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Cardiac Society Symposium

November 17, 2023
A COMMITMENT TO LIFELONG FELLOWSHIP

The Cardiac Society was founded to provide an avenue for the exchange of ideas relating to the clinical and research activities among the present and former cardiology fellows, trainees, and teaching staff of The Texas Heart Institute.

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Faculty

Jonathan Aliota, MD

Kelsey-Seybold Clinic
The Texas Heart Institute
Houston, Texas

Abdelkader Almanfi, MD

Houston Cardiovascular Care
HCA Houston Healthcare
Memorial Hermann Health System
St. Luke's Health - Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center
Houston, Texas

Robert Bagwell, MD

Kelsey-Seybold Clinic
Houston, Texas

Salman Bandeali, MD

Texas Heart & Vascular Specialists
St. Luke’s Health – Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Houston Methodist Hospital
Houston, Texas

Biykem Bozkurt, MD, PhD

Baylor College of Medicine
Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center
Houston, Texas

David Burkland, MD

Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia
St. Luke’s Health – Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Houston Methodist Hospital
HCA Houston Healthcare
Houston, Texas

Mihail Chelu, MD, PhD

The Texas Heart Institute
Baylor College of Medicine
St. Luke’s Health – Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Houston, Texas

Andrew Civitello, MD

Baylor College of Medicine
The Texas Heart Institute
St. Luke’s Health – Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Houston, Texas

Ilyas Colombowala, MD

Houston Heart Rhythm PLLC
Houston Methodist Hospital
Houston, Texas

John Cooke, MD, PhD

Houston Methodist Research Institute
Houston, Texas

Reynolds Delgado III, MD

Delgado Cardiology
The Texas Heart Institute
St. Luke’s Health – Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Houston, Texas

Jorge Escobar, MD

The Texas Heart Institute Center for Cardiovascular Care
The Texas Heart Institute
St. Luke’s Health – Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Houston Methodist Hospital
Houston, Texas

O.H. Frazier, MD

The Texas Heart Institute
Baylor College of Medicine
St. Luke’s Health – Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Houston, Texas

Brian Greet, MD

Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia
HCA Houston Healthcare
St. Luke’s Health – Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Houston, Texas

Srikanth Koneru, MD

Baylor College of Medicine
The Texas Heart Institute
St. Luke’s Health – Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Houston, Texas

Zvonimir Krajcer, MD

The Texas Heart Institute Center for Cardiovascular Care
The Texas Heart Institute
St. Luke’s Health – Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Houston, Texas

Mehran Massumi, MD

Kelsey-Seybold Clinic
The Texas Heart Institute
St. Luke’s Health – Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Houston, Texas

Joanna Molina-Razavi, MD Course Director

The Texas Heart Institute
Baylor College of Medicine
St. Luke’s Health – Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Houston Methodist Hospital
Houston, Texas

Ajith Nair, MD

Baylor College of Medicine
The Texas Heart Institute
St. Luke’s Health – Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Houston, Texas

Dhaval Parekh, MD

Baylor College of Medicine
Texas Children's Hospital
St. Luke’s Health – Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Houston, Texas

Emerson Perin, MD, PhD

The Texas Heart Institute Center for Cardiovascular Care
The Texas Heart Institute
St. Luke’s Health – Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Houston, Texas

Alexander Postalian, MD

The Texas Heart Institute Center for Cardiovascular Care
The Texas Heart Institute
St. Luke’s Health – Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Houston Methodist Hospital
Houston, Texas

Abdi Rasekh, MD

The Texas Heart Institute
Baylor College of Medicine
St. Luke’s Health – Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Hall-Garcia Cardiology at Baylor College of Medicine
HCA Houston Healthcare Medical Center
Houston, Texas

Mehdi Razavi, MD

The Texas Heart Institute
Baylor College of Medicine
Rice University
St. Luke’s Health – Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Hall-Garcia Cardiology at Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas

Joseph G. Rogers, MD

The Texas Heart Institute
The Texas Heart Institute Center for Cardiovascular Care
St. Luke’s Health – Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Houston, Texas

Francia Rojas-Delgado, MD

Baylor College of Medicine
Ben Taub Hospital
Memorial Hermann Health System
St. Luke’s Health – Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Houston, Texas

Mohammad Saeed, MD

The Texas Heart Institute
Baylor College of Medicine
St. Luke’s Health – Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Hall-Garcia Cardiology at Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas

John Seger, MD

The Texas Heart Institute
St. Luke’s Health – Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Houston Electrophysiology Associates
Houston, Texas

Alexis Shafii, MD

Baylor College of Medicine
The Texas Heart Institute
St. Luke’s Health – Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center
Houston, Texas

Samar Sheth, MD

Texas Heart & Vascular Specialists
The Texas Heart Institute
St. Luke’s Health – Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Houston Methodist Hospital
Houston, Texas

Guilherme Silva, MD

Baylor College of Medicine
The Texas Heart Institute
St. Luke’s Health – Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Houston, Texas

Neil Strickman, MD

Hall-Garcia Cardiology at Baylor College of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
The Texas Heart Institute
St. Luke’s Health – Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Houston, Texas

Agenda

Agenda subject to change

Friday – November 17, 2023

 

7:00 am    Pharmaceutical Company Exhibits/Video Presentations

8:00           Welcome/Opening Remarks

Joanna Molina-Razavi, MD | President, Texas Heart Institute Cardiac Society
Joseph G. Rogers, MD | President and CEO, The Texas Heart Institute

8:15             Conduction System vs. Biventricular Pacing. What’s best for resynchronization? 

Mihail Chelu, MD, PhD | Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

8:30            The Emergence of Pulse Field and HPSD Ablation

Mohammad Saeed, MD | Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

8:45             Left Atrial Appendage Closure Options

Abdi Rasekh, MD | Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

9:00            Early Intervention in Atrial Fibrillation

John Seger, MD | Houston Electrophysiology Associates, Houston, Texas

9:15             Updates in Ventricular Tachycardia

David Burkland, MD | Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia, Houston, Texas

9:30            Mapping the Heart: Using Imaging to Guide EP Procedures

Brian Greet, MD | Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia, Houston, Texas

9:45            EP Panelists

Drs. Mehdi Razavi, Francia Rojas-Delgado, and Ilyas Colombowala

10:00         Mid-Morning Break

10:15           Current Guideline-Direct Medical Therapy in Heart Failure

Biykem Bozkurt, MD, PhD | Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

10:30           LVAD Update: A Post HVAD World

Andrew Civitello, MD | Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

10:45           Novel Device-based Treatment of Heart Failure

Reynolds Delgado III, MD | Delgado Cardiology, Houston, Texas

11:00           Pulmonary Hypertension and Right Heart Disease

Ajith Nair, MD | Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

11:15            Stem Cell Update: What’s Next after DREAM HF?

Emerson Perin, MD, PhD | The Texas Heart Institute Center for Cardiovascular Care, Houston, Texas

11:30           The Future of Large Bore Vascular Closure

Zvonimir Krajcer, MD | The Texas Heart Institute Center for Cardiovascular Care, Houston, Texas

11:45          Heart Failure Panelists

Drs. O.H. (Bud) Frazier and Alexis Shafii

12:00         LUNCH AND KEYNOTE SPEAKER (The Texas Heart Institute Cardiology Grand Rounds)

John Cooke, MD, PhD | Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, Texas

Vascular Aging, Regeneration, and Cell Identity

1:15             Peripheral Arterial Disease

Mehran Massumi, MD | Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, Houston, Texas

1:30            Critical Limb Ischemia: Hybrid Revascularization

Jonathan Aliota, MD | Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, Houston, Texas

1:45             Beyond the Angiogram: Using IVUS and OCT to Guide Revascularization

Robert Bagwell, MD | Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, Houston, Texas

2:00            Impella Assisted PCI: Applications in ACS and Beyond

Samar Sheth, MD | Texas Heart & Vascular Specialists, Houston, Texas

2:15             IVL “Coronary Lithotripsy” for PCI

Neil Strickman, MD | Hall-Garcia Cardiology at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

2:30           Interventional Panelists

Drs. Zvonimir Krajcer and Alexander Postalian

2:45           Mid-Afternoon Break

3:00            Beyond Clot Dissolution: Innovations in Device Management of Pulmonary Embolism

Jorge Escobar, MD | The Texas Heart Institute Center for Cardiovascular Care, Houston, Texas

3:15             A Pill to Treat Aortic Stenosis: Is it Possible?

Alexander Postalian, MD | The Texas Heart Institute Center for Cardiovascular Care, Houston, Texas

3:30            Alternative Access for TAVR

Abdelkader Almanfi, MD | Houston Cardiovascular Care, Houston, Texas

3:45            Cerebral Embolic Protection Devices in TAVR

Salman Bandeali, MD | Texas Heart & Vascular Specialists, Houston, Texas

4:00           Transcatheter Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Interventions: Current and Future Outlook

Guilherme Silva, MD | Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

4:15            Structural Panelists

Drs. Srikanth Koneru,  Dhaval Parekh, and Samar Sheth

4:30 pm    Announcements and Adjournment

 

Registration

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Location

The Denton A. Cooley Auditorium
The Texas Heart Institute®
6770 Bertner Avenue
Houston, Texas 77030

Entrance to the Denton A. Cooley Building is only through the Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center Bates Street lobby (6720 Bertner Ave.). The Denton A. Cooley Auditorium is located on the lower level (B1) of the Cooley Building, which is accessible by the Green Elevators.

Society Contact Information

Texas Heart Institute Cardiac Society
PO Box 2451
Spring, TX 77383-2451
Email: jybrlm@sbcglobal.net

Live CME Events

Learn more about current and annual symposia offerings by The Texas Heart Institute Office of Continuing Medical Education.

Fellowships and Residencies

The Texas Heart Institute has a rich history of stalwart clinician-educators, such as Dr. Leachman and The Texas Heart Institute president emeritus Dr. James T. Willerson, and many others, who take tremendous pride in training our fellows.

Grand Rounds | 2023-2024

The Texas Heart Institute Cardiology Grand Rounds provides a weekly opportunity to learn from leading medical and surgical experts, sharing the latest advancements and innovation in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cardiovascular disease. The Institute offers CME credits for participation in Grand Rounds.  Now Live Webcasting! texasheart.org/grandrounds