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Cardiovascular -

Programme

 

 
 Thursday 26th January 2012
   
09:00 Opening Remark by Chairs
Dr. Omar K. Hallak,
Chief of Interventional Cardiology Department, American Hospital Dubai, Dubai, UAE
   
 Session 1: Cases of Special Coronary Interventions
Moderators:
Dr. Wael Al Mahmeed, Head, Division of Cardiology, Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Prof. Dr. Uwe Klima,
Professor of Surgery and Chief of Cardiothorasic Surgery, American Hospital Dubai, Dubai, UAE
   
09:10 High Risk Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Utilizing the Impella Percutaneous Left Ventricular Assist Device
Dr. Faisal Hasan,
Assistant Professor-Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, UAE
   
09:25 High Risk Left Main Stenting
Dr. Imad Sheiban,
Assoc Professor of Cardiology-Director of Interventional Cardiology, San Giovanni Battista University Hospital, Turin, Italy
   
09:40 Bifurcation Therapy and Stenting
Prof. Robert Julian Gil,
Head of Invasive Cardiology-Institute of the Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Police Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland
   
09:55 Saphenous Vein Grafts (SVG) Intervention
Dr. Vivek Gupta
, Senior Interventional Cardiologist, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, Founder Director of Indo-European Intervention Council, New Delhi, India
   
10:10 Multi-vessel Intervention
Dr. Praveen Chandra
, Chairman Division of Intervention Cardiology, Medanta Medicity Hospital, Gurgaon, India
   
10:25 Q & A
 
10:35 Coffee Break
 
 Session 2: Cases in Non-Coronary Intervention
Moderators:
Dr. Ravi Nair, Associate Director, Cardiac Cath Lab, Cleveland Clinic, Professor of  Medicine, Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland-Ohio, USA
Dr. Obaid Al Jassim, Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Dubai Health Authority, Dubai, UAE
Dr. Pradeep Gupta, Consultant Cardiologist, Assistant Professor and Associate Dean, RAK Medical & Health Sciences University, Ras Al Khaimah, UAE
 
11:00 Trans-catheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR)
Dr. Wael Awad
, Consultant Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeon, BMI The London Independent Hospital (NHS hospital), London, UK
   
11:15 Percutaneous Mitral Valvuloplasty (PMVP)
Prof. Mohamed Sobhy, MD, FACC, FESC,
Head of Cardiology- Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University and Chairman of International Cardiac Center (ICC), President of the Egyptian Society of Cardiology (EgSC), Alexandria, Egypt
   
11:30 Stem Cell Therapy of the Heart
Dr. Ravi Nair, MD,
Associate Director, Cardiac Cath Lab, Cleveland Clinic, Professor of Medicine, Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland-Ohio, USA
   
11:45 Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion
Dr. Husam Ouda,
Consultant Chairman of Medicine and Division Head of Cardiology-Internal Medicine, Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, UAE
 
12:00 Q & A  
     
12:10  Lunch Break  
 
 Session 3: Non-Angiographic Coronary and Vascualr Evaluation
Moderators:
Dr. Brajesh Mittal, Interventional Cardiologist and Head of Cardiology Department, Medcare Hospital, Dubai, UAE
Dr. Omar K. Hallak, Chief of Interventional Cardiology Department, American Hospital Dubai, Dubai, UAE
Dr. Amrish Agrawal,
Interventional Cardiologist, Fujairah Hospital, Fujairah, UAE
 
13:30 Cardiac MRI in Coronary Artery Disease
Dr. Fatemeh Esfahani,
Consultant Cardiologist, The Zena and Michael A Wiener Cardiovascular Institute and Marie-Josee and Henry R Kravis Center for Cardiovascular Health, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA
   
13:40 6 years and over 6000 patients of experience on image quality on Coronary CT (Past/facts and  tips/future)
Dr. F. Tahsin Guneysu,
Director of Cardiovascular Imaging Division, MEDMAR Medical Imaging Center, Istanbul, Turkey
   
13:50 The key role H-FABP plays in identifying high risk Acute CoronarySyndrome patients
Dr. Ghulam Yasin Naroo,
In-Charge SSR-Emergency Department, Rashid Hospital Trauma Center,  Dubai, UAE
   
 Session 4: Cath Lab Cases
 
14:05  Cath Lab Contraveries
Dr. Adnan Raufi, Consultant Interventional Cardiologist, Mafraq Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE
 
14:20 Unusual Cases in Cath Lab
Dr. Bassam Baba,
Interventional Cardiologist, Mousat Hospital, Damascus, Syria
 
14:35  New steps in interventional imaging techniques; higher accuracy, lower dose at no       compromise
Dr. Marco van Strijen, Nieuwegein Hospital, NL
 
14:50 How should I treat the resuscitated patient with cardiogenic shock and acute myocardial infarction?
Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Wahab, Consultant Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Head of Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Heart Center Bad Segeberg, Germany
   
15:05  Coffee Break
   
 Session 5: Endovascualr Intervention
Moderators:
Dr. Naji Yazbek, Consultant Interventional Cardiologist, City Hospital-DHCC, Dubai, UAE
Dr. Allam Al Kowatli, Consultant Interventional Cardiologist and Chief of Cardiology, Emirates Hospital Dubai, Dubai, UAE
 
16:00  Stent Fracture in Peripheral Vascular Interventions: Devices and Treatment Strategies
 Dr. Faisal Hasan,
Assistant Professor-Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale University School of  Medicine, New Haven, USA
 
16:15 Carotid Stenting Complications
Dr. Jamal Al Koteesh,
Consultant Interventional Radiologist, Al Ain Hospital, Al Ain, UAE
 
16:30 Endovascular treatment of Simple and Complex Aortic Aneurysms
Prof. Peter Harris,
Head of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, The London Clinic, London, UK
 
16:45 Below Knee Arterial Intervention is a Limb Saving Procedure in Diabetic Patients 
Dr. Manar Chikh Trab,
Clinical Assistant Professor FMHS, UAE University and  Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, UAE
 
17:00   Closing of Conference
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