2015 Meeting

Program

Thursday, April 23
18:00	Registration
18:30	Dinner
18:50 – 19:00	Introduction – Chi-Ming Chow, MD
Echo in Cardiac Interventions Co-Chairs: Arsène Basmadjian, MD and Eric Horlick, MD
19:00 – 19:15	Aortic Valve – Tavi: Echo IS Still Important! E. Horlick, MD
19:15 – 19:30	Mitral Valve – Mitral Clips, Percutaneous Mitral Valve – What Measures Predict A Successful Result J. Edwards, MD and N. Fam, MD View Slides Play Video
19:30 – 19:50	Closing Holes: ASD/VSD/Periprosthetic Leak Amplatzer Device I. Sebag, MD View Slides View Summary Play Video
19:50 – 20:10	Plugging Things Up: Left Atrial Appendage Closure (Watchman & ACP Devices) A. Basmadjian, MD View Summary Play Video
20:10 – 20:30	Discussion

Friday, April 24
07:00 – 08:15	Registration & Breakfast
08:15 – 08:30	Introduction and Welcome Chi-Ming Chow, MD
Role of Echo as Related to the New 2014 AHA/ACC Valvular Heart Disease Guidelines Chair: Sabe De, MD
08:30 – 08:50	Aortic Valve: What Parameters? How Severe? I. Burwash, MD View Summary Play Video
08:50 – 09:10	Mitral Valve: How Much is Severe? It Depends! A. Johri View Slides View Summary Play Video
09:10 – 09:30	Tricuspid: Have We Moved Forward in Evaluating What’s Going Backwards? K. Chan, MD View Summary Play Video
09:30 – 10:00	Discussion
10:00 – 10:30	Nutrition Break
Adult Congenital Heart Disease: From A to Z Chair: Howard Leong-Poi, MD
10:30 – 11:00	Fear Not! A Segmental Approach E. Oechslin, MD View Summary Play Video
11:00 – 11:20	Common Congenital Conditions: Bystander or Clinically Important – ASD, VSD, PDA L. Mertens, MD View Summary Play Video
11:20 – 11:40	Complex CHD Made Simple: e.g. Repaired Tetra Fallot and Repaired dTGA C. Silversides, MD Play Video
11:40 – 12:00	Discussion
12:00 – 13:30	Lunch
Cardio-Oncology: What You Need to Know About This Emerging Field of Echocardiography Chair: Davinder Jassal, MD Play Video
13:30 – 13:50	Cardio-Oncology: The Intersection and Union of Specialties E. Amir, PhD, ChB, MB View Summary Play Video
13:50 – 14:20	3D and Strain: Basics of the Techniques D. Thavendiranathan, MD View Slides View Summary Play Video
14:20 – 14:40	A Synthesis of the Visible and Invisible: Integrating 3D, Strain, and Biomarkers into Clinically Meaningful Guidelines I. Sebag, MD View Slides View Summary Play Video
14:40 – 15:00	Discussion
15:00 – 15:30	Nutrition Break
Stress echo: It’s time to get started Chair: Amer Johri, MD
15:30 – 15:55	Ischemic Heart Disease Z. Sasson, MD Play Video
15:55 – 16:20	Valvular Heart Disease S. Ahmed, MD View Slides Play Video
16:20 – 16:30	Discussion
16:30 – 17:30	Echo Fellow Research Session: What’s Coming From Across Our Nation Chair: Chi-Ming Chow MD, Ian Burwash MD, Kwan Chan MD Participants: Anna Calleja MD, University of Toronto Quantitative Modeling of the Mitral Valve by 3D Transesophageal Echocardiography in Patients Undergoing Mitral Valve Repair: Correlation with Intraoperative Surgical Technique View PDF Play Video Heather Finn MBBS, University of Toronto Determinants of Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing Performance in Severely Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy View PDF Play Video Kevin Levitt MD, University of Toronto An Educational Intervention to Enhance Appropriate Use of Stress Echocardiography at a Large Academic Medical Center View PDF Play Video Behnam Banihashemi MD, Ottawa Heart Institute Adherence to Appropriate Use Criteria for Transthoracic Echocardiography in a Contemporary Canadian Cohort View PDF Play Video

Saturday, April 25
07:00 – 08:15	Registration & Breakfast
08:20 – 08:30	Introduction Chi-Ming Chow, MD
2015 ASE/EACVI Chamber Quantification Guidelines Chair: Ian Burwash, MD
08:30 – 08:50	Left Ventricle W. Tsang, MD View Summary Play Video
08:50 – 09:10	Right Ventricle L. Rudski, MD View Slides Play Video
09:10 – 09:30	Left Atrium/Right Atrium T. Tsang, MD View Summary Play Video
09:30 – 09:50	Aorta and IVC K. Chan, MD View Slides View Summary Play Video
09:50 – 10:00	Discussion
10:00 – 10:30	Nutrition Break
10:30 – 11:15	Simultaneous Workshops(choose 2 out of 4) 3D Echo in Valvular Assessment Wendy Tsang, MD Echo Contrast Use – A Practical Session Jonathan Choy, MD How to Evaluate Cardio-Oncology Patients – A Practical Echo Primer Dinesh Thavendiranathan, MD How to Achieve the CCN Standards for Echocardiography in Ontario Howard Leong-Poi, Colleen Londry, Cairrine Sloggett View Article View Summary Play Video
11:15 – 12:00	Simultaneous Workshops II (a repeat of above sessions)
12:00 – 13:00	Lunch
13:00 – 14:00	Spotlight Session Chair: Ian Burwash, MD & Lawrence Rudski, MD
	A Tale of a Cardiovascular Imaging Clinical Trialist: How Echo Can Help Drive Innovation and Safety Neil Weissman, MD, ASE President Play Video
14:00 – 16:00	Great Cases and Conundrums from Across the Country Chair: David Bewick, MD Neil Weissman, MD, ASE President and others View Summary (C. Londry) View Summary (D. Bewick) Play Video of Case 1 Play Video of Case 2 Play Video of Case 3 Play Video of Case 4 Play Video of Case 5 Play Video of Case 6 Play Video of Case 7 Play Video of Case 8
16:00 – 16:05	Closing Comments Chi-Ming Chow, MD