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Success With Heart Failure

Montefiore-Einstein Heart Center
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
invites you to attend

Success with Heart Failure
Perspectives from the Big Apple

A day of insight & innovation with international experts in the treatment of heart failure.

Keynote Speaker
Timothy Johnson, MD
ABC News Medical Editor 

October 9, 2009
8:00am - 4:30pm
Harvard Club, New York City

Register online now.

Intended Audience

This activity is intended for physicians and other health care professionals involved in the care and treatment of heart failure patients.

Statement of Need

Over 500,000 new cases of congestive heart failure are diagnosed in the United States each year. Medical and surgical therapies for heart failure are continuously evolving and offer many options to extend and improve life for patients.

Learning Objectives

After participating in this program, the participants should be able to:

• Identify emerging mechanical assist devices
• Discuss NYHA Class III patients who may benefit from advanced cardiac therapies
• Recognize the relevant parameters of left ventricular geometry and function and identify patients that may benefit from surgical ventricular reconstruction
• Recognize the deeper consequences of long term anti-coagulation and the incremental risk of stroke while patients are on anti-coagulation
• Distinguish the risks and benefits of  percutaneous intervention versus surgical procedures in the treatment of atrial fibrillation

Itinerary

	7:00 am	Breakfast/Registration
	7:50 am	Welcome Address(Harvard Hall) Robert Michler, MD
	The Changing Face of Heart Failure
	8:00 am	Diabetes and Heart Failure: The New Pandemic James B. Young, MD Cleveland Clinic / Case Western Reserve University
	8:30 am	New Drugs on the Horizon for Heart Failure: Why Aren't There More? Kirkwood Adams Jr., MD University of North Carolina
	9:00 am	"Drive By" CRTs in Heart Failure Patients with ICD Indications: What's an Electrophysiologist to do? Bruce Wilkoff, MD Cleveland Clinic / Case Western Reserve University
	9:30 am	Q&A
	9:45 am	Break
	Lari Attai Lecture
	10:00 am	Health Care Reform: This Year? Timothy Johnson, MD ABC News Medical Editor
	10:45 am	Q&A
	11:00 am	LUNCH (Biddle Room 2nd Floor)
	Surgical Therapies for Heart Failure
	12:30 pm	The STITCH SVR Trial: Details Do Matter Robert E. Michler, MD Montefiore Medical Center / Albert Einstein College of Medicine
	1:00 pm	The Great Atrial Fibrillation Debate: Stand Alone Surgery is Better than Percutaneous Intervention Pro: A. Marc Gillinov, MD Cleveland Clinic Con: Andrew Krumerman, MD Montefiore Medical Center / Albert Einstein College of Medicine
	1:30 pm	Q&A
	1:45 pm	Break
	Mechanical Devices
	2:00 pm	Magnetic Levitation Devices: Concept to Early Clinical Trials Leonard Golding, MD Cleveland Clinic
	2:30 pm	Devices and Their Challenges Daniel Goldstein, MD Montefiore Medical Center / Albert Einstein College of Medicine
	3:00 pm	HeartMate II – Paradigm Shift? James K. Kirklin, MD University of Alabama
	3:30 pm	VAD Therapy in NYHA III Patients: Are We Ready? Vivek Rao, MD University of Toronto / Toronto General Hospital
	4:00 pm	Q&A
	4:30 pm	Closing Remarks

Keynote Speaker: Timothy Johnson MD