Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Scientific Session, Advanced Technique Courses
Moderated Abstracts, Courses: TEE, Valve Repair, TAVI
7:00 am Registration and Breakfast
8:00 am Florida Valve – Journal of Heart Valve Disease Scientific Session
Moderators: Lawrence Cohn, MD, Robert Bonow, MD,
Walter Gomes, MD
(Accepted abstract presentations; 7-minute presentation, 3-minute discussion) Papers published in the Journal of Heart Valve Disease.
Noon Welcome and Introductions
Florida Valve – 2012 Training Course / Technical College
Vinay Badhwar, MD and Randolph Martin, MD
12:05 pm Transesophageal Echocardiography and Anatomic Imaging
Combined Cardiology, Surgery, Anesthesia
TEE Technique, Simulation and Instruction with Simultaneous Wet Lab Anatomic Correlation
Moderators:Randolph Martin, MD, Walter Gomes, MD, Robert Bonow, MD Demonstrators: Douglas Shook, MD, Vinay Badhwar, MD
1:00 pm Break with Exhibitors
1:30 pm Advanced Course I: MITRAL & TRICUSPID REPAIR
Wet Lab for Advanced Mitral Repair including Anterior Leaflet
Reconstruction and Tricuspid Repair Techniques
Moderators: Randolph Martin, MD and Blase Carabello, MD
Demonstrators: Robert Dion, MD, Yukikatsu Okada, MD, PhD, Vinay Badhwar, MD
1:30 pm Advanced Course II: TAVI
Simulator Training and Technical Demonstration of TAVI
Moderators: Fausto Pinto, MD, PhD, William Anderson, MD, Jeffrey Popma, MD
Demonstrators: Martyn Thomas, MD, Todd Dewey, MD, Pieter Kappetein, MD, PhD
5:00 pm Wednesday Adjournment
5:30 pm Florida Valve Reception

Thursday, March 22, 2012
7:00 am Registration and Breakfast
7:50 am Welcome and Introductions to Florida Valve 2012
Vinay Badhwar, MD and Randolph Martin, MD
  SESSION I – Transcatheter and Aortic Valve Transformation
Moderators: Randolph Martin, MD, Vinay Badhwar, MD (Podium) Robert Bonow, MD, Blase Carabello, MD (Audience)
8:00 am Current Global Experience with Sapien and Sapien XT – Setting the Stage for Things to Come
Martyn Thomas, MD
8:10 am CoreValve Revalving System: Global Experience, US Trial, Alternative Approaches for Delivery
Jeffrey Popma, MD
8:20 am Outcomes, Mentoring and the Learning Curve: Lessons Learned from the European TAVI Experience
Pieter Kappetein, MD, PhD
8:30 am Transapical Experience: Five-year Outcomes, Engaging New Options
Todd Dewey, MD
8:40 am Advances in Arterial Closure Devices including Transapical
Gerhard Schuler, MD, PhD
8:50 am A Look into the TAVI Pipeline for Things to Come: JenaValve, Portico, Direct Flow, and More…
Gregory Fontana, MD
9:00 am Risk Scoring Systems: Clinical Application and New Paradigms for Patient Selection in Future TAVI Programs
Michael Mack, MD
9:10 am Has the Time Come to Expand the Indications for TAVI Beyond the “Inoperable” Patients?
PRO: The Global Experience Says Yes – Martyn Thomas, MD
CON: Equipoise in the Embrace – Hartzell Schaff, MD
9:30 am DISCUSSION
William Anderson, MD, Walter Gomes, MD, Gregory Fontana, MD, Todd Dewey, MD, Martyn Thomas, MD, Hartzell Schaff, MD, Michael Mack, MD, Pieter Kappetein, MD, Gerhard Schuler, MD, PhD, Jeffrey Popma, MD
10:15 am Break
  SESSION II
Moderators: Randolph Martin, MD, Vinay Badhwar, MD (Podium) Robert Bonow, MD, Michael Mack, MD (Audience)
10:30 am Is Perivalvular AI after TAVI Really Any Different than after Surgical AVR or Are We Just Seeing What We Want to See?
Robert Bonow, MD
10:40 am Minimally Invasive AVR as a Standard … and Introducing Robotic AVR
Lawrence Cohn, MD
10:50 am Sutureless AVR – Are there Viable TAVI Alternatives?
Gregory Fontana, MD
11:10 am Long-term Outcomes of Stented Bioprostheses vs. Primary Aortic Valve Repair – Can We Attain a Gold Standard in Selected Patients?
Tirone David, MD
11:20 am Short and Intermediate Term Efficacy of Aortic Valve-in-Valve Replacement
Gerhard Schuler, MD, PhD
11:30 am Learning from the Major Complications of TAVI: Pitfall Prevention Leading to Multi-disciplinary Credential Recommendations
Joseph Bavaria, MD
11:40 am One Moment Please … Innovations That May Make Us Re-think Everything about TAVI – Mechanical AVR without Anticoagulation
John Puskas, MD
11:50 am DISCUSSION
Joseph Bavaria, MD, Blase Carabello, MD, Gerhard Schuler, MD, PhD, Martyn Thomas, MD, John Puskas, MD, Tirone David, MD, Lawrence Cohn, MD, Yukikatsu Okada, MD, PhD, Walter Gomes, MD, Gregory Fontana, MD, Randolph Chitwood, MD, Pieter Kappetein, MD, PhD
   
  FLORIDA VALVE KEYNOTE LECTURE
12:30 pm Rational Distribution of Innovative Technologies — Quality, Safety, Cost, Teamwork

Michael Mack, MD
   
  SESSION III – Mitral and Tricuspid Transformation: Intervention or Surgery
Moderators: Robert Bonow, MD, Walter Gomes, MD (Podium) Randolph Martin, MD, Vinay Badhwar, MD (Audience)
1:30 pm Imaging is the Key to Success: 2D/3D/MR/CT – Views from a Master Clinician on How to Best Utilize Technology
Blase Carabello, MD
1:40 pm Ischemic Functional MR: Remodel, Rebuild, Re-support or Resist
Robert Dion, MD
1:50 pm Mitral Clips Beyond the Peak of EVEREST: Is it Winning the Race to a Refined Indication for Inoperable Heart Failure or Will Others “Tie” Them?
Scott Lim, MD
2:00 pm New Transcatheter Options for “Valve-in-Ring” Mitral Therapy and What It Could Mean for Mitral Surgery
Gerhard Schuler, MD, PhD
2:10 pm Robotic MV Repair – Expanding Experience and Outcomes Across All Disease Types
Randolph Chitwood, MD
2:20 pm Should We Expand Our Indications to Repair Rheumatic Valves? Techniques, Patient Selection, Outcomes
Robert Dion, MD
2:30 pm All Functional TR Must Be Repaired at the Time of Mitral Surgery
PRO: Robert Dion, MD — CON: Hartzell Schaff, MD
2:50 pm Transcatheter Experience in Correcting TR
Martyn Thomas, MD
3:00 pm DISCUSSION
Blase Carabello, MD, Robert Dion, MD, Hartzell Schaff, MD, Randolph Chitwood, MD, Tirone David, MD, Lawrence Cohn, MD, Scott Lim, MD, Yukikatsu Okada, MD, PhD
3:30 pm Break with Exhibitors
  SESSION IV – Coronary Transformation of Multivessel and Left Main

Disease: PCI Frontier or Surgeon‘s Domain
Moderators: Michael Mack, MD, Jeffrey Popma, MD (Podium) Lawrence Cohn, MD, Conrad Smith, MD (Audience)
4:00 pm When Discussing the Merits of Triple Vessel PCI with Patients, Do We Rely on our FAME or just our COURAGE?
Fausto Pinto, MD
4:10 pm Surgeons EXCEL at Treating Left Main Disease and Chronic Total Occlusions

PRO: Michael Mack, MD — CON: Martyn Thomas, MD
4:30 pm Will Syntax and Excel be the Undoing or Salvation of CABG?
Pieter Kappetein, MD, PhD
4:40 pm DISCUSSION
Martyn Thomas, MD, William Anderson, MD, Fausto Pinto, MD, Walter Gomes, MD, Scott Lim, MD, Alexander G.G. Turpie, MD, Pieter Kappetein, MD, PhD
5:00 pm Thursday Adjournment
7:00 pm Florida Valve Banquet

Friday, March 23, 2012
  THE PIPELINE OF NEW DEVICE TECHNOLOGY
7:30 am Breakfast
  A Special Examination of Key Emerging Technologies for 2013 and Beyond from the Device Industry (Non-CME)
  SESSION V – Anti-Thrombotic Transformation
Moderators: Fausto Pinto, MD, Joon Sup Lee, MD (Podium) Randolph Martin, MD, Jeffrey Popma, MD (Audience)
8:30 am Can We RELY on ARISTOTLE as We Reshape Our Antithrombotic Philosophy?
Alexander G.G. Turpie, MD
8:45 am Are PLATO and TRITON Still Considered Mythological Figures
or Have They Changed Practice?
Scott Lim, MD
9:00 am Dabigitran and a New Reality in Mechanical Aortic Valve Management: Fact or Fantasy?
Hartzell Schaff, MD
9:15 am DISCUSSION
Fausto Pinto, MD, Walter Gomes, MD, Lawrence Cohn, MD, Michael Mack, MD, Alexander G.G. Turpie, MD, Hartzell Schaff, MD, John Puskas, MD
10:00 am Break with Exhibitors
  SESSION VI – Atrial Fibrillation Transformation
Moderators: Sandeep Jain, MD, Vinay Badhwar, MD (Podium) Randolph Martin, MD (Audience)
10:15 am Facing Current Global Electrophysiological Realities in the Management of Atrial Fibrillation: Case Selection, Outcomes, and Handling the Left Atrial Appendage
David Schwartzman, MD
10:30 am Longitudinal Outcome of Cut and Sew MAZE: Why Do We Need to Change?
Hartzell Schaff, MD
10:45 am Standardization of Concomitant Atrial Fibrillation Surgical Therapy Using Ablative Technology Modifications: Techniques, Outcomes
Vinay Badhwar, MD
11:00 am Stand Alone Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation Will Always Fall in the Domain of the Electrophysiologist
PRO – Sandeep Jain, MD — CON – Thorsten Hanke, MD
11:30 am Setting the Bar for Monitoring of AF Therapy and Leveling the Playing Field for Outcome Reporting – Management of “AF Burden”
Thorsten Hanke, MD
11:45 am DISCUSSION
David Schwartzman, MD, Thorsten Hanke, MD, Robert Dion, MD, Alexander G.G. Turpie, MD, Hartzell Schaff, MD
12:30 pm Conference Adjournment

Schedule and speakers subject to change