SATURDAY, MAY 24, 2008

7:00 AM – 7:30 AM Registration
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM Breakfast and learn

SESSION 5 Chairpersons: Rafael Calderón, MD * David Braguín, MD

8:30 AM – 8:55 AM
The management of acute decompensated heart failure in 2008 Ilan Wittstein, MD
8:55 AM – 9:00 AM Questions and Answers
9:00 AM – 9:25 AM
Update in Approach to Chronic Ischemic Heart Disease: New medications, more medication, and less intervention? Pamela Ouyang, MD
9:25 AM – 9:30 AM Questions and Answers
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM Break

SESSION 6 Chairperson: Eduardo J. Viruet, MD

10:00 AM – 10:15 AM
Comparison of AICD implants at VA Caribbean Healthcare System vs. Latin American implant (ICD Registry) Raúl Oviedo, MD - Fellow VA Luis Rodríguez Ospina, MD - Attending VA
10:15 AM – 10:20 AM Questions and Answers
10:20 AM – 10:35 AM
Case Report: Large Coronary Aneurysm in a Young Kawasaki Patient Alexis Canino, MD - Fellow UDH Rafael Cox, MD - Attending UDH
10:35 AM – 10:40 AM Questions and Answers

SESSION 7 Chairpersons: Juan José Hernández, MD * Juan Aranda, MD

10:40 AM – 11:05 AM
Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy for Congestive Heart Failure Joseph E. Marine, MD
11:05 AM – 11:10 AM Questions and Answers
11:10 AM – 11:35 AM
Pacemaker Complications Jeffrey Brinker, MD
11:35 AM – 11:40 AM Questions and Answers
11:40 AM – 12:05 PM
The Marfan Syndrome: Of Mice and Men Duke Cameron, MD
12:05 PM – 12:10 PM Questions and Answers
12:10 PM – 12:45 PM
Satellite Conference
12:45 PM – 2:00 PM Lunch

SESSION 8 Chairperson: Arturo Medina Ruíz, MD

2:00 PM – 2:25 PM
Visualization of Plaque with Cardiac CT Edward Shapiro, MD
2:25 PM – 2:30 PM Questions and Answers
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
2008 Distinguished Citizen Award LUIS IZQUIERDO MORA, MD
3:30 - 4:30 PM Social Activity