Unless otherwise noted, speakers have nothing to disclose.

Course Director

Joseph Coselli, MD
Cardiothoracic Surgery
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States
Disclosure: Abbott Laboratories: Participates in Clinical Trials (Ongoing); Artivion: Participates in Clinical Trials (Ongoing); CytoSorbents: Participates in Clinical Trials (Ongoing); Edwards Lifesciences: Participates in Clinical Trials (Ongoing); Medtronic Inc.: Consultant (Ongoing), Participates in Clinical Trials (Ongoing); Terumo Aortic: Consultant (Ongoing), Principal Investigator and receives a departmental educational grant (Ongoing), Royalties (Ongoing); W.L. Gore & Associates: Consultant (Ongoing), Participates in Clinical Trials (Ongoing)

Moderators

Maral Ouzounian, MD, PhD
Head, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery
Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Disclosure: Edwards Life Sciences: Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing); Medtronic Inc: Advisory Board (Ongoing)

Panelists

Joseph Bavaria, MD, FACS, FRCS
Professor of Surgery
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Disclosure: Medtronic: Research Grant (includes principal investigator, collaborator or consultant and pending grants as well as grants already received) (Ongoing); Abbott/St. Jude Medical: DSMB Chair (Ongoing), Research Grant (includes principal investigator, collaborator or consultant and pending grants as well as grants already received) (Ongoing); Edwards Life Science: Consultant (Ongoing), Research Grant (includes principal investigator, collaborator or consultant and pending grants as well as grants already received) (Ongoing); Terumo Aortic: Research Grant (includes principal investigator, collaborator or consultant and pending grants as well as grants already received) (Ongoing), Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing); W. L. Gore & Associates: Consultant (Ongoing), Research Grant (includes principal investigator, collaborator or consultant and pending grants as well as grants already received) (Ongoing)

Leonard Girardi, MD
Professor and Chairman, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
New York, New York, United States

Ourania Preventza, MD, MBA
Professor of Surgery, Cardiac Surgeon
Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Heart Institute
Houston, Texas, United States
Disclosure: Aortic Terumo: Consultant (Ongoing); W. L. Gore & Associates: Consultant (Ongoing)