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SIS Conference 2008
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SIS 2008 Core Curriculum:
Friday, July 11th and Saturday, July 12th
 
Saturday, July 12th   |   7:00 AM – 12:00 PM
7:00 AM Registration

Structural Heart Disease and BioSkills Lab -
Valves Session

Seattle Science Foundation BioSkills Lab and
Teleconference Center

Session Co-Director: Thomas K. Jones, MD
7:30 AM Seattle Science Foundation BioSkills Lab
Sixth Floor, James Tower
  Break/Visit Exhibits
  Plenary Session
Seattle Science Foundation Teleconference Center
  Live Case
Lab: SIS 2008 Live Case Faculty
Podium: Ted Feldman, MD
Panel: John L. Petersen, Jr., MD, Troy Johnston, MD, Kimberly Krabill, MD, Jonathan M. Tobis, MD and Karen Stout, MD
  Right-sided Valve Intervention
Thomas K. Jones, MD
  Mitral Valve Approaches
Mark Reisman, MD
  Mitral Valve Devices
Jonathan M. Tobis, MD
  Aortic Valve: Identifying the high-risk patient
John L. Petersen, Jr., MD
  Aortic Valve Devices
Maurice Buchbinder, MD
12:00PM Lunch / Visit Exhibits

Coronary Artery Disease
Swedish Education Center, Rooms C & D
Session Co-Director: S. Chiu Wong, MD
Session Moderator: Reginald Low, MD
7:30 AM Welcome & Introduction
S. Chiu Wong, MD
  Management Strategies for Patients following Stent Thrombosis
Larry Dean, MD
  Live Case
Lab: SIS 2008 Live Faculty
Podium: Peter Fitzgerald, MD, PhD
Panel: David J. Cohen, MD, Larry Dean, MD, Reginald Low, MD, and S. Chiu Wong, MD
  Women and Coronary Artery disease: What to watch for
Jennifer Tremmel, MD
  Treatment Approaches for Drug Eluting Stent Restenosis
Ted Feldman, MD
  Optimal Anti-platelet Duration Post Drug Eluting Stent
David J. Cohen, MD
  OCT, Virtual Histology IVUS, InfraReDx: Making sense of adjunct imaging modalities in the catheterization laboratory
Peter Fitzgerald, MD, PhD
  Break / Visit Exhibits
  Is the Vulnerable Plaque Concept Vulnerable?
John J. Young, MD
  Drug Eluting Stents for Treatment of SVG Lesions?
Steven R. Bailey, MD
  Treatment for “No Option” Patients: Is cell or gene-based therapy ever going to help?
Paul Huang, MD
  Questions & Answers
Podium: Peter Fitzgerald, MD, PhD
Panel: Steven R. Bailey, MD, Reginald Low, MD, Jennifer Tremmel, MD, S. Chiu Wong, MD, and John J. Young, MD
12:00PM Lunch / Visit Exhibits

Endovascular Therapies and BioSkills Lab – Lower Extremity Session
Swedish Education Center, Room B and Seattle Science Foundation BioSkills Lab
Session Co-Director: Robert M. Bersin, MD
7:30 AM Plenary Session
Swedish Education Center, Room B
  SFA Chronic Total Occlusions: Techniques and critical appraisal of long-term outcomes
William Gray, MD
  Acute Arterial Occlusion: Techniques and outcomes
Sanjiv Parikh, MD
  Live Case Transmission from Sutter Heart & Vascular Institute
Lab: David K. Roberts, MD
Podium: Robert Bersin, MD
Panel: William A. Gray, MD, Kaj Johansen, MD, Sanjiv Parikh, MD, and Gary Weeks, MD
  Atherectomy in Lower Extremity Interventions: A critical appraisal
William A. Gray, MD
  Infrapopliteal Disease: When to intervene or operate
Lance Diehl, MD
Break / Visits Exhibits
Seattle Science Foundation BioSkills Lab
Sixth Floor, James Tower
12:00PM Lunch / Visit Exhibits

Non-invasive Imaging
Swedish Education Center, Room A
Session Co-Director: Vinay Malhotra, MD
7:30 AM Case Review - CT and MR Cases
Faculty: Stephan Achenbach, MD, Michael Poon, MD, Dieter Ropers, MD, Uma Valeti, MD, and Needham Ward, MD
12:00PM Lunch / Visit Exhibits

Meet the Experts
Swedish Auditorium
1:00 PM Addressing the Controversies using a Case-based Platform
Podium: Mark Reisman, MD
Panel: Robert M. Bersin, MD, William A. Gray, MD, Thomas K. Jones, MD, Vinay Malhotra, MD, S. Chiu Wong, MD, and John J. Young, MD
3:00 PM Adjourn

Product Engineers Lunch
Seattle Science Foundation, Conference Room
12:00PM Debrief of the SIS 2008 Conference from a product engineer's perspective
Todd Brinton, MD
2:00 PM Adjourn
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