Listed below are our members' presentations at recent conferences:

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ATC 2024

• Shelley Hall, Moderator:  Godzilla vs Kong:  The Epic Battle Between Heart Transplant and LVAD

• Shelley Hall, Moderator: Take a Chance on Me: When a DT LVAD Becomes a Bridge to Transplant: Considerations for High Risk Donors, Xenotransplantation and Managing LVAD Complications 

• Teresa Demarco, Moderator: Take a Chance on Me:  When a DT LVAD Becomes a Bridge to Transplantant: Considerations for High Risk Donors, Xenotransplantation and Managing LVAD Complications 

• Eileen Hsich, Speaker:  Against All Odds:  High Risk Donors

• Manjula Ananthram, Speaker:  War Pigs: Xenotransplant Is the Pig the Future Today?

• Eman Hamad, Moderator:  Meet the Expert-Swinging the Pendulum: Oncological Perspectives Pre and Post Heart Transplant

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ISHLT 2024

·       Eileen Hsich, Presenter: Deep Learning, Large Language Models, AI Oh My!

·       Johanna Contreras, Presenter: Boggles the Mind:  Under-utilization of Temporary MCS in Women and Under-represented Populations

·       Van-Khue Ton, Presenter:  Captain’s Log-Hour 24: What Should Occur in the First “Golden Day” of Shock Treatment?

·       Shelley Hall , Presenter:  Debate: Forget the Biopsy: Screen All With Blood Testing (Pro)

·       Teresa Demarco , Moderator:  One, Two, Buckle My Shoe: Group 1 and 2 Pulmonary Hypertension Assessment

·       Anique Ducharme,  Moderator:  Unraveling Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy: Pathogenesis to Prevention

·       Maria Avila, Presenter:  The Bridging Dilemma: Transplanting Patients with VAD Infections

·       Hanna Copeland, Speaker:  I Want a Family: How Parenthood and Career are Totally Compatible

·       Sophia Airhart, Presenter:  Help! Risk Stratification in Adults to Improve Survival

·       Phyllis Billia,Presenter: Carrier Beware:  Cellular Biology and Molecular Changes of an Ex-Vivo Donor Heart

·       Lindsey Aurora, Presenter: The Forest and the Trees: CAV Prevention and Goals

·       Gerin Stevens, Moderator: Live Long and Prosper:  Improving Survival in Cardiogenic Shock

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ACC 2024 

·       Eileen Hsich, Presenter: Lean on Me:  Mentorship at all Stages of your Career

·       Eileen Hsich, Moderator:  I want to Break Free: Overcoming Disparities in HF

·       Eileen Hsich, Moderator: Cardiac Transplantation:  From Donor Optimization to Recipient

·       Shelley Hall, Presenter:  Expanding the Donor Pool

·       Shelley Hall , Moderator: Critical Care Cardiology Family Feud

·       Michelle Bloom, Moderator: Cardio-Oncology and HF

·       Katherine Clark Presenter:  Electronic Alerts to Improve Mineralcorticoid Antagonist Management

·       Dharini Ramu, Presenter:  Queen of Hearts: Sex Disparities in HF

·       Dharini Ramu,  Presenter:  One size does not fit all: Cardioprotection and Permissive Cardiotoxicity

·       Dharini Ramu, Moderator:  Overcoming Barriers in CVD Care, Quality and Sex-Specific RF

·       Dharini Ramu, Moderator:   Baby, Are We in Trouble? Cardio-Obstetric Shock

·       Anju  Bhardwaj, Presenter:  Cardiogenic Shock and HF

·       Anju  Bhardwaj, Presenter:  Sound the Alarm: Recognizing Time from Advanced Therapies

·       Anju  Bhardwaj, Presenter:  Valvular Heart Disease-Tweaky for Leaky Shock

·       Manjula Ananthram, Moderator:  Huffing and Puffing with HFpEF

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HFSA 2023

• Eileen Hsich  Speaker: The Future of the Heart Allocation System

• Eileen Hsich  Moderator:  Oral Abstracts

• Shelley Hall  Speaker: Change is a Constant-The Heart Transplant Allocation System: Time for Another Change? The Heart Allocation System is Ready for Change Again.

• Michelle Bloom  Moderator:  Scientific Sessions-Advances in Cardio-Oncology

• Teresa DeMarco  Moderator:  Scientific Sessions-Pulmonary Hypertension and RV Failure in Advanced Heart Failure

• Karlee Hoffman    Speaker: Obstetrics Considerations in the Management of the Pregnant Heart Failure Patient

• Johannita Contreras  Moderator:  Scientific Sessions- The Future of the Machines

• Luise Holzhauser        Moderator: Scientific Sessions- The Future of the Machines

• Maria Giovanna Trivieri  Speaker:  RV Failure in Pulmonary Hypertension

• Lindsey Aurora Speaker: Optimizing Device Selection in Cardiogenic Shock

• Namita Joseph  Moderator:  Scientific Sessions-Value Based Payment and the Business of Heart Failure

• Anju Bhardwaj  Moderator: Scientific Sessions-Practical Implementation of Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy in Heart Failure

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ATC 2023

• Teresa De Marco Moderator:-Don’t stop me bow: Low volume, high risk dual Piegan transplantation-Opportunities and Challenges

• Teresa De Marco Moderator:-Dangerous Liaisons: PH in Heart, Lung, and Liver Transplantation

• Shelley Hall Speaker: Pro: Shine the Light on Dracula!, Session: Does Rejection Surveillance Still Need to be a Pain in the Neck?

• Priya Umapathi: Speaker: True Blood: Rejection Surveillance Modalities-An Overview

• Dharini Ramu:  Speaker: Disparities in Allocation of Advanced HF Therapies-Leaving No-one Behind

• Eileen Hsich:  Speaker: Predicting Transplant Outcomes with Machine Learning

• Eileen Hsich: Speaker: Oldie but a Goodie-Creatinine Based GFR in Advanced HF

• Mirnela Byku: Moderator: Buy One Get One Free? Assessing Renal Function in HF to Define Thresholds for Combined Heart-Kidney Transplant

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ISHLT 2023

• Hanna Copeland, Moderator: Acute MCS guidelines

• Hanna Copeland, Speaker:  The Impact of Eras, Session: Acute MCS guidelines

• Hanna Copeland, Moderator: Cardiogenic shock in Spanish.

• Teresa De Marco, Moderator: The Taming of the Shrew: All About Antibodies: Desensitization, AMR, and More in Heart Transplant

• Teresa De Marco, Moderator: Challenges of PH Management in Special Populations

• Kelley Schlendorf, Moderator: Exploring the Limits in Heart Transplantation in Children and Adults

• Shelley Hall, Speaker: Value of cPRA & VIrtual Crossmatch in New Heart and Lung Allocation Algorithms

• Shelley Hall, Speaker:  Queens of Hearts Women event 

• Gerin Stevens, Moderator: La Vida Loca: Expanding the Heart Donor Pool with DCD – Pearls and Pitfalls

• Anju Bhardwaj, Speaker Prehabilitation Maximizing Functional Mobility in Patient with Cardiogenic Shock Supported on Axillary Impella. 

• Anju Bhardwaj, Speaker: Sex Disparities in the Use of Temporary Mechanical Circulatory Support for Nonischemic- Cardiogenic Shock

• Phyllis Billia, Speaker: Righting a Wronged Ventricle

• Yas Moayedi, Moderator: Now Is Not the Time to Relax: Vasoplegia after Heart Transplant

• Dharini Ramu, Speaker: “Broken Hearts – LVAD or Heart Transplant in Patients With Recent Cancer: Who and When

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