VALVULAR INTERVENTIONS Percutaneous Treatmnet of Aortic+ Mitral Valve Disease The CORE VALVE, SADRA and MITRALIGN Approach Eberhard Grube. The Randomized US Trial - Partner Martin B Leon. Mitral Valve Technologies for Percutaneous Repair of Mitral Regurgitation (Overview of Edwards MONARC) Gregg Stone. DEVICE BASED HF INTERVENTIONS Cardiac Contractility Modulation: A Novel Electrical Treatment for Heart Failure Daniel Burkhoff Implantable Intracardiac Devises for Hemodynamic Monitoring for the Management of Heart Failure Uri Elkayam Ventricular Assist Device - Moving from Bridge to Transplant into Destination Therapy Jacob Lavee HeartMate-II Left Ventricular Assist System: From Bridge to Transplant to Extended Life Therapy Jos Nowak Device Based Therapy for HF – An Overview Gad Keren Noninvasive Home Monitoring of Pulmonary Artery Pressure by the Remon-CHF Device: First Multicenter Experience Yoseph Rozenman . COMPLEX LESIONS CTO - The Last Frontier Haim Danenberg Left Main Bifurcation Stenting (Novel Approaches) Eberhard Grube Waiting for the New Generation of Bifurcation Stents: Contermporary Treatment of Coronary Bifurcations Ioannis Iakovou 500 pts with Titan Stent at 12 Month Follow Up in Bern Hess Otto . CURRENT PROBLEMS IN DRUG ELUTING STENTS Biorest Systemic Treatment of Restenosis Haim Danenberg What is the Best Option for the Patient Who Needs Revascularization in a Small Coronary Vessel? Ehud Grenadier Josiah N. Wilcox Importance of Polymer Hydrophilicity/Hydrophobicity on the Biocompatibility of DES Coatings StentOptimizer – Angiography-Based Detection of Stent Underexpansion and Incomplete Stent Apposition Yaron Almagor . NEW GENERATION STENT TECHNOLOGIES FOCUSED ON IMPROVING CLINICAL OUTCOMES AND SAFETY Achieving the Best Clinical Outcomes with Bare-metal and Drug-eluting Stents Eberhard Grube PRO-Kinetic: Results from an "All Comers" Clinical Registryf Ran Kornowski Absorbable Metal Stent, Clinical Update and DREAMS: Drug Eluting Absorbable Metal Stent, Concept and Pre-clinical Data Ron Waksman . NEXT GENERATION DES AND BIOACTIVE STENTS Multivessel Treatment by DES Vs. CABGf Eberhard Grube Titax Study 12 Mon follow Up Karjalainen Pasi A Bioabsorbable Drug-eluting Stent: Design Characteristics and First-in-man Results Richard Rapoza Assessment of Biodegradable Stents Patrick W. Serruys . TECHNOLOGY PARADE I - IMAGING AND DIAGNOSTICS: INVITED LECTURES Globalizing Clinical Research: New Frontiers Keyur H Parikh . TECHNOLOGY PARADE II - ENDOVASCULAR THERAPEUTICS: INVITED LECTURES How to Bridge Clinical, Innovation and Industry to Create Paradigm Changing New Products Yuval Binur Bridging the Gap: Israeli Medical Technologies with Silicon Valley Funding Eitan Konstantino . TECHNOLOGY PARADE III - CARDIAC FUNCTION AND MISCELLANEOUS: INVITED LECTURES Clinical Strategy: A Multivariate Approach to Product Approval Mordecai Kramer . POST PCI CONSIDERATIONS AND MANAGEMENT Plavix Following Drug Eluting Stents – Current National and International Recommendations, Open Questions and Challenges Shmuel Fuchs Contrast Induced Nephropathy: Update Eugenia Nikolsky Direct Thrombin Inhibitors Gregg Stone Diabetic Heart Disease Robert Wilensky . CELL THERAPY Novel Angiogenic Peptides: Possible Therapeutic Role to Alleviate Ischemia Alexander Battler Resident Cardiac Stem Cells: Fact Or Fiction? Ronen Beeri Cell Therapy for Engineered Blood Vessels Moshe Flugelman Myocardial Regeneration Using Human Embryonic Stem Cells Lior Gepstein Resident Cardiac Stem Cells and Their Role in Myocardial Regeneration and Repair Barbash Israel New EPC Capture Stent Technologies: Is Healing More Important Than Inhibiting Mitchell W Krucoff Injectable Biomaterials to Repair the Infarcted Heart Jonathan Leor Engineering Human Myocardium Wolfram Zimmerman . STRUCTURAL HEART DISEASE Trans-Catheter Closure of ASDs and PFOs – The Rambam Experience Avraham Lorber The Closure of Large Vascular Connections - Fistulae Leaks and Others Elchanan Bruckheimer The Carillon Sinuplasty Clinical Experiences Mark Reisman . TO REGULATORY APPROVAL, REGULATORY LIVE CASE The Approach to Clinical Trials and the Designs of Such Trial/Trials Martin B. Leon . ENDOVASCULAR AND CAROTID INTERVENTIONS Carotid Stenting – Current State of the Art Victor Guetta An Overview of Aortic Endografting: Devices and Techniques Yehuda Wolf . THE HYBRID ROOM ENVIRONMENT, WHAT ARE THE OPTIONS Combined Surgical and Percutaneous Approach in the Cath Lab to Treat AF Gil Bolotin AVR: Trans-apical approach Sam Lichtenstein Hybrid Revascularization Victor Guetta . ACS/ AMI INTERVENTIONS PCI in Patients with ACS and Congestive Heart Failure Arthur Kerner Progenitor Cells in Cardiovascular Disorders Jacob George The Role of Protective, Aspiration or Thrombectomy Devices in Primary PCI Victor Guetta Stent Thrombosis: A Real But Overestimated Problem Ioannis Iakovou Clot Extraction in Acute Myocardial Infarction On Topaz Telemedicine for Cardiac Patients: An Update Arie Roth Stenting in Warfarin Treated Patients Doron Zahger . ACCESSORY INTERVENTIONAL DEVICES AND COMPLEX LESIONS Transradial Angiography and Percutaneous Coronary Inervention: A Single Centre Experience Christos P.Christou New Femoral Artery Closure Devices Mark Reisman Embolic Protection Devices- The Devil is in the Details Uri Rosenschein Contrast Induced Nephropathy (CIN) - New Approaches to a Major Problem Giora Weisz . IMAGING AND VULNURABLE PLAQUE Virtual Histology – What Do We Know, When to be Used, Where are We Heading? Shmuel Fuchs X-ray Fused with MRI (XFM) to Guide Cardiovascular Interventions Robert Lederman Use of CT to Assess Myocardial Perfusion and Viability Jonathan Lessick Integrating Cardiac CT Angiography into Clinical and Interventional Practice Basil S. Lewis PRO-Kinetic: Results from an "All Comers" Clinical Registry Ran Kornowski Novel Method for Real time Hybrid Cardiac CT and Coronary Angiography Image Registration - Visualizing beyond Lumenology Ariel Roguin Magnetic Navigation Patrick W. Serruys OCT Imaging for the Vulnerable Plaque Ron Waksman . VULNERABLE PLAQUE Cardiac Transport and Vulnerable Plaque Formation Shmuel Einav Polymer Paving: Its time is Now Marvin Slepian A New Approach for Vulnerable Plaque Sheldon Weinbaum A New Approach for Treating Vulnerable Plaque: Implantation of a New DES Targeting Plaque Neovascularisation Christodoulos Stefanadis Invasive Imaging Modalities for Vulnerable Plaque Gregg Stone Prophylactic Evaluation of Vulnerable Plaque Robert Wilensky .