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CONFERENCE OVERVIEW AGENDA FACULTY BOARD REVIEW COURSE VIVA 11 HIGHLIGHTS CME & PREVIOUS CONFERENCES



TUESDAY OCT 18, 2011

8:00 AM - 8:05 AMWelcome to VIVA 11
Speaker: Tony Das, MD
   
ILIAC & SFA
8:05 AM - 8:15 AMDo Stent-Grafts Really Outperform Stents for Iliac Occlusive Disease and When Do I Use Them?
Speaker: Michael Wholey, MD
8:15 AM - 8:25 AM"Always use the Cheapest Therapy Possible Except When There is a Proven Advantage With a More Expensive Device" -- How does this Apply to the SFA?
Speaker: Mark Burket, MD
8:25 AM - 8:35 AMPatterns of Restenosis Following Endovascular Therapy are Device Specific and Will Influence Future Considerations for SFA Management
Speaker: Gary Ansel, MD
8:35 AM - 8:45 AMIs Catheter-Based SFA Atherectomy on Life Support or Will it Pull a Lazarus and Avoid Extinction in Concert with the Use of Drug Coated Balloons?
Speaker: Lawrence Garcia, MD
8:45 AM - 10:00 AMLIVE CASE DEMONSTRATIONS: UC Davis Medical Center and University of Virginia Health Systems
Moderator: Gary Ansel, MD
Panel: Mark Burket, MD; Raghu Kolluri, MD; Stephen Ramee, MD; Mahmood Razavi, MD; Tony Smith, MD; Timothy Sullivan, MD
10:00 AM - 10:30 AMREFRESHMENT BREAK
10:30 AM - 10:35 AMLIVE Award Presentation
Award Presenter: Michael Dake, MD
Award Recipient: Mark Wholey, MD
   
ACCOUNTABLE CARE & YOU: Case Management in a New Era
10:35 AM - 10:50 AMDISCUSSION: Testing the Experts: Where to Spend the Resources in the Accountable Care Era
Moderator: Michael R. Jaff, DO
Panel: John Kaufman, MD; Sean Lyden, MD; Kenneth Rosenfield, MD
10:50 AM - 12:00 PMLIVE CASE DEMONSTRATIONS: UC Davis Medical Center and University of Virginia Health Systems
Moderator: Tony Das, MD
Panel: Robert Bersin, MD; Lawrence Garcia, MD; Hans Krankenberg, MD; Christopher Kwolek, MD; John Rundback, MD; Michael Wholey, MD
12:00 PM - 1:20 PMLUNCH/SATELLITE SYMPOSIA
   
CAROTID & STROKE
1:20 PM - 1:30 PMThe Results of CREST/ICSS/ACT1 Will Dramatically Influence Treatment of Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Patients With Carotid Disease—But, How and in What Way?
Speaker: Jon Matsumura, MD
1:30 PM - 1:40 PMParsing Controversies in CAS/CEA Trials: What is the Clinical Fate of Minor Strokes After CAS and What’s the Sustained Clinical Impact of MI's and Cranial Nerve Injuries After CEA
Speaker: William Gray, MD
1:40 PM - 1:50 PMCurrent State-of-the-Art Acute Stroke Intervention -- New Techniques, New Data
Speaker: Nick Hopkins, MD
1:50 PM - 3:00 PMLIVE CASE DEMONSTRATIONS: University of Virginia Health Systems and UC Davis Medical Center
Moderator: Manish Mehta, MD
Panel: William Gray, MD; Roy Greenberg, MD; Nick Hopkins, MD; John Kaufman, MD; Robert Rosen, MD; Jay Yadav, MD
3:00 PM - 3:25 PMREFRESHMENT BREAK
3:25 PM - 3:35 PMRisk-Adjusted Stroke Outcome Benchmarks for CAS: How Should These Influence Practice?
Speaker: D. Christopher Metzger, MD
3:35 PM - 4:05 PMPerspectives on Management of Asymptomatic Carotid Artery Disease:

Why Negative Views on Medical Therapy are Misinformed
Speaker: Joshua Beckman, MD
Why Anti-Surgical Views are Biased
Speaker: Timothy Sullivan, MD
Why Unfavorable Attitudes About Stenting are Wrong
Speaker: Jay Yadav, MD
4:05 PM - 5:10 PMLIVE CASE DEMONSTRATIONS: UC Davis Medical Center
Moderator: Kenneth Rosenfield, MD
Panel: Joshua Beckman, MD; Mark Burket, MD; Karthik Kasirajan, MD; Sean Lyden, MD; Albert Nemcek Jr., MD; Mitchell Silver, DO
5:10 PM - 6:00 PMLATE-BREAKING CLINICAL TRIALS
Moderator: Michael R. Jaff, DO
6:00 PMDAY ONE CONCLUDES/SATELLITE SYMPOSIA