The Impact of Health-Care Reform on the Practice of Cardiovascular Medicine: Diverse Leadership Viewpoints
In Collaboration with the American College of Cardiology (ACC)
Friday, September 24
Main Arena, 9:30 am-10:45 am
Hot Topics in Clinical Cardiology: ACC.10 Highlight for the Interventional, Invasive, and General Cardiologist
Co-sponsored by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the Cardiovascular Research Foundation
This session on Wednesday, September 22, 8:00 am-1:00 pm, will provide the best from the ACC Annual Scientific Session in a TCT-exclusive five-hour scientific session. Key opinion leaders will cover a variety of topics of relevance to practicing clinical cardiologists. This is a session you do not want to miss.
Challenging Case Multiplex Theater
This year, TCT adds a dedicated multiplex theater focusing on presentations of challenging cases. Over 600 physicians submit their most challenging coronary interventions, endovascular interventions, and structural heart disease cases to be presented at TCT each year. The most remarkable cases will be presented in the new Challenging Case Theater throughout TCT Week and will be published in Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions. A number of international societies will also present challenging cases in the International Society-Sponsored Case Theater. See page 32 for the complete list of international societies. Submit your most challenging case for presentation at TCT 2010 at www.tctconference.com. See the TCT Final Program for the schedule or visit www.tctconference.com for more information.
TCT 2010 Highlights and Lessons
This new dedicated session on Saturday afternoon in the Main Arena will synthesize and review the most important lessons and teachings from the five days of TCT 2010. A healthy critique and summary of the most important late breaking trials will be presented. The chairpersons of scientific symposia and plenary and concurrent sessions will then review the most important issues and take-home messages followed by in-depth discussions. This half-day dedicated session to close TCT is your chance to bring home the best from the conference that can directly and immediately allow you to improve the outcomes for your patients with heart disease and will serve as a “lens to the future” for the emerging directions of our subspecialty.
Presentation Theater
Located in the Exhibit Hall, this dedicated theater provides industry leaders with opportunities to share the latest innovations in cardiovascular medicine and technology.
Hands on Hearts
A favorite of TCT attendees, the Hands on Hearts Pavilion will include CT-generated casts of human hearts prior to intervention. These models will demonstrate atrial septal defects (large/small rims, fenestrated ASD with an atrial septal aneurysm, ASD next to coronary sinus), ventricular septal disease (congenital/muscular, post-blunt chest trauma/failed surgical repair, post-MI/failed surgical repair), valves (mitral and aortic stenosis and insufficiency), cardiomyopathies, coronary anomalies, and more. Attendees will also be able to examine an extensive collection of actual pathologic specimens to obtain a better understanding of complex coronary, vascular, and structural heart disease.
The PFO Summit
Co-organized by the PFO Research Foundation and CRF
Monday, September 20
9:00 am-6:00 pm
Walter E. Washington Convention Center
This pre-TCT gathering and call to action for physicians, industry, research sponsors, regulators, and patient advocates to exchange knowledge, experience, and develop initiatives in research, education, definition of care standards, and patient registries. Join experts and stakeholders with diverse perspectives in PFO science for a groundbreaking day of presentations, panel discussions, debates, and working groups.
This is not a passive CME meeting but rather a summit for action to advance patient care.The PFO Summit will be co-organized by the PFO Research Foundation and CRF.
If you are attending this session only and not TCT, please click here to register.
Art from the Heart
Art from the Heart is a sculpture exhibition provided by the international award-winning sculptor Akiva Huber. His sculptures are characterized by an original existential expression of the controversial duality of all fields of life conveyed in dynamic shapes and spaces. Mr. Huber’s style is abstract-figurative with a neoexpressionist touch. His sculptures express pure beauty, movement, sensuality, and a lust for life. He shapes cold bronze to show the controversial in warm fluid lines. Mr. Huber challenges conventional material, expressing novelty and wit.
Exhibit Hall Opening Reception
Please join us for a special opening reception in the Exhibit Hall on Thursday, September 23, 5:00 pm-6:00 pm.
TCT in 3 (For the Busy Interventional Cardiologist)
If your busy schedule allows you to attend TCT for only three days, this is the course for you, the busy practitioner. Increase your knowledge of the latest advances in current therapies, practice management, and life-saving innovation in three days at TCT 2010, September 23-25.
