2014 ISHLT Academy Master Class in Mechanical Circulatory Support
7 April to 8, 2014
Coronado Island, CA, USA
The educational goals of this activity are to provide an in-depth exploration and application of current knowledge and practices that can lead to better outcomes with mechanical circulatory support. The ISHLT Masters Academy provides didactic plenary lectures as well as moderated debates, meet the expert panel discussions and case presentations on specific topics beyond core competencies via small group sessions.
Scientific ProgramScientific Program Committee
Montefiore Medical Center
Bronx, NY USA
Columbia University
New York, NY USA
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL USA
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, PA USA
Freeman Hospital
Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
University Heart Center
Leipzig, Germany
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA USA
Francisco Arabia, MD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA USA
Nicholas R. Banner, FRCP, Harefield NHS Foundation, Harefield, United Kingdom
Emma Birks, MD, PhD, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY USA
Andrew Boyle, MD, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL USA
Walter Dembitsky, MD, Sharp Memorial Hospital, San Diego, CA USA
Shashank S. Desai, MD, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, CA USA
David Feldman, MD, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, MN USA
O. Howard Frazier, MD, Texas Heart Institute, Houston, TX USA
Lee Goldberg, MD, MPH, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA
Daniel J. Goldstein, MD, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NT USA
Margaret M. Hannan, MD, Mater Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Asif Hasan, MD, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Charles Hoopes, MD, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY USA
Jim K. Kirklin, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL USA
Robert Kormos, MD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA USA
Pascal Leprince, MD, PhD, Pitie Salpetriere, Paris, France
Nader Moazami, MD, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH USA
Francis Pagani, MD, PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI USA
Salpy Pamboukian, MD, MSPH, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL USA
Evgenij Potapov, MD, PhD, German Heart Institute, Berlin, Germany
Vivek Rao, MD, PhD, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON Canada
Joseph Rogers, MD, Duke University, Durham, NC USA
Satoshi Saito, MD, PhD, Tokyo’s Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
Stephan Schueler, MD, PhD, FRCS, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Scott Silvestry, MD, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO USA
Mark Slaughter, MD, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY USA
Martin Strueber, MD, University Heart Center Leipzig, Germany
Jeffrey Teuteberg, MD, University of Pittsburgh, PA USA
Andreas Zuckermann, MD, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna Austria