past Events

A-CURE COCKTAIL AND DINNER RECEPTION

The Art Institute of Chicago,
The Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room
230 S. Columbus Dr.

Cocktail Reception: The Chicago Stock Exchange Room, Art Institute of Chicago

Dinner Open gallery viewing at the Art Institute to follow dinner

Breakfast

Welcome and Introductory Comments

Discussion Leaders: Nir Uriel, Ryan Tedford, Roger Hajjar

Dan Burkhoff (Columbia)

Topic: The State of the Field: Our Current Understanding of Ventricular Unloading

Kiyotake Ishikawa (Mt. Sinai)

Topic: Cardiac Uptake and Release of Exosomes During Altered Left Ventricular Load in Ischemic HF

Lija Swain (Tufts Medical Center)

Topic: Acute Unloading and Gene Mitochondrial and Ca2+ Gene Regulation

Kenji Sunagawa (Kyushu University)

Topic: Automated Complete Cardiac Unloading and Limiting Infarct Scar Size: Exploration and Development of First Generation Autopilot System

Jacob Möller (Odense University)

Topic: Mechanical Circulatory Support by VA ECMO or Impella CP and Impact on Left Ventricular Unloading and End Organ Perfusion in a Porcine Model of Profound Cardiogenic Shock

Carlos Santos-Gallego (Mt. Sinai)

Topic: Winner: Best in Research Award, Left Ventricular Unloading with Impella Causes Cardiac Metabolic Remodeling with a Significant Reduction in Myocardial Glucose Consumption and Lactate Production

Shiva Annamalai, (Tufts)

Winner: Young Investigator Scholarship, Primary Left Ventricular Unloading Enhances Collateral Blood Flow and Reduces Infarct Size: A Preclinical Proof of Concept Study

Poster Session I

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
James Udelson, MD

Tufts Medical Center
Chief, Division of Cardiology
Associate Editor: Circulation
Left Ventricular Remodeling: Therapeutics Effects, Implications for Trials and Lessons from Chronic Heart Failure

Discussion Leaders: Bart Meyns, Hermann Reichenspurner

Ralf Westenfeld (University of Düsseldorf)

Topic: The Cardio-renal System: Acute Kidney Injury and MCS, Opportunity for Improved Patient Outcomes

Xiaoying Qiao (Tufts Medical Center)

Topic: VA-ECMO Increases Urinary Levels of the Biomarker Kidney Injury Marker-1 (KIM-1) in a Preclinical Model of Acute Myocardial Infarction

Julian Wiora (University of Düsseldorf)

Topic: Impella Is Associated With Reduced Incidence Of Contrast-Induced Nephropathy In Patients At Higher Risk For PCI

Andreas Schäfer (Hannover Medical School)

Impact of Unloading During AMI-CGS: The Hannover Cardiac Unloading Registry (HACURE) and European Multicenter Experience

Alexander Bernhardt (University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf)

Topic: First In Man Implantations of a Newly Designed Transaortic Axial Flow Ventricular Assist Device, Impella 5.5

Poster Session II

Discussion Leaders: Mark Anderson, Michel Ovize, Carsten Tschöpe

Ajar Kochar (Duke Clinical Research Institute)

Topic: Development of Heart Failure Among Survivors of STEMI and NSTEMI and Long-term Outcomes

Robert Kloner, MD, PhD (Chief Science Officer: Huntington Medical Research Institute & Prof. of Medicine (Clinical Scholar): University of Southern California)

Topic: Survival, Differentiation and Contractility of Immature Cardiac Cells Implanted into the Outer Walls of Aorta and Vena Cavae of Rats: A Potential Step in the Development of an Auxillary Circulatory Pump

Navin Kapur (Tufts Medical Center)

Topic: Learning from the Door To Unload in STEMI Trial, Mechanical Left Ventricular Unloading as a Platform for Additional Cardioprotective Therapies

Haroon Faraz (Hackensack University Medical Center)

Topic: Case report from the Door To Unload in STEMI Study

Panel Discussion: Designing and Executing a Pivotal DTU Clinical Trial

Dan Burkhoff, Mark Anderson, Navin Kapur, Haroon Faraz, Jeff Moses, Robert Kloner, Michel Ovize, Carsten Tschöpe