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Torrance Memorial's Cardiology Update 2012

Program Schedule

Please note that program schedule is subject to change without prior notice.

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Registration/Breakfast  

Session I

8:00 AM - 8:05 AM Opening Remarks Mark Lurie, M.D.
Director, Cardiology Program Development
Torrance Memorial Medical Center
Melanie and Richard Lundquist Cardiovascular Institute
8:05 AM - 8:10 AM Welcome Craig Leach
President & CEO
Torrance Memorial Medical Center
8:10 AM - 8:15 AM Introductions Moderators
Victoria Shin, M.D.
Interventional Cardiologist
Torrance Memorial Medical Center

Ted Yang, M.D.
Interventional Cardiologist
Torrance Memorial Medical Center
8:15 AM - 8:40 AM Implementing Quality Improvement Initiatives to Promote Desired Clinical Outcomes Ralph Brindis, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine and The Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
University of California, San Francisco
Past President, American College of Cardiology
8:40 AM - 9:05 AM Indications and Techniques for Mitral Valve Repair Marc Gillinov, M.D.
Staff Cardiac Surgeon and Judith Pyle Chair in Heart Valve Research
Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic
9:05 AM - 9:30 AM Update on Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Paul Teirstein, M.D.
Chief of Cardiology and Director, Interventional Cardiology
Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, CA
9:30 AM - 9:55 AM Evaluation and Treatment of Valve Regurgitation Jeffrey Borer, M.D.
Professor and Chairman, Department of Medicine and Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, New York City, NY
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM Break  

Session II

10:15 AM - 10:20 AM Introductions Moderator
Cynthia Williams, M.D.
Director, Diabetes Care
Torrance Memorial Medical Center 
10:20 AM - 10:45 AM Diabetes Type 1 vs. Type 2 Anne Peters, M.D.
Director, USC Clinical Diabetes Programs
USC Westside Center for Diabetes
10:45 AM - 11:10 AM Management of Obesity

Benjamin Rosin, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Medicine
USC Keck School of Medicine
11:10 AM -  11:35 AM



11:35 AM -11:55 AM
Pulmonary Embolism and DVT: 2013 Update


Break

Box Lunch Pick-Up
Samuel Goldhaber, M.D.
Senior Cardiologist
Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA


11:55 AM - 12:00 PM Introductions Moderator  
Mark Lurie, M.D.
Director, Cardiology Program Development
Torrance Memorial Medical Center
Melanie and Richard Lundquist Cardiovascular Institute
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Richard Hoffman Memorial Lecture: Cardiac Imaging - Where Do CT and MR Fit?

Lunch
John Lesser, M.D.
Director, Cardiovascular MRI & CT
Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital

Session III

1:00 PM - 1:05 PM Introductions Moderator
William Averill, M.D.
Interventional Cardiologist
Torrance Memorial Medical Center
1:05 PM - 1:30 PM Update in Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy for Congestive Heart Failure Matthew Ostrom, M.D.
Electrophysiologist
Torrance Memorial Medical Center
1:30 PM - 1:55 PM Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation: Focus on Novel Oral Anticoagulants Samuel Goldhaber, M.D.
Senior Cardiologist
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
1:55 PM - 2:20 PM Updates in the Management of Atrial Fibrillation Michael Shehata, M.D. 
Cardiac Electrophysiologist 
Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute
2:20 PM - 2:35 PM Break  

Session IV

2:35 PM - 2:40 PM Introductions Moderator 
Chris Matchison, M.D.
Interventional Cardiologist
Torrance Memorial Medical Center
2:40 PM - 3:05 PM Chronic Total Occlusion Michael Wyman, M.D.
Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and Cardiovascular Interventional Research
Torrance Memorial Medical Center
3:05 PM - 3:30 PM



3:30 PM - 3:55 PM
Are Marathons Bad for Your Heart?



The Boston Marathon as a Research Laboratory
Paul Thompson, M.D.
Chief of Cardiology
Hartford Hospital, Connecticut

Paul Thompson, M.D.
Chief of Cardiology
Hartford Hospital, Connecticut
3:55 PM - 4:00 PM Concluding Remarks Mark Lurie, M.D.
Director, Cardiology Program Development
Torrance Memorial Medical Center
Melanie and Richard Lundquist Cardiovascular Institute