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UPCOMING PROGRAMS & EVENTS<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>
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09\/18 (2013)<\/p>\n

Seventh International Symposium<\/h5>\n

On Interventional Electrophysiology in the Management of Cardaic Arrhythmias, Munich, Germany.<\/p>\n

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Overall structure and Objectives of Program<\/strong><\/p>\n

Focus on advances in basic science and technology, evolving new techniques and therapies in an evidence based world of medicine<\/p>\n

(WEDNESDAY) September 18:<\/strong><\/p>\n

4 Featured Workshops complemented by case studies and live cases<\/strong><\/p>\n

Objective: Designed to showcase new drugs, technologies and\/or teach new antiarrhythmic therapy, complex or new procedures in cardiac rhythm management and cardiology Cardiovascular & Electrophysiology Fellows Course<\/p>\n

(THURSDAY) September 19:<\/strong>
\nDidactic lectures and interactive discussions<\/p>\n

Objectives: New directions in basic science and technology with therapeutic impact: Trends in current therapy for the practicing cardiologist and EP<\/p>\n

Sessions: I, II, III, IV<\/strong><\/p>\n

Basic science and Pharmacology
\nNew Technology
\nAtrial Fibrillation: Pharmacology and Clinical trials of Anticaogulants
\nPacing & ICD Therapy: New technology (wireless devices and MRI safe devices and leads, applications of remote monitoring, current Registries and clinical trials) Ventricular Fibrillation and Sudden Death<\/div>\n

(FRIDAY) September 20:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Objectives: Integrating advances in basic science and technology into an evidence based world<\/p>\n

Sessions: V, VI, VII<\/strong><\/p>\n

Catheter ablation: clinical trials
\nHeart failure clinical trials
\nOutcomes and Clinical Trials in Electrophysiology and Pacing<\/div>\n
Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology 2013<\/h6>\n
An International Symposium<\/div>\n

Course Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thorsten Lewalter & Sanjeev Saksena<\/strong><\/p>\n

INTERNATIONAL FACULTY<\/strong>
\nMartin Bergmann, Hamburg, Germany
\nLeif-Hendrik Boldt, Berlin, Germany
\nJohannes Brachmann, Coburg, Germany
\nA. John Camm, London, United Kingdom
\nRiccardo Cappato, Milan, Italy
\nIsabell Deisenhofer, Munich, Germany
\nThomas Deneke, Bad Neustadt, Germany
\nDobromir Dobrev, Essen, Germany
\nUwe Dorwarth, Munich, Germany
\nNico Doll, Stuttgart, Germany
\nMichael Ezekowitz, Wynnewood, PA, US
\nAndreas Goette, Paderborn, Germany
\nGerhard Hindricks, Leipzig, Germany
\nEllen Hoffman, Munich, Germany
\nWerner Jung, Villingen, Germany
\nRaj Kaushik, Passaic, NJ, US
\nHelmut Klein, Munich, Germany
\nDhanunjay Lakireddy, Kansas City, KS, US
\nThorsten Lewalter, Munich, Germany
\nSam Levy, Marseille, France
\nBerndt L\u00fcderitz, Bonn, Germany
\nDavendra Mehta, New York, NY
\nGerald Naccarelli, Hershey, PA, US
\nRandy Nagarakanti, New Orleans, LA, US
\nSanjiv Narayan, San Diego, CA, US
\nAndrea Natale, MD, Austin, TX, US
\nGeorg N\u00f6lker, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
\nArne Pfeufer, Munich, Germany
\nStefan Sack, Munich, Germany
\nSanjeev Saksena, New Brunswick, NJ, US
\nKamal Sethi, New Delhi, India
\nBalbir Singh, New Delhi, India
\nApril Slee, MS, Warren, NJ, US
\nGerhard Steinbeck, Munich, Germany
\nKlaus Tiemann, Munich, Germany
\nErnst Vester, Duesseldorf, Germany
\nStephen Wildhirt, Munich, Germany
\nStephan Willems, Hamburg, Germany<\/div>\n
(Wednesday) September 18<\/h6>\n

Workshop 1: Imaging, Mapping and Navigation in the EP Lab \u2013 New Techniques and How to Apply Them (An Interactive faculty-audience workshop)<\/strong><\/p>\n

8:00-10:00
\n(Co-Chairs): Klaus Tiemann & Balbir Singh<\/strong>
\n8:00-8:20 Intracardiac Echocardiography: How to perform ICE guided CRT & LAA imaging
\nfrom new imaging windows:
\nSanjeev Saksena
\n8:20-8:40
\nCardiac MRI and Cardiac CT: How to integrate into the EP Lab
\nKlaus Tiemann
\n8:40-9:00
\nCase Demonstration: Role of 3D TEE to guide interventional procedures
\nKlaus Tiemann
\n9:00-9:20
\nCase Demonstration: CT reconstruction of LAA morphologies
\nAndrea Natale
\n9:20-9:40
\nCase Demonstration: How to perform rotor mapping-the TOPERA technique:
\nSanjiv Narayanan
\n9:40-10:00
\nCase Demonstration: High-density mapping of AF \u2013 the RHYTHMIA experience
\ntbd
\n10:00-10:20
\nMapping and Ablation of VF: How and For Whom:
\nStephan Willems
\n10:30-11:00
\nCOFFEE BREAK
\n11:00-12:30
\n(Co-Chairs): Johannes Brachmann & Sanjeev Saksena<\/strong>
\n11:00-11:20
\nNew techniques for Robotic Navigation in AF
\nAndrea Natale
\n11:20-11:40
\nRobotic Navigation with the Hansen system: Learning curves and lessons learned
\nWerner Jung
\n11:40-12:00
\nCase Demonstration: VF Ablation using Stereotaxis magnetic robotic navigation system
\nGeorg N\u00f6lker
\n12:00-12:15
\nCase Demonstration: The \u201cMediguide\u201d Mapping & Ablation Experience
\nGerhard Hindricks
\n12:15-12:30
\nCase Demonstration: Catheter Ablation using the Amigo Robotic Navigation system using an open
\narchitecture ablation catheter concept
\nLeif-Hendrik Boldt
\n12:30-13:30
\nLUNCH<\/div>\n
Workshop 2: New Directions in Antiarrhythmic Therapy and Stroke Prevention<\/strong>
\n8:00-10:00
\n(Co-Chairs): Eckhard Alt & Dobromir Dobrev<\/strong>
\n8:00-8:30
\nDronedarone: guideline position and current clinical use
\nAndreas Goette
\n8:30-9:00
\nNew Targets for Antiarrhythmic Drug Therapy: Atrial specific agents and substrate modifiers:
\nDobromir Dobrev
\n9:00-9:30 Fundamentals of cardiac regeneration and repair
\nEckhard Alt
\n9:30-10:00
\nPANEL DISCUSSION
\n10:00-10:30
\nCOFFEE BREAK
\n10:30-12:30
\n(Co-Chairs): Michael Ezekowitz & Ernst Vester<\/strong>
\n10:30-11:00
\nSecond Generation NOACs: Pharmacology and Clinical Trials
\nMichael Ezekowitz
\n11:00-11:20
\nCardioversion of Atrial Fibrillation: Is Dabigatran preferable to Warfarin \u2013 The RE-LY Experience:
\nRangadham Nagarakanti
\n11:20-11:45
\nFactor X inhibitors Rivaroxaban and Apixaban: Clinical trials and application
\nErnst Vester
\n11:45\u201312:00
\nClinical Indication for left atrial appendage occlusion
\nThorsten Lewalter
\n12:00-12:15
\nCase Demonstration: Amplatzer device implantation
\nThorsten Lewalter
\n12:15-12:30
\nPANEL DISCUSSION
\n12:30-13:30
\nLUNCH<\/div>\n
Workshop 3: Advanced Catheter Ablation in AF and VT\/VF – New Technologies and Intervention Targets<\/strong>
\n13:30-18:00
\n(Co-Chairs): Andrea Natale & Gerhard Hindricks<\/strong>
\n13:30-14:00
\n\u201cState of the Art lecture\u201d: Established and Upcoming Technology for PV Disconnection<\/strong>
\nAndrea Natale
\n14:00-14:15
\nCase Demonstration: Cryo Balloon Technology
\nUwe Dorwarth
\n14:15-14:30
\nCase Demonstration: Endoscopic Laser Balloon Ablation
\nThorsten Lewalter
\n14:30-14:45
\nPANEL DISCUSSION
\n14:45-15:15
\nCOFFEE BREAK
\n15:15-15:45
\n\u201cState of the Art lecture\u201d: Substrate Identification and Ablation Strategy in persistent AF<\/strong>
\nMichel Haissaguerre
\n15:45-16:00
\nCase Demonstration: Ablation of Human AF Rotors
\nSanjiv Narayan
\n16:00-16:15
\nCase Demonstration: Ablation of CFAE\u00b4s
\nIsabell Deisenhofer
\n16:15-16:30
\nCase Demonstration: Hybrid therapy for AF treatment
\nSanjeev Saksena
\n16:30-16:45
\nPANEL DISCUSSION
\n(Co-Chairs):<\/strong>
\nRaj Kaushik & Nico Doll
\n16:45-17:15
\n\u201cState of the Art lecture\u201d: Ablation in in persistent AF – the surgeons perspective
\nNico Doll
\n17:15-17:30
\nCase Demonstration: Endoscopic Surgical AF Ablation as part of a hybrid strategy
\nStephen Wildhirt
\n17:30-17:45
\nCase Demonstration: Stand alone surgical AF ablation
\nNico Doll
\n17:45-18:00
\nPANEL DISCUSSION and WRAP-UP<\/div>\n
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Workshop 4: New Devices for Rhythm Monitoring, Bradycardia, Heart Failure and Hypertension<\/strong>
\n13:30-14:45
\n(Co-Chairs): Gerhard Steinbeck & Sanjeev Saksena<\/strong>
\n13:30-14:00
\nLeadless Microimplants for Pacing and Continous Rhythm
\nMonitoring and Case Demonstration
\ntbd
\n14:00-14:30
\nExperience with MRI Safe Devices:
\nWerner Jung
\n14:10-14:45
\nCase Demonstration: Renal Denervation<\/p>\n

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      • St. Jude System tbd<\/li>\n
      • Boston System tbd<\/li>\n
      • Laser Lead Extraction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Raj Kaushik<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        14:45-15:15
        \nCOFFEE BREAK
        \n15:15-17:00
        \n(Co-Chairs): Kamal Sethi & Andreas Goette<\/strong>
        \n15:15\u201315:30
        \nClinical Experience with Subcutaneous defibrillator:
        \nRiccardo Cappato
        \n15:30-15:50
        \nWireless Telemetry and Remote Monitoring of ICDs\/CRT\u00b4s:
        \nPractical implementation and environmental interactions:
        \nStefan Sack
        \n15:50-16:10
        \nCardiac Contractility Modulation\/CCM \u2013 Pathophysiology, clinical trials and Case demonstration
        \ntbd
        \n16:10-16:30
        \nBridge therapy in Defibrillation \u2013 Increasing role of the LIFEVEST concept.
        \nHelmut Klein
        \n16:30-16:45
        \nCase Demonstration: Subcutaneous ICD implantation
        \nRiccardo Cappato
        \n16:45-17:00
        \nCase Demonstration: Intraoperative Optimization of CRT with ICE
        \nSanjeev Saksena
        \n17:45-18:00
        \nPANEL DISCUSSION and WRAP-UP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

        Thursday, September 19, 2013<\/h6>\n
        8:00
        \nWelcome: T Lewalter\/S Saksena
        \nOpening Plenary Session
        \nInterventional EP: Past, Present and Future
        \n(Co-Chairs): John Camm and Gerald Naccarelli<\/strong>
        \n8:10-8:25
        \nIntroduction: Symposium on Interventional Electrophysiology:
        \nT Lewalter & B L\u00fcderitz
        \n8:25\u20138:45
        \nWelcome Adress
        \ntbd
        \n8:45-9:00
        \nKeynote Lecture: Thromboembolic risk in Interventional
        \nElectrophysiology Practice: Recent Advances in Diagnosis and Management<\/strong>
        \nMichael Ezekowitz
        \n9:00-10:40
        \nSession I: Advances in Basic Science and Regenerative Medicine
        \n(Co-Chairs): M Bergmann \/ D Dobrev
        \n9:00-9:30
        \nGenetics in AF \u2013 Current Understanding
        \nA Pfeufer
        \n9:30-10:00
        \nThe Atrial Substrate and Novel molecular targets for AF therapy
        \nD Dobrev
        \n10:00-10:30
        \nStem Cell Therapy for Heart Disease: Current Clinical Status
        \nM Bergmann
        \n10:30-11:00
        \nCOFFEE BREAK
        \n11:00-13:00
        \nSession II: New Technologies in Catheter Ablation<\/strong>
        \n(Co-Chairs): S Saksena \/ S Willems<\/strong>
        \n11:00 \u2013 11:20
        \nMediguide \u2013 Impact on Catheter Ablation Techniques and Workflow
        \nD Lakireddy
        \n11:20-11:40
        \nStereotactic and Robotic Systems for Catheter Manipulation
        \nG N\u00f6lker
        \n11:40-12:00
        \nEndoscopic Ablation Systems
        \nT Lewalter
        \n12:00-12:30
        \nRenal Denervation \u2013 New Tools and new applications
        \ntbd
        \n12:30-13:00
        \nContact force measurement \u2013 the final missing link in catheter ablation?
        \ntbd
        \n13:00-14:00
        \nLUNCH
        \n14:00-15:50
        \nSession III: Atrial Fibrillation: Pharmacology and Clinical trials of Anticaogulants<\/strong>
        \n(Co-Chairs): M Ezekowitz & J Brachmann<\/strong>
        \n14:00-14:20
        \nClinical Trials with Atrial Specific Agents
        \nD Dobrev
        \n14:20-14:40
        \nRAAS Inhibitors and Fish Oils: Do They Have a Role in Preventing AF?
        \nG Naccarelli
        \n14:40-15:00
        \nNewer antithrombotics and their antidotes: current status
        \nS L\u00e9vy\u00a015:00-15:30
        \nKeynote Lecture: Guidelines for antiarrhythmic and anticoagulant therapy:
        \nTrial evidence versus Post marketing Surveillance<\/strong>
        \nAJ Camm
        \n15:30-15:50
        \nPANEL DISCUSSION
        \n15:50-16:15
        \nCOFFEE BREAK
        \n16:15-18:00
        \nSession IV: Pacing and Defibrillation
        \n(Co-Chairs): S Saksena & B L\u00fcderitz<\/strong>
        \n16:15-17:10
        \nLeft ventricular or biventricular pacing? Single or multielectrode leads? An implanter\u2019s viewpoint
        \nK Sethi
        \n17:10-17:30
        \nICE guided cardiac resynchronization therapy and the CHOICE trial
        \nA Slee
        \n17:30-17:50
        \nSubcutaneous defibrillator: clinical evidence and current practice
        \nR Cappato
        \n17:50-18:10
        \nReverse remodeling of the left atrium with dual site right atrial pacing
        \nR Nagarakanti
        \n18:10-18:30
        \nPANEL DISCUSSION<\/div>\n
        Friday September 20, 2013<\/h6>\n
        8:00-9:45
        \nSession V: Catheter ablation and Treatment strategies in VT and Atrial Fibrillation:
        \nclinical trials
        \n(Co-Chairs): G Naccarelli & R Cappato<\/strong>
        \n8:00-8:20
        \nConcepts and Current Trial Status of VT ablation in Structural Heart Disease
        \nB Singh
        \n8:20-8:40
        \nDronedarone \u2013 Trial status and perspective
        \nG Naccarelli
        \n8:40-9:00
        \nFREEZE and Fire&ICE: Is the Cryo-Ballon \u201chot\u201d?
        \nE Hoffmann
        \n9:00-9:20
        \nIs Mortality the key outcome for AF therapy trials?
        \nS. Saksena
        \n9:20-9:40
        \nCryptogenic Stroke \u2013 The CRYSTAL AF Study
        \nJ Brachmann
        \n9:40-11:00
        \nSession VI: Heart failure clinical trials
        \n(Co-Chairs): E Hoffmann & KK Sethi<\/strong>
        \n9:40-10:00
        \nRemote Heart Failure Monitoring in Device Patients
        \nS Sack
        \n10:00-10:20
        \nNew Sensor Technology for HF in Clinical Trials
        \nD Lakireddy
        \n10:20-11:00
        \nCASTLE-AF: Is there an AF-HF dialogue?
        \nJ Brachmann
        \n10:45-11:00
        \nPANEL DISCUSSION
        \n11:00-11:15
        \nCOFFEE BREAK
        \n11:15-13:00
        \nSession VII: Outcomes and Clinical Trials (Co-Chairs): Thorsten Lewalter & S Saksena<\/strong>
        \n11:15-11:45
        \nKey Note Lecture: History of Oral Anticoagulation
        \nB L\u00fcderitz
        \n11:45-12:05
        \nBoutique Indications for ICD\u00b4s: Channelopathies and uncommon cardiomyopathis
        \nDavendra Mehta
        \n12:05-12:25
        \nSillent stroke in catheter ablation procedures: outcomes and clinical trials
        \nT Deneke
        \n12:25-12:55 Periprocedural anticoagulation with dabigatran, rivaroxaban and apixaban
        \nS L\u00e9vy
        \n12:55-13:00
        \nClosing Remarks: Sanjeev Saksena<\/div>\n<\/div>
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