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Kettering Cardiology Colloquium 2009

David H Ponitz Center
Sinclair Community College
Dayton, Ohio

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Valvular Heart Disease


11:00 a.m.Registration/Lunch/Exhibits
12:00 p.m.Welcome
Howard M. Part, MD
Dean, Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine


12:10 p.m.Opening Remarks
Robert Smith, MD, FACP
Director Medical Education, Kettering Medical Center
Clinical Professor, WSU Boonshoft School of Medicine


12:15 p.m.Conference Moderator
Benjamin Schuster, MD, FACC, SCAI
Medical Director, Kettering Cardiovascular Institute
Clinical Professor, WSU Boonshoft School of Medicine


12:30 p.m."Scope of the Problem - the "Epidemic" of Valvular Heart Disease
Overview of Valve Function, Causes of Valvular Disease, Comorbidities"

Peter S. Rahko, MD, FACC
Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
University of Wisconsin Medical School-Madison
Director, Adult Echocardiography Laboratory
Chairman, Minimum Risk IRB
Medical Director, Echocardiography Option
School of Diagnostic Ultrasonography


1:15 p.m."Evidence-based Management and Quality Outcomes in Valvular Heart Disease"
Robert O. Bonow, MD, FACP, FACC
Goldberg Distinguished Professor
Chief, Division of Cardiology
Co-Director Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University Medical School


2:00 p.m.Panel Discussion
Benjamin Schuster, MD, Moderator


2:30 p.m.Break, Refreshments, Exhibits


3:00 p.m."Mitral Valve Disease -- when to operate? Minimally Invasive Surgery or
Percutaneous Intervention? Emerging Robotics."

James B. Hermiller, Jr., MD, FACC, SCAI
Consulting Assistant Professor of Medicine
Duke University Medical Center
Interventional Cardiologist at Heart Center of Indiana
  and St. Vincent Hospital Health Care Center Indianapolis


3:45 p.m."Aortic Valve Disease - morphologic variants - when to operate?
Case-based Approach"
Joseph F. Sabik, MD, FACC, FACS
Chairman, Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic


4:30 p.m.Panel Discussion


5:00 p.m.Summation


Sponsored by the Kettering Cardiovascular Institute,
in collaboration with Wright State University School of Medicine,
and endorsed by the American Heart Association