Agenda

Friday, March 31, 2023
7:15 am	Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 am	Welcome & Introduction Tara Karamlou, MD, MSc Joanna Ghobrial, MD, MS Hani Najm, MD Lars Svensson, MD, PhD
	Session I: ACHD General Moderators: Tara Karamlou, MD, MSc, Joanna Ghobrial, MD, MS, and Lars Svensson, MD, PhD
8:15 am	ACHA accreditation & using ACHA as a platform for patient connections Mark Roeder
8:35 am	ACHD guidelines Karen Stout, MD
8:55 am	Patient experience video and panel David Highfill, LCSW, Moderator Amy Basken, MS, Moderator Robin Davis, Patient Terese Quarino, Patient Jane McMaster Thornton, Patient
9:25 am	Panel discussion and Q&A
9:45 am	Refreshment break & exhibits
	Session II: The Pulmonary Valve (TOF and Other Lesions) Moderators: Jeremy Moore, MD and Margaret Fuchs, MD
10:05 am	Ventricular arrhythmia risk prediction in repaired tetralogy of Fallot using personalized computational cardiac models Natalia Trayanova, PhD
10:20 am	Surgical: Tetralogy of Fallot: RV remodeling and timing of PVR Tara Karamlou, MD, MSc
10:35 am	EP: Arrhythmia in TOF Akash Patel, MD
10:50 am	Interventional: Transcatheter and hybrid approaches to address the PV   Joanna Ghobrial, MD, MS
11:05 am	Keynote presentation – Past, present & future Vaughn Starnes, MD
11:35 am	Fireside chat Vaughn Starnes, MD and Lars Svensson, MD, PhD
11:55 am	Lunch
	Session III: Single Ventricle Specifically Moderators: Amber Khanna, MD, and Karen Stout, MD
1:05 pm	Clinical: fontan outpatient evaluation and medical therapy Sean Bhattacharya, MD
1:20 pm	Surgical: Surgery after Fontan Procedure Edward John Hickey, MD
1:35 pm	Imaging: Echo, CT, MR and 3D printing for Fontan imaging Justin Tretter, MD
1:50 pm	EP: arrhythmias in the Fontan patient Jeremy Moore, MD
2:05 pm	Fontan-associated liver disease (FALD): Evaluation for the failing Fontan liver, when to transplant the liver, when to do en-block heart and liver transplantation Koji Hashimoto, MD, PhD
2:20 pm	Timing of advanced heart failure therapy? Do we wait too long? Edward Soltesz, MD, MPH
2:35 pm	Nurse/NP perspective: Fontan patient follow up/long term care Nicole Rush, NP
2:50 pm	Panel discussion and Q&A All Session Faculty
3:15 pm	Refreshment Break & Exhibits
	Session IV: RV and LV Failure: Medical and Surgical Solutions Moderators: Hani Najm, MD, MSc and Joanna Ghobrial, MD, MS
3:35 pm	Pulmonary Hypertension: Clinical: medical therapy for systemic RV’s – is there any data? Miriam Jacob, MD
3:50 pm	Evaluation of the systemic RV and systemic AV valve Rukmini Komarlu, MD
4:05 pm	EP: to ICD or not to ICD Mohamed Kanj, MD
4:20 pm	Surgical: VAD in systemic RVs: surgical pearls Edward Soltesz, MD, MPH
4:35 pm	CCTGA physiologic repair vs. anatomic repair – is adulthood too late for anatomic repair? Tara Karamlou, MD, MSc
4:50 pm	Surgical strategies for the challenging small or re-do aortic root Hani Najm, MD, MSc
5:05 pm	Panel discussion and Q&A All Session Faculty
5:30 pm	Adjourn

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Saturday, April 1, 2023
7:15 am	Registration & Continental Breakfast
7:55 am	Welcome & Introduction
	Session V: Problems in ACHD: Innovations in Clinical Care and Research Moderators: Tara Karamlou, MD, MSc and Joanna Ghobrial, MD, MS
8:00 am	Genetic testing Joseph Liu, MS, CGC
8:20 am	Bicuspid aortic valves and aortopathy: new approaches Case Presentation – Beka Bakhtadze, MD Imaging – Justin Tretter, MD Intervention – Joanna Ghobrial, MD, MS Surgical - (Reimplantation in bicuspid valves) – Tara Karamlou, MD, MSc
8:50 am	Ebstein's and challenging atrioventricular valves Case Presentation – Nandini Mehra, MD Imaging – Margaret Fuchs, MD Surgical – Vaughn Starnes, MD Interventional approaches - TTVR – Joanna Ghobrial, MD, MS
9:20 am	Ozaki and Ross: when and for whom … and does it last? Case Presentation – William Frankel, MD Ross – Ismail El-Hamamsy, MD, PhD Ozaki – Shinya Unai, MD
9:50 am	AAOCA in Adults: comprehensive approach to evaluation and treatment Case Presentation – Thomas Das, MD Imaging – Joanna Ghobrial, MD, MS Surgical – Hani Najm, MD, MSc CCF Outcomes: Joanna Ghobrial, MD, MS, and Tara Karamlou, MD, MSc
10:10 am	Panel discussion and Q&A All Session Faculty
10:30 am	Refreshment Break & Exhibits
	Session VI: Special Topics in the Arc of Care for ACHD
10:50 am	ACHD groundbreaking research trials and studies Amber Khanna, MD Animesh (Aashoo) Tandon, MD
11:10 am	Congenital heart disease and socioeconomic disparities Keila Lopez, MD, MPH
11:25 am	Congenital heart disease and women's health Justin Lappen, MD
11:40 am	Congenital heart disease and sports Michael Emery, MD
11:55 am	Closing Remarks
12:00 pm	Adjourn

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