2017 ISHLT Academy Core Competencies in Mechanical Circulatory Support
4 April, 2017 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
San Diego, CA, USA
The educational goals of this activity are to provide a concise review of clinical knowledge and essential professional skills to facilitate best practice of surgical and medical aspects involved in the care of patients during assessment as candidates and as recipients of mechanical circulatory support.
While all members are invited to enroll, this course is primarily designed to be of benefit for clinicians and allied professionals who are in the early stages of their careers or who are in training and/or are part of a new program or desire an update on the current state of the field.
Scientific ProgramAcademy Chairs
Jennifer Cowger, MD, MSAcademy Chair
St. Vincent Heart Center of Indiana
Indianapolis, IN USA
Palak Shah, MD, MSAcademy Co-Chair
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
Falls Church, VA USA
Diyar Saeed, MD, PhDAcademy Co-Chair
Heinrich-Heine University, Dussledorf, Germany
Jennifer Cowger, MD, MS, St. Vincent Heart Center of Indiana, Indianapolis, IN USA
Michael Dickinson, MD, Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids, MI USA
Jerry Estep, MD, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX USA
Jonathan Haft, MD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI USA
Douglas Horstmanshoff, MD, Integris Baptist Medical Center, Oklahoma City, OK USA
Kathleen Grady, PhD, APN, FAAN, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL USA
Paolo A Grossi, MD, PhD, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy
Anna Meyer, MD, Leipzig University Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany
Nader Moazami, MD, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH USA
Samer Najjar MD, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC USA
Vivek Rao, MD, PhD, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON Canada
Diyar Saeed, MD, PhD, Heinrich-Heine University, Dusseldorf, Germany
Christopher Salerno, MD, St Vincent Heart Center of Indiana, Indianapolis, IN USA
Thomas Schlöglhofer, BSc, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Palak Shah, MD, MS, Inova Heart and Vascular Institute, Falls Church, VA USA
Scott Silvestry, MD, Florida Transplant Institute, Orlando, FL USA
Nir Uriel, MD, New York Presbyterian, New York, NY USA
Lynne Warner Stevenson, MD, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA USA
Daniel Zimpfer, MD, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Andreas Zuckermann, MD, Medical Unviersity of Vienna, Vienna, Austria