U-CARS 2017

Topic

 Speaker

1. What is myocardial recovery: basic, translational and clinical perspective?

Douglas Sawyer, MD, PhD,
Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME

2. NHLBI Working Group: “Advancing the science of myocardial recovery
with Mechanical Unloading”.

Frank Pagani, MD, PhD,
U of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI        

3. How to leverage registries and big data to advance the field of cardiac recovery.

James K. Kirklin, MD,
U of Alabama, Birmingham, AL

4. “AHA HF Strategically Focused Research Network”: opportunities and challenges.

Craig Selzman, MD,
U of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Topic

Speaker

1. Targeting Ca-Cycling in Heart Failure: Promises and Challenges.

Evangelia G. Kranias, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

2. Epigenetic Control of mTOR in Cardiovascular Disease.

Joseph Hill, MD, PhD, UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX

3. Intercalated disc proteins, CAR and Z01, in cardiac function and conduction

Kirk Knowlton, MD, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT

4. Overcoming challenges to the practical application of precision
cardiovascular medicine.

Martin Tristani-Firouzi, MD, U of Utah/Primary Children’s/CVRTI, Salt Lake City, UT

Topic

Speaker

1. Right Ventricular Recovery and Other Novel Targets in Pulmonary Hypertension Clinical Trials.

John Ryan, MD, U of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

2. Role of aldosterone in pulmonary hypertension.

Bradley A. Maron, MD, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

3. RV failure and mechanical circulatory support.

Jonathan Rich, MD, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

Topic

Speaker

1. Skeletal muscle oxygen uptake and utilization in
heart failure.

Tim Musch, PhD, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

2. Peripheral vascular function in heart failure and
recovery

Walter Wray, PhD, U of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

3. Peripheral vascular pulsatility and function in
heart failure and mechanical circulatory assist

Russell S. Richardson, PhD, U of Utah & VA Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT

Topic

 Speaker

1. Impella 2.5 and CP Use at a Rural Community Hospital; Experience and Outcomes with 97 Implants 2011-2016

Charles Wilkins, MD, San Juan Regional Hospital, Farmington, NM

2. Profiling plasma caspase activity in heart failure and during LVAD support as biomarkers of cardiac health and recovery.

Frank Jefferson, MD, Duke University, Durham, NC

3. Peripheral vascular pulsatility in heart failure patients with continuous flow centrifuge and axial left ventricular assist devices: the effect of pump speed.

Jay Hydren, MS, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

4. Cerebral autoregulation and brain-tissue oxygenation are preserved in patients with continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices.

William K. Cornwell III, MD, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO

5.Scientific considerations: accuracy, physiology, details (the devil lives here).

Alan Morris, MD, U of Utah/Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT

Topic

 Speaker

1. Mechanical unloading and cardiac recovery 20 years later: opportunities and challenges.

A.G. Kfoury, M.D., Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT

2. Optimal type and degree of mechanical unloading: bioengineering perspective.

Stephen M. Koenig, MD, U of Louisville, Louisville, KY

3. Advanced imaging technologies enlightening our perspectives.

Linda R. Peterson, MD, Washington University, St. Louis, MO

4. Connecting clinical factors and biology to patient health status in recovery. 

Josef Stehlik, MD, MPH, U of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

5. RESTAGE-HF: A North American multicenter trial reviving the field

Emma Birks, MD, U of Louisville, Louisville, KY

Topic

Speaker

1. UCAR: clinical and translational perspective.

Stavros Drakos, MD, PhD, U of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

2. Investigating recovery: from the tissue harvest, to the echo lab, to the patient.

Omar Wever-Pinzon, MD, U of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

3. Understanding cellular and microstructural remodeling through UCAR 

Frank Sachse, PhD, U of Utah/CVRTI, Salt Lake City, UT

4. Utilizing UCAR to probe the human proteome.

Sarah Franklin, PhD, U of Utah /CVRTI, Salt Lake City, UT

Speaker

Stanley Swat, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

Ana Sofia Cruz Solbes, MD, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX

Martin Pokorný, MD, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic

6. The Effect of Reverse Remodeling on Intraventricular Flow in the LVAD-Supported Heart Studied in a Mock Circulatory Loop. 

Irving H. Zucker, PhD, Editor In Chief, The American Journal of Physiology- Heart and Circulatory Physiology, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE

8. Combination Bioelectric Stimulator, Micro Infusion Pump and Multi Protein Composition for Heart Regeneration.

Leslie Miller, MD, 
Leonhardt Ventures,
Salt Lake City, UT

Topic

Speaker

1. Acute in Chronic Heart Failure/INTERMACS 2-3: How to select patients and mechanical support therapeutic strategies?

Valluvan Jeevanandam, MD, U of Chicago, Chicago, IL 

2. Profound Cardiogenic shock/ INTERMACS 1: From percutaneous VAD and ECMO to the exit
strategy.

Pascal Leprince, MD, Pitié Salpêtrière University, Paris

3. Acute coronary syndromes and shock: focus on salvaging myocardium.

E. Magnus Ohman, MD, Duke University, Durham, NC

4. Debate: Cardiogenic shock therapies: Surgical Versus Percutaneous approach

Christian Bermudez, U Penn, Philadelphia, PA 

Claudius Mahr, DO, FACC, FESC, University of Washington, Seattle, WA