Updated as on February 12, 2018

First Day - Friday 16th February, 2018

Scientific Program

08:00 - 08:20 Registration and Welcome Coffee

08:20 - 08:30 Opening Remarks

SESSION I: Focus on CAD Interventions Panel: Leslie Cho, Peter Pollak, Amy Pollak MD, Faisal Bakaeen, Wael Jaber08:30 - 09:30

SESSION II: Focus on Stroke Prevention in AF Panel: Mohammed Magdi, Adel Kahlifa, Khalid Almuti, Ghaliah Almohany

09:30 - 09:50 Coffee Break

10:50 - 11:30 A Case Based Approach to optimal Heart FailurePatient Management

14:50 - 15:30 PCSK9i from Theory to Clinical Practice

11:30 - 12:10 ACS and post PCI strategies for AF patients

12:10 - 13:30 Lunch and Friday Prayer

08:30 - 08:50 Peter PollakVenu Menon

Amy Pollak

Walid Saliba

Walid Saliba

Wael Jaber

Feras Badr

Leslie Cho

Brian GriffinVenu Menon

Wael Jaber

Joseph Maalouf

Mohamed Kanj

08:50 - 09:10Patient with Asymptomatic IschemiaPatient with Acute NSTEMI in need of PCI and AF on a NOAC

09:10 - 09:30 STEMI with Non-Obstructive Coronary Arteries

09:50 - 10:10 34 y/o with HX of ASD, Stroke, and AF

10:30 - 10:50 65 y/o s/p WATCHMAN : What to look for on follow-up10:10 - 10:30 82y/o s/p AF Ablation, post LAA Isolation, Recurrent TIA in NSR

13:30 - 13:50 63 y/o woman with severe mitral stenosis and renal failure 13:50 - 14:10 Patient with Severe Symptomatic TR but high Surgical Risk14:10 - 14:30 Patient with post STEMI contained Rupture of VSD14:30 - 14:50 Patient Failing to Thrive Post MVR

09:50 - 10:50

Session III: Focus on Structural Heart DiseasePanel: Peter Pollak , Lars Svensson, Faisal Bakaeen, Dima Quraini, Abdullah Shehab, Murat Tuzcu

13:30 - 14:50

15:30 - 15:50 Coffee Break

13.00 - 14:00 Brian Griffin

Wael JaberJoseph Maalouf

15:50 - 16:10 64y/o male with Type A dissection16:10 - 16:30 66 y/o with polymyalgia rheumatic and hypertension16:30 - 16:50 A case of pregnant woman with aneurysmal

dilatation of aorta 4.3 cm

Session IV: Focus on Diseases of the AortaPanel: Lars Svensson, Wael Jaber, Venu Menon, Hussain Ismael15:50 - 16:50

Session V: EKG: Read with the Experts16:50 - 17:30 Walid Saliba, Mohamed Kanj

Second Day - Saturday 17th February, 2018

Scientific Program

Updated as on February 12, 2018

08:00 - 08:45 Registration and Welcome Coffee

Session VI: Focus on PreventionPanel: Leslie Cho, Amy Pollak, Venu Menon, Dima Quraini, Wael Al Mahmeed08:45 - 10:05

Session VII: Focus on ICD/Lead Management and CRT Panel: Adel Khalifa, Khalid Almuti, Ghaliah Almohany, Ayman Alkhadra, Hosam Zaky

10:05 - 10:35 Coffee Break

12:05 - 13:15 Lunch

14:35 - 14:50 Coffee Break

13.00 - 14:00

08:45 - 09:05 Leslie Cho

Leslie Cho

Amy PollakWael Jaber

Walid SalibaMohamed Kanj

Mohamed Kanj

Joseph MaaloufAmy Pollak

Petter PollakVenu Menon

Grace LinFeras Bader

Grace Lin

Mohamed Kanj, Walid Saliba

09:05 - 09:25

72 year old female with hyperlipidemia and mild CAD.What is the optimal blood pressure?44 year old woman with a family history of CAD

09:25 - 09:45 68 year old male with no risk factors : Should a calciumscore be done for risk stratification?

09:45 - 10:05 65 year old male with CAD and new onset diabetes

10:35 - 11:05 Unusual Cases of Lead Placement andhow to Manage

11:25 - 11:45 76 year old with ICM s/p CABG with single chamber ICD andmultiple repetitive shocks and abnormal cath

11:45 - 12:05 78 y/o gentlemen with exertional shortness of breath anddual chamber pacemaker

11:05 - 11:25 Post TAVR transient AV Block

13:15 - 13:35 49 year old s/p MVR with recurrent TIAs13:35 - 13:55 Challenging management of asymptomatic

papillary fibroelastoma13:55 - 14:15 Asymptomatic patient with multi-valve vegetations14:15 - 14:35 Endocarditis in a TAVR patient

14:50 - 15:10 31 year old female with Pulmonary Hypertension 15:10 - 15:30 46 year old male with recurrent ventricular assist device alarms15:30 - 15:50 Patient with recurrent admissions for decompensated HF

10:35 - 12:05

Session VIII: Focus on EndocarditisPanel: Faisal Bakaeen, Brian Griffin, Hussain Ismael, Ayman Alkhadra, Abdullah Shehab

13:15 - 14:30

Session IX: Focus on Heart FailurePanel: Grace Lin, Feras Bader, Venu Menon, Nooshin Bazargani14:50 - 15:50

Session X: Read with the Experts :EKG Interpretations in Acute Settings

15:50 - 16:35 Venu Menon