaging: Transthoracic Echo (TTE) vs. Transesophageal Echo (TEE) David Rubenson, MD
 9:30 BREAK  
  Session 2: Surgical Techniques  
10:00 American Correction: New Techniques for Repair in Myxomatous Mitral Valve Disease Gerald Lawrie, MD
10:30 Leaflet Resection: Quadrangular, Triangular, Folding or None Thomas Gleason, MD
11:00 Mitral Valve Annuloplasty: Ring, Band, Rigid, Flexible, Sizing  Lawrence Cohn, MD
11:30 Neochordae and Sub-Valve Repair  Ottavio Alfieri, MD
12:00 LUNCH  

Session 3: Results of Mitral Valve Repair
  
 1:00 3D Echo in Assessing MV Function Post Repair: Early Success vs. Long Term  Competency  Robert Savage, MD
 1:30 Intraoperative Results of MV Repair: What is Acceptable? What is Not?  Stan Shernan, MD
 2:00 For Surgeons: What to Do With the Unacceptable Result?  Pravin Shah, MD
 2:30 Panel Discussion: Surgical Decision Making in Valve Repair  Faculty
 3:15 BREAK  
  Session 4: Hands-on Labs & Workshops
  
 3:30 Hands-on Instruction: Expert Technique Labs and 3D Workshops - for Cardiac Surgeons, Cardiologists and Anesthesiologists
  1) Surgical Techniques: The American Correction Gerald Lawrie, MD
  2) Surgical Techniques: Repair Degenerative Mitral Valve Lawrence Cohn, MD
  3) Percutaneous Techniques: Mitral Clip Saibal Kar, MD
  4) 3D Echocadiography Anatomic Workshop: Porcine heart dissection with Mitral and Aortic valve emphasis. Orientation to anatomic and physiologic correlates obtained by 3D echo analysis systems Bruce Bollen, MD, Stewart Long, MD, Stan Shernan, MD 
    
 5:30 ADJOURN  
     

Friday, July 20
  Session 5: Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation
  
 7:30 Echo Based Classification of Mitral Valve Pathology as Pertinent to Mitral Valve Repair Pravin Shah, MD
 8:00 Ischemic MR: Anterior, Posterior, Global LV Ischemia, MV Dynamics, LV Torsion Stan Shernan, MD
 8:30 Clinical Trials in Ischemic MR Thomas Gleason, MD
 9:00 Assessing Myocardial Viability: MRI as Adjunct or Stand Alone as the Gold Standard? Alex Jehle, MD
 9:30 BREAK  
  Session 6: Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation  
10:00 2D and 3D Echo Evaluations of Ischemic MR Edward Gill, MD
10:30 Surgical Techniques for Repair of Ischemic MR Thomas Gleason, MD
11:00 Repair or Replace Mitral Valve in Ischemic MR: Is Chordal Sparing MV Replacement Better Than Repair? Robert Savage, MD
11:30 Is Good, Good Enough: What is an Effective Mitral Valve Repair? Kim Eagle, MD
12:00 LUNCH  
  Session 7: Precutaneous Intervention
 1:00 Mitral Valve Intervention: E-Valve Mitral Clip - Everest & Beyond Saibal Kar, MD
 1:25 Echo Evaluation for Percutaneous Mitral Valve Repair Robert Siegel, MD
 1:50 Ventricular Remodeling after Mitral Valve Intervention Saibal Kar, MD
 2:15 The Failed Clip: Hospice or Surgery? Saibal Kar, MD
 2:30 The Eponymous Stitch: History in the Making Ottavio Alfieri, MD
 3:00 Panel Discussion: Is the Clip the Stitch? Faculty
 3:30 BREAK  
  Session 8: Hands-on Labs & Workshops  
 3:45 Hands-on Instruction: Expert Technique Labs and 3D Workshops - for Cardiac Surgeons, Cardiologists and Anesthesiologists  
  1) Surgical Techniques: The American Correction Gerald Lawrie, MD
  2) Surgical Techniques: Repair Degenerative Mitral Valve Lawrence Cohn, MD
  3) Percutaneous Techniques: Mitral Clip Saibal Kar, MD
  4) 3D Echo Workshop 1: Hands-on laptop instruction: QLAB software for Mitral Valve analysis-part 1 Bruce Bollen, MD
  5) 3D Echo Workshop 2: Hands-on laptop instruction: Automated 3D Analysis of the Mitral Valve Apparatus-part 1 Stan Shernan, MD
 5:30 ADJOURN  
     

Saturday, July 21
  Session 9: Tricuspid Valve
  
 7:30 Cardiac Imaging for Structure and Function of Tricuspid Valve David Rubenson, MD
 7:50 Fate of the Ignored Tricuspid Valve Pravin Shah, MD
 8:20 Surgical Techniques for Tricuspid Valve Repair Matt Maxwell, MD
 8:50 Tricuspid Valve: New Perspectives Ottavio Alfieri, MD
  Session 10: Atrial Fibrillation
  
 9:20 Atrial Fibrillation with Concomitant Mitral Valve Disease: What Do You Do With the AFib? Simone Musco, MD
 9:40 Ablation Procedures: Outcomes vs. Science Simone Musco, MD
10:00 BREAK  
  Session 11: Future Directions
  
10:30 Scientific Study of Mitral Valve Function and Repair Stability Edward Gill, MD
11:00 3D Echo & Modeling for Valve Repair Stan Shernan, MD
11:30 Mitral Valve Surgery: Does Percutaneous Valve Replacement Spell the End of Surgical Valve Repair? Gerald Lawrie, MD
12:00 LUNCH  
  Session 12: Hands-on Labs & Workshops  
1:00 Hands-on Instruction: Expert Technique Labs and 3D Workshops - for Cardiac Surgeons, Cardiologists and Anesthesiologists 
  1) 3D Echo Workshop 1: Hands-on laptop instruction: QLAB software for Mitral Valve analysis-part 2
 Bruce Bollen, MD
  2) 3D Echo Workshop 2: Hands-on laptop instruction: Automated 3D Analysis of the Mitral Valve Apparatus-part 2
 Stan Shernan, MD
 3:00 ADJOURN  
     

Workshops & Labs

Session 4:  Hands-on Labs & Workshops - Thursday, July 19 - 3:30

1)  Surgical Techniques: The American Correction  
2)  Surgical Techniques: Repair Degenerative Mitral Valve  
3)  Percutaneous Techniques: Mitral Clip  
4)  3D Echocardiography Anatomic Workshop:  Porcine heart dissection with Mitral
     and Aortic valve emphasis. Orientation to anatomic and physiologic correlates
     obtained by  3D echo analysis systems 		 Gerald Lawrie, MD
Lawrence Cohn, MD
Saibal Kar, MD
Bruce Bollen, MD,  Stewart Long, MD,  & Stan Shernan, MD

Session 8: Hands-on Labs & Workshops - Friday, July 20 - 3:45  
1)  Surgical Techniques: The American Correction 
2)  Surgical Techniques: Repair Degenerative Mitral Valve 
3)  Percutaneous Techniques: Mitral Clip  
4)  3D Echo  Workshop 1: Hands-on laptop instruction: QLAB software for Mitral Valve analysis-part 1 
5)  3D  Echo Workshop 2: Hands-on laptop instruction: Automated 3D Analysis of the Mitral Valve Apparatus–part 1 		 Gerald Lawrie, MD
Lawrence Cohn, MD
Saibal Kar, MD
Bruce Bollen, MD
Stan Shernan, MD

Session 12:  Hands-on Labs & Workshops - Saturday, July 21 -1:00
1)  3D Echo  Workshop 1: Hands on laptop instruction: QLAB software for Mitral Valve analysis - part 2 
2)  3D Echo Workshop 2: Hands on laptop instruction: Automated 3D Analysis of the Mitral Valve Apparatus - part 2 		 Bruce Bollen, MD
Stan Shernan, MD