Core Therapy: HEART

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Oral Sessions

The Heart Will Go On: Cold, Warm, or Assisted?
Primary Audience: Cardiology

Where Have We Been and Where are We Going? Improving Heart Transplant Outcomes
Primary Audience: Cardiology

New Insights in Patients with Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiogenic Shock
Primary Audience: Cardiology

Donor Utilization and Heart Allocation System in the Current Era: For Better or For Worse
Primary Audience: Cardiology

ABC, 123, DCD, NRP: Expanding Donor Availability in Heart Transplantation
Primary Audience: Cardiology

Will You Be Mine? Choosing Donors and Recipients for Heart Transplantation
Primary Audience: Cardiology

A Heart Partnership: When is Two Better Than One?
Primary Audience: Cardiology

Can't Stop the Beat: Impact of Novel Heart Transplant Practice on Rejection
Primary Audience: Cardiology

Predictors of Graft Dysfunction in Heart Transplantation
Primary Audience: Cardiology

Everything You Wanted to Know About ddCF-DNA in Heart Transplant Recipients and Never Dared to Ask
Primary Audience: Cardiology

More Than Meets the Gut: Nutrition and the Microbiome in Heart Transplantation
Primary Audience: Cardiology

Take a Chance With Me: Extended Criteria Transplants and Risk Modeling in Heart Transplant
Primary Audience: Cardiothoracic Surgery

Donor Availability, Size Matching and Outcome in Heart Transplantation
Primary Audience: Cardiothoracic Surgery

Infections at the Heart of the Matter
Primary Audience: Infectious Diseases

Selecting the Right Heart for the Right Kid: Patient and Donor Selection in Pediatric Heart Transplant
Primary Audience: Pediatrics

Don't Go Breaking My Heart: The Influence of Antibodies, Drugs, and Diagnostics on Pediatric Heart Transplant Outcomes
Primary Audience: Pediatrics

Improving Pediatric Heart Failure Care and Understanding Racial and Socioeconomic Bias in Pediatric Heart Transplant
Primary Audience: Pediatrics

Rethinking Biomarkers in Heart Transplantation: From Bench to Bedside
Primary Audience: Research and Immunology

Novel Approaches to Better Preserve Cardiac Grafts
Primary Audience: Research and Immunology
 

Mini Oral Sessions

Heart Transplant Rejection, Vasculopathy, and the Drugs They Live With!
Primary Audience: Cardiology

What's the Score? Modeling Outcomes in Heart Transplantation
Primary Audience: Cardiology

Heart and Beyond: Home, Jobs, Waitlists, and More
Primary Audience: Cardiology

Heart Transplant Waitlists, Donor Selection, and Allocation
Primary Audience: Cardiothoracic Surgery

Mystifying Mini Microbes in Heart Transplantation
Primary Audience: Infectious Diseases

Moving in the Right Direction: A Quick Jaunt Through Pediatric Heart Failure and Transplant
Primary Audience: Pediatrics

Basic Research: Innovative Cardioprotective Therapies
Primary Audience: Research and Immunology
 

Poster Sessions

POSTER SESSION 1. Cardiology (HEART)

POSTER SESSION 1. Cardiothoracic Surgery (HEART)

POSTER SESSION 2. Cardiology (HEART)

POSTER SESSION 2. Cardiothoracic Surgery (HEART)

POSTER SESSION 3. Cardiology (HEART)

POSTER SESSION 3. Cardiothoracic Surgery (HEART)

POSTER SESSION 3. Pediatrics (HEART)
 

Sunrise Sessions

The Human Microbiome: Hopes, Threats and Promises
Primary Audience: Cardiology

Pregnancy After Cardiothoracic Transplantation
Primary Audience: Cardiology

What’s New? Updates to the ISHLT Guidelines for the Care of Heart Transplant Recipients
Primary Audience: Cardiology

Who’s Keeping Score? Risk Scoring Systems and Contemporary Risk Factors for Primary Graft Dysfunction in Heart Transplantation
Primary Audience: Cardiology

DCD Heart Transplantation and Ex Vivo Repair: Gift Box or Pandora's Box?
Primary Audience: Cardiothoracic Surgery

Survival of the Best Prepared: Strategies to Prevent Frailty and Deconditioning Before and After Cardiothoracic Transplantation
Primary Audience: Nursing and Allied Health
 

Symposium Sessions

Cancer, Advanced Heart Failure, and Heart Transplant: Do Any of My Cells Work Properly?
Primary Audience: Cardiology

Developments in CAV Imaging and Diagnosis: Time for an Update to the Guidelines?
Primary Audience: Cardiology

Don't Lose Heart, as Better Times are Ahead: COVID-19 from Bench to Bedside
Primary Audience: Cardiology

The Future is Multimodal: Imaging the Transplanted Heart for Rejection, Dysfunction and Vasculopathy
Primary Audience: Cardiology

Heart, Liver, MCS, Oh My! Walking Down the Yellow Brick Road with Adult Congenital Heart Disease Patients
Primary Audience: Cardiology

HLA and Non-HLA Donor Specific Antibodies in Heart Transplantation: It is Time to Look for The Forest Beyond The Trees
Primary Audience: Cardiology

Relative Contraindications to Heart Transplantation: Where is the Line?
Primary Audience: Cardiology

Revisiting the Status Quo: Changing Paradigms in Routine Heart Transplant Rejection Surveillance
Primary Audience: Cardiology

Shock in a Box: What We Need to Learn About Heart Failure Cardiogenic Shock (HF-CS)
Primary Audience: Cardiology

Single, Dual, or Multiorgan Transplant: How Many is Too Much?
Primary Audience: Cardiology

Surviving and Thriving After Heart Transplantation: In It for the Long Run!
Primary Audience: Cardiology

It’s Complicated! Psychosocial and Ethical Issues in Pediatric MCS and Transplantation
Primary Audience: Pediatrics

Real Options in Pediatric Heart Transplant: Small Infants, HLA Sensitization, and Non-invasive Rejection Screening
Primary Audience: Pediatrics

Pets, Plants, & Palatables: When Living Life After Transplant Comes at a Cost
Primary Audience: Pharmacy


Schedule is subject to change.

Core Therapy: LUNG

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Oral Sessions

Through the Looking Glass: Advanced Lung Assessment During EVLP
Primary Audience: Cardiothoracic Surgery

EVLP: Thinking Inside the Box to Improve Patient Outcomes
Primary Audience: Cardiothoracic Surgery

Age, Size, Location: Studies in Survival after Lung Transplant
Primary Audience: Cardiothoracic Surgery

Forgotten Infections: What's Happening in Lung Transplant ID Besides COVID
Primary Audience: Infectious Diseases

COVID Consequences: Can We Protect the Lung
Primary Audience: Infectious Diseases

Survival of the Fittest: BMI and the Frailty Construct as Risk Factors for Lung Transplantation
Primary Audience: Pulmonology

Molecular Assessment of Lung Allograft Injury
Primary Audience: Pulmonology

The Canary in the Coal Mine: Novel Indicators of CLAD Development
Primary Audience: Pulmonology

A Cure for CLAD? Update on CLAD Therapeutics
Primary Audience: Pulmonology

Translational Insights Into Lung Transplant Complications and Care
Primary Audience: Research and Immunology

Coming to a Bedside Near You: Translational Studies in Lung Organ Perfusion
Primary Audience: Research and Immunology

Rejection Revelations: Novel Insights into Lung Transplant Rejection
Primary Audience: Research and Immunology

Back to the Basic(s) Science: Mechanistic Insights to Facilitate Lung Transplant Success
Primary Audience: Research and Immunology

Immune Manipulation to Keep CLAD Away
Primary Audience: Research and Immunology
 

Mini Oral Sessions

Lung Potpourri: Procedures, Pain, Pathogens, and Pediatrics
Primary Audience: Cardiothoracic Surgery

Lung Donor Selection, Management, and Allocation
Primary Audience: Cardiothoracic Surgery

COVID-19 Disease and Vaccination Issues Relevant to Lung Transplantation
Primary Audience: Infectious Diseases

Recipient Risk Factors and Outcomes in Lung Transplantation
Primary Audience: Pulmonology

Diagnostics and Pathology in Lung Transplantation
Primary Audience: Pulmonology

Translational Science, Immunology, and Inflammation in Lung Transplantation
Primary Audience: Research and Immunology
 

Poster Sessions

POSTER SESSION 1. Cardiothoracic Surgery (LUNG)

POSTER SESSION 1. Pulmonology (LUNG)

POSTER SESSION 1. Research and Immunology (LUNG)

POSTER SESSION 2. Cardiothoracic Surgery (LUNG)

POSTER SESSION 2. Pulmonology (LUNG)

POSTER SESSION 3. Cardiothoracic Surgery (LUNG)

POSTER SESSION 3. Pediatrics (LUNG)

POSTER SESSION 3. Pulmonology (LUNG)
 

Sunrise Sessions

From the Ground Up: Developing Lung Transplant Programs When Resources are Limited
Primary Audience: Cardiothoracic Surgery

Challenges in Pediatric Lung Transplant: What Learning Can We Impart to Our Adult Colleagues?
Primary Audience: Pediatrics

Gastrointestinal Issues in the Lung Transplant Recipient
Primary Audience: Pulmonology

The Long and Short of It: Telomeres in Lung Transplantation
Primary Audience: Pulmonology

The Path Forward in Developing Novel Therapies in Lung Transplantation
Primary Audience: Pulmonology

COVID-19 Lessons Learned: Immunology and Pathology in Cardiothoracic Transplant Recipients
Primary Audience: Research & Immunology
 

Symposium Sessions

Cut to the Chase: Lung Transplantation from the Operating Room to the ICU
Primary Audience: Cardiothoracic Surgery

Human versus Beast: Advances in Translational Models of Lung Transplant
Primary Audience: Cardiothoracic Surgery

Navigating the COVID Pandemic: Clambering into the Lung Transplant Life Raft
Primary Audience: Infectious Diseases

Vaccination in Cardiothoracic Transplant Candidates and Recipients: the Time is Now?
Primary Audience: Infectious Diseases

Outside-of-the-Box Immunosuppression for Lung Transplantation
Primary Audience: Pharmacy

Equity and Equality in Cardiothoracic Transplantation: Access to Care
Primary Audience: Pulmonology

Improving Quality of Lung Transplant Care: Survival is Only the Beginning
Primary Audience: Pulmonology

Save the Beans: Recognition and Protection of Renal Function in Lung Transplantation
Primary Audience: Pulmonology

Take a Chance on Me: Updates in Lung Transplant Candidate Selection
Primary Audience: Pulmonology

Lung Transplant Biomarkers Now
Primary Audience: Research & Immunology


Schedule is subject to change.

Core Therapy: MCS

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Oral Sessions

Should We or Not? Patient Selection for MCS and Transplantation
Primary Audience: Cardiology

Know Your Enemies: Cardiac and Other Complications During LVAD Support
Primary Audience: Cardiology

Blood Creeps Where it Cannot Flow, When it Stops...You Know: Drug Support for MCS Therapy
Primary Audience: Cardiology

Exercise Capacity and Possible Determinants of Intolerance After LVAD Implantation
Primary Audience: Cardiology

All the Same – All Different! Uneven Burden in LVAD Patients
Primary Audience: Cardiology

Getting Your MCS Up to Date: Late Breaking Clinical Science
Primary Audience: Cardiothoracic Surgery

Everything Gets Better: Novel Technology for Unmet Needs and Improved Outcomes in MCS
Primary Audience: Cardiothoracic Surgery

Next Exit (Site): Infections in MCS
Primary Audience: Infectious Diseases

Little Patients with Big Hearts Need Our Support: MCS in Pediatrics
Primary Audience: Pediatrics
 

Mini Oral Sessions

Good, Better, Best – Never Let it Rest: MCS Patient Optimization and Myocardial Recovery
Primary Audience: Cardiology

How to Do It: Influence of Surgical Techniques and Other Factors on Successful MCS Outcomes
Primary Audience: Cardiothoracic Surgery

The Realities of Living with LVADs: Sociodemographic Factors and Quality of Life Outcomes
Primary Audience: Cardiothoracic Surgery

A Little Trouble, A Little Support? Short Term MCS to the Rescue
Primary Audience: Cardiothoracic Surgery
 

Poster Sessions

POSTER SESSION 1. Cardiology (MCS)

POSTER SESSION 1. Cardiothoracic Surgery (MCS)

POSTER SESSION 2. Cardiology (MCS)

POSTER SESSION 2. Cardiothoracic Surgery (MCS)

POSTER SESSION 3. Cardiology (MCS)

POSTER SESSION 3. Cardiothoracic Surgery (MCS)

POSTER SESSION 3. Pediatrics (MCS)
 

Sunrise Sessions

How to Heal a Broken Heart: Using Durable VADs to Promote Myocardial Recovery
Primary Audience: Cardiology

Partners in Crime: The Right Ventricle and Pulmonary Hypertension in MCS
Primary Audience: Cardiology

The Right to MCS: Are We Still Allowed To Say NO?
Primary Audience: Cardiothoracic Surgery

Keep it Less Complicated: Minimizing and Treating Complications in LVAD Patients - From Bleeding to Infection
Primary Audience: Pharmacy
 

Symposium Sessions

Body Composition and Durable MCS: Too Obese, Too Cachectic or Just Right - the Goldilocks Dilemma
Primary Audience: Cardiology

The Cardiogenic Shock Journey: Shock Therapy
Primary Audience: Cardiology

Double Trouble: End-Stage Renal Failure in End-Stage Heart Failure
Primary Audience: Cardiology

Optimization of Management of Patients on LVAD Support: 2022 and Beyond
Primary Audience: Cardiology

Unique Challenges for Women and Children Supported with MCS
Primary Audience: Cardiology

The Risky Arrhythmia: Matching Risks and Benefits of Cardiac Devices in LVAD Patients
Primary Audience: Cardiothoracic Surgery

Structural Heart, Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Disease in LVAD Patients: Current Insight and Controversies
Primary Audience: Cardiothoracic Surgery

Train the Trainer and Trainer Best Practices: What MCS Clinicians Can Learn From Their Patients
Primary Audience: Nursing and Allied Health


Schedule is subject to change.