Aug. 27

 

Sunday, August 27, 2023

 
  • Room 144ABC

    08:00-10:00: Moderator | Aimee Armstrong | USA

    08:00-10:00: Moderator | Gregor Krings | Netherlands

    08:00-08:17: 3D Imaging 101: From DICOM to STL to 3D printing and CFD | Michael Seckeler | USA

    08:17-08:29: Debate: 3D Printing is Here to Stay | Shafkat Anwar | USA

    08:29-08:41: Debate: Who Needs 3D Printing When we Have Extended Reality? | Arash Salavitabar | USA

    08:41-08:51: Discussion about debate 08:51-

    09:08: 4D Flow MRI to Optimize Coarctation Intervention | Alejandro Roldán-Alzate | USA

    09:08-09:25: How I Interpret the Screening Reports for Self-Expanding TPVR | Vivian Dimas | USA

    09:25-09:42: CFD To Optimize Hepatic Flow Distribution in Fontan Circulation | Petru Liuba | Sweden

    09:42-10:00: 3D Planning for Percutaneous Potts Shunts | Jason Anderson | USA

    Gregor Krings
    Director of Children's Heart Center
    Children’s Heart Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Jason Anderson
    Assistant Professor/Consultant - Pediatric Cardiology & Structural Heart Diseases
    Mayo Clinic

    Shafkat Anwar
    Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Radiology
    University of California San Francisco

    Arash Salavitabar
    Congenital Interventional Cardiologist
    Nationwide Children's Hospital

    Michael Seckeler
    Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology)
    Banner University Medical Center - Tucson/University of Arizona

    Petru Liuba
    Director Cardiac Cath
    Children´s Heart Centre

  • 143ABC

    08:00-10:30: Moderator | Kelly Wolfe | USA

    08:00-10:30: Moderator | Renee Sananes | Canada

    08:00-08:05: Risks and Opportunities: Neurodevelopment at Key Transition Points | Renee Sananes | Canada

    08:05-08:15: Parent Perspective on Perioperative Transitions | Parent TBA |

    08:15-08:30: Key Transitions in the Perioperative Period, Birth to discharge | Jennifer Butcher | USA

    08:30-08:45: Benefits and Bias in Neurodevelopmental Evaluation for Children with CHD | Michael Puchalski | USA

    08:45-09:00: Parent Perspective on the Preschool Years | Ashleigh Schambach | USA

    09:00-09:20: Key Transitions in the Preschool Age Child - Explosive Growth and Shifting Expectations | Jacqueline Sanz | USA

    09:20-09:30: Patient/Parent Perspective on the Teenage/Transition Years | Parent/Patient TBA |

    09:30-09:45: Key Transitions in Adolescence - Shifting towards independence | Dawn Ilardi | USA

    09:45-09:55: Patient Perspective on Adulthood | Patient TBA |

    09:55-10:10: Key Transitions and Challenges in Adulthood | Ariane Marelli | Canada

    10:10-10:30: Discussion

    Ariane Marelli
    Director of Research, Associate Director of Academic Affairs in Cardiology
    McGill University Health Center

    Renee Sananes
    Psychologist
    The Hospital for Sick Children

    Jennifer Butcher
    Clinical Associate Professor/Pediatric Psychologist
    University of Michigan

    Dawn Ilardi
    Pediatric Neuropsychologist
    Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

    Michael Puchalski
    Co-Director Heart Institute, Chief Pediatric Cardiology
    Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital

    Jacqueline Sanz
    Neuropsychologist
    Children's National Hospital

    Ashleigh Schambach
    Parent
    Inova L.J. Murphy Children's Hospital

    Kelly Wolfe
    Pediatric Neuropsychologist
    University of Colorado/Children's Hospital Colorado

  • Room 152AB

    08:00-10:00: Moderator | Jim Cnota | USA

    08:00-10:00: Moderator | Paulo Zielinsky | Brazil

    08:00-08:15: Cardiovascular and Placental Development | Jill Savla | USA

    08:15-08:30: Transitional Physiology | Sarah Chambers-Gurson | USA

    08:30-08:45: Prenatal Genetics, testing, implications | Stephanie Ware | USA

    08:45-09:00: Extracardiac Malformations that impact the cardiovascular system: what you need to know | Elisabeth Seidl-Mlczoch | Austria

    09:00-09:15: Fetal Heart Failure: Mechanisms, Assessment and Management | Joanna Szymkiewicz-Dangel | Poland

    09:15-09:30: Fetal Ductal Constriction: Etiology, Assessment and Management | Paulo Zielinsky | Brazil

    09:30-09:45: First Trimester Fetal Echo: Insight into Cardiac Development | Lisa Hornberger | Canada

    09:45-10:00: Discussion

    Elisabeth Seidl-Mlczoch
    Consultant Pediatric Cardiology
    Vienna

    Paulo Zielinsky
    Head of the Fetal Cardiology Program
    Fetal Cardiology Unit, Institute of Cardiology of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Lisa Hornberger
    Professor of Pediatrics, Division Director of Pediatric Cardiology
    University of Alberta

    Joanna Szymkiewicz - Dangel
    Professor
    Warsaw

    Jim Cnota
    Professor of Pediatrics
    Cincinnati Children's Hospital

    Jill Savla
    Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
    Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

    Stephanie Ware
    Professor
    Indiana University School of Medicine

  • Room 145AB

    08:00-10:00: Moderator | Chris Talluto | USA

    08:00-10:00: Moderator | Wayne Franklin | USA

    08:00-08:20: Acute care of the Eisenmenger Patient: The Basics | Anurag Sahu | USA

    08:20-08:40: Acute care of the Single ventricle S/P Fontan Palliation | Fred Wu | USA

    08:40-09:00: Acute care of the DTGA with Atrial Switch/LTGA: the Failing Systemic RV | Lidija McGrath | USA

    09:00-09:20: Acute care of the Tof patient | Leigh Reardon | USA

    09:20-09:40: Acute Care Case: Putting Knowledge into Practice | Diego Moguillansky | USA

    09:40-10:00: Discussion

    Lidija McGrath
    ACHD Cardiologist
    OHSU

    Diego Moguillansky
    Medical Director, Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program, University of Florida
    University of Florida, Gainesville

    Leigh Reardon
    Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
    Ahmanson/UCLA Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center

    Anurag Sahu
    Director, Adult Congenital Heart Center
    Inova LJ Murphy Children's Hospital

    Christoper Talluto
    Director of ACHD and Transition Clinics at JHACH
    Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital

    Fred Wu
    Cardiologist
    Boston Children's Hospital

  • Non-CME/CE Session

    Room 149AB

    08:00-10:00: Moderator | Erwin Oechslin | Canada

    08:00-10:00: Moderator | Laila Ladak | Pakistan

    08:00-08:15: Welcome to the ISACHD Pre-Conference | Erwin Oechslin | Canada

    08:15-08:30: Global ARCH: patient empowerment around the globe | Amy Verstappen | USA

    08:30-08:45: ACHD program building: perspective of higher-resourced countries | Alexander (Sasha) Opotowsky | USA

    08:45-09:00: ACHD program building: perspective of lower-resourced countries | Geetha Kandavello | Malaysia

    09:00-09:15: Developing ACHD expertise in Africa | Blanche Cupido | South Africa

    09:15-09:30: What ISACHD Can Offer the Future: A Junior Faculty's Perspective | David Harrison | USA

    09:30-10:00: Discussion

    Erwin Oechslin
    Staff Physician, ACHD Cardiology and Echocardiography
    University Health Network, Toronto ACHD Program, Toronto, Canada

    Geetha Kandavello
    Consultant Paediatric and Adult Congenital Cardiologist
    Institut Jantung Negara

    Laila Ladak
    Associate Professor
    Aga Khan University

    Blanche Cupido
    Senior Specialist - Cardiology
    University of Cape Town, Groote Schuur Hospital

    David Harrison
    Adult Congenital Heart Disease
    University of Colorado

    Alexander (Sasha) Opotowsky
    Physician
    Cincinnati Children's Hospital

    Amy Verstappen
    President
    Global Alliance for Rheumatic and Congenital Hearts

  • Room 146A

    08:00-10:00: Moderator | Rob Pass | USA

    08:00-10:00: Moderator | Salim Idriss | USA

    08:00-08:15: The sarcomere, the cytoskeleton, the desmosome: so many proteins, so little time… Making sense of it all | Martin Tristani-Firouzi | USA

    08:15-08:30: Newer risk assessment strategies and better therapies for HCM | Maully Shah | USA

    08:30-08:45: ARVD -> ARVC -> AVC: A moving target | Caridad De La Uz | USA

    08:45-09:00: Paving the rough and rigid roads in LVNC & restrictive cardiomyopathy | John Jefferies | USA

    09:00-09:15: Sudden death in the young patient with dilated cardiomyopathy: How do we reconcile the adult experience | Robert Gregory Webster | USA

    09:15-09:30: The role of ICD's in primary electrical disease and primary cardiomyopathy | Charles Berul | USA

    09:30-10:00: Discussion

    Charles Berul
    Co-Director
    Children's National

    Caridad De La Uz
    Director of Pediatric Electrophysiology
    Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

    Salim Idriss
    Associate Professor of Pediatrics/Pediatric Cardiology/Electrophysiology
    Duke University

    John Jefferies
    Professor
    UTHSC

    Rob Pass
    Chief, Pediatric Cardiology
    Mount Sinai Medical Center

    Maully Shah
    Director of Electrophysiology
    The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

    Martin Tristani-Firouzi
    Professor
    University of Utah

    Robert Webster
    Electrophysiologist
    Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

  • Room 208AB

    08:00-10:00: Moderator | Gabriel Altit | Canada

    08:00-10:00: Moderator | Amir Ashrafi | USA

    08:00-08:20: Optimizing the hemodynamic transition from the delivery room through 1st day of life | Shannon Hamrick | USA

    08:20-08:40: The anatomy and physiology behind altered cerebral autoregulation | Shiran Moore | Israel

    08:40-09:00: Diagnosis and treatment of hypotension in the extremely premature | Shahab Noori | USA

    09:00-09:20: The long term impact of prematurity on the adult heart | Kara Goss | USA

    09:20-09:40: Group Discussion (Speaker-Panel)

    09:40-10:00: Discussion (Audience Questions)

    Gabriel Altit
    Neonatologist
    Montreal Children's Hospital - McGill University Health Centre

    Shiran Moore
    Neonatologist
    Dana Dwek Children's Hospital, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

    Amir Ashrafi
    Director of CV-NICU
    CHOC

    Kara Goss
    Associate Professor
    UT Southwestern

    Shannon Hamrick
    Medical Director, NICU
    Emory University and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

    Shahab Noori
    Neonatologist
    CHLA

  • Room 147AB

    08:00-10:00: Moderator | Melissa Jones | USA

    08:00-10:00: Moderator | Sandra Staveski | USA

    08:00-10:00: Moderator | Jill Zender | USA

    08:00-08:15: Tricuspid Atresia | Catherine Bull | USA

    08:15-08:30: Pulmonary Atresia/Intact Ventricular Septum | Melanie Scala | USA

    08:30-08:45: HLHS and Variants | Lindsey Justice | USA

    08:45-09:00: The Stage I Norwood Operation | Lindsey Justice | USA

    09:00-09:15: Interstage Management | Nancy Rudd | USA

    09:15-09:30: Bidirectional Glenn | Cecilia St. George-Hyslop | Canada

    09:30-09:45: Fontan Procedure | Kathryn Dodds | USA

    09:45-10:00: Nutrition, Feeding, and Growth Issues | Nancy Rudd | USA

    Cecilia St. George-Hyslop
    Interprofessional Education Specialist
    The Hospital for Sick Children

    Catherine Bull
    APP Manager, Cardiac Surgery & CICU
    Hassenfeld Children's Hospital at NYU Langone Health

    Kathryn Dodds
    Fontan FORWARD Clinical Program Manager/NP
    CHOP and University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

    Melissa Jones
    CICU Nurse Practitioner
    Children's National Hospital

    Lindsey Justice
    APP Clinical Manager for CICU and ACCU
    Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

    Nancy Rudd
    Nurse Practitioner
    Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Medical College of Wisconsin

    Melanie Scala
    APP Clinical Program Manager, Pediatric Critical Care
    Universiy of Maryland

    Sandra Staveski
    Associate Professor
    University of California San Franscisco

    Jill Zender
    Nurse Practitioner
    UT Southwestern/Children's Health

  • Room 154AB

    08:00-08:55: "I'm an attending! Now what????!?!?!"

    08:00-09:00: Moderator | David Cooper | USA

    08:00-09:00: Moderator | Neha Purkey | USA

    08:00-09:00: Panelist | Dennis Delany | USA

    08:00-09:00: Panelist | Mark Scheurer | USA

    08:00-09:00: Panelist | Roxanne Kirsch | Canada

    09:00-10:00: "It’s 4:00 AM, and I’m in trouble!!!"

    09:00-10:00: Moderator | George Hoffman | USA

    09:00-10:00: Case Presentation | Victoria Surma | USA

    09:00-10:00: Case Presentation | Carlos Carmona | USA

    09:00-10:00: Panelist | Jon Meliones | USA

    09:00-10:00: Panelist | Stacie Peddy | USA

    09:00-10:00: Panelist | Sarah Tabbutt | USA

    09:00-10:00: Panelist | Paul Checchia | USA

    Roxanne Kirsch
    Division Head, Cardiac Critical Care
    The Hospital for Sick Children

    Carlos Carmona
    Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Fellow
    Children's Hospital of Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth University

    Paul Checchia
    Associate Chief
    Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine

    David Cooper
    Medical Director, The Heart Institute and Cardiac Intensive Care
    Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

    Dennis Delany
    Assistant Professor
    Johns Hopkins Children’s Center

    George Hoffman
    Anesthesiogist-in-Chief
    Herma Heart Institute, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin and Medical College of Wisconsin

    Jon Meliones
    Chief
    Memorial Hermann Hospital

    Neha Purkey
    Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatric Cardiology - CVICU
    Stanford University

    Mark Scheurer
    Chief, Children's and Women's
    Medical University of South Carolina

    Victoria Surma
    Pediatric Cardiology Fellow
    Children's National Hospital

    Sarah Tabbutt
    Cardiac Intensive Care, Professor of Pediatrics
    UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals

    Stacie Peddy
    Director- Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
    University of Maryland Children's Hospital

  • Room 209ABC

    08:00-10:00: Moderator | Steven Zangwill | USA

    08:00-10:00: Moderator | Jinyoung Song | Republic of Korea

    08:00-10:00: Moderator | Jay Fricker | USA

    08:00-08:15: Donor availability around the world | Martin Zahorec | Slovakia

    08:15-08:30: Size matching | Kathryn Armstrong | Canada

    08:30-08:45: Donor management: what should we really worry about? | Shri Deshpande | USA

    08:45-09:00: Donation after cardiac death | Reshma Biniwale | USA

    09:00-09:15: Remote Donors: How far can we go? | Shashank Desai | USA

    09:15-09:30: Management of primary graft dysfunction | Steven Zangwill | USA

    09:30-09:45: Xenotransplantation | Joseph Turek | USA

    09:45-10:00: Discussion

    Kathryn Armstrong
    Pediatric Cardiologist
    BC Children's Hospital

    Jinyoung Song
    Professor
    Samsung Medical Center

    Martin Zahorec
    Pediatric Cardiologist
    Pediatric Cardiac Center, National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Bratislava

    Reshma Biniwale
    Professor of Cardiac Surgery
    UCLA

    Shri Deshpande
    Medical Director, Advanced Cardiac Therapies Program
    Children's National Hospital

    Jay Fricker
    Division Chief Congenital Heart Center
    University of Florida, Gainesville

    Joseph Turek
    Pediatric Heart Surgeon
    Duke University

    Steven Zangwill
    Pediatric Cardiologist
    Phoenix Children's Hospital

  • Room 201

    08:00-10:00: Moderator | Craig Sable | USA

    08:00-10:00: Moderator | David Overman | USA

    08:00-08:15: What do we really know: Data from GBD study | Craig Sable | USA

    08:15-08:30: What do we really know: Survey data | Bistra Zheleva | USA

    08:30-08:45: Obstacles 1: Financing | Darshan Reddy | South Africa

    08:45-09:00: Obstacles 2: Supply chain | Micheal Oketcho | Uganda

    09:00-09:15: Obstacles 3: Education/training of workforce | Drissi Boumzebra | Morocco

    09:15-09:30: Obstacles 4: Nursing empowerment/retention | Sandra Staveski | USA

    09:30-09:45: Obstacles 5: Challenges of Starting & Maintaining an Overseas Charitable Congenital Heart Surgery Program including Outcomes/Quality improvement | Jeffrey Jacobs | USA

    Drissi Boumzebra
    Professor
    University Hospital Mohammed VI Marrakech

    Darshan Reddy
    Surgeon
    Lenmed Ethekwini Hospital & Heart Centre

    David Overman
    Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery
    Children's Minnesota, Mayo Clinic-Children's Minnesota Cardiovascular Collaborative

    Craig Sable
    Associate Chief
    Children's National Hospital

    Bistra Zheleva
    VP Global Strategy and Advocacy
    Children's HeartLink

    Michael Oketcho
    Cardio-Thoracic Surgeon
    Uganda Heart Institute

  • Room 140AB

    08:00-10:00: Moderator | Maria Miszczak-Knecht | Poland

    08:00-10:00: Moderator | Gabrielle Hessling | Germany

    08:00-08:15: What really is a “structurally normal” heart: diagnostic work-up and challenges? | Roman Gebauer | Germany

    08:15-08:30: Clinical presentation and ECG-diagnosis | Thomas Kriebel | Germany

    08:30-08:45: VT in asymptomatic patients: treat or not to treat? | Virginie Beausejour-Ladouceur | Canada

    08:45-09:00: Symptomatic VT: Drug or Ablation? | Rami Fogelman | Israel

    09:00-09:15: Ventricular Arrhythmias in Myocarditis | Luciana Marcondes | New Zealand

    09:15-09:30: Outflow Tract PVCs: Are they really innocent… patterns that make us worry | Stephanie Chandler | USA

    09:30-09:45: Malignant Mitral Valve Prolapse | Ulrich Krause | Germany

    09:45-10:00: Discussion

    Virginie Beausejour Ladouceur
    Pediatric Cardiologist, Electrophysiologist
    Montreal Children's Hospital, McGill University

    Roman Gebauer
    Consultant
    Heart Center Leipzig, University of Leipzig

    Gabrielle Hessling
    Co-Head, Department of Electrophysiology
    German Heart Center, Munich

    Ulrich Krause
    Physician
    Pediatric Cardiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-Univeristy of Goettingen

    Thomas Kriebel
    Head of Department
    Westpfalz-Klinikum Kaiserslautern

    Rami Fogelman
    Head of Pediatric Arrhythmia Unit
    Schneider Children Medical Center of Israel

    Luciana Marcondes
    Paediatric Electrophysiologist
    Starship Children's Hospital

    Maria Miszczak Knecht
    Consultant
    The Children's Memorial Health Institute

    Stephanie Chandler
    Attending Physician, Electrophysiology
    Ann and Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital

    Stephanie Handler
    Pediatric Cardiologist
    Children's Wisconsin

  • Room 146BC

    Surgery 1 – World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery with Asian Association for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery: TGA & ccTGA

    08:00-10:00: Moderator | Kisaburo Sakamoto | Japan

    08:00-10:00: Moderator | Kirsten Finucane | New Zealand

    08:00-10:00: Moderator | Christo Tchervenkov | Canada

    08:00-08:10: Welcome to the World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery 8th Annual Scientific Meeting | Christo Tchervenkov | Canada

    08:10-08:25: Arterial Switch for high-risk coronary anatomy patterns in TGA | Mark Bleiweis | USA

    08:25-08:40: The Role of Nikaidoh Operation and Double Root Translocation for TGA | Victor Morell | USA

    08:40-08:55: Indications and different management strategies for LVOTO in TGA-VSD and TGA-IVS. | Charles Fraser | USA

    08:55-09:10: Anatomic repairs for ccTGA | David Winlaw | USA

    09:10-09:25: Role and Outcomes of Physiologic Repairs for ccTGA | David Barron | Canada

    09:25-09:40: The forgotten left ventricle in Fontan - how can we adopt it: The Ventricular Switch procedure | Hani Najm | USA

    09:40-10:00: Discussion

    David Barron
    Cardiovascular Surgeon
    The Hospital for Sick Children

    Christo Tchervenkov
    Executive Director
    World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery

    Kisaburo Sakamoto
    Director of the Hospital
    Mt. Fuji Shizuoka Children's Hospital

    Annabel Finucane
    Cardiac Surgeon
    Starship Hospital, Auckland

    Mark Bleiweis
    Director of UF Health Congenital Heart Center, Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics
    University of Florida, Gainesville

    Charles Fraser
    Director
    Texas Center for Pedicatric and Congenital Heart Disease

    Victor Morell
    Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
    UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

    Hani Najm
    Chair, Pediatric & Adult Congenital Heart Surgery
    Cleveland Clinic

    David Winlaw
    Associate Director, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery; Professor
    Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

  • Room 150AB

    08:00-10:00: Moderator | Jimmy Lu | USA

    08:00-10:00: Moderator | Frederique Bailliard | USA

    08:00-08:15: Morphology of VSDs: the Borders Approach | Andrew Cook | UK

    08:15-08:30: Morphology of VSDs: the Geographic Approach | Lindsay Rogers | USA

    08:30-08:45: Echocardiography of VSDs: the Borders Approach | Beatrice Bonello | UK

    08:45-09:00: Echocardiography of VSDs: the Geographic Approach | Seda Tierney | USA

    09:00-09:15: VSDs: Surgical Implications of Borders and Geography | Jeffrey Jacobs | USA

    09:15-09:30: VSDs: Do other Modalities add to the Diagnosis? | Deane Yim | Australia

    09:30-09:45: VSDs: Reaching Consensus | Vera Aiello | Brazil

    09:45-10:00: Discussion

    Deane Yim
    Pediatric Cardiologist
    Perth Children's Hospital

    Vera Aiello
    Cardiovascular Pathologist
    Heart Institute (InCor), Sao Paulo University School of Medicine

    Beatrice Bonello
    Consultant in Paesiatric Cardiology
    Great Ormond Street Hospital

    Andrew Cook
    Professor
    UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science/GOSH

    Frederique Bailliard
    Physician
    Bailliard Henry Pediatric Cardiology/Duke University

    Jeffrey Jacobs
    Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics
    University of Florida

    Jimmy Lu
    Associate Professor
    University of Michigan

    Lindsay Rogers
    Pediatric Cardiologist
    The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

    Seda Tierney
    Professor
    Stanford University

  • Room 151AB

    08:00-10:00: Moderator | Victoria Vetter | USA

    08:00-10:00: Moderator | Daphne Hsu | USA

    08:00-08:15: Echocardiography | Sharon Karr | USA

    08:15-08:30: CT and MRI | Nazia Husain | USA

    08:30-08:45: Fetal echocardiography | Sheetal Patel | USA

    08:45-09:00: Exercise Stress Testing | Peter Dean | USA

    09:00-09:15: Cardiac Cath | Jeremy Fox | USA

    09:15-09:30: The Office Letter | Thomas Chin | USA

    09:30-10:00: Discussion

    Thomas Chin
    Chief of Pediatric Cardiology
    University of Maryland

    Peter Dean
    Associate Professor
    University of Virginia

    Jeremy Fox
    Physician
    Lurie Children's Hospital

    Daphne Hsu
    Professor of Pediatric and Medicine
    Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Children's Hospital at Montefiore

    Nazia Husain
    Attending Physician
    Lurie Children's Hospital

    Sharon Karr
    Pediatric Cardiologist
    Inova Children's Cardiology

    Sheetal Patel
    Pediatric and Fetal Cardiologist
    Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

    Victoria Vetter
    Senior Cardiologist
    Children's Hospital of Philadelphia/Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

  • Foyer for Rooms in the 100's & 200's

  • Room 144ABC

    10:30-12:30: Moderator | Brian Boe | USA

    10:30-12:30: Moderator | Darren Berman | USA

    10:30-10:42: Debate: 3DRA is Essential for Congenital Intervention | Gregor Krings | Netherlands

    10:42-10:54: Debate: Who Needs 3DRA When You Can Use 3D Image Fusion? | Gareth Morgan | USA

    10:54-10:59: Discussion about debate

    10:59-11:19: Taped Case: 3D Image Fusion | Jenny Zablah Alabi | USA

    11:19-11:36: State-of-the-art 3D TEE for Interventional Catheterization Guidance | Pei-Ni Jone | USA

    11:36-11:53: Update on Tools for Interventional Cardiac MR | Aimee Armstrong | USA

    11:53-12:13: Taped Case: ICMR | Surendranath Veeram Reddy | USA

    12:13-12:30: CFD Assessment of Branch Pulmonary Artery Intervention | Luke Lamers | USA

    Gregor Krings
    Director of Children's Heart Center
    Children’s Heart Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Aimee Armstrong
    Director, Cardiac Catheterization and Interventional Therapies
    Nationwide Children's Hospital

    Darren Berman
    Director, Congenital Cardiac Catheterization
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles

    Brian Boe
    Congenital Interventional Cardiologist
    Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital

    Pei-Ni Jone
    Medical Director of Echocardiography Laboratory, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology
    Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University

    Luke Lamers
    Director of Congenital Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
    Univ of Wisconsin, Madison

    Gareth Morgan
    Professor of Pediatrics/ Cardiology
    University of Colorado

    Surendranath Veeram Reddy
    MD. Professor of Pediatrics. Director Cardiac Catheterization and Interventional Laboratory
    Children's /UT Southwestern Medical Center

  • Room 149AB

    10:30-12:30: Moderator | Jamil Aboulhosn | USA

    10:30-12:30: Moderator | Geetha Kandavello | Malaysia

    10:30-10:45: Pulmonary Hypertension and shunt: To close or not to close? | Kritvikrom Durongpisitkul | Thailand

    10:45-11:00: Ebstein valve surgery: when is the Right Ventricle too sick? | Joseph Dearani | USA

    11:00-11:15: Mechanical support for advanced ACHD heart failure | Ari Cedars | USA

    11:15-11:30: Valve procedures in pregnancy - who, how and when? | Anne Marie Valente | USA

    11:30-11:45: Presentation of cyanotic CHD in adulthood: Can I modify natural history by surgery? | Krishna Iyer | India

    11:45-12:00: Atrioventricular valve replacement in Fontan? | Yves D'Udekem | USA

    12:00-12:15: The new frontier: the role of artificial intelligence in ACHD | Jef Van den Eynde | Belgium

    12:15-12:30: Discussion

    Kritvikrom Durongpisitkul
    Dr
    Siriraj Hospital

    Krishna Iyer
    Executive Director
    Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, New Delhi

    Geetha Kandavello
    Consultant Paediatric and Adult Congenital Cardiologist
    Institut Jantung Negara

    Jamil Aboulhosn
    Director, Ahmanson/UCLA Adult Congenital Heart Center
    UCLA Mattel Childrens/Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center

    Ari Cedars
    Associate Professor
    Johns Hopkins University

    Joseph Dearani
    Consultant, Surgeon
    Mayo Clinic

    Yves D'Udekem
    Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery
    Children's National Hospital

    Anne Marie Valente
    Director, Boston Adult Congenital Heart Program
    Boston Children's Hospital

  • Room 143ABC

    10:30-12:30: Moderator | Adam Cassidy | USA

    10:30-12:30: Moderator | J. William Gaynor | USA

    10:30-10:45: Introduction: Thinking Beyond Operative Factors for Neuroprotection | Adam Cassidy | USA

    10:45-11:00: Neuroprotection in the Presurgical Period in Children with CHD | Daniel Licht | USA

    11:00-11:15: Neuroprotection in the Post-Operative Period in Children with CHD | Lara Shekerdemian | USA

    11:15-11:30: Neurodevelopmental and family intervention in Infancy and Early Childhood in Children with CHD | Frank Casey | UK

    11:30-11:45: Neuropsychological and Psychological Interventions in School Age Children with CHD | Jacqueline Sanz | USA

    11:45-12:00: Interventions for Adolescents and Adults with CHD | Adrienne Kovacs | Canada

    12:00-12:15: Interventions to Reduce the Impacts of Health Disparities in Neurodevelopmental Care in CHD | Keila Lopez | USA

    12:15-12:30: Discussion

    Adrienne Kovacs
    Psychologist
    Equilibria Psychological Health

    Frank Casey
    Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist
    Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children

    Adam Cassidy
    Pediatric Neuropsychologist
    Mayo Clinic - Rochester

    J. William Gaynor
    CHOP

    Daniel Licht
    Professor
    Children's National Hospital

    Keila Lopez
    Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology
    Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital

    Jacqueline Sanz
    Neuropsychologist
    Children's National Hospital

    Lara Shekerdemian
    Pediatrician In-Chief, Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics
    Texas Children's Hospital

  • Room 150AB

    10:30-12:30: Moderator | Carolyn Altman | USA

    10:30-12:30: Moderator | Marie Béland | Canada

    10:30-10:45: Morphology of DORV: The 50% Rule Rules | Andrew Cook | UK

    10:45-11:00: Morphology of DORV: It ’s All About the Conus | Amy Juraszek | USA

    11:00-11:15: Echocardiography of DORV: the 50% Rule Rules | Kuberan Pushparajah | UK

    11:15-11:30: Echocardiography of DORV: it’s All About the Conus | Meryl Cohen | USA

    11:30-11:45: Multimodality Imaging for DORV: the Rules Don't Matter | Edwin Francis | India

    11:45-12:00: DORV: what does the Surgeon Need to Know for Successful Septation? | Victor Morell | USA

    12:00-12:15: DORV: Reaching Consensus | Lucille Houyel | France

    12:15-12:30: Discussion

    Marie Béland
    HKAP Fellow
    The Montreal Children's Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre

    Lucile Houyel
    Pediatric Cardiologist
    Congenital and Pediatric Cardiology, Hopital Necker Enfants Malades

    Edwin Francis
    Doctor
    Astermedcity

    Andrew Cook
    Professor
    UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science/GOSH

    Kuberan Pushparajah
    Consultant Paediatric cardiologist
    Evelina London Children's Hospital

    Carolyn Altman
    Assoc Chief, Pediatric Cardiology and Professor, Pediatrics
    Texas Children's Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine

    Meryl Cohen
    Physician
    Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

    Amy Juraszek
    Director of Pediatric Echo Lab
    Wolfson Childrens Hospital

    Victor Morell
    Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
    UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

  • Room 152AB

    10:30-12:30: Moderator | Gurleen Sharland | UK

    10:30-12:30: Moderator | Christopher Lindblade | USA

    10:30-10:45: Building Blocks: Segmental Anatomy Made Simple | Norman Silverman | USA

    10:45-11:00: The Basics 1: Review of common 4-chamber abnormality anatomy | Christopher Lindblade | USA

    11:00-11:15: The Basics 2: Review of common outflow tract abnormality anatomy | Gurleen Sharland | UK

    11:15-11:30: Predicting the future: is it ductal dependent? | Einat Birk | Israel

    11:30-11:45: Predicting the future: Can this be a two-ventricle repair? | Gerald Tulzer | Austria

    11:45-12:00: Predicting the future: Will this fetus be sick in the delivery room? | Mary Donofrio | USA

    12:00-12:30: Round table discussion

    Gerald Tulzer
    Head of Department
    Kepler University Hospital Linz

    Einat Birk
    Head, Pediatric Cardiology
    Schneider Children Medical Center of Israel

    Gurleen Sharland
    Professor of Fetal Cardiology
    Evelina London Children's Hospital

    Mary Donofrio
    Medical Director of Prenatal Cardiology
    Children's National Hospital

    Christopher Lindblade
    Director, Fetal Cardiology
    Phoenix Children's Hospital

    Norman Silverman
    Professor Emeritus
    University of California, San Francisco

  • Room 145AB

    10:30-12:30: Moderator | Michael Earing | USA

    10:30-12:30: Moderator | Harsimran Singh | USA

    10:30-10:50: The Nuts & Bolts of Septal Defects: Anatomic Review | Chris Talluto | USA

    10:50-11:10: Diagnosis of Septal Defects: An Imaging Approach | Anurag Sahu | USA

    11:10-11:30: The straightforward atrial-level shunt: An Interventionalist Perspective | C. Huie Lin | USA

    11:30-11:50: Percutaneous VSD Closure: Ready for Prime-time? | John Breinholt | USA

    11:50-12:10: Percutaneous closure of Sinus Venosus ASD: the New Kid on the Block | Barry Love | USA

    12:10-12:30: Discussion

    John Breinholt
    Division Chief, Pediatric Cardiology
    Penn State Children's Hospital

    Michael Earing
    Chief Pediatric Cardiology, Medical Director Chicago Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program
    Univ of Chicago/Advocate Health Care

    Byron Holt
    Chief of Pediatric Cardiology
    Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin

    C. Huie Lin
    Director, Adult Congenital Heart Program
    Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center

    Barry Love
    Director, Congenital Cardiac catheterization Laboratory
    Mt Sinai

    Anurag Sahu
    Director, Adult Congenital Heart Center
    Inova LJ Murphy Children's Hospital

    Harsimran Singh
    Director, Adult Congenital Heart Disease
    Weill Cornell Medicine - New York Presbyterian

    Christoper Talluto
    Director of ACHD and Transition Clinics at JHACH
    Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital

  • Room 146A

    10:30-12:30: Moderator | Carolina Escudero | Canada

    10:30-12:30: Moderator | Fabrizio Drago | Italy

    10:30-10:45: What constitutes a Population Screening Tool | Michael Lopez | USA

    10:45-11:00: Screening in Israel | Rami Fogelman | Israel

    11:00-11:15: Screening in Pakistan | Muhammad Mohsin | Pakistan

    11:15-11:30: Screening in Central/South America | Jose Moltedo | Argentina

    11:30-11:45: Screening in China/Hong Kong | Sabrina Tsao | Hong Kong (SAR China)

    11:45-12:00: Screening in New Zealand | Luciana Marcondes | New Zealand

    12:00-12:15: Screening in Italy | Fabrizio Drago | Italy

    12:15-12:30: Panel Discussion

    Jose Moltedo
    Pediatric Electrohysiology Head
    Clínica y Maternidad Suizo Argentina/Sanatorio Finochietto

    Carolina Escudero
    Assistant Professor
    Stollery Children's Hospital, University of Alberta

    Sabrina Tsao
    Clinical Associate Professor
    The University of Hong Kong

    Rami Fogelman
    Head of Pediatric Arrhythmia Unit
    Schneider Children Medical Center of Israel

    Fabrizio Drago
    Cardiologist
    Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital

    Luciana Marcondes
    Paediatric Electrophysiologist
    Starship Children's Hospital

    Michael Lopez
    Pediatric cardiologist
    Nicklaus Children's Hospital

  • Room 208AB

    10:30-12:30: Moderator | Shawn Sen | USA

    10:30-12:30: Moderator | Victor Levy | USA

    10:30-10:45: Fetal predictors of postnatal outcomes | Diana Vargas | USA

    10:45-11:00: Fetal Endotracheal Occlusion (FETO) for severe disease; will this become standard of care? | Holly Hedrick | USA

    11:00-11:15: What is the role of pulmonary vasodilators in CDH? | Maria Fraga | USA

    11:15-11:30: Is Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia a ductal dependent lesion? | Amir Ashrafi | USA

    11:30-11:45: Is Anticoagulation on ECMO Different in Patients with Congenital Heart disease compared to Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia | Joanne Starr | USA

    11:45-12:00: When Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH) Meets Congenital Heart disease (CHD) | Nimrod Goldshtrom | USA

    12:00-12:15: When is the Right Time to Decannulate the Patient on ECMO? | Matthew Harting | USA

    12:15-12:30: Group Discussion

    Amir Ashrafi
    Director of CV-NICU
    CHOC

    María Fraga
    Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
    Neonatology
    Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia

    Nimrod Goldshtrom
    Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
    Columbia University Irving Medical Center & Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital

    Matthew Harting
    Associate Professor
    Department of Pediatric Surgery, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth and Children’s Memorial Hermann

    Holly Hedrick
    Professor of Surgery
    CHOP

    Victor Levy
    Neonatologist
    Logan Children’s

    Shawn Sen
    Neonatal Cardiac Intensivist
    Children's Hospital of Orange County

    Joanne Starr
    Attending Congenital Heart Surgeon, Director, ECLS
    CHOC Children's Hospital

    Diana Vargas
    Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
    Columbia University

  • Room 147AB

    10:30-12:30: Moderator | Kathryn Dodds | USA

    10:30-12:30: Moderator | Louise Callow | USA

    10:30-12:30: Moderator | Cecilia St. George-Hyslop | Canada

    10:30-10:45: Neurodevelopmental Issues | Jacqueline Sanz | USA

    10:45-11:00: Modifiable and Non-Modifiable Factors Impacting Outcomes | Melissa Jones | USA

    11:00-11:15: Palliative Care and CHD: the Scope | Christine Peyton | USA

    11:15-11:30: Post Intensive Care Syndrome | Sandra Staveski | USA

    11:30-11:45: Emotional Health Issues | Erica Sood | USA

    11:45-12:00: Transition and ACHD Care | Nancy Pike | USA

    12:00-12:15: A Patient Perspective | Taylor Houlihan | USA

    12:15-12:30: Discussion

    Cecilia St. George-Hyslop
    Interprofessional Education Specialist
    The Hospital for Sick Children

    Louise Callow
    Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
    University of Michigan, CS Mott Children's Hospital

    Kathryn Dodds
    Fontan FORWARD Clinical Program Manager/NP
    CHOP and University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

    Taylor Houlihan
    Patient and Pediatric Resident Physician

    Melissa Jones
    CICU Nurse Practitioner
    Children's National Hospital

    Christine Peyton
    CICU Nurse Practice Specialist
    Boston Children's Hospital

    Nancy Pike
    Professor
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles/UCLA School of Nursing

    Erica Sood
    Pediatric Psychologist
    Nemours Children's Health

    Sandra Staveski
    Associate Professor
    University of California San Franscisco

  • Room 154AB

    10:30-11:30: Developing Self-Advocacy

    10:30-11:30: Moderator | Paul Checchia | USA

    10:30-11:30: Moderator | Uri Pollak | Israel

    10:30-11:30: Panelist | Roxanne Kirsch | Canada

    10:30-11:30: Panelist | Mary McBride | USA

    10:30-11:30: Panelist | John Wesley Diddle | USA

    11:30-12:30: Falling Forward

    11:30-12:30: Moderator | David Werho | USA

    11:30-12:30: Moderator | Lillian Su | USA

    11:30-12:30: Panelist | Paul Checchia | USA

    11:30-12:30: Panelist | Steven Schwartz | Canada

    11:30-12:30: Panelist | Uri Pollak | Israel

    Roxanne Kirsch
    Division Head, Cardiac Critical Care
    The Hospital for Sick Children

    Steven Schwartz
    Chief, Department of Critical Care Medicine
    The Hospital for Sick Children

    Uri Pollak
    Head, Section of Pediatric Critical Care
    Hadassah University Medical Center

    Paul Checchia
    Associate Chief
    Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine

    John Diddle
    CICU Attending Physician
    Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

    Mary McBride
    Attending Physician
    Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

    Lillian Su
    Associate Division Chief and Medical Director
    Phoenix Children's Hospital

    David Werho
    Associate Clinical Professor
    University of California San Diego - Rady Children's Hospital

  • Room 201

    10:30-12:30: Moderator | Nestor Sandoval | Colombia

    10:30-12:30: Moderator | Raman Kumar | India

    10:30-12:30: Moderator | Rob Raylman | USA

    10:30-11:15: Patient perspective roundtable - interviewer | Kathy Jenkins | USA

    10:30-11:15: Patient | Chloe Searchinger | USA

    10:30-11:15: Patient | Martha Naambo Shiimi | Namibia

    10:30-11:15: Patient | Sheena Basemeera | Uganda

    11:15-11:30: Patient/family advocacy perspective | Amy Basken | USA

    11:30-11:45: NGO partnerships | Rob Raylman | USA

    11:45-12:00: Advocacy and call to action | Bistra Zheleva | USA

    12:00-12:15: Research as a tool for programmatic growth | Emmy Okello | Uganda

    12:15-12:30: Panel Discussion

    Nestor Sandoval
    Chief Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Director Congenital Heart Institute
    Fundacion Cardioinfantil-La Cardio

    Raman Kumar
    Clinical Professor and Head of Department
    Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Cochin, Kerala, India

    Martha Naambo Shiimi
    Brave Little Hearts Namibia

    Sheena Basemera
    Program Manager Children's Heart Project
    Samaritan's Purse Children's Heart Project

    Amy Basken
    Executive Director
    Conquering CHD

    Kathy Jenkins
    Executive Director Center for Applied Pediatric Quality Analytics
    Boston Children's Hospital

    Rob Raylman
    CEO
    Gift of Life International

    Chloe Searchinger
    Research Assistant
    Princeton University

    Emmy Okello
    Cardiologist
    Uganda Heart Institute

  • Room 140AB

    10:30-12:30: Moderator | Alpay Celiker | Turkey

    10:30-12:30: Moderator | Christian Paech | Germany

    10:30-10:45: Smart Bells and Whistles – Underutilized Programming Features in Pacemakers and Defibrillators Specifically for Pediatric Patients | Massimo Silvetti | Italy

    10:45-11:00: Optimizing Resynchronization Therapy in Congenital Heart disease? Variables that Impact Electromechanical Synchrony | Henry Chubb | USA

    11:00-11:15: Device Implantation in ACHD: Tips, tricks, and lessons learned | Naomi Kertesz | USA

    11:15-11:30: Advances in device miniaturization and novel implantation techniques | Charles Berul | USA

    11:30-11:45: Remote monitoring in cardiac rhythm management devices | Aarti Dalal | USA

    11:45-12:00: Choosing your ICD hardware: patient and disease characteristics to consider | Peter Kubus | Czech Republic

    12:00-12:15: What is on the horizon for devices | Yaniv Bar-Cohen | USA

    12:15-12:30: Discussion

    Peter Kubuš
    Physician
    Children's Heart Center, Motol University Hospital Prague

    Massimo Silvetti
    Doctor
    Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital

    Alpay Celiker
    Faculty
    VKV Amerikan Hospital

    Yaniv Bar-Cohen
    Director, Electrophysiology
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles

    Charles Berul
    Co-Director
    Children's National

    Mark Chubb
    Clinical Assistant Professor
    Stanford University

    Aarti Dalal
    Assistant Professora
    Vanderbilt University

    Naomi Kertesz
    Director of Pacing and Electrophysiology, Associate Director of Cardiology
    Nationwide Children's Hospital

    Christian Paech
    Senior Consultant
    University of Leipzig, HELIOS Heart Center

  • Room 209ABC

    10:30-12:30: Moderator | Dimpna Calila Albert-Brotons | Saudi Arabia

    10:30-12:30: Moderator | Jonathan Johnson | USA

    10:30-10:35: Case Presentation: Newborn with HLHS, moderate tricuspid regurgitation, and severely depressed ventricular function | Jennifer Rowe | USA

    10:35-10:45: Why I would place a Ventricular Assist Device | Antonio Amodeo |

    10:45-10:55: Why I would not place a Ventricular Assist Device | Angela Lorts | USA

    10:55-11:10: Discussion

    11:10-11:15: Case presentation: 22-month-old s/p bidirectional Glenn with refractory heart failure and highly sensitized | Melissa Dazo | USA

    11:15-11:25: Why I would transplant across a positive crossmatch | Zdenka Reinhardt | UK

    11:25-11:35: Why I would use desensitization therapy | Matthew O'Connor | USA

    11:35-11:45: How I approach MCS in this patient population | Robert Jaquiss | USA

    11:45-12:00: Ethical approach: When do comorbidities preclude transplant? | Jay Fricker | USA

    12:00-12:30: Discussion

    Dimpna Calila Albert-Brotons
    Consultant pediatric cardiologist
    King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center

    Zdenka Reinhardt
    Consultant Cardiologist

    Jay Fricker
    Division Chief Congenital Heart Center
    University of Florida, Gainesville

    Robert Jaquiss
    Professor and Division Chief
    UT Southwestern Medical Center and Children's Health System of Texas

    Jonathan Johnson
    Chair, Pediatric Cardiology
    Mayo Clinic

    Angela Lorts
    Professor of Pediatrics
    Cincinnati Children's Hospital

    Matthew O'Connor
    Medical Director, Heart Transplant Program
    Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

  • Room 151AB

    10:30-12:30: Moderator | Peter Gaskin | USA

    10:30-12:30: Moderator | Annette Ansong | USA

    10:30-10:45: Obesity: Scope of the Problem | Elaine Urbina | USA

    10:45-11:00: Hypertension | Sam Casella | USA

    11:00-11:15: Hypercholesterolemia: Recommendations Now and Moving Forward | Guilherme Baptista De Faria | USA

    11:15-11:30: Neurodevelopment and CHD | Kiona Allen | USA

    11:30-11:45: Multidisciplinary Care for the Syndromic Child with CHD | Tom Collins | USA

    11:45-12:00: Exercise, Nutrition - Important or Overrated? | Jared Hershenson | USA

    12:00-12:15: The Pediatrician's Important Role in the Child with Arrhythmia | Lajja Desai | USA

    12:15-12:30: The Pediatrician's Role in Advocating for AED's. Everywhere. | Victoria Vetter | USA

    Kiona Allen
    Attending Physician
    Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

    Annette Ansong
    Medical Director, Outpatient Cardiology
    Children's National Hospital

    Guilherme Baptista de Faria
    Attending Physician
    Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

    Tom Collins
    Professor of Pediatrics
    University of Kentucky College of Medicine

    Lajja Desai
    Pediatric Electrophysiologist
    Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

    Peter Gaskin
    Associate Professor
    University of Maryland

    Jared Hershenson
    Pediatric Cardiologist
    Children's National Medical Center

    Elaine Urbina
    Director, Preventive Cardiology
    Cincinnati Children's Hospital

    Victoria Vetter
    Senior Cardiologist
    Children's Hospital of Philadelphia/Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

    Sam Casella
    Director of Invasive Cardiology
    Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU Health

  • Room 146BC

    Surgery 2 – World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery with the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS): the Atrioventricular Junction

    10:30-12:30: Moderator | Jay Gangemi | USA

    10:30-12:30: Moderator | Joseph Dearani | USA

    10:30-12:30: Moderator | Ram Kumar Subramanyan | USA

    10:30-10:45: Overview of Different Repairs for CAVC | Carl Backer | USA

    10:45-11:00: Atrioventricular Septal Defect with Conotruncal Anomalies | Christo Tchervenkov | Canada

    11:00-11:15: Surgical decision making and management of Unbalanced AV Canal | David Overman | USA

    11:15-11:30: AV Valve Repair in Single Ventricle | Kisaburo Sakamoto | Japan

    11:30-11:45: Ebstein’s disease: the Cone repair and beyond | Emile Bacha | USA

    11:45-12:00: The Role of Bidirectional Cavopulmonary Anastomosis for Ebstein’s Malformation | Joseph Dearani | USA

    12:00-12:30: Discussion

    Christo Tchervenkov
    Executive Director
    World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery

    Kisaburo Sakamoto
    Director of the Hospital
    Mt. Fuji Shizuoka Children's Hospital

    Emile Bacha
    Chief, CT Surgery
    Columbia University

    Carl Backer
    Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
    Kentucky Children's Hospital

    Jay Gangemi
    Associate Professor
    University of Virginia Health System

    David Overman
    Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery
    Children's Minnesota, Mayo Clinic-Children's Minnesota Cardiovascular Collaborative

    Ram Kumar Subramanyan
    Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgeon
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles/University of Southern California

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  • Room 143ABC

    13:30-15:30: Moderator | Caren Goldberg | USA

    13:30-15:30: Moderator | Justin Elhoff | USA

    13:30-13:45: Debate 1: Neurodevelopmental Disorders in CHD cannot be modified by interventions | J. William Gaynor | USA

    13:45-14:00: Debate 1: Neurodevelopmental Disorders in CHD can be modified by interventions | Thomas Miller | USA

    14:00-14:15: Debate 2: All Children and Families with CHD should see the Neurodevelopmental Team | Nicola Doherty | UK

    14:15-14:30: Debate 2: Children and Families with CHD should Be Triaged Before Visiting the Neurodevelopmental Team | Stephany Cox | USA

    14:30-14:45: Debate 3: Neuroimaging should be a Standard Part of Clinical Care in CHD | Steven Miller | Canada

    14:45-15:00: Debate 3: Neuroimaging is most informative to Research Questions | Ashok Panigrahy | USA

    15:00-15:15: Debate 4: the ICU should Be Structured with All Cardiac Patients on One Team to maximize ND outcomes in individuals with CHD? | Bradley Marino | USA

    15:15-15:30: Debate 4: the ICU should Be Structure with Segmented ICU Model based on age to maximize ND outcomes in individuals with CHD? | Sherrill Caprarola | USA

    Steven Miller
    Chief, Pediatric Medicine
    BC Children's Hospital

    Nicola Doherty
    Consultant Lead Clinical Psychologist
    Department of Health NI

    Sherrill Caprarola
    CICU Attending
    Children's Hospital Colorado

    Stephany Cox
    Pediatric Neuropsychologist
    UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital

    Justin Elhoff
    CICU Medical Director
    Sunrise Children's Hospital/Pediatrix Medical Group

    J. William Gaynor
    CHOP
    Caren Goldberg

    Professor of Pediatric Cardiology
    University of Michigan CS Mott Children's Hospital

    Bradley Marino
    Department Chair
    Cleveland Clinic Children's

    Thomas Miller
    Associate Professor
    Maine Medical Center

    Ashok Panigrahy
    Radiologist-In-Chief UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Vice Chair Clinical and Translational I
    UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

  • Room 152AB

    13:30-15:30: Moderator | Ann Kavanaugh-McHugh | USA

    13:30-15:30: Moderator | Gary Sholler | Australia

    13:30-13:45: Conveyance and Compassion: Challenges in Counselling Following Prenatal Diagnosis of CHD | Gary Sholler | Australia

    13:45-14:00: Fetal CHD: Psychological Influence on Families and Impact on Quality of Life | Nadine Kasparian | USA

    14:00-14:15: Trauma-informed Care: Insights and Application | Erica Sood | USA

    14:15-14:30: Impact of prenatal diagnosis of CHD from detection to treatment and beyond: a parent’s perspective | Parent TBA |

    14:30-14:45: Debate: Palliative care is no longer a reasonable option (Pro) | Vanessa Madrigal | USA

    14:45-15:00: Debate: Palliative care is no longer a reasonable option (Con) | John Simpson | UK

    15:00-15:15: Ethics of non-intervention and role of palliative care | Angira Patel | USA

    15:15-15:30: Discussion

    Gary Sholler
    Co-Chair, Australian National Standards of Care for CoHD
    Heart Centre for Children Sydney (Sydney Children's Hospitals Network)

    Serena Counsell
    Professor of Perinatal Imaging
    King's College London

    John Simpson
    Professor of Paediatric and Fetal Cardiology
    Evelina London Children's Hospital

    Nadine Kasparian
    Professor and Director, Heart & Mind Wellbeing Center
    Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

    Ann Kavanaugh-Mchugh
    Professor, Pediatrics
    Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt

    Vanessa Madrigal
    Associate Professor/Pediatric Critical Care/Director Ethics Program
    Children's National Hospital

    Erica Sood
    Pediatric Psychologist
    Nemours Children's Health

  • Room 145AB

    13:30-15:30: Moderator | Ali Zaidi | USA

    13:30-15:30: Moderator | Elisa Bradley | USA

    13:30-15:30: Moderator | Joseph Kay | USA

    13:30-15:30: Moderator | Harsimran Singh | USA

    Elisa Bradley
    Associate Professor of Medicine
    Pennsylvania State University

    Joseph Kay
    Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine
    Children's Hospital Colorado

    Harsimran Singh
    Director, Adult Congenital Heart Disease
    Weill Cornell Medicine - New York Presbyterian

    Ali Zaidi
    Director, Mount Sinai Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center
    Mount Sinai Heart

  • Room 149AB

    13:30-15:30: Moderator | Clare O'Donnell | New Zealand

    13:30-15:30: Moderator | Amalia Elizari | Argentina

    13:30-13:45: Reflecting on a "normal" life | Tracy Livecchi | USA

    13:45-14:00: "I want to run a 10K" - Aspiring to a physically active life with CHD | Roni Jacobsen | USA

    14:00-14:15: The adrenaline junkie: What do I say to my patient who wants to jump out of a plane? | Karen Stout | USA

    14:15-14:30: Engaging adolescents: the next generation of ACHD | Andrew Mackie | Canada

    14:30-14:45: It's not easy being a grown-up: Supporting Independence & Resilience in Young Adults with CHD | Arwa Saidi | USA

    14:45-15:00: WHO Class IV and wanting to continue Pregnancy: What have we learned? | Anita Saxena | India

    15:00-15:15: Advance care planning: "When am I going to die?" | Erwin Oechslin | Canada

    15:15-15:30: Discussion

    Maria Elizari
    Chief Adult Congenital Heart Disease Section
    Cardiovascular Institute of Buenos Aires

    Andrew Mackie
    Pediatric Cardiologist
    Stollery Children's Hospital/University of Alberta

    Erwin Oechslin
    Staff Physician, ACHD Cardiology and Echocardiography
    University Health Network, Toronto ACHD Program, Toronto, Canada

    Anita Saxena
    Vice Chancellor
    Pt. BD Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak

    Clare O'Donnell
    Paediatric/Congenital cardiologist
    Starship/Auckland City Hospitals, Te Whatu Ora

    Roni Jacobsen
    Associate Medical Director, ACHD
    Children's Hospital Colorado

    Tracy Livecchi
    LCSW
    Connecticut

    Arwa Saidi
    Professor
    University of Florida

    Karen Stout
    Professor
    U Washington

  • Room 146A

    13:30-15:30: Moderator | Ronald Kanter | USA

    13:30-15:30: Moderator | Hugo Martinez | USA

    13:30-13:45: ClinGen reappraisal of LQTS genes | Anwar Chahal | USA

    13:45-14:00: ClinGen reappraisal of SQTS and CPVT genes | Andrew Landstrom | USA

    14:00-14:15: ClinGen reappraisal of Brugada syndrome genes | Andrew Landstrom | USA

    14:15-14:30: ClinGen reappraisal of ARVC | Cynthia James | USA

    14:30-14:45: ClinGen reappraisal of HCM | Hugo Martinez | USA

    14:45-15:00: Polygenic etiology of inherited arrhythmia syndromes | Andrew Davis | Australia

    15:00-15:30: Discussion

    Andrew Davis
    Paediatric Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist
    Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne

    Cynthia James
    Associate Professor
    Johns Hopkins University

    Ronald Kanter
    Director, Electrophysiology
    Nicklaus Children's Hospital

    Andrew Landstrom
    Associate Professor
    Duke University School of Medicine

    Hugo Martinez
    Associate Professor
    The Heart Institute at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and the University of Tennessee Health and Science

  • Room 208AB

    13:30-15:30: Moderator | Diana Vargas | USA

    13:30-15:30: Moderator | Shazia Bhombal | USA

    13:30-15:30: Moderator | Luc Mertens | Canada

    13:30-13:50: What Differentiates Targeted Neonatal Echo (TNE) from Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)? | Patrick McNamara | USA

    13:50-14:10: Why "state of the art" management of PH must include Transthoracic Neonatal ECHO | Adrianne Rahde Bischoff | USA

    14:10-14:30: What is the role of TNE in the asphyxiated newborn? | Gabriel Altit | Canada

    14:30-14:50: Novel methods for assessing ventricular function | Wyman Lai | USA

    14:50-15:10: How to develop a TNE program in resource limited NICUs? | Ben Kozyak | USA

    15:10-15:30: Group Discussion

    Gabriel Altit
    Neonatologist
    Montreal Children's Hospital - McGill University Health Centre

    Luc Mertens
    Section Head Echocardiography
    The Hospital for Sick Children

    Shazia Bhombal
    Associate Professor
    Emory University/Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

    Wyman Lai
    Director, Echocardiography
    CHOC

    Patrick McNamara
    Professor of Pediatrics, Director, Division of Neonatology
    University of Iowa

    Adrianne Rahde Bischoff
    Assistant Professor
    University of Iowa

    Diana Vargas
    Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
    Columbia University

  • Room 101

    This special feature following the Nursing CHD Academy is optional and is limited to the first 100 delegates.

    13:30-15:30: Presenter | Andrew Cook | UK

    13:30-15:30: Presenter | Diane Spicer | USA

    Andrew Cook
    Professor
    UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science/GOSH

    Diane Spicer
    Pathologists' Assistant/Cardiac Morphologist
    Johns Hopkins All Childrens Hospital - Heart Institute

  • Room 151AB

    13:30-15:30: Moderator | Ritu Sachdeva | USA

    13:30-15:30: Moderator | Gerard Martin | USA

    13:30-15:30: Moderator | Joyce Woo | USA

    13:30-13:45: Current Status of Newborn Pulse Oximetry | Annamarie Saarinen | USA

    13:45-14:00: ECGs - Now, Never, Whenever? | Anthony Rossi | USA

    14:00-14:15: Screening for Sudden Cardiac Death Prevention | Chris Snyder | USA

    14:15-14:30: Screening and Treatment Guidance for Peds Dyslipidemias | Guilherme Baptista De Faria | USA

    14:30-14:45: Genetic Syndromes and the Heart | Talha Niaz | USA

    14:45-15:00: Fetal Echocardiography and Screening | Amanda Shillingford | USA

    13:00-15:30: Discussion

    Guilherme Baptista de Faria
    Attending Physician
    Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

    Gerard Martin
    C.R. Beyda Professor of Cardiology
    Children's National Hospital

    Talha Niaz
    Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Senior Associate Consultant
    Mayo Clinic

    Anthony Rossi
    Pediatric Cardiac Intensivist
    Nicklaus Children's Hospital

    Annamarie Saarinen
    Co-Founder, Chief of Research Collaborative
    Newborn Foundation | Bloom Standard

    Amanda Shillingford
    Attending Pediatric Cardiologist, Medical Director of Community Fetal Heart Program Outreach, Associ
    Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

    Joyce Woo
    Assistant Professor
    Lurie Children's Hospital / Northwestern University

    Ritu Sachdeva
    Director, cardiovascular Imaging Research Core
    Children's Healthcare of Atlanta/Emory University

  • Room 201

    13:30-15:30: Moderator | Bistra Zheleva | USA

    13:30-15:30: Moderator | Rob Raylman | USA

    13:35-14:30: Breakout 1: Financing and supply chain | Micheal Oketcho | Uganda

    13:35-14:30: Breakout 2: Workforce and infrastructure | Babar Hasan | Pakistan

    13:35-14:30: Breakout 3: Academics: training and research | Liesl Zuhlke | South Africa

    13:35-14:30: Breakout 4: Patient selection, follow up, quality improvement | Craig Sable | USA

    13:35-14:30: Breakout 5: Advocacy, policy, regionalization | Uvie Onakpoya | Nigeria

    14:30-15:15: Regroup to Present

    15:15-15:30: Next Steps

    Uvie Onakpoya
    Cardiothoracic Surgeon
    Obafemi Awolowo University

    Babar Hasan
    Chair, Division of Cardiothoracic Sciences
    Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT)

    Liesl Zuhlke
    Vince-President/ Professor
    South African Medical Research Council/ University of Cape Town

    Michael Oketcho
    Cardio-Thoracic Surgeon
    Uganda Heart Institute

    Rob Raylman
    CEO
    Gift of Life International

    Craig Sable
    Associate Chief
    Children's National Hospital

    Bistra Zheleva
    VP Global Strategy and Advocacy
    Children's HeartLink

  • Room 140AB

    13:30-15:30: Moderator | Edward Walsh | USA

    13:30-15:30: Moderator | Joachim Hebe | Germany

    13:30-15:30: Moderator | László Környei | Hungary

    13:30-13:45: Outflow-tract arrhythmia with left-sided origin/Aortic cusp ablations | Gabrielle Hessling | Germany

    13:45-14:00: Para-Hisian accessory pathways | Tevfik Karagoz | Turkey

    14:00-14:15: AVNRT with a non-responding "typical" slow-pathway-region | Jon Papagiannis | Greece

    14:15-14:30: "Epicardial" inferoseptal accessory pathways | Ferran Roses-Noguer | Spain

    14:30-14:45: Idiopathic LV- fascicular- tachycardia (ILVT) | Andreas Pflaumer | Australia

    14:45-15:00: “Unusual” accessory connections: Mahaim-fibers, PJRT, and more. | Jeffrey Kim | USA

    15:00-15:15: Focal atrial tachycardias | Fabrizio Drago | Italy

    15:15-15:30: Pulmonary vein isolation—it's not just for adults anymore | Monica Benjamin | Argentina

    Monica Benjamin
    Pediatric & Congenital Electrophysiologist
    Hospital de Pediatría Juan P. Garrahan, Buenos Aires ICBA

    Andreas Pflaumer
    Cardiologist
    Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne

    Joachim Hebe
    Co-Chair
    Center for Electrophysiology Bremen

    Gabrielle Hessling
    Co-Head, Department of Electrophysiology
    German Heart Center, Munich

    John Papagiannis
    Director of Pediatric and Adult Congenital Cardiology
    Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center

    László Környei
    Pediatric Electrophysiologist
    Gottsegen National Cardiovascular Center

    Fabrizio Drago
    Cardiologist
    Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital

    Ferran Roses-Noguer
    Paediatric EP Consultant
    Vall d'Hebron Barcelona University Hospital

    Tevfik Karagoz
    Professor of Pediatric Cardiology
    Hacettepe University, Ankara

    Jeffrey Kim
    Professor
    Texas Children's Hospital

    Edward Walsh
    Associate Chief of Cardiology for Clinical Affairs
    Boston Children's Hospital

  • Room 209ABC

    13:30-15:30: Moderator | David Morales | USA

    13:30-15:30: Moderator | Robert Weintraub | Australia

    13:30-13:45: How I Approach Medical Therapy | Jonathan Johnson | USA

    13:45-14:00: Mechanical Support for the Systemic Ventricle | Sabrina Law | USA

    14:00-14:15: Mechanical Support for the Fontan Circulation | Mark Rodefeld | USA

    14:15-14:30: Approach in Resource Limited Areas | Luiz Caneo | Brazil

    14:30-14:45: Multi-organ Transplant in Congenital Heart Disease | Leigh Reardon | USA

    14:45-15:00: Current and Future Anti-Coagulation Strategies for Pediatric VADs | David Bearl | USA

    15:00-15:15: What will trials of medical therapy tell us? | Fred Wu | USA

    15:15-15:30: Discussion

    Robert Weintraub
    Cardiologist
    Royal Children's Hospital/Melbourne

    Luiz Caneo
    Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
    Instituto do Coracao, HCFMUSP

    David Bearl
    Assistant Professor
    Vanderbilt

    Jonathan Johnson
    Chair, Pediatric Cardiology
    Mayo Clinic

    Sabrina Law
    Director, Pediatric Ventricular Assist Device Program, Associate Professor of Pediatrics
    Columbia University Medical Center

    David Morales
    Director, Congenital Heart Surgery
    Cincinnati Children's Hospital

    Leigh Reardon
    Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
    Ahmanson/UCLA Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center

    Mark Rodefeld
    Professor of Surgery
    Indiana University/Riley

    Fred Wu
    Cardiologist
    Boston Children's Hospital

  • Room 146BC

    13:30-16:15: Moderator | Ganga Krishnamurthy | USA

    13:30-16:15: Moderator | Joan Sanchez de Toledo | Spain

    13:30-16:15: Moderator | John Lamberti | USA

    13:30-13:45: Strategies in the Delivery Room for Newborns with Prenatally Diagnosed Complex CHD | Noorjahan Ali | USA

    13:45-14:00: Stabilization of the Neonate with Left Sided Heart Disease: Those With and Without a Prenatal Diagnosis | Uri Pollak | Israel

    14:00-14:15: Stabilization of the Neonate with TGA | Gil Wernovsky | USA

    14:15-14:30: When is ECMO the Treatment of Choice in the Critically Ill Preoperative Neonate? | Grace van Leeuwen | Qatar

    14:30-14:45: Monitoring in the Preoperative Neonate | George Hoffman | USA

    14:45-15:00: Timing of Surgery 1: New Insights Into the Transitional Circulation in Neonates with Single Ventricle | Lisa Hornberger | Canada

    15:00-15:15: Timing of Surgery 2: Cerebral Oxygen Delivery in the Preoperative Neonate | Jennifer Lynch | USA

    15:15-15:30: Evaluation of Other Organ Systems | Julia Charlton | Canada

    15:30-15:45: Surgeons Perspective: What do I Need? What don't I Need? | Sunil Malhotra | USA

    15:45-16:00: The Best Way To "Stabilize" is to Operate Within Hours of Birth: Update on Umbilical Cord Blood for CPB Priming | Illya Yemets | Ukraine

    16:00-16:15: Panel/Q&A

    Julia Charlton
    Neonatologist
    BC Women's Hospital

    Lisa Hornberger
    Professor of Pediatrics, Division Director of Pediatric Cardiology
    University of Alberta

    Uri Pollak
    Head, Section of Pediatric Critical Care
    Hadassah University Medical Center

    Grace van Leeuwen
    Senior Attending
    Sidra Medicine

    Joan Sanchez de Toledo
    Director Heart Institute
    SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital & Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh

    Illya Yemets
    General director and Surgeon-in-Chief
    Ukranian Children's Cardiac Center

    Noorjahan Ali
    Neonatologist
    UT Southwestern

    George Hoffman
    Anesthesiogist-in-Chief
    Herma Heart Institute, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin and Medical College of Wisconsin

    Ganga Krishnamurthy
    Medical Director
    Columbia University Medical Center

    John Lamberti
    Clinical Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
    Lucille Packard Children's Hospital/Stanford

    Jennifer Lynch
    Anesthesiologist
    Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

    Sunil Malhotra
    Director, Congenital Cardiac Surgery
    Maine Medical Center

    Gil Wernovsky
    Senior Consultant in Cardiac Critical Care and Pediatric Cardiology
    Children's National Hospital

  • Room 150AB

    13:30-15:30: Moderator | Mark Fogel | USA

    13:30-15:30: Moderator | Kanwal Farooqi | USA

    13:30-13:45: Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction: Not a Pretty Picture | Colin McMahon | Ireland

    13:45-14:00: Extraordinary Coronaries: Anomalies in CHD | Kanwal Farooqi | USA

    14:00-14:15: Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries: Not Correct at All | Benjamin Eidem | USA

    14:15-14:30: Single Ventricles: Strange Tales of Woe | Paolo Ciliberti | Italy

    14:30-14:45: Stranger than Fiction: Unusual Systemic and Pulmonary Vein Anomalies | Edythe Tham | Canada

    14:45-15:00: Memorable Mitral Valve Disorders: Dysplasia, Straddling, Arcade and Others | Nee Scze Khoo | Canada

    15:00-15:15: Criss-cross hearts and other abnormal connections | Ira Parness | USA

    15:15-15:30: Discussion

    Nee Scze Khoo
    Pediatric Cardiologist
    Edmonton

    Edythe Tham
    Associate Professor
    Stollery Children's Hospital/University of Alberta

    Colin McMahon
    Consultant Pediatric Cardiologist
    CHI Crumlin Dublin Ireland

    Paolo Ciliberti
    Consultant Cardiologist
    Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital

    Benjamin Eidem
    Pediatric Cardiologist
    Mayo Clinic

    Kanwal Farooqi
    Attending Physician
    Columbia University Irving Medical Center

    Mark Fogel
    Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology) and Radiology, Director of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance
    Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

    Ira Parness
    Director of Pediatric Echocardiography
    Cohen’s Children’s Medical Center/Northwell Health

  • Room 147AB

  • Social Event

    Grand Ballroom Foyer

    Sponsor: Children’s National Hospital

    Light passed appetizers and beer & wine will be provided.

  • Non-CME/CE Session

    Ballroom

    Sponsor: Children’s National Hospital

    Do not miss special performances by:

    The Children’s Chorus of Washington, internationally recognized and critically acclaimed for its outstanding artistry – You do not want to miss this!!

    The Future of Jazz Band, directed by Joe Block, curated by Jazz at Lincoln Center (Wynton Marsalis, Managing and Artistic Director). Joe Block has ascended to be one of the premier pianists, composers, and bandleaders working in music today – not to be missed!

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