SESSION 7 SCHEDULE
Thursday
SESSION 7: ONCOLOGY WORKSHOP 1
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Moderators:Jean Francois H. Geschwind, MD / TBD
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7:35 AM - 7:40 AM Opening Remarks
  Presenters(s):Jacob Cynamon, MD  
7:40 AM - 8:40 AM Case Presentations: Multidisciplinary Approach Yields The Best Approach
  Presenters(s):Jean Francois H. Geschwind, MD / 
END OF SESSION 7
 
SESSION 8 SCHEDULE
Thursday
SESSION 8: ONCOLOGY WORKSHOP 2
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Moderators:Joshua L. Weintraub, MD, FSIR / TBD
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8:40 AM - 9:40 AM Hands-On Percutaneous Tumor Ablation: RF, Cryo, Microwave, IRE
  Presenters(s):Joshua L. Weintraub, MD, FSIR / 
END OF SESSION 8
 
SESSION 9 SCHEDULE
Thursday
SESSION 9: ONCOLOGY WORKSHOP 3
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9:40 AM - 10:40 AM Chemoembolization And Y90
  Presenters(s):Jean Francois H. Geschwind, MD / Karen T. Brown, MD / Jonathan Susman, MD  
END OF SESSION 9
 
SESSION 10 SCHEDULE
Thursday
SESSION 10: HOT TOPICS IN LOWER EXTREMITY ENDOVASCULAR TREATMENT (5-MINUTE TALKS)
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Moderators:Jacob Cynamon, MD
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6:40 AM - 6:45 AM Opening Remarks
  Presenters(s):Frank J. Veith, MD  
6:45 AM - 6:50 AM Overview Of Atherectomy Devices: What Is The Evidence They Add Anything But Cost?
 
6:51 AM - 6:56 AM Debate 4: Rotational Atherectomy Devices Really Work In Certain Specific Situations: What Are They? What Is The Proof?
 
6:57 AM - 7:03 AM Debate 4: Atherectomy Devices Are A Waste Of Time And Money
 
7:04 AM - 7:09 AM Value And Limitations Of The ANGIOSCULPT Scoring/Cutting PTA Balloon For Infrapopliteal Lesions: 2-Year Results Of The MASCOT Trial: Will This Decrease The Need For Stents?
 
7:10 AM - 7:15 AM Cool Excimer Laser Assisted PTA vs. Balloon PTA With New Improved Balloons For Tibial Occlusive Disease Causing Critical Limb Ischemia (CLI): Is The Laser Of Real Value And When?
 
7:16 AM - 7:21 AM Tips, Tricks And Bailout Strategies For Subintimal Angioplasty Of Long Infrainguinal Occlusions
 
7:22 AM - 7:27 AM Debate 5: Update And 12-Month Results With Drug Eluting Balloons Show Clear Benefit For Treating SFA And Popliteal Lesions
 
7:28 AM - 7:33 AM Debate 5: It Is Not So Clear That Drug Eluting Balloons Work
 
7:34 AM - 7:39 AM Prevention And Treatment Of In-Stent Restenosis
 
7:40 AM - 7:45 AM Will Long Nitinol Stents (Like the 20 cm EVERFLEX) Replace Bypass Surgery For Long Fempop Occlusions?
 
7:46 AM - 7:58 AM Panel Discussion
END OF SESSION 10
 
SESSION 11 SCHEDULE
Thursday
SESSION 11: MORE LOWER EXTREMITY HOT TOPICS, ESPECIALLY REGARDING STENTS (5-MINUTE TALKS)
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Moderators:TBD
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7:59 AM - 8:04 AM Role Of Current Stents In Lower Extremity Occlusive Disease In 2009: What Is The Most Recent Evidence Including That From The STRIDES And VIASTAR Studies?
 
8:05 AM - 8:10 AM 2-Year Results Of The ZILVER-PTX Drug-Eluting Stent For SFA Lesions
  Presenters(s):Michael D. Dake, MD  
8:11 AM - 8:16 AM Status Of The TURBO BOOSTER Spectranetics Laser For Lower Extremity Occlusive Disease: Has It Changed Things?
 
8:17 AM - 8:22 AM New Concepts In Stent Design: The Micromesh-Covered SESAME Stent: Design And Clinical Experience
 
8:23 AM - 8:28 AM Technical Tips And Results Of Transpedal Approach For Revascularizing Tibial Artery Occlusions Which Cannot Be Crossed From Above
 
8:29 AM - 8:34 AM Indication And Techniques For Transpedal Approach In The Treatment Of Critical Limb Ischemia
 
8:35 AM - 8:40 AM New Technique For Distal PTA Of Tibial Arteries: The Pedal Arch Route For Access: Can It Work In Diabetics?
 
8:41 AM - 8:46 AM Need For Distal Embolic Filtration Devices With Lower Extremity Atherectomy And Laser Angioplasty
 
8:47 AM - 8:52 AM Incidence Of Embolization After Lower Extremity Percutaneous Revascularization
 
8:53 AM - 8:58 AM Choice Of Access For Below-Knee Interventions: Up And Over vs. Antegrade
 
8:59 AM - 9:10 AM Panel Discussion
END OF SESSION 11
 
SESSION 12 SCHEDULE
Thursday
SESSION 12: MORE LOWER EXTREMITY HOT TOPICS (5-MINUTE TALKS)
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Moderators:Frank J. Veith, MD / TBD
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9:10 AM - 9:15 AM Devices And Simplified Strategies For Crossing Total Occlusions
 
9:16 AM - 9:21 AM Value And Limitations Of Drug-Eluting Stents (DES) In The Treatment Of Critical Limb Ischemia (CLI)
 
9:22 AM - 9:27 AM DES vs. Bare Metal Stents (BMS) To Treat Below-Knee Lesions: 1-Year Angiographic Results Of The DESTINY Trial
 
9:28 AM - 9:33 AM Below-Knee DES For CLI: Results With 2-Year Follow-Up
 
9:34 AM - 9:39 AM Intraoperative Stem Cell Treatment Delivered With A Novel Device To Improve Limb Salvage Rates
 
9:40 AM - 9:45 AM Debate 6: DES In The SFA Will Have A Positive Impact
 
9:46 AM - 9:51 AM Debate 6: DES In The SFA Are Not Needed
 
9:52 AM - 9:57 AM 5-Year Results With Zilver Stents Across The Knee Are Good
 
9:58 AM - 10:03 AM With Foot Gangrene And Ulceration Wound Healing Occurs Faster And Better With A Bypass Than With Endovascular Treatments
 
10:04 AM - 10:18 AM Panel Discussion

CONCLUSION OF PROGRAMS A AND B. AIMsymposium continues in the Trianon Ballroom, 3rd Floor as Plenary Sessions. VEITHsymposium continues in the Grand Ballroom, 3rd Floor as Plenary Sessions.
END OF SESSION 12
 
SESSION 13 SCHEDULE
Thursday
SESSION 13: IMAGING FOR VASCULAR INTERVENTION
Moderators:TBD
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11:00 AM - 11:10 AM Preprocedural Imaging MRA Or CTA: Which Is Best For Evaluation Of PVD?
  Presenters(s):Barry Stein, MD, FSIR, FACR  
11:10 AM - 11:20 AM Preprocedural Imaging MRA Or CTA: Which Is Best For Evaluation Of Aortic And Visceral Disease?
  Presenters(s):Robert A. Lookstein, MD, FSIR, FAHA  
11:20 AM - 11:30 AM Improved MRA With Improved Blood Pool Contrast
 
11:30 AM - 11:40 AM In Patients With Renal Insufficiency, MRA Can Be Performed Adequately Without Contrast
  Presenters(s):Eli Atar, MD  
11:40 AM - 11:50 AM How To Grow Your Interventional Practice Using Cross-Sectional Imaging
  Presenters(s):Timothy W.I. Clark, MD  
11:50 AM - 12:00 PM The IR Suite Of The Future Is Here Today: How We Have Incorporated Imaging And Surgery In Our Center
  Presenters(s):Barry T. Katzen, MD  
12:00 PM - 12:10 PM Technical Tips For CO2 Angiography
  Presenters(s):James Caridi, MD  
12:10 PM - 12:20 PM The Value Of Fluoro CT For Vascular And Non Vascular Intervention
 
12:20 PM - 12:30 PM Fluoro-TRACE: A New Roadmapping Technique That Simplifies Vascular Intervention
  Presenters(s):Jacob Cynamon, MD  
12:30 PM - 12:40 PM Panel Discussion
12:40 PM - 1:20 PM Lunch Break
END OF SESSION 13
 
SESSION 14 SCHEDULE
Thursday
SESSION 14: SFA/POPLITEAL/TIBIAL DISEASE
Moderators:TBD
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1:20 PM - 1:30 PM What Is The Best Medical Treatment For PVD?
  Presenters(s):Andrew S. Blum, MD  
1:30 PM - 1:40 PM Intermittent Claudication: What Have We Learned From The Randomized Trials?
  Presenters(s):Timothy P. Murphy, MD  
1:40 PM - 1:50 PM New And Improved Stents Can Improve Results Of SFA Stenting
  Presenters(s):Götz M. Richter, MD, PhD  
1:50 PM - 2:00 PM The Contemporary “CLI Tool Box”: New Devices Including Atherectomy Devices And New Crossing Systems
  Presenters(s):Gary M. Ansel, MD  
2:00 PM - 2:10 PM Crossing Long Tibial Occlusions: Technical Tips
  Presenters(s):Gary M. Ansel, MD  
2:10 PM - 2:20 PM The Micromesh-Covered Stent (SESAME Stent): A New Concept In Stent Design
 
2:20 PM - 2:30 PM Current Status Of Angiogenesis In Patients With Non Reconstructible PVD
 
2:30 PM - 2:40 PM Popliteal Aneurysms: Stent-Grafts Should Be The Preferred Mode Of Treatment
  Presenters(s):Barry T. Katzen, MD  
2:40 PM - 2:50 PM Duplex Guided PTA: Is It Truly Feasible Or Is It A Hoax?
 
2:50 PM - 3:00 PM Outpatient Endovascular Procedures: What Can And Cannot Be Done In The Outpatient Center?
 
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Panel Discussion
END OF SESSION 14
 
SESSION 15 SCHEDULE
Thursday
SESSION 15: RENAL
Moderators:David W. Trost, MD
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3:30 PM - 3:40 PM Improving Renal Perfusion During Contrast Studies May Help Preserve Renal Function In Patients With Renal Insufficiency
  Presenters(s):John H. Rundback, MD, FSIR, FAHA  
3:40 PM - 3:50 PM Renal Intervention: Techniques And Results Of A Large Single Center Study
  Presenters(s):Thomas A. Sos, MD  
3:50 PM - 4:00 PM New Improved Renal Stent Systems: Is Smaller Better?
  Presenters(s):Götz M. Richter, MD, PhD  
4:00 PM - 4:10 PM What Have We Learned From The Randomized Renal Artery Stent Trials?
  Presenters(s):Timothy P. Murphy, MD  
4:10 PM - 4:20 PM Panel Discussion
END OF SESSION 15
 
SESSION 16 SCHEDULE
Thursday
SESSION 16: VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLIC DISEASE
Moderators:Jacob Cynamon, MD
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4:20 PM - 4:30 PM Venous Thromboembolic Disease: Randomized Prospective Trial To Determine Efficacy Of Aggressive Management Of DVT
 
4:30 PM - 4:40 PM Tips And Tricks For Stenting Chronic Venous Occlusions
 
4:40 PM - 4:50 PM Outpatient Treatment Of DVT
 
4:50 PM - 5:00 PM Optional IVC Filter Removal: Tips For Difficult Cases
  Presenters(s):David W. Trost, MD  
5:00 PM - 5:10 PM Fatal Complications Of Interventional Management Of SVC Syndrome
  Presenters(s):Jacob Cynamon, MD  
5:10 PM - 5:20 PM Panel Discussion
END OF SESSION 16
 
SESSION 17 SCHEDULE
Thursday
SESSION 17: UTERINE FIBROID EMBOLIZATION/PELVIC ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION
Moderators:TBD
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5:20 PM - 5:30 PM Pelvic Congestion Syndrome And Varicoceles: New Treatment Techniques Based On Recent Data
 
5:30 PM - 5:40 PM Step-By-Step Principles And New Approaches In Treating High Flow Pelvic AVMs
  Presenters(s):Robert J. Rosen, MD  
5:40 PM - 5:50 PM Overview Of Uterine Fibroids And Their Management
  Presenters(s):David N. Siegel, MD  
5:50 PM - 6:00 PM We Can Now Recommend UFE To Patients Who Want To Maintain Or Improve Their Fertility – Or Can We?
 
6:00 PM - 6:10 PM Tried And True Embolic Agent For UFE: Why Gamble When The Results Are So Good?
 
6:10 PM - 6:20 PM We Can Do Better: A New Embolic Agent With Improved Features
  Presenters(s):Götz M. Richter, MD, PhD  
6:20 PM - 6:30 PM Comparing New Entrants To Established Standards: Quantitative In Vitro And In Vivo Comparisons Of Embozene To Embosphere
 
6:30 PM - 6:40 PM Panel Discussion
END OF SESSION 17