E.I.C.C.
European Endovascular & Interventional Cardiology Conference
Thursday August 28th 2014 - Coronary Interventions
Morning session
Chairman:Georgios Katsimagklis MD.Director of Cath lab, Cardiology Dpt, Navy Hospital, Athens
9:00 Welcome
Konstantinos Marmagkiolis MD, MBA, FACC, FSCAI
Medical Director, STEMI Program
Citizens Memorial Hospital, Bolivar, Missouri USA
9:30 “Interventional Onco-Cardiology”: The birth of a new subspecialty
Cezar Iliescu MD, FACC, FSCAI
Associate Professor and Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
University of Texas
MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
10:00 The Role of Ventricular support and stem cells
Cindy Grines MD, FACC,FSCAI
Vice President of Academic and Clinical Affairs for DMC Cardiovascular Institute
Detroit Medical Center Cardiovascular Institute
Detroit, Michigan, USA
10:30 IVUS-guided Percutaneous Coronary Interventions
Attila Thury MD, FESC
Assistant Professor at the University of Szeded
Szeged, Hungary
11:00 Thrombin inhibition in STEMI patients
Prodromos Anthopoulos, MD
Director,The Medicines Company,European Medical Director
Zurich, Switzerland
11:30 Biodegradable stents
Dim. Barlagiannis MD
Interventional Cardiologist
Lukas Hospital, Neuss, Germany
Thursday August 28th2014 - Coronary Interventions
Afternoon session
Chairman:Dimitris Tousoulis, MD,Professor of Cardiology, Hippokratio University Hospital, Athens
Lefteris Tsiamis, MD, Ass. Professor of Cardiology, Hippokratio University Hospital, Athens
13:00 Newer antiplatelet and antithrombotic therapy in the cath lab
Dim. Alexopoulos MD, FACC,FESC
Professor & Director of Cardiology,
Patras University, Patra, Greece
13:30 When do we need to measure platelet function and how?
Vassilis Voudris MD, FESC
Director of Cardiology, B΄ Dpt. of Cardiology,
Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, Greece
14:00 Newer vascular closure devices
A. Synetos MD, PhD, MEAPCI
Attending Cardiologist at the Hippokratio University Hospital
Hippokratio Hospital, Athens, Greece
14:30 Recent advances on Saphenous Vein Graft Inteventions
Tarek Helmy MD, FACC, FSCAI
Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of Cincinnati
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnatti, Ohio, USA
Friday August 29th2014 - Structural Interventions
Morning session
Chairman: Stefanos Foussas, MD,Assistant Professor & Director of Cardiology, Tzaneio State Hospital, Piraeus
9:00 Percutaneous Closure of the Left Atrial Appendage
Mehmet Cilingiroglu MD, FESC, FACC, FSCAI
Professor of Medicine and Medical Director of the Peripheral Vascular Institute
University of Arkansas Medical Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
9:30 TAVR in patients with aortic insufficiency and bicuspid aortic stenosis
Nishit Choksi MD, FSCAI
Assistant Professor, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI, USA
10:00 Hybrid percutaneous- surgical procedures
Nicolas Nikolaidis MD, FRCS (C-Th)
Cardiovascular Surgeon
Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK
10:30 TAVR in failed bioprosthetic surgical valves and paravalvular leaks
Gregory Pavlides MD, PhD, FACC, FESC
Professor of Interventional Cardiology and Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories
University of Nebraska Medical Center,Omaha, NE, USA
11:00 Transcatheter management of Mitral Insufficiency
Konstantinos Charitakis MD, FACC, FSCAI
Interventional Cardiologist
New York Presbyterian Hospital/Cornell, New York, USA
11:30 The role of predilatation in TAVR
George Latsios, MD, PhD, FESC, MEAPCI
Attending Cardiologist at the Hippokratio University Hospital
Hippokratio Hospital, Athens
Friday August 29th2014 – Structural/Endovascular Interventions
Afternoon session
Chairman: Georgios Bompotis,Interventional Cardiologist, Director, General Hospital Papageorgiou ,Thessaloniki, Greece.
13:00 Transcatheter management of access complications
John Stathopoulos MD, PhD,FACC
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Columbia and Cornell University
New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA
13:30 Totally endovascular management of AAA
Alexandros Mallios MD
Vascular Surgeon
University of Oklahoma, Tulsa, Oklahoma USA
14:00 Potential Applications of Robotically assisted coronary PCI
George W. Vetrovec, M.D. MACC, MSCAI
Martha and Harold Kimmerling Eminent Professor of Medicine Division of Cardiology
VCU Pauley Heart Center, Medical College of Virginia Campus
Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia USA
14:30 Renal denervation therapy
Konstantinos Tsioufis MD, FESC
Ass. Professor of Cardiology, Ippokrateio University Hospital
Ippokrateio University Hospital, Athens
15:00 Alternative access routes in TAVI
George Latsios, MD, PhD, FESC, MEAPCI
Attending Cardiologist at the Hippokratio University Hospital
Hippokratio Hospital, Athens
Commentators
Anna Dagre MD,Thriassion General hospital, Athens, Greece
George Trantalis MD, General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece,
Athanasios Aggelis MD,Hippokratio University Hospital, Athens, Greece
Christophoros Olympios,Thriassion General hospital, Athens, Greece