Cardiac Conduction System: Frontiers in Intraoperative Management

Overview

Join us for an insightful conference focused on the latest advancements in surgical approaches, imaging, and pacing technologies related to heart conduction and heterotaxy syndromes. This event will feature leading experts sharing their research, clinical experiences, and practical applications in managing complex cardiac conditions.

Attendees will gain valuable knowledge on cutting-edge techniques and regulatory aspects of bringing new medical devices to market. In-Person attendees with also have the opportunity to engage in hands-on workshops utilizing advanced EP catheter mapping and fiberoptic confocal microscopy, giving attendees a practical, in-depth experience with these cutting-edge tools.

Learning Objectives: 

At the conclusion of this educational program, learners will be able to:

1. Understand the anatomical variability in the presentation of conduction tissue following pediatric heart surgery and its implications for managing cardiac conduction issues.
2. Evaluate the current surgical techniques used to address cardiac conduction issues and identify areas for improvement based on interdisciplinary perspectives.
3. Explore the role of pathology in identifying and characterizing cardiac conduction issues, and understand how this knowledge can guide treatment decisions.
4. Discuss innovative engineering approaches and technological advancements in reducing and managing cardiac conduction issues after pediatric heart surgery.
5. Develop strategies for interdisciplinary collaboration among healthcare professionals to foster the ideal practice of a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to the management of cardiac conduction issues in pediatric heart surgery patients.

In support of improving patient care, Boston Children’s Hospital is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physician

Boston Children’s Hospital designates this live activity for a maximum of 12.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.

Physician Assistant

Boston Children’s Hospital designates this live activity for a maximum of 12.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.

Nurse

Boston Children’s Hospital designates this activity for 12.00 contact hours for nurses. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Faculty

Aditya “AK” Kaza, MD

Senior Associate, Department of Cardiac Surgery; Director, Neonatal Cardiac Surgery Program; Surgical Medical Director, Patient-Flow and Capacity Center, Boston Children’s Hospital; Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Sitaram Emani, MD
Associate in Cardiac Surgery; Surgical Director, Adult Congenital Heart Program; Director, Complex Biventricular Repair Program; Surgical Director, Division of Cardiovascular Critical Care, Boston Children’s Hospital; Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Eric N. Feins, MD

Assistant, Department of Cardiac Surgery; Surgical Director, Surgical Electrophysiology Program. Boston Children’s Hospital; Instructor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Justin Tretter, MD

Staff pediatric cardiologist in the department of Pediatric Cardiology, Professor of Pediatrics at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Director of Advanced Cardiac Imaging for the Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Center, Co-Director for the Congenital Valve Procedural Planning Center, and Director of Cardiac Morphology for both the Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Center and Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute

Vassilios J. Bezzerides, MD, PhD

Associate Cardiologist, Department of Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Katte Carreon, MD

Co-Director, Cardiac Registry; Director of Perinatal & Placental Pathology; General Pediatric Pathology, Department of Pathology, Boston Children’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School

Stephen Sanders, MD

Senior Cardiologist, Department of Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital; Professor of Pediatrics, Part-Time, Harvard Medical School

Will Goodyer, MD, PhD

Physician scientist who specializes in Pediatric Cardiology and Electrophysiology, Stanford Medicine Children’s Health

Meena Nathan, MD, MPH, FRCS

Associate, Department of Cardiac Surgery; Director, Patient Safety and Quality Outcomes; Director, Cardiac Surgery Clinical Research, Boston Children’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Natasja de Groot, PhD

Cardiologist-Electrophysiologist, chief Research Unit Translational Electrophysiology

Elizabeth DeWitt, MD

Medical Director, Surgical Electrophysiology Program; Senior Associate Cardiologist, Department of Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Pedro J. del Nido, MD

Chairman, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital; William E. Ladd Professor of Child Surgery, Harvard Medical School

David Hoganson, MD

Assistant, Department of Cardiac Surgery; Director, Computational 3D Visualization Program, Boston Children’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Noah Schulz, MSME

Technical Lead, Cardiovascular 3D Modeling, Boston Children’s Hospital Department of Cardiac Surgery

Jocelyn Davee, MS

Medical Device Research Engineer II, Surgical Electrophysiology Program, Boston Children’s Hospital

Edward O’Leary, MD

Associate Cardiologist, Department of Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Abhijit Mondal, PhD

Scientist at Boston Children’s Hospital; Instructor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Disclosures

Boston Children’s Hospital adheres to all ACCME Essential Areas, Standards, and Policies. It is Boston Children’s policy that those who have influenced the content of a CME activity (e.g. planners, faculty, authors, reviewers and others) disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial entities so that Boston Children’s may identify and resolve any conflicts of interest prior to the activity. These disclosures will be provided in the activity materials along with disclosure of any commercial support received for the activity. Additionally, faculty members have been instructed to disclose any limitations of data and unlabeled or investigational uses of products during their presentations.

The following planners, speakers, and content reviewers, on behalf of themselves, have reported the following relevant financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on patients: 

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