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Symposium Agenda

Day 1: Thursday, May 8

8:00 Keynote – Road to Develop the New SVS/STS Aortic Dissection Classification - Joseph Lombardi, MD, MBA, FACS

MORNING SESSION I | AORTA

Time Topic Speaker
8:00 Keynote:   Evolution of Vascular Surgery Training Michael Lilly
8:30 Branch Patency in Open Thoracoabdominal Aortic Reconstruction James Black
8:40 Sac Perfusion Technique for Spinal Cord Rescue Carlos Bechara
8:50 IOPS vs FORS Behzad Farivar
9:00 Building A Heart and Vascular team Andrew Barleben
9:10 Intraoperative contrast ultrasound in the treatment of endoleaks Kendal Endicott
9:20 Does Bridging Stent Matter? Westley Ohman
9:30 Clinical Experience with NEXUS Graft Luis Sanchez
9:40 Fellow case  
10:00 Break  

MORNING SESSION II | ARTERIAL DISEASE

Time Topic Speaker
10:30 CREST 2 Trial and its Implications Brajesh Lal
10:40 TBA Ann Kim
10:50 Hybrid/endovascular Aorto-Bifem bypass Ali Khalifeh
11:00 ERAS for Lower Extremity Bypass Danielle Pineda
11:10 TBA TBA
11:20 Percutaneous arterial bypass (DETOUR system) TBA
11:30 Sarah: APP presentation Sarah
11:40 Fellow case  
12:00 Lunch  

AFTERNOON SESSION | VENOUS & DIALYSIS

Time Topic Speaker
1:00 TBA TBA
1:10 Device innovation, Patent and marketing Robert Conway
1:20 Robotic Vascular surgery Judith Lin
1:30 SVS Compensation Study of Vascular Surgeons Joseph Haurani
1:40 Iliac vein compression TBA
1:50 EAGLE syndrome TBA
2:00 Sarah: APP presentation Sarah
2:10 Fellow case  

 

Day 2: Friday, May 9

7:30 - 8:00 am Registration and Breakfast

MORNING SESSION I | VACS

Time Topic Speaker
8:00 Keynote: History of Vascular Surgery at UM Marshal Benjamin
8:30 AAA Babak Abaie
8:40 Acute Type A dissection and visceral malperfusion Aakash Shah
8:50 Acute limb ischemia Mohammad Eslami
9:00 Emergency Endovascular Rescue of Type 1A Animesh Rathore
9:10 Pulmonary Embolism KJ
9:20 Endovascular Treatment of Acute DVT Javaneh Jabari
9:30 Sarah Sarah
9:40 Fellow case  
10:00 BREAK  

MORNING SESSION II | VACS

Time Topic Speaker
10:30 Endovascular Aortic Root Repair Mehrdad Ghoreishi
10:40 ISVL Justin Nelms
10:50 Bail outs from complex endovascular aortic repair Andi Peshkepija
11:00 Acute Type B Dissection with malperfusion William Yoon
11:10 Infected intra-cavitary vascular grafts Raghuveer Vallabhaneni
11:20 Vascular Trauma Rishi Kundi
11:30 Lessons I Learned During First Year of Academic Practice Vashisht Madabhushi 
11:40 Fellows case  
12:00 LUNCH