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American Academy of Pediatrics
Section on Cardiology & Cardiovascular Surgery
Boston, Massachusetts
October 10-12, 2008

Scientific Program Outline

Day 1 - Friday, October 10, 2008

8:30 am Abstract Presentations
9:45 am Break
10:00 am Symposium # 1:  Heart failure
  Session I:   Diagnosis and Classification
 
Faculty:  Daphne Hsu, MD, FAAP
Session II:  Medical Management
 
Faculty:  Robert Shaddy, MD, FAAP
  Session III:  Electrophysiology Management: Bi-Ventricular Pacing and AICD
 

Faculty:  Anne Dubin, MD

  Session IV:  Mechanical Circulatory Support
 
Faculty:  Brian Duncan, MD
  Session V: Transplantation
 
Faculty: Charles Canter, MD, FAAP
12:45 pm Lunch - Society for Pediatric Cardiology Training Program Directors
1:45 pm Young Investigator Abstract Presentations
3:00 pm Break
3:15 pm Young Investigator Abstract Presentations
5:15 pm Adjourn


Day 2 – Saturday, October 11, 2008

8:15 am Young Investigator Abstract Presentations
10:00 am Break
10:15 am Abstract Presentations
12:15 pm Lunch
Pediatric Cardiology Fellows Workshop
1:15 pm Abstract Presentations
2:00 pm Symposium #2:  Valve Surgery
  Session I:  Aortic Valve Repair
 
Faculty:  John Hawkins, MD 
 
Session II: Aortic Valve Replacement
 
Faculty:  John Brown, MD, FAAP
 
Session III: Aortic Insufficiency and Ventricular Septal Defect
 
Faculty:  Hal Walters, MD
 
Session IV:  Pulmonary Insufficiency After Tetralogy Of Fallot  
 
Faculty:  Tal Geva, MD
 
Session V:  Pulmonary Valve  Replacement
 
Faculty:  John Mayer, Jr., MD
5:15 pm Adjourn
7:00 pm Section on Cardiology & Cardiac Surgery Banquet
  Marriott's Custom House - Tickets Required
  3 McKinley Square
  (near Boston Harbor, Faneuil Hall Marketplace and Long Wharf)


Day 3 – Sunday, October 12, 2008

8:15 am Presentation of the 2008 Young Investigator Awards and Education Travel Grant Awards
8:20 am   Presentation of the 2008-2009 Research Fellowship Award
Sponsored by the Helen and Will Webster Foundation
8:25 am 

Presentation of the Results of the 2007-2008 Research Fellowship Award - Recipient:  Michael Alice Moga, MD

 
Sponsored by the Helen and Will Webster Foundation      
8:55 am Founders Award Presentation-Recipient: Thomas Graham, MD, FAAP
9:00 am  

Founders Address: Management Principles in Pediatric Cardiology: The Changing Face of Conventional Wisdom  

 

Presenter: Welton Gersony, MD

9:35 am  Break
9:45 am  Symposium #3  Fetal Cardiology
  Session I:  The Role of the Fetal Cardiologist in Noncardiac Fetal Conditions
 
Faculty: Erik Michelfelder, MD, FAAP
  Session II:  Fetal Cardiovascular Physiology:  Characterization by Echocardiography
 
Faculty:  Jean-Claude Fouron, MD
  Session III:  First and Second Trimester Fetal Echocardiography in High Risk Mothers
 
Faculty: Jack Rychik, MD
  Session IV:  Current Status of Fetal Cardiac Intervention 
 
Faculty: Doff McElhinney, MD, FAAP
  Session V:  Organizing a Comprehensive Fetal Cardiology Program
 
Faculty:  James Huhta, MD
1:00 pm  Adjourn




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