The 2013 inaugural keynote address was delivered by Eduardo Marban, MD, PhD of Cedars Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA
2013 U-CARS Highlights
Friday, January 18, 2013
7:00 AM-6:00 PM Registration
7:00-8:00 AM Breakfast
8:00-8:15 AM Welcome and Opening Remarks
8:15-10:15 AM Session 1: Advances in cardiac remodeling: therapeutic implications
Moderators: Li DY – Kfoury AG
- Forward cardiac remodeling and progression of heart failure: do we fully understand it? (Spinale F)
- Molecular mechanisms of pathological cardiac remodeling (Hill J)
- Cardiac contractility as a therapeutic target (Movsesian M)
- Metabolic remodeling in heart failure (Schulze C)
10:15-10:30 AM Break
10:30-12:00 PM Session 2: What is myocardial recovery? 10:30-12:00 AM
Moderators: Sanguinetti MC – Gruber PJ
- Mechanisms of reverse remodeling (Kass DA)
- Reverse remodeling and functional cardiac recovery: are they synonyms? (Mann D)
- How to predict and diagnose recovery in the clinic (Givertz M)
12:00-1:00 PM Lunch - Poster Viewing
1:00-1:05 PM Vivian S. Lee, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A.
Senior Vice President, University Health Sciences
Dean, School of Medicine
CEO, University of Utah Health Systems
Friday, January 18, 2013
1:00-3:00 PM Session 3: Cardiac recovery lessons 1:00-3:00 PM
Moderators: Spitzer K – Hammond EH
- Recovery lessons from pharmacological interventions: where do we go from here? (Gilbert EM)
- Myocarditis-induced myocardial changes: lessons for the recovery field (Miller DV)
- CRT effects on myocardial function and microstructure: how can this story help the recovery field? (Sachse F)
- Atrial fibrillation and recovery of the failing heart (Marrouche N)
3:00-3:15 PM Break
3:15-4:00 PM Keynote address
Introduction: Patel AN
Eduardo Marban, MD, PhD
Mark S. Siegal Family Professor
Director, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute
Los Angeles, CA USA
“The coming era of regenerative medicine in heart failure: is it really coming?”
4:00-6:00 PM Session 4: Mechanical Unloading and myocardial recovery (I)
Moderators: Bull DA – Reid BB
- Mechanical unloading and the failing human heart: atrophy or recovery? (Drakos S)
- Partial versus complete unloading: what is optimal and when? (Rogers J)
- Predictors of sustained recovery (Potapov E)