Annual Cardiovascular Scientific Day
 
 
In order to bring together faculty from the Heart & Stroke/Richard Lewar Centre of Excellence and across the University of Toronto, an annual Cardiovascular Scientific Day is held each year in April. The goal is to provide updates on the frontiers of cardiovascular sciences. Symposium topics are drawn from all research themes, from basic biomedical to clinical to outcomes; it is hoped that discussion will promote cross-fertilization of ideas and research direction. 

Next Annual Cardiovascular Scientific Day: Thursday April 19, 2012
 
For information about past Cardiovascular Scientific Days, please see the program archives.

Program

7:30 am – 8:15 am                         Registration, continental breakfast, poster set-up

8:15 am – 8:25 am                         Welcome and Opening Remarks

                                                                Dr. Mansoor Husain

                                                               

Atrial Fibrillation Symposium:                                                                                                                                              

8:25 am – 8:30 am                         Chair: Dr. Paul Dorian

8:30 am – 9:00 am                         Richard Lewar Plenary Lecture – “The mechanism of sustained human AF and Electrogram based ablation strategy.”

Dr. Sanjiv Narayan MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, University of California San Diego, Director, EP Fellowship Training Program, UCSD, Director, EP Program, VA San Diego Healthcare System

9:00 am – 9:10 am                         Question & Answer

 

9:10 am – 9:40 am                         Heart & Stroke Keynote Lecture –"Electrogram based ablation of Atrial Fibrillation: is it useful and practical?”

Dr. Allan Skanes MD, FRCPC, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Western University, Cardiologist, Division of Cardiology, London Health Science Centre, Director, Electrophysiology Lab, London Health Sciences Centre, London

9:40 am – 9:50 am                         Question & Answer

9:50 am – 10:20 am                       Refreshment Break, Poster Viewing & Discussion

10:20 am – 10:50 am                    Science Day Visiting Lecture "Heritable Factors in Atrial Fibrillation"

Dr. Michael Gollob MD, FRCPC,  Cardiac Electrophysiologist, Director, Inherited Arrhythmia Clinic and Arrhythmia Research Laboratory, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa

10:50 am – 11:00 am                    Question & Answer

11:00 am – 11:22 am                    Dr. Scott Heximer - “RGS4 function in atrial tissue: protecting the fabric of the space-time continuum?”

11:22 am – 11:30 am                    Question & Answer

               

11:30 am – 11:52 am                    Dr. Peter Backx - "Atrial fibrillation induced by exercise: what every high-performance athlete should know"

11:52 am – 12:00 pm                    Question & Answer

12:00 pm – 12:45 pm                   LUNCH

12:45 pm – 2:15 pm                      Poster Sessions

Breakout Sessions                      

2:15 pm – 3:45 pm                        

Session 1:                                         Topic: Diabetic Heart Disease

Chair: Dr. Kim Connolly            

Speakers:

Background: metabolism and cardiac stiffness - Kim Connelly

1. Metabolic derangements and diabetic cardiomyopathy: Insights from a novel imaging technique using hyperpolarized 12C MRI - Marie Shroeder

2. Protein kinase C inhibition: what's good for the kidney is good for the heart – Richard Gilbert

3. Role of extracellular matrix and matrix receptors in DCM – Christopher McCulloch

4. Our latest science on GLP-1 and the cardiovascular system, and where do we go from here? – Mansoor Husain

Discussion Panel

Session 2:                                         Topic: Atrial Fibrillation; Where to go from here?

Chair: Dr. Peter Backx

Speakers:

1. Current treatments, Paul Dorian

2. Do current treatment strategies work?, Andrew Ha

3. To ablate or not, Nanthakumar Kumar/Vijay Chauhan

4. New Pharmacological/Molecular Targets, Peter Backx

5. Where do we go from here?, Michael Gollob

Discussion Panel: Drs. Paul Dorian, Nanthakumar Kumar, Andrew Ha, Vijay Chauhan, Scott Heximer, Michael Gollob

Session 3:                                         Topic: Moving from developmental biology to "cures" - what is the way forward?

Chair: Dr. Ian Scott

Speakers:

1. Basic heart development/cardiac

progenitors/heart regeneration – Dr. Ian Scott

2. Stem cell modelling of CM differentiation (and the pitfalls/things to overcome) – Alec Witty

3. Tissue engineering – Dr. Peter Zandstra

4. Stem cell therapy – Dr. Ren-Ke Li

5. Using iPS cells to model CV disease – Dr. Toshi Araki

                                 

3:45 pm – 4:00 pm                         Break

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm                         Dr. Subash C. Verma Award Lecture

                                                                                                                                                                     

 4:30 pm – 5:00 pm                        Presentation of Poster Awards            


        

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