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2013 WAF Symposium Agenda

6th Western Atrial Fibrillation Symposium

Friday, March 1, 2013

7:30am Registration & Breakfast
8:15 Introduction & Welcome – Nassir F. Marrouche, MD

Atrial Fibrillation – Session 1:

Chair: Melvin Scheinman, MD; Brent Wilson, MD, PhD

8:20am Latest in AF: Update from 2012 – Eric Prystowsky, MD
8:40am Mapping of AF: Results from CONFIRMED – Sanjiv Narayan, MD, PhD
9:00am Real-time MRI for AF – Ravi Ranjan, MD, PhD
9:20am Who Are the CFAE Ablation Candidates? - Larry Chinitz, MD
9:40am The Multiple Guidelines for AF: Confusion or Consensus? - Hugh Calkins, MD
10:00am BREAK

Atrial Fibrillation – Session 2:

Chair: Sanjiv Narayan, MD, PhD; Jack Morshedzadeh, MD

10:20am AF and Dementia: Incidence and Prevention? - John Day, MD
10:40am Atrial Tissue Structural Remodeling and Stroke: A New Risk Factor - Nazem Akoum, MD
11:00am MRI Interventional Suites for AF Ablation - Philipp Sommer, MD
11:20am Esophageal Temperature Monitoring During AF Ablation: Tools and Limitations - Moussa Mansour, MD
11:40am The Atrial MRI Imaging Method: It is All About the Acquisition Sequence - Eugene Kholmovski, PhD
12:00pm LUNCH

Atrial Fibrillation – Session 3:

Chair: Gregory Michaud, MD; Roger Freedman, MD

1:00pm
 Ablation Lesions Detected Using MR: From Cardiac to Renal - Christian Mahnkopf, MD
1:20pm AAD Post Ablation of AF: When and How Long? - Bradley P. Knight, MD
1:40pm

Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation: Scientific Foundations and Knowledge Gaps - Eric Buch, MD
2:00pm BREAK

Atrial Fibrillation – Session 4:

Chair: Elliot McVeigh, PhD; Dennis Parker, PhD

2:20pm Image Analysis in AF: Not Just a Utah Story - Rob MacLeod, PhD
2:40pm The AF Ventricle in Magnetic Resonance Imaging - Chris McGann, MD
3:00pm Persistent Afib Ablation as Guided by the Surface Mapping - Pierre Jais, MD
3:20pm Development of Transgenic Goat Models for Studying Cardiac Arrhythmias - Irina A. Polejaeva, PhD
3:40pm BREAK

Atrial Fibrillation – Session 5:

Chair: Brent D Wilson, MD, PhD; Hugh Calkins, MD

4:00pm
 The Role of Gap Junctional Coupling and Remodeling in the Onset and Maintenance of Atrial Fibrillation - Heather Duffy, PhD
4:20pm Real-Time MRI Guided Intervention at 1.5T - Henry Halperin, MD
4:40pm How Much AF is Clinically Significant? Lessons from Monitoring - John P. DiMarco, MD, PhD
5:00pm ADJOURN

Saturday, March 2nd, 2013

7:30am Registration & Continental Breakfast

Atrial Fibrillation – Session 6:

Chair: Johannes Brachmann, MD; Pierre Jais, MD

8:00am Cost Effectiveness of New Anticoagulation Drugs - Elaine Hylek, MD
8:20am Role of New Anticoagulants: Safe in AF Ablation Patients - Oussama Wazni, MD
8:40am Contact Force Sensing: Practical Implications for AF Ablation - David Wilber, MD
9:00am Thorascopic Hybrid Treatment of Persistent AF - Claudio Muneretto, MD
9:20am Fibrosis: Detection, Impact, and Suppression - Nassir F. Marrouche, MD
9:40am BREAK

Atrial Fibrillation – Session 7:

Chair: Nathan Segerson, MD; Gaston Vergara, MD

10:20am One Shot Approach for AF Ablation: Candidates and Outcome - Jens Guenther, MD
10:40am Influence of Time to Recurrence after AF Ablation on Subsequent Outcome - Francis E. Marchlinski, MD
11:00am MR Guided RF Ablation of Arrhythmias – How Close Are We to a Clinical Reality? - Reza Razavi, MD
11:20am Renal Ablation in the EP Lab: Procedure and Outcome - Vivek Reddy, MD
11:40am Stem Cells in an Afib Model - Amit Patel, MD
12:00pm LUNCH

Atrial Fibrillation – Session 8:

Chair: Nathan Segerson, MD; Chris Davies, PhD

1:00pm How to Easily Get Your Afib Patients to Do What You Want Them to Do - Mellanie True Hills
1:20pm Who is the Candidate for Surgical AF Ablation? - Ralph J. Damiano Jr., MD
1:40pm Towards a Virtual Electrophysiology Lab - Natalia Trayanova, PhD
2:00pm BREAK

Atrial Fibrillation – Session 9:

Chair: Gaston Vergara, MD; Nazem Akoum, MD

2:20pm Who are the Candidates for a Re-Do AF Ablation? A roundtable discussion - Gaston Vergara, MD; Nathan Segerson, MD; Alexies Ramirez, MD; Jens Guenther, MD;  Hugh Calkins, MD
3:00pm Can We Achieve Durable PV Isolation? - Gregory Michaud, MD
3:20pm Appendage Closure Devices: Indication and Technologies - Fred Han, MD
3:40pm BREAK

Atrial Fibrillation – Session 10:

Chair: Nassir F. Marrouche, MD; Alexies Ramirez, MD

4:00pm Balloons For Every AF Patient - Edward Gerstenfeld, MD
4:20pm Challenges of Randomized AF Ablation Trials - Douglas Packer, MD
4:40pm What Have We Learned from Genetic Studies of AF? - Patrick Ellinor, MD, PhD
5:00pm Atrial Fibrillation, Mechanical Unloading and Cardiac Recovery of the Failing Heart - Stavros Drakos, MD
5:20pm
 ADJOURN