09:00 - 11:00 PL1 - Present and Future in Cardiovascular Interventions

09:10 Interventional Cardiology Today and Tomorrow
Martin Leon
Columbia University Medical Center, USA

09:25 Future Approaches to Vascular Disease Management
Robert Falotico
C/ O Cordis Corp - Johnson & Johnson, USA

09:40 Past, Present and Future of Structural Cardiology: The Edwards Lifesciences Perspective
Michael A Mussallem
Chairman and CEO of Edwards Lifesciences

09:55 CASE TRANSMISSION - Aortic Valve Disease
Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel

11:30 - 13:00 S1 - Percutaneous Valve Therapies

12:00 Percutaneous Aortic Valve Implantation: A Resolving Target
Martin Leon
Columbia University Medical Center, USA

12:12 Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement What are the Perspectives?
Alain Cribier
Hospital Charles Nicolle, University of Rouen, France

12:24 The Ventor Venue
Ehud Schwammenthal
Sheba Medical Center, Israel

12:36 Edwards-Sapien Trans Catheter Aortic Valve Implantation. Tips & Tricks
Adam Witkowski
Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland

12:48 TAVI: Current Status and Perspective at 5 Years
Jean-Claude Laborde
Clinique Pasteur, France

11:30 - 13:00 S2 - The Bumpy Road to Innovation
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF MEDINOL
Commemorating Dr. Ehud Grenadier

FIM Trials as a Key to Successful Venture
Alexander Abizaid
Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia, Brazil
CANCELLED

11:30 In Memorial of Dr. Ehud Grenadier

11:40 Cardiovascular Innovations - 'New' Solutions for 'Old' Challenges
Carmen Walbert
Medtronic International, Switzerland

11:52 Serial Entrepreneur in the Silicon Valley - Lesson Learned
Amir Belson
Neoguide Systems, Inc, USA

12:04 The Pathway to Innovation - The Major Industry, the Individual Investigator and the Start Up Company
David Israeli
Medtronic Ventor Technologies LTD, Israel

12:16 Innovation in Israel, Can It Lead to Clinical and Industrial Development in Israel
Kobi Richter
Medinol Ltd., Israel

12:28 PANEL DISCUSSION

11:30 - 13:00 S3 - The Future of Healing, Repair and Regeneration of the Heart and Blood Vessels

11:30 Cell Therapy of Acute Myocardial Infarction: Open Questions
Stefanie Dimmeler
Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany

11:42 Angiogenic Cell and Gene Based Therapy
Moshe Flugelman
Carmel Medical Center, Israel

11:54 Intracoronary Use of Bone Marrow Cells in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction
Alpay Touran Sezgin
Baskent University, Turkey

12:06 Cell Therapy of Acute Myocardial Infarction: Open Questions and Perspectives
Andrea Zeiher
Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany

12:18 Cardiomyocytes from Adult Stem Cells
William Wijns
Cardiovascular Center, Belgium

12:30 Role of Estradiol in Vascular Healing
Jean Francois Tanguay
Montreal Heart Institute, Canada

12:42 PANEL DISCUSSION

11:30 - 13:00 S4 - The Future of Bioactive and Drug Eluting Stents
SPONSORED BY AMI TECHNOLOGIES LTD

11:30 Everolimus-Eluting Stents: SPIRIT III and IV Trial Updates
Gregg Stone
The Cardiovascular Research Foundation, USA

11:42 Biomatrix - Latest Results from the LEADERs Trial and the E-Biomatrix Registry
Philip M Urban
Hopital de la Tour, Switzerland

11:54 2nd and 3rd Generation DES
Ashok Seth
Escorts Heart Institute & Research Centre, India
CANCELLED

12:06 Preclinical and FIM Evaluation of a Novel Pro-Healing Polymer Coating to Reduce Restenosis
Nick Kipshidze
Central University Hospital, Georgia

12:18 The Experience with RESOLUTE of the German Heart Center and the Results of the RESOLUTE First-In-Man Study
Stefanie Schulz
German Heart Center, Germany

12:30 Drug Eluting Balloon
Leonhard Bruch
Unfallklinikum Berlin, Germany

12:42 TITAN II Bio-Active Stent in Acute Conorary Syndrome
Otto Hess
Inselspital Hospital, Switzerland

13:30 - 15:00 LC1 - Novel Solutions to the Challenges of Drug-Eluting Stents
SPONSORED BY BIOTRONIK

13:30 Safety and Efficacy Data of a Silicon Carbide Coated Stent. An Alternative to DES for Many Patients ?
Ran Kornowski
Rabin Medical Center and Tel Aviv University, Israel

13:45 Clopidogrel: Non-responders and Non-Compliance - What is the Reality?
William Wijns
Cardiovascular Center, Belgium

14:00 Understanding the Role of Endothelialization, Endothelial Function and Clinical Results: What Can We Expect from New Generation DES?
Robert A Byrne
Deutsches Herzzentrum, Technische Universitat, Germany

14:15 The Current State of the Metallic Bioabsorable Stent: What's New From the
Magnesium Absorbable Stent Program?
Ron Waksman
Washington Hospital Center, USA

14:30 PANEL DISCUSSION

13:30 - 15:00 LC2 - Innovation: Academic, Regulatory and Financial Aspects
13:30 Fundamentals of Cardiovascular Device Regulation: Meeting FDA's Mission and Making the Process Work
Andrew Farb
U.S. Food and Drug Administration, USA

13:42 How Israel Can Maintain Its Advantage in Device Development
Yuval Binur
Accelerated Technologies Partners, USA

13:54 New Technology in Medicine - From Development to Implementation
Rafael Beyar
Rambam and the Technion, Israel

14:06 The State of the Drug Eluting Balloons - The Invatec Experience in Europe
Rick Geoffrion
Invatec, Switzerland

14:18 Financial Challenges For the Medical Device Industry
Ruth Alon
Pitango Venture Capital, Israel

14:30 PANEL DISCUSSION

13:30 - 15:00 LC3 - ICI Cardiac Regeneration Summit: Cell Therapy & Tissue Engineering

13:30 Islt1-Based Gene Therapy for Infarct Repair
Jacob George
The Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel

13:45 Treatment of Aneurism by Gingival Fibroblast Cell Transfer in the Rabbit
Antoine Lafont
Hopital European Georges Pompidou, France

14:00 Peri Vascular Tissue Engineered Allogenic Endothelial Cells
Elazer R Edelman
Harvard Medical School, USA

14:15 Biotechnology and Cellular Engineering
Alessandro S Bortone
University of Bari, Italy

14:30 PANEL DISCUSSION

13:30 - 15:00 LC4 - Advances in Imaging


13:30 Extent of Coronary Arterial Plaque in Asymptomatic Type 2 Diabetics: Data from 64 Slice Coronary CT Angiography
David A Halon
Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center and Technion IIT, Israel

13:42 Cardiac CT In the Cath Lab
Ariel Roguin
Rambam Medical Center, Israel

13:54 OCT for Imaging of Atheromatous Plaque
Giora Weisz
Columbia University Medical Center, USA

14:06 OCT for the Evaluation of Stent Coverage
Juan Granada
Skirball Center for CV Research CRF, USA

14:18 OFDI vs IVUS - The Terumo Approach
Patrick Serruys
Thorax Center, Netherlands

14:30 Hibrid Imaging and New Roads to Interventions
Robert Lederman
Cardiovascular Intervention National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, USA

15:30 - 17:00 S5 - Acute MI Hall A
15:30 Adjunctive Antiplatelet Therapy in the Settings of Primary PCI
Adam Witkowski
Institute of Cardiology, Poland

15:42 Bleeding Management and Pharmacological Strategy in Primary PCI
Ariel Roguin
Rambam Medical Center, Israel

15:54 Achieving Optimal Reperfusion in Patients with STEMI: The Singapore Experience
Huay Cheem Tan
National University Hospital, Singapore

16:06 The Mguard Stent for AMI Patients: The Magical Study
Dariusz Dudek
University Hospital in Krakow, Poland

16:18 Primary PCI "Beyond Door to Intervention Time"- Shifting the Focus from "How Fast" to "How Well" We Can Do Primary PCI
Edo Kaluski
University Hospital & University of Medicine & Dentistry Newark, USA

16:30 Is there Still a Place for Thrombolytic Therapy during AMI
Doron Zahger
Soroka University Medical Center, Israel

16:42 Radial vs Femoral Approach in Patients with STEMI
David Meerkin
Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Israel

15:30 - 16:45 S6 - Technology Parade - Heart Failure, Refractory Angina and Beyond
15:30 Completely Noninvasive Cardiac Output Monitoring with Bioreactance: Focus on Clinical Applications
Daniel Burkhoff
Columbia University and Cheetah, USA
Invited Lecture

15:42 Treating Heart Failure Patients by Enhancement of Vagal Activity - Multicenter
David Rigler
BioControl Medical (BCM) Ltd.

15:52 New Therapeutic Option in Managing Refractory Angina: Role of Extracorporeal Shockwave Myocardial Revascularization
Gil Hakim
Medispec Ltd.

16:02 Minimally Invasive Device-based Treatment for Diastolic Heart Failure
Amir Elami
CorAssist Cardiovascular Ltd

16:12 PAT Technology in Cardio-Vascular and Sleep Applications
Koby Sheffy
Itamar Medical Ltd.

16:22 FastSeal^TM Bioabsorbable Vascular Access Closure System
Alessandro S Bortone
Vascular Closure Systems

16:32 On the Brink of a New Era in Preventing Congestive Heart Failure and Sudden
Cardiac Death due to coronary Artery Disease
Yaron Moshkovitz
NI Medical

15:30 - 17:00 S7 - ICI Cardiac Regeneration Summit: Building New Hearts
15:30 Heart Muscle fom Unfertilized Oocytes
Wolfram Zimmermann
Georg-August-University Goettingen, Germany

15:42 Time-Course of the Electrophysiological Maturation and Integration of Transplanted
Cardiomyocytes
Jochen Muller-Ehmsen
Heart Center, University of Cologne, Germany

15:54 Resident Cardiac Stem Cells - Facts (or Fiction???)
Ronen Beeri
Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel

16:06 iPS Based Cardiac Regeneration
Oren Caspi
Technion IIT, Israel

16:18 Injectable Biomaterial: From Bench to Bedside
Jonathan Leor
Neufeld Cardiac Research Institute, Israel

16:30 PANEL DISCUSSION

15:30 - 17:00 S8 - Complex Lesions: Problems and Solutions
15:30 Current Indications and Technical Issues of Left Main Stenting
Jean Fajadet
Clinique Pasteur, France

15:42 The Syntax Trial and Syntax Score. How Should It Affect Our Daily Life?
Marie-Claude Morice
Institut Cardiovasculaire Paris Sud, Institut Hospitalier Jacques Cartier, France

15:54 CTO 2009: Update
Haim Danenberg
Hadassah - Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel

16:06 Current Approaches in Chronic Total Occlusion
Debabrata Dash
Asian Heart Institute, India

16:18 Innovation in Crossing Solutions
Justin Roberts
Medtronic, Inc, Switzerland

16:30 Rationale for CTO Recanalisation; Need for a Randomized Trial
George Sianos
Ahepa University Hospital, Greece

16:42 New Abbott CTO Family of Guide Wires: "The Progress Series"
Bradley Strauss
University of Toronto, Canada

17:30 - 18:30 S9 - Technology Parade - Imaging and Beyond
17:30 Staying Creative: Financing Medical Device Startups
Eitan Konstantino
Trireme Medical Inc, Pleasanton, CA
Invited Lecture

17:42 Image Processing Technology for Real-Time Device Navigation: The Paieon's ICPRO Guidance and CTHV applications
Amir Blumenfeld
Paieon Medical Ltd.

17:52 COR Analyzer - A Fully Automatic Analysis of Coronary CT Angiography
Nathan Peled
Rcadia Medical Imaging Ltd.

18:02 LightWire: A Novel Coronary Ultrasound Measurement & Imaging Guidewire
Stephen Fry
Bioscan Technologies, Ltd

18:12 The CorPath^TM Vascular Robotic System A New Standard in Precision PCI
Juan Granada
Corindus

17:30 - 18:45 S10 - Best Abstract Presentations Hall A
17:30 Evaluation of Stent Expansion and Need for Post Deployment Optimization with an Angiography Based Software Tool (StentOptimizer)
Robert-Jan van Geuns
Thoraxcenter, Erasmus Medical Center, The Netherlands

17:40 Accuracy of Device Localization in Coronary Percutaneous Intervention Based on the IC-PRO Guidance System
Harald Rittger
Klinikum Coburg, Germany

17:50 Rapid Evaluation of Vessel Healing after AngiopLasty (REVEAL) Study: An Optical Coherence Tomography Comparative Study Versus Bare and Drug Eluting Stent at 7 and 30 Days
La Manna Alessio
Ferrarotto Hospital, Italy

18:00 Size Selection for Percutaneous Aortic Valve Replacement Based on the Measurement of Aortic Sinus Diameter on Cine-Aortography
Apostolos Tzikas
ErasmusMC, The Netherlands

18:10 Dissecting the Effects of DES Drugs from the Effects of Polymers on Inflammation and Thrombosis
Ayala Hezi-Yamit
Medtronic Cardiovascular, USA

18:20 Direct, Low level Radiofrequency Energy Treatment of Atheromas Results in Sustained Reduction in Plaque Burden and Lumen Gain
Meital Mazor
Minnow Medical, CA

18:30 A New Third Generation Ultra-Thin Strut Cobalt Chromium Stent: Histopathological Evaluation in Porcine Coronary Arteries
Refat Jabara
Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel, Cardiovascular Research
Institute, Saint Joseph's Translational Research Institute / Saint Joseph's Hospital,
Atlanta, GA, USA

17:30 - 19:00 S11 - Vulnerable Plaque
17:30 Frequency of Vulnerable Plaque: Is There an Opportunity for Invasive Detection?
Gregg Stone
The Cardiovascular Research Foundation, USA

17:42 Nanotechnology in Cardiology: Nanoparticle Based Targeted Delivery of
Therapeutics and Non-Invasive Imaging of Unstable Endothelium
Nick Kipshidze
Central University Hospital, Georgia

17:54 Infra-red Spectroscopy Imaging of Vulnerable Plaque
Giora Weisz
Columbia University Medical Center, USA

18:06 Sensitivity Analysis of Microcalcifications Embedded in a Vulnerable Plaque's Cap
Zeev Aronis
Tel-Aviv University, Israel

18:18 Polymeric Endovascular Bandage Stent Systems: A Modern Form of Polymer Paving: The Arsenal System
Marvin Slepian
Sarver Heart Center, USA

18:30 The Role of Endothelial Progenitor Cells in Vascular Repair
Amir Lerman
Mayo Clinic, USA

18:42 "SECRITT" Sheild Evaluated at Cardiac Hospital in Rotterdam for Investigation and Treatment of TCFA: Progress with a Low Force, Self-expanding Shield for High Risk Plaque Modification
Joanna Wykrzykowska
Thoraxcenter, Erasmus MC, Netherlands

17:30 - 19:00 S12 - Clinical Aspects of Intervention Hall B
17:30 Patients with Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease : How to Guide Strategy of Revascularization ?
Jean Fajadet
Clinique Pasteur, France

17:42 The Approach to the Non Revascularized Patient
Amir Lerman
Mayo Clinic, USA

17:54 Complex Coronary Interventions through Radial Approach
Debabrata Dash
Asian Heart Institute, India

18:06 The Hidden Menace of Stent Thrombosis. How to Prevent and How to Deal With it
Ioannis Iakovou
Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Greece

18:18 Prevention of Contrast Nephropathy
Morris Mosseri
Meir Medical Center, Israel

18:30 Stent Imaging Using the Paieon StentOptimizer System
Giora Weisz
Columbia University Medical Center, USA

18:42 FFR is a Must for Intermediate LM Lesions?
Erick Schampaert
Sacre Coeur Hospital, Canada



TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2009

08:30 - 10:30 S13 - Carotid and Vascular Interventions
08:30 Critical Review of Atherectomy for SFA Disease / Workhorse or Niche Devices
Lawrence Garcia
St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, USA

08:42 Carotid Stenting - An Update
Victor Guetta
Sheba Medical Center, Israel

08:54 Global Vascular Care: What Your Patients Will Need from You in the Next Decade
Michael R Jaff
Massachusetts General Hospital, USA

09:06 A New Approach to AAA: The Sac Fixation Endograft
Barry T Katzen
Baptist Cardiac & Vascular Institute, USA

09:18 The ENGAGE Global Study of the Medtronic Endurant Stent Graft for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms. Initiation and Update
Yehuda G Wolf
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel

09:30 The Treatment of Peripheral AVMs with Onyx: When and How
Furuzan Numan
Istanbul University, Turkey

09:42 Current Endovascular Approaches for Cerebral Aneurysms
Jose Cohen
Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel

09:54 Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Closure for Prevention of Stroke in Atrial Fibrillation
Horst Sievert
CardioVascular Center Frankfurt, Germany

08:30 - 10:30 S14 - Novel Solutions to Heart Failure
08:30 Heart Failure Device Therapies - An Overview
Eugenia Nikolsky
Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel

08:42 Value of Coronary Intervention in Ischemic Conditions Leading to Progression of Left Ventricular Dysfunction
Yalcin Fatih
Mustafa Kemal University, Turkey

08:54 Partial Ventricular Support for End-Stage Heart Failure with the CircuLite Assist Device
Daniel Burkhoff
Columbia University and CircuLite, USA

09:06 Short Term Ventricular Assist Devices in Acute Heart Failure
Jaishankar Raman
University of Chicago, USA

09:18 Interventional Procedure in HOCM
Andre Keren
Hadassah - Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel

09:30 Implantable Devices for Remote Hemodynamic Monitoring of Patients with Heart Failure: An Update
Uri Elkayam
University of Southern California, USA

09:42 The Total Artificial Heart: Past, Present and Future Status
Marvin Slepian
Sarver Heart Center, USA

09:54 Extra-cardiac Repair of Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation with BACE Device on a Beating Heart: Early Human Experience
Jaishankar Raman
University of Chicago, Canada

10:06 PANEL DISCUSSION

08:30 - 10:30 S15 - Stents, Drugs and Beyond
08:30 Absorb 2 (PI) - What Did We Improve
Patrick Serruys
Thorax Center, Netherlands

08:42 New Generation of Stents - Overview
Alexander Abizaid
Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia, Brazil

08:54 Abbott Vascular's Bioabsorbable Program Update
Richard Rapoza
Abbott Vascular, USA

09:06 Nobori 2 - Late Breaking Results - One Year Clinical Outcomes
Ran Kornowski
Rabin Medical Center and Tel Aviv University, Israel

09:18 Experimental and Early Clinical Experiences with a "Less Mismatch" Cobalt Alloy Stent with a Titanium Nitride Coating
Alessandro S Bortone
University of Bari, Italy

09:30 Self-Expandable Scaffoldings for Coronary Applications
Juan Granada
Skirball Center for CV Research CRF, USA

09:42 The CATANIA^TM Coronary Stent System with Nanothin Polyzene®-F: From a Real World Population to a Global Solution for Stent Thrombosis
Barry T Katzen
Baptist Cardiac & Vascular Institute, USA

09:54 The ART Bioresorbables Stent: In Vitro & In Vivo Characterization
Antoine LaFont
Hopital Europeen Georges Pompidou, France

10:06 The Re-emergence of Nitinol Self-Expanding Coronary Stents
Stefan Verheye
Middelheim Hospital, Belgium

10:18 TITAN 2 Bio Active Stent Long Term Follow Up: 3 and 5 Years
Pasi Karjalainen
Pori Hospital, Finland

08:30 - 10:30 S16 - New Devices
SPONSORED BY CORDIS, JOHNSON & JOHNSON

08:30 Long Term Follow-Up to Evaluate the Safety of the Neovasc Reducer A Device-Based Therapy for Chronic Refractory Angina
Shmuel Banai
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel

08:42 Radiofrequency Ablation of the Renal Arteries for Treatment of Severe Hypertension: A New Treatment Concept
Horst Sievert
CardioVascularCenter, Germany

08:54 Robotic Cath Lab- Fiction or Reality
Peter Fitzgerald
Center for Cardiovascular Technology, USA

09:06 Percutaneous Coronary Sinus Annuloplasty
Horst Sievert
CardioVascular Center Frankfurt, Germany

09:18 Selective Cerebral Hypothermia: Interventional Technique for Cerebral Protection Post Rescuscitation and Stroke
Ronald J Solar
ThermopeutiX, Inc, USA

09:30 Circulatory Assist Device for Heart Failure - The Circulite Minimal Invasive
Approach
Daniel Burkhoff
Columbia University, USA

09:42 The MediGuide Story - Making Cross-Border Mergers and Alliances Work
Gera Strommer
MediGuide Navigation Systems, Israel

09:54 From FIM to Routine Clinical Utilization of Second Generation Paclitaxel Eluting Balloon DIOR
Ernst Gunter Vester
Evangelic Hospital, Dusseldorf, Germany

10:06 PANEL DISCUSSION

11:00 - 13:00 PL2 - Innovations in Interventional Cardiology

11:00 CASE TRANSMISSION - Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion
Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
SPONSORED BY AGA MEDICAL

11:45 Interventional Cardiology - New Challenges
Patrick Serruys
Thoraxcenter-Erasmus University, Israel

12:05 Silicon Valley Faces Israel
Peter Fitzgerald
Center for Cardiovascular Technology, USA

12:25 GUEST LECTURE

12:35 BEST ABSTRACT PRESENTATION AWARD

12:45 SPONSORS' AWARD

13:30 - 15:00 LC5 - Bifurcation- The Everlasting Challenge
13:30 How Do We Manage Bifurcation Lesions While Waiting for the Dedicated Bifurcation System?
Ioannis Iakovou
Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Greece

13:45 Role of the AngioSculpt Scoring Balloon in the Treatment of Coronary Bifurcations: Preliminary Results from the AGILITY Trial
Gary Gershony
John Muir Medical Center, USA

14:00 New Technologies and Their Application in the Treatment of Bifurcations
Stefan Hoffmann
Vivantes Klinikum im Friedrichshain, Germany

14:15 Bifurcation Lesions - The TriReme Medical Approach
Chaim Lotan
Hadassah - Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel

14:30 Determinants of the Side-Branch Compromise after Main Branch Stent Implantation in Bifurcation Lesions - Applications of Quantitative Rule
Robert J Gil
Central Hospital of the Internal Affairs and Administration Ministry, Institute of
Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Polish Academy of Science, Poland

13:30 - 15:00 LC6 - Clinical Patient Management
13:30 Management of Patients Undergoing Non Cardiac Surgery after Percutaneous
Coornary Intervention
Huay Cheem Tan
National University Hospital, Singapore

13:42 Percutaneous Closure of the Coronary AV Fistulas: Which Method for Which Case?
Ali Oto
Hacettepe University, Turkey

13:54 Proper Management of PCI
Ashok Seth
Escorts Heart Institute & Research Centre, India
CANCELLED

14:06 Biofreedom First in Man Study 4mo Results
Alexander Abizaid
Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia, Brazil

14:18 Role of Interventional Radiology in Diabetic Foot Clinic
Gabriel Bartal
Meir Medical Center, Israel

14:30 PANEL DISCUSSION

13:30 - 15:00 LC7 - Cardiac Surgery Meets Interventional Cardiology
13:30 DEBATE
Pro: The Syntax Study Votes for Surgery in Multivessel Disease
Amir Elami
Hadassah- Hebrew University, Medical Center, Israel
Con: The Syntax Study Opens the Door for Interventional Cardiology in Multivessel
Disease
Patrick Serruys
Thorax Center, Netherlands

14:15 The Future is Hybrid: The Cardiologist and the Cardiac Surgeon Meet within the Patient's Heart
Gil Bolotin
Rambam Medical Center, Israel

14:30 PANEL DISCUSSION

13:30 - 15:00 LC8 - Aortic and Mitral Valve Innovations
SPONSORED BY MEDTRONIC

13:30 Overview of Percutaneous Mitral Valve Technologies
Gregg Stone
The Cardiovascular Research Foundation, USA

13:42 Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair with the Mitraclip System
Gian Paolo Ussia
University of Catania, Italy

13:54 Mitral Valve Repair: The Surgical Viewpoint
Ehud Raanani
Sheba Medical Center, Israel

14:06 Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation - Review of the Medtronic CoreValve post CE Mark Registry Data
Stephen J.D Brecker
St George's Hospital, UK

14:18 Second Generation Valve Replacement Devices - The Direct Flow Case
Bernie Lions
CEO of Direct Flow Inc, USA

15:30 - 17:00 S17 - Cardio-Vascular Interventions - A Case Study Session
15:30 Chest Pain and ST Elevation after PCI: A Pressing Case
Carlos Cafri
Soroka Medical Center, Israel

15:40 Thrombotic Aneurysm Management in a Post Partum Complication
Aaron Frimerman
Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Israel

15:50 A Novel Concept in Endovascular Stenting for the Treatment of Recurrent Subacute Stent Thrombosis: The M-Guard Stent
Alberto Hendler
Assaf Harofe Medical Center, Israel

16:00 How to Seal an Unusual Case of Perforation
Georg Gaul
Hanusch-Krankenhaus, Austria

16:10 Aggressive Multidisciplinary Approach to Primary Pulmonary Artery Sarcoma
Oz M Shapira
Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel

16:20 Coronary Perforation: If You Can't Cover It, Glue It
Haim Danenberg
Hadassah - Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel

16:30 Percutaneous Treatment in a Patient with Severe Aortic-Valve Stenosis and Significant Coronary Stenosis: When Should We Fix Each Stenosis?
Danny Dvir
Rabin Medical Center. Tel-Aviv University, Israel

16:40 Treatment of Combined Severe Valvular Aortic Stenosis and Discrete Sub-aortic stenosis with Percutaneous CoreValve Aortic Valve Implantation
Shmuel Banai
The Tel Aviv Medical Center, Israel

16:50 Percutaneous Aortic Valve Implantation Using Novel Imaging Guidance
Danny Dvir
Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv
University, Israel

15:30 - 17:00 S18 - Structural Heart Disease
15:30 Emerging Tech Talk Within the PFO Device World
Mark Reisman
Swedish Heart and Vascular Institute, USA

15:42 Congenital Heart Interventions in the Elderly
Rafael Hirsch
Rabin Medical Center- Beilinson Campus, Israel

15:54 3D Rotational Angiography - A New Approach for Interventions in Structural Heart Disease
Elchanan Bruckheimer
Schneider Children's Medical Center, Israel

16:06 Transcatheter Coil Occlusion of VSD
Avraham Lorber
Rambam Mdical Center, Israel

16:18 Percutaneous Closure of PFO: Is It Time to Refine the Indications?
Ali Oto
Hacettepe University, Turkey

16:30 PANEL DISCUSSION

15:30 - 17:05 S19 - Technology Parade - New Devices for Interventional Cardiology
15:30 Tikkun Olam: Call for more Heart, more Passion, more Honesty, and All Urgency
Thomas A Gordy
CeloNova BioSciences, USA
Invited Lecture

15:42 CTO: New Approaches
Bradley Strauss
University of Toronto, Canada
Invited Lecture

15:54 Optimize Provisional Stenting with Dedicated Tools
Christoph Kurt Naber
TriReme Medical Inc

16:04 New Generation of PTCA Balloon by Conic Vascular
Alessandro S Bortone
Conic Vascular Technology S.A

16:14 Novel Radio-Frequency Energy Catheter Induces Durable Plaque Modification and Luminal Patency
Meital Mazor
Minnow Medical, Inc.

16:24 Milestones in Research and Development of Novel Intravascular Stroke Preventing Implant
Yuval Shezifi
SMT R&D

16:34 Enhancing Performance in Endovascular Procedures Using New Simulation Technologies for Preoperative Planning
Ariel Roguin
Simbionix

16:44 Polyzene®-F: The NanoThin Defense Against Stent Thrombosis
Thomas Gordy
CeloNova BioSciences of Europe B.V.

16:54 The QuickClose Design 9 Vascular Closure Device (VCD) by CardioDex
Victor Guetta
CardioDex

15:30 - 17:00 S20 - Acute MI
15:30 Primary PCI for AMI: Progress and Unmet Needs
Gregg Stone
The Cardiovascular Research Foundation, USA

15:42 Management of Acute Myocardial Infarction - an Update
Victor Guetta
Sheba Medical Center, Israel

15:54 Culprit Vs complete revascularization in non STEMI
Yonathan Hasin
Poria Medical Center, Israel

16:06 AMI 2009: Innovation in Treatment
Haim Danenberg
Hadassah - Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel

16:18 Multivessel PCI in STEMI: The HORIZONS Study Experience
Ran Kornowski
Rabin Medical Center and Tel Aviv University, Israel

16:30 The Microcirculation in Acute MI
Uri Rosenschein
Bnei Tzion Medical Center, Israel

16:42 Thrombus Extraction in Acute Myocardial Infarction
Christoph Kurt Naber
Elisabeth Hospital Essen, Germany