Heart transplantations and mechanical circulatory support in IKEM
Jan Pirk
Head of the Department of Cardiac Surgery, IKEM, Prague, Czech Republic
Plenary Session
From Rescue to Interception: The Future of Advanced Heart Failure Care
Mandeep R. Mehra (prerecorded)
MBBS, MSc, FRCP (London)
The William Harvey Distinguished Chair in Advanced Cardiovascular Medicine
Executive Director, Center for Advanced Heart Disease, Brigham Health
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Remodeling Surgery for Non-Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy as an Alternative to Heart Transplantation
Sergey Dzemeshkevich
MD, Professor, Petrovsky Russian Research Center of Surgery, Moscow, Russia
VA ECMO: Tip and tick management and long-term outcome
Pascal Leprincе
Professor of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery, Head of the Department of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery, Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital, Sorbonne University, Paris, France
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant- A Regional Perspective
Feras Bader
MD, MS, MBA (Oxford)
Professor of Medicine and Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University; Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation; Chairman, Middle East Heart Academy, Abu-Dhabi, UAE
Cardiovascular Medicine at the Threshold of a New Era: Achievements, Challenges and the Future
Yuriy Belenkov
Director of the Scientific and Educational Clinical Center, Director of the A.A. Ostroumov Clinic of Hospital Therapy, Head of the Department of Hospital Therapy No. 1, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Professor, MD, Moscow, Russia
China’s Role in the Development of Cardiology.
Guo Suxia Head of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Chief Physician, Associate Professor, The Tenth Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University (Dongguan People’s Hospital), Dongguan, China
Advanced heart failure treatment: Turkish experience
Murat Sargin
President of the Turkish Society of Cardiovascular Surgery. Consultant cardiac and vascular surgeon at Dr. Siyami Ersek Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Training and Research Hospital
(supported by Abbott)
Moderators:
Putative CT Scan Negative Type A Aortic Dissection
Salim Aziz, MD
Professor Clin. Cardiovascular Surgery George Washington University
Minimally invasive beating-heart tricuspid valve surgery using a novel cannula
Diyar Saeed
Chief Physician, Clinic for Cardiac and Cardiovascular Surgery
Director, Heart Center Niederrhein
Helios Hospital Krefeld, Germany
From Bench to Bedside to Nowhere: Bridging the Gap Between Evidence-Based Medicine and Clinical Practice
Hadi Skouri MD.,FESC,FACC,FHFA,FHFSA
Professor of clinical cardiology at Balamand University ,Beirut Lebanon
Director of Heart Failure and cardio oncology services at Sheikh Shakhbout Meducal City, Abu Dhabi -UAE
President of uAE ICOS chapter
Executive board member HFA 2026-28
Trans atrial LVAD implantation - first experience and challenges
Kestutis Rucinskas
Professor of Cardiac Surgery, Cardiac Surgeon, Head of the Centre of Cardiovascular Medicine, Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos, Vilnius, Lithuania
Advances in durable LVAD outcomes & impact of new guidelines
Finn Gustafsson (prerecorded)
Professor of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
Net Life Prolongation strategy for AHF patients
Nir Uriel (prerecorded)
Professor of Medicine, Director of the Heart Failure, Heart Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support Program, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, USA
LVAD versus BiVAD: Clinical Selection and Application for treatment of advanced heart failure
Zhou Cheng
Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Development Trends of Artificial Hearts: A Brief Analysis from R&D and Clinical Application of "Rocket Heart"
Liu Xiaocheng
MD, Chief Physician, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor; Party Secretary and President of TEDA International Cardiovascular Hospital (TICH), Tianjin, China