World Heart Foundation International Symposium for Cardiac Care Teleconference Training Series
story from Vietnam Development Information Center (VDIC)Past symposium sessions can be accessed online
Funded by the VinaCapital Foundation Vietnam, the World Heart Foundation and supported by the World Bank Global Development Learning Network Asia Pacific, this regional program links surgeons and doctors involved in cardiac care in developing countries with the world’s best in cardio-thoracic surgery, cardiology and pediatric cardiac care.
The World Heart Foundation International Symposium for Cardiac Care allows doctors from all over Vietnam to congregate in GDLN centers in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi and other Asian sites for a series of lectures by exemplary leaders in the field of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery and Cardiology. The series is interactive and enables participants to ask questions after the presentations. The lectures are also webcast to enable worldwide participation and then compiled into a DVD series which will be distributed by World Heart Foundation to surgical programs in developing countries around the world.
Each series will include several sessions with a total of 12-20 topics covered in each series. The first series included 11 sessions, with world-class expert surgeons and researchers for the topic requested such as: Atrial Fibrillation (November 13, 2008); Coronary Bypass Surgery (December 11, 2008); Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease (January 8, 2009); Repair, AVR, Ross (March 12, 2009);Surgery for Atrioventricular Ventricular Septal Defects and Atrioventricular Septal Defects and Complete A-V Canal Anesthetic and ICU Management (May 14, 2009); Thoracic Aortic Surgery (July 9, 2009); Early and late results following repair of Ebstein’s anomaly and Techniques of tricuspid valve repair for Ebstein’s anomaly (September 10, 2009) and the 1st session on Cardiology (October 8, 2009) and Echocardiography in Transposed Great Vessels; Prenatal to Post-op, Angiography and Interventions in Transposition of the Great Vessels, Transposition of the Great Vessels – Diagnosis & Treatment ( November 12, 2009); another session on Cardiology (December, 10, 2009) and Mitral Valve Repair, Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Replacement, Changing Options for Surgery of the Aortic Valve (Jan 14, 2010), Congenital Heart Disease in the Adult (May 13, 2010). This session will be the fourth session of the second series in 2010 with the presentation of doctors in the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, USA.
Series 2 - Session 4
Management of the Calcified Ascending Aorta;
with
Sary F. Aranki, M.D.
Associate Professor of Surgery
Harvard Medical School
Associate Chief, Division of Cardiac Surgery
Director, Clinical Research
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Aortopathy of BAV and the Management of
Ascending Aortic Aneurysms;
with
R. Morton Bolman, III, M.D.
Professor of Surgery
Harvard Medical School
Chief, Division of Cardiac Surgery
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Valve-sparing Aortic Root Replacement;
with
Prem S. Shekar, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Cardiac Surgery
Harvard Medical School
Associate Surgeon
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Please click here for the detailed agenda, presentations and others
AGENDA: VCF_Agenda_July_8.pdf
LOCATIONS:
PRESENTATIONS: Presentation.pdf
Our next symposium will be on July 11, from 8 AM to 11 AM (Hanoi time) on Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension.
Webcast Participants: Please first REGISTER for the symposium by completing the contact form below
Live webcast HERE.
NOTICE: Information submitted via this contact form will be sent to World Heart Foundation for use in organizing and managing this series.