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  • Saturday, January 29, 2022
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM ET
    Plenary: Welcome and Vivien T. Thomas Lecture from Henri R. Ford, MD

    Plenary

  • 10:00 AM – 10:05 AM ET
    Welcome & Vivien T. Thomas Introduction

    Sean Grondin, MD MPH FACS FRCSC – University of Calgary

    David Tom Cooke, MD – University of California, Davis Medical Center

    Plenary

  • 10:05 AM – 10:45 AM ET
    Vivien T. Thomas Lecture

    Henri R. Ford, MD, MHA

    Plenary

  • 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM ET
    Break/Visit Exhibits
  • 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM ET
    Controversies in Coronary Revascularization

    Jennifer S. Lawton, MD – Johns Hopkins University

    Faisal G. Bakaeen, MD – The Cleveland Clinic Foundation

    Adult Cardiac

  • 11:15 AM – 11:27 AM ET
    On- Versus Off-Pump Bypass Surgery for Left Main Disease: 5-Year Results from the EXCEL Trial

    Craig Jarrett, MD, MBA – University Hospitals, Case Western Reserve University

    Adult Cardiac

  • 11:27 AM – 11:39 AM ET
    National Multi-arterial Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Practice Patterns in the USA- A Report from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database

    Siavash Saadat, MD – Baystate Medical Center

    Adult Cardiac

  • 11:39 AM – 11:51 AM ET
    Total Arterial revascularisation gives the best long term survival over 20 years.

    Aziz Momin, MBBS FRCS CT – St Georges Hospital

    Adult Cardiac

  • 11:51 AM – 12:03 PM ET
    A Randomized Trial of Effect on Ticagrelor after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Patients with Clopidogrel Resistance

    Hyo-Hyun Kim, MD – Severance Cardiovascular Hospital

    Adult Cardiac

  • 12:03 PM – 12:15 PM ET
    Differential Performance of Machine Learning Algorithms to Classify Outcomes Following Isolated Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

    Keith A. Dufendach, Resident – University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

    Adult Cardiac

  • 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM ET
    It's Not in the Books..So How Do They Do It?

    James Tweddell, MD – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

    Frank Scholl, MD – Joe Dimaggio Children's Hospital

    Congenital

  • 11:15 AM – 11:27 AM ET
    Cone Repair for Ebstein's Anomaly: Risk Factors for Intraoperative Failure.

    Nestor Sandoval, MD – Fundacion Cardioinfantil

    Congenital

  • 11:27 AM – 11:39 AM ET
    Truncal Valve Repair

    Yves d'Udekem, MD, PhD – Children's National Medical Centre

    Congenital

  • 11:39 AM – 11:51 AM ET
    The Right Atrial Appendage valve (RAA valve) for the Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Reconstruction, The First 3 Years of Experience.

    Ahmad Ali Amirghofran, MD – Shiraz University of Medical Sciences

    Congenital

  • 11:51 AM – 12:03 PM ET
    Prophylactic Commissural Resuspension During Unroofing Procedure for Anomalous Coronary Artery with Intramural Course- How to do it

    Pranava Sinha, MD – Children's National Medical Center

    Congenital

  • 12:03 PM – 12:15 PM ET
    PTFE Valved Conduit

    Bing Jia, MD, PhD – Children's Hospital of Fudan University

    Congenital

  • 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM ET
    Lung Cancer

    Loretta Erhunmwunsee, MD – City of Hope Medical Center

    Michael Lanuti, MD – Massachusetts General Hospital

    General Thoracic

  • 11:15 AM – 11:27 AM ET
    Risk Factors for Readmission After Pulmonary Lobectomy for Lung Cancer: A Quality Collaborative Study

    Nathan M. Mollberg – Bronson Methodist Hospital

    General Thoracic

  • 11:27 AM – 11:39 AM ET
    A National Survey of Surgeons Evaluating the Accuracy of Mediastinal Lymph Node Identification

    Jeffrey Yang, MD – Massachusetts General Hospital, Wentworth Douglass Hospital

    General Thoracic

  • 11:39 AM – 11:51 AM ET
    Cost Variation and Value of Care in Pulmonary Lobectomy Across the United States

    Joseph Hadaya, MD – University of California, Los Angeles

    General Thoracic

  • 11:51 AM – 12:03 PM ET
    Association of Lymph Node Sampling and Clinical Center Volume in Pulmonary Lobectomy for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

    Brooks Udelsman, MD/MHS – Yale University School of Medicine

    General Thoracic

  • 12:03 PM – 12:15 PM ET
    Germline Genetic Variants In Patients With Multiple Primary Malignancies Involving Lung Cancer

    Jie Zhang, MD – Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai, China;Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    General Thoracic

  • 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM ET
    Same Toys, New Indications

    Daniel Goldstein, MD – Montefiore Medical Center

    Arman Kilic, MD – Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • 11:15 AM – 11:25 AM ET
    Are the Next Generation of Total Artificial Hearts Going to Make a Mark in DT?

    Vig Kasirajan, MBBS – Pauley Heart Center, Dept of Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University and Health System

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • 11:25 AM – 11:35 AM ET
    Discussion

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • 11:35 AM – 11:45 AM ET
    LVADs of Tomorrow: What are the Unmet Needs?

    Mark Slaughter, MD – University of Louisville School of Medicine

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • 11:45 AM – 11:55 AM ET
    Discussion

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • 11:55 AM – 12:05 PM ET
    The Value of Axillary Access for Bridging Patients to Heart Transplant with Intra Aortic Balloon Pump & Impella Support

    Nicolas A. Brozzi, MD – Cleveland Clinic Florida

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • 12:05 PM – 12:15 PM ET
    Discussion

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • 12:15 PM – 12:30 PM ET
    Break/Visit Exhibits
  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM ET
    Esophagus

    Siva Raja, MD, PhD – Cleveland Clinic Foundation

    Daniela Molena, MD – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

    General Thoracic

  • 12:30 PM – 12:42 PM ET
    Neoadjuvant camrelizumab plus chemotherapy for resectable, locally advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (NIC-ESCC2019): a multicenter, phase 2 study

    Jingpei Li, MD, PhD – The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University

    General Thoracic

  • 12:42 PM – 12:54 PM ET
    Neoadjuvant Immunotherapy and Chemoradiation Followed By Esophagectomy for Esophageal Cancer: A National Analysis of Short- and Intermediate-Term Outcomes

    Nikhil Panda, MD, MPH – Massachusetts General Hospital

    General Thoracic

  • 12:54 PM – 1:06 PM ET
    Morbidity and Mortality Following Esophagectomy is Higher for Benign than Malignant Disease

    Stephanie G. Worrell, MD – University of Arizona

    General Thoracic

  • 1:06 PM – 1:18 PM ET
    Robotic esophagectomy trends and early surgical outcomes: The US experience

    Puja G. Khaitan, MD – Georgetown University School of Medicine

    General Thoracic

  • 1:18 PM – 1:30 PM ET
    A Cathepsin Targeted, Quenched Activity Based Probe Allows Real-Time Intraoperative Detection of Esophageal Adenocarcinoma

    Gregory T. Kennedy, MD – University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

    General Thoracic

  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM ET
    Focus on Congenital Surgical Challenges

    Vikram Sood, MD – University of Michigan Mott Children's Hospital

    Carlos M. Mery, MD, MPH – University of Texas Dell Medical School / Dell Children's Hospital

    Congenital

  • 12:30 PM – 12:42 PM ET
    Does procedure volume impact outcomes of the Ross Procedure in children? A Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database Analysis

    Georgina Rowe, MD – Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

    Congenital

  • 12:42 PM – 12:54 PM ET
    A Randomized Clinical Trial of Perfusion Modalities on Cerebral Hemodynamics, Pediatric Logistic Organ Dysfunction Score, and Clinical Outcomes in Congenital Heart Surgery Patients

    Akif Undar, PhD – Penn State College of Medicine

    Congenital

  • 12:54 PM – 1:06 PM ET
    Outcomes after Stage 1 Palliation including Systemic to Pulmonary Shunt and Pulmonary Artery Banding in Patients undergoing Single Ventricle Reconstruction

    Carina Schwarzbart – German Heart Center Munich

    Congenital

  • 1:06 PM – 1:18 PM ET
    Impact of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection on outcome during staged single ventricle palliation

    Paul Philipp Heinisch, MD PhD – Department of congenital and pediatric heart surgery, German Heart Center Munich

    Congenital

  • 1:18 PM – 1:30 PM ET
    Transposition of Great Arteries with Intact Ventricular Septum and Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction (TGA-IVS-LVOTO): Patterns of Practice and Outcomes.

    Husain Esmaeil, MD – McGill University

    Congenital

  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM ET
    From the Ascending to the Descending Aorta

    Maral Ouzounian, MD, PhD – Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto

    Joseph Bavaria, MD – Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

    Adult Cardiac

  • 12:30 PM – 12:42 PM ET
    Impact of a Direct-to-Operating Room Aortic Emergency Transfer Program for Type A Aortic Dissection

    Christopher Mehta, MD – Northwestern Medicine

    Adult Cardiac

  • 12:42 PM – 12:54 PM ET
    How Do Patients with Ascending Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Die?

    Mohammad A. Zafar, MD – Yale

    Adult Cardiac

  • 12:54 PM – 1:06 PM ET
    The New Type A Arch Remodelling Stent for DeBakey I Acute Aortic Dissection: Results and Performance in 100 Implantations

    Matteo Montagner, MD – German Heart Center Berlin

    Adult Cardiac

  • 1:06 PM – 1:18 PM ET
    Progression of Distal Aortic Dilation After Hemiarch and Zone 1, 2, 3 Arch Replacement in Acute Type A Aortic Dissection

    Bo Yang, MD, PhD – University of Michigan Health System

    Adult Cardiac

  • 1:18 PM – 1:30 PM ET
    The Penn Classification System For Malperfusion In Acute Type A Dissection: A 25 Year Experience

    William L. Patrick, MD – University of Pennsylvania

    Adult Cardiac

  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM ET
    Vivien T. Thomas Symposium

    Jennifer C. Romano, MD, MS – University of Michigan Congenital Heart Center

    Leah M. Backhus, MD, MPH – Stanford University

  • 12:30 PM – 12:37 PM ET
    Race is a Risk Factors for the Deferral of Resection and Radiation for Early Stage Lung Cancer

    Olugbenga Okusanya, MD – Thomas Jefferson University

  • 12:37 PM – 12:44 PM ET
    Women in Thoracic Surgery 2020 Update—Subspecialty and Work-Life Balance Analysis

    Katherine Giuliano, MD – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

  • 12:44 PM – 12:51 PM ET
    Randomized Trials in Cardiac Surgery and Representation of Non-White Population

    Gianmarco Cancelli, MD – Weill Cornell Medicine

  • 12:51 PM – 1:11 PM ET
    Health Disparities: How we Move from Identifying to Eliminating

    Hannah Valantine, MD – Stanford University

  • 1:11 PM – 1:30 PM ET
    Panel Discussion
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM ET
    100,000 implants with INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve; Current Concepts and Future Possibilities

    Lars G. Svensson, MD, PhD – Cleveland Clinic

    Bart Meuris, MD, PhD – UZ Gasthuisberg Leuven, University Hospital

    Douglas R. Johnston, MD – Cleveland Clinic

    Joseph Lamelas, MD – University of Miami Health System


    Sponsored By 
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM ET
    Assessing the risk of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)- A paradigm shift in renal care

    V. Seenu Reddy, MD MBA FACS – TriStar Cardiovascular Surgery


    Sponsored By 
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM ET
    Break/Industry Symposia/Visit Exhibits
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM ET
    Bringing Precision Oncology to Early-Stage Lung Cancer, With Adjuvant EGFR-Targeted Therapy Leading the Way

    Boris Sepesi, MD – MD Anderson Cancer Center

    Tina Cascone, MD, PhD – MD Anderson Cancer Center


    Sponsored By 
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM ET
    Evolution of ECMO – New Strategies and Techniques

    A. P. Kappetein, MD, PhD – Medtronic

    Amy E. Hackmann, MD – University of Texas Southwestern

    William Jakobleff, MD – Montefiore Medical Center

    Gaston Cudemus, MD – Naples Heart Institute

    Robert Bartlett, MD – University of Michigan


    Sponsored By 
  • 2:30 PM – 3:15 PM ET
    Plenary: Thomas B. Ferguson Lecture from Amy C. Edmondson, PhD

    Michael Maddaus, MD – University of Minnesota

    Amy C. Edmondson, PhD – Harvard Business School

    Plenary

  • 2:30 PM – 3:15 PM ET
    Plenary: Thomas B. Ferguson Lecture from Amy C. Edmondson, PhD

    Amy C. Edmondson, PhD – Harvard Business School

    Plenary

  • 3:15 PM – 3:30 PM ET
    Break/Visit Exhibits
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM ET
    Career Progression – Personal Insights Along the Journey

    Jennifer S. Nelson, MD, MS – Nemours Childrens Hospital

    S. Adil Husain, MD – University of Utah School of Medicine

    Congenital

    Career Development

  • 3:30 PM – 3:38 PM ET
    Finishing Training - How to find a job?

    Reilly D. Hobbs, MD, MBS – Primary Children's Hospital/University of Utah/Intermountain Health

    Congenital

    Career Development

  • 3:38 PM – 3:46 PM ET
    I finally made it - how do I start making it?

    Elizabeth Stephens, MD, PhD – Mayo Clinic

    Congenital

    Career Development

  • 3:46 PM – 3:54 PM ET
    Opportunities vs. Equity - Should I stay or should I go?

    Stephanie Fuller, MD – The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

    Congenital

    Career Development

  • 3:54 PM – 4:02 PM ET
    Becoming a Chief..What a Whole New World It Is.

    Christopher A. Caldarone, MD – Texas Children's Hospital

    Congenital

    Career Development

  • 4:02 PM – 4:10 PM ET
    Transition to life after CHS - Now what?

    Ross M. Ungerleider, MD MBA – Institute for Integrated Life Skills

    Congenital

    Career Development

  • 4:10 PM – 4:30 PM ET
    Discussion

    Congenital

    Career Development

  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM ET
    Heart Transplant

    Francis D. Pagani, MD, PhD – University of Michigan

    Amy Fiedler, MD – University of Wisconsin Department of Surgery

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • 3:30 PM – 3:42 PM ET
    Waitlist Trends in Heart-Liver Transplantation: An Analysis of the UNOS Database

    Amit Iyengar, MD, MS – University of Pennsylvania

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • 3:42 PM – 3:54 PM ET
    The Combined Use of Veno-Arterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (VA-ECMO) and Impella (ECPELLA) for 104 Patients in Cardiogenic Shock due to Fulminant Myocarditis

    Koichi Toda, MD PhD – Osaka University

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • 3:54 PM – 4:06 PM ET
    Impact of Previous Cardiac Surgery on Long-Term Survival After Heart Transplantation

    Akbarshakh Akhmerov, MD – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • 4:06 PM – 4:18 PM ET
    Outcomes of Using Extended Criteria Donors for Heart-Lung Transplantation in the Modern Era

    Noah Weingarten, MD – University of Pennsylvania

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • 4:18 PM – 4:30 PM ET
    Extended ischemic time in cardiac transplantation has equivalent short and long-term outcomes: Time to move the threshold

    Brandon Alan Guenthart, MD – Stanford University

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM ET
    Novel Technology in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

    David Tom Cooke, MD – University of California, Davis Medical Center

    Kiran Lagisetty, MD – University of Michigan

    General Thoracic

  • 3:30 PM – 3:42 PM ET
    Artificial-Intelligence Derived Algorithms for Intraoperative Molecular Imaging Can Predict Malignancy During Resection of Indeterminate Pulmonary Nodules

    Feredun S. Azari, MD – Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

    General Thoracic

  • 3:42 PM – 3:54 PM ET
    Can Artificial Intelligence-Powered Endobronchial Elastography Predict Nodal Metastasis in Lung Cancer? A Pilot Study

    Nikkita Mistry, MSc (c) – McMaster University

    General Thoracic

  • 3:54 PM – 4:06 PM ET
    Essential Surgical Plan Modifications for Lung Segmentectomy After Preoperative Virtual Reality Planning Based on Artificial Intelligence

    Wouter Bakhuis, MD MSc – Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam

    General Thoracic

  • 4:06 PM – 4:18 PM ET
    Glycoprotein Receptor CEACAM5-Targeted Intraoperative Molecular Imaging Tracer Can Accurately Target Non-Small Cell Lung Cancers In-Vitro

    Feredun S. Azari, MD – Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

    General Thoracic

  • 4:18 PM – 4:30 PM ET
    Improving Lung Cancer Diagnosis with CT Radiomics and Serum Histoplasmosis Testing

    Hannah Marmor, MD – Vanderbilt University Medical Center

    General Thoracic

  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM ET
    The World of Wires: Transcatheter Technologies

    Vinod H. Thourani, MD – Piedmont Heart Institute and Piedmont Healthcare

    S. Chris Malaisrie, MD – Northwestern Medicine/Northwestern University

    Adult Cardiac

  • 3:30 PM – 3:42 PM ET
    1-year Outcomes after Transcatheter Mitral Valve Implantation:Results from the global CHOICE-MI registry

    Walid Ben Ali, MD PhD – Montreal Heart Institute

    Adult Cardiac

  • 3:42 PM – 3:54 PM ET
    Cardiac Reoperations in Patients with Transcatheter Aortic Bioprosthesis

    Shinichi Fukuhara, MD – University of Michigan

    Adult Cardiac

  • 3:54 PM – 4:06 PM ET
    Mitral surgery after TEER/TMVR

    Stephanie Mick, MD – New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell

    Adult Cardiac

  • 4:06 PM – 4:18 PM ET
    Rationale and Technique – Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Replacement

    Susheel K. Kodali, MD FACC – Columbia University Medical Center

    Adult Cardiac

  • 4:18 PM – 4:30 PM ET
    Transcatheter Mitral Valve-in-Valve vs. Reoperative Mitral Valve Replacement

    Alexander A. Brescia, MD, MSc – University of Michigan

    Adult Cardiac

  • 4:30 PM – 4:45 PM ET
    Break/Visit Exhibits
  • 4:45 PM – 5:50 PM ET
    Plenary: Featured Abstract Presentation and C. Walton Lillehei Lecture from Cameron D. Wright, MD

    Plenary

  • 4:45 PM – 4:46 PM ET
    Introduction

    Felix G. Fernandez, MD, MSc – Emory University

    Plenary

  • 4:46 PM – 4:54 PM ET
    Comparing Consumer-Directed Hospital Rankings with Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Adult Cardiac Surgery Database Outcomes

    Oliver K. Jawitz, MD, MHS – Duke University Medical Center

    Plenary

  • 4:54 PM – 4:57 PM ET
    Discussant

    Michael J. Mack, MD – BSWH

    Plenary

  • 4:57 PM – 5:05 PM ET
    Q&A

    Plenary

  • 5:05 PM – 5:50 PM ET
    C. Walton Lillehei Lecture

    Cameron Wright, MD – Massachusetts General Hospital

    Plenary