past Events

Panel Discussion: A Successful Industry Academic Collaboration

Elazer Edelman (MIT, MGH), Steven Keller (MIT), Christian Moyer (Abiomed), Ahmed El Katerji (Abiomed), Noam Josephy (Abiomed)

Moderator: Jerry Curran

Navin Kapur (Tufts Medical Center)

Topic: A New Role for Circulatory Support Devices to Limit Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury

Bob Kloner (Huntington Medical Research Institute)

Topic: Investigating Treatment with Therapeutic Hypothermia for Ischemia of the Heart

Kiyo Ishikawa (Icahn School of Medicine Mt. Sinai)

Topic: Mechanical Left Ventricular Unloading and Therapeutic Hypothermia

Panel Discussion: Unloading in a Pediatric Population

Sebastian Tume (Texas Children’s Hospital), Iki Adachi (Baylor College of Medicine), Brian Morrary (University of Washington Seattle), Athar Qureshi (Texas Children’s Hospital), Christina J VanderPluym (Harvard Medical School), Ryan Davies (UT Southwestern)

Moderator: Vivian Dimas

Herman Reichenspurner (University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf)

Topic: Impella 5.5® as an Ideal Bridge to Left Ventricular Assist Device

Mark Anderson (Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine)

Topic: A New Strategy for the Treatment of Patients with Type 1 Cardiorenal Syndrome with Impella®

Bill O’Neill (Henry Ford Health System)

Topic: Update from the National Cardiogenic Shock Initiative

Elric Zweck (Heinrich-Heine University, Dusseldorf)

Topic: Identification of Three Phenotypes of Cardiogenic Shock

Zach George (University of South Carolina)

Topic: ST-segment Elevation MI-Door-to-Unload (STEMI-DTU) Trial Updates

Lija Swain (Tufts Medical Center)

Topic: Abstract finalist, Left Ventricular Unloading Protects Against Both Ischemia and Reperfusion Injury

Pankaj Jain (Tufts Medical Center), Abstract finalist

Topic: Acute Hemodynamic Effects of Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation on Left Ventricular Mechano-energetics: The Ramp and Clamp Study

Jakob Josiassen (Copenhagen University Hospital), Abstract finalist

Topic: Impella RP® vs. Pharmacological Vasoactive Treatment in Profound Cardiogenic Shock due to Acute Ischemic Occlusion of the Right Coronary Artery: Ventricular Unloading and End-organ Perfusion in a Large Animal Model

Taro Kariya (University of Tokyo), Abstract finalist

Topic: Right Ventricular Energetic Efficiency Improvement during LV Unloading in Post-Myocardial Infarction Pig

Kay Everett (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center), Abstract finalist

Topic: Acute Hemodynamic Effects of Pre-emptive Impella Unloading Before Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in a Preclinical Model of Acute MI

Renata Mazurek (Icahn School of Medicine Mt. Sinai), Abstract finalist

Topic: Negative Impacts of Acute Reloading Following Use of Mechanical Left Ventricular Unloading