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Agenda

Thursday, February 22, 2024
All times in Eastern Time

7:00 am
Registration & Breakfast
7:45 am
Welcome & Introductions
Hani Najm, MD
Bradley Marino, MD
8:00 am
Patient Experience

Session 1 - Congenital Heart Valve Challenges and Management: Setting the Stage

8:15 am
Congenital heart valve challenges in the 21st Century
8:30 am
Valve replacement options and outcomes in children
8:45 am
The chicken or egg? The relationship between valve dysfunction or ventricular dysfunction
9:00 am
Decision-making: challenges when managing congenital heart valve disease
9:15 am
Perioperative management of valve dysfunction
9:30 am
Management strategies for a life-long disease
9:45 am
Pediatric Heart Valve Consortium: identifying unmet needs and moving forward as a field
10:00 am
Panel Discussion
All session faculty
10:25 am
Break

Session 2 - Utilizing Advanced Imaging in Guiding Surgical Decision-making

10:45 am
Case Presentation
10:50 am
Personalized surgical planning for aortic valve-sparing operations
11:05 am
3D printing and advanced visualization for surgical planning
11:20 am
Advanced pre-op TTE in congenital valve surgery
11:35 am
Advanced peri-op TTE in congenital valve surgery
11:50 am
Patient-specific benchtop and computational modeling in guiding repair or replacement options
12:05 pm
Silicone models - The way of the future for simulation and supplemental surgical training
12:20 pm
Panel Discussion
All session faculty
12:45 pm
Lunch with keynote presentation

Session 3 - Critical Aortic Stenosis: Challenges and Innovative Solutions from the Fetus to the Adult

1:40 pm
Case Presentation
1:45 pm
Fetal diagnosis and intervention
2:00 pm
Postnatal cath interventions
2:15 pm
Surgical intervention for Critical AS
2:30 pm
Ross procedure: a solution or start of problems?
2:45 pm
Role of SAVR and TAVR in congenital AS
3:00 pm
Konno Rastan aortoventriculoplasty
3:15 pm
Long-term outcomes after aortic valve surgery
3:30 pm
Panel Discussion
All session faculty
3:55 pm
Break

Session 4: Common Atrioventricular Valve: Challenges and Innovative Solutions

4:15 pm
Case Presentation
4:20 pm
Anatomy of the common AV valve
4:35 pm
Decision tree for unbalanced AVSD
4:50 pm
What big data in common AVV surgical outcome tells us?
5:05 pm
Repair CAVV in single ventricle
5:25 pm
The common valve septation in heterotaxy; The ventricular switch
5:40 pm
Panel Discussion
All session faculty
5:55 pm
Jeopardy Session
6:35 pm
Adjourn

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Friday, February 23, 2024
All times in Eastern Time

7:15 am
Breakfast & Registration
7:55 am
Welcome & Introductions

Session 5: Aortic and Neo-Aortic Valve Disease: Challenges and Innovative Solutions for the Older Child and Adult

8:00 am
Case Presentation
8:05 am
Anatomy of the aortic and neo-aortic valve; Truncal valve anatomy
8:20 am
Timing of intervention
8:35 am
Bicuspid AV and Trileaflet repair – when and how to repair
9:00 am
Should all VSDs with aortic valve leaflet be closed?
9:15 am
Repair and Reconstruction of truncal valve
9:30 am
Current outcomes of neocuspidization
9:45 am
Panel Discussion
All session faculty
10:10 am
Break

Session 6: Mitral Valve: Challenges and Innovative Solutions for the Older Child and Adult

10:30 am
Case Presentation
10:35 am
Anatomy of the mitral valve
10:50 am
Mitral valve intervention, pulmonary hypertension, and survival in Shone's Syndrome
11:05 am
Presentation, diagnosis and timing of intervention for mitral valve disease
11:20 am
Repair of MV in neonates, infants, and children
11:35 am
Panel discussion
All session faculty
12:00 pm
Lunch

Session 7: Tricuspid Valve: Challenges and Innovative Solutions for Children and Young Adults

1:00 pm
Case Presentation
1:05 pm
Ebstein TV, presentation and diagnosis
1:20 pm
ICU management of neonatal Ebstein
1:35 pm
Neonatal Ebstein surgical strategy
1:50 pm
Repair of Ebstein TV and non Ebstein TV in children and young adults
2:15 pm
Panel discussion
All session faculty
2:40 pm
Break

Breakout Sessions - 3:00 – 5:00 pm


1 – Echocardiography Workshop

Chairs- Francine Erenberg, MD, and Rukmini Komarlu, MD


2 – Hands-on Surgical Training

Chairs – Hani Najm, MD, and Justin Tretter, MD


3 – Advanced Cardiac Imaging Workshop

Chairs – Nicholas Szugye, MD, and Justin Tretter, MD

5:00 pm
Adjourn
7:00 pm

Depart for Evening Social at EPCOT®
Please note – admission to the reception does not include access to theme park attractions. A separate park ticket is required to access rides and attractions.

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Saturday, February 24, 2024
All times in Eastern Time

7:15 am
Breakfast & Registration
7:55 am
Welcome & Introductions

Session 8: Management of Valvular Heart Disease and the Conduction System

8:00 am
Anatomy of the conduction system
8:15 am
Clinical imaging in predicting the conduction axis
8:30 am
Intraoperative mapping
8:45 am
Lessons learned: How I avoid pacemakers
9:00 am
Long-term outcomes of the conduction system after valvular surgery
9:15 am
Leadless Pacemakers
9:30 am
Panel Discussion
9:55 am
Break

Session 9: Debate and Discussion

10:15 am
Ross vs. Ozaki vs. mechanical
10:50 am
Panel discussion
11:00 am
Early repair vs. watchful waiting in valve disease
11:35 am
Panel discussion
11:50 am
Closing Remarks
12:00 pm
Adjourn

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