FRIDAY MAY 23, 2008

7:15 AM – 8:00 AM Registration
8:00 AM – 8:15 AM Introduction José R. Rivera del Río, MD President and Governor

SESSION 1 Chairpersons: Jorge Martínez Díaz, MD * Angie Rosado, MD

8:15 AM – 8:40 AM
Cardiovascular Disease in Women: Gender Differences and Update on Hormone Therapy Pamela Ouyang, MD
8:40 – 8:45 AM Questions and Answers
8:45 AM – 9:10 AM
Aortic root replacement: When and how Duke Cameron, MD
9:10 – 9:15 AM Questions and Answers
9:15 AM – 9:40 AM
Echo Evaluation in Cardiomyopathies Susan Mayer, MD
9:45 AM – 9:50 AM Questions and Answers
9:50 AM – 10:15 AM
Clinical Genetics of Cardiomyopathies Daniel Judge, MD
10:15 AM – 10:20 AM Questions and Answers

SESSION 2 Chairperson: José Pereyó Díaz, MD

10:20 - 10:35 AM
Case Report and Review of Literature: Pericardial Abscess in an Intravenous Drug User José Pérez, MD / Víctor Salgado, MD - Fellows UDH Arturo Medina Ruíz, MD - Attending UDH
10:35 - 10:40 AM Questions and Answers
10:40 - 10:55 AM
Case Report of aortic disease: Aortitis Alexis Rivera, MD - Fellow VA Luis Rodríguez Ospina, MD - Attending VA
10:55 - 11:00 AM Questions and Answers
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Break

SESSION 3 Chairpersons: José Gómez, MD * Jorge E. Lugo, MD

11:30 AM – 11:55 AM
Cardiac CT Angiography Current and Future Technologies David Bush, MD
11:55 AM – 12:00 N Questions and Answers
12:00 N – 12:25 PM
An approach to Non-Sustained VT in 2008 Joseph E. Marine, MD
12:25 PM – 12:30 PM Questions and Answers
12:30 PM – 1:00 PM
Satellite Conference
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Lunch

SESSION 4 Chairpersons: Miguel Campos, MD * Manuel Areces, MD

2:00 PM – 2:25 PM
Remarks from the National W. Douglas Weaver, MD, FACC President
2:00 PM – 2:25 PM
Very late stent thrombosis and DES: deciphering the data Jeffrey Trost, MD
2:25 PM – 2:30 PM Questions and Answers
2:30 PM – 2:55 PM
Drug Eluting Stents Jeffrey Brinker, MD
2:55 PM – 3:00 PM Questions and Answers
3:00 PM – 3:25 PM
Evaluation and Management of Patients with Atrial Fibrillation Hugh Calkins, MD
3:25 PM – 3:30 PM Questions and Answers
3:30 - 5:00 PM Cocktail