Columbia Faculty at TCT 2024

Monday, October 28th:

• Invasive and Non-invasive Imaging in CAD (Moderator)

Wednesday, October 30th:

• Novel Percutaneous Techniques (Moderator)

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Sunday, October 27th:

• CathLab of the Future: A Seamless & Innovative Environment for Quality Care (Moderator)

Monday, October 28th:

• Transforming Coronary Interventions: The Role of Sirolimus Coated Balloons in the US Market (Satellite Presenter)
• CathWorks FFRangio: Coronary Physiology Redefined - How FFRangio Works and the Evolving AI Behind It (Satellite Presenter)

Tuesday, October 29th:

• Transforming Coronary Interventions: The Role of Sirolimus Coated Balloons in the US Market (Satellite Faculty)
• ACS/STEMI, Beyond the PCI: From Intervention To Prevention (Discussant)
• Late-Breaking Clinical Trials in Collaboration with The Lancet: ECLIPSE - A Large-scale, Randomized Trial of Orbital Atherectomy vs. Conventional Balloon Angioplasty in Severely Calcified Coronary Arteries Prior to DES Implantation (Late-Breaking Trial Presenter)
• Renal Denervation for Hypertension: What Comes Next? (Moderator)

Wednesday, October 30th:

• Great Debates in Coronary Intervention: What’s Hot and What’s Not (Moderator)
• Late-Breaking Clinical Science in Collaboration with Circulation (Moderator)
• Live-Case Presentation: Complex Coronary - St Georges University Hospitals, London, UK (Moderator)

Please note: Dr. Kirtane is also on the Endovascular Team.

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Monday, October 28th:

• Live-Case Presenstation: Complex Coronary - New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center (Live Case Operator)

Tuesday, October 29th:

• Strategies in Coronary Revascularization (Heart Team Session): After REVIVED: When and How Should I Revascularize Patients With Cardiomyopathy and Coronary Artery Disease? (Lecturer)
• Innovations in Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices (Moderator)
• New Strategies in Modern PCI around the World (Engagement Hub Faculty)
• Live-Case Presentation: Calcified Lesions (Two Cases) - The Mount Sinai Hospital (Live Case Moderator)

Wednesday, October 30th:

• Drug-Coated Balloons in Coronary Intervention - A Mainstream Therapy?: DCB’s Are the Technology that I Miss the Most After Leaving EU: Case-Based Examples (Lecturer)

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Sunday, October 27th:

• Coronary Complications: Calcium Management - Trapped Hardware (Moderator)​​​​​​

Monday, October 28th:

• TCT Opening Session and Awards Ceremony: Master Operator Award (Award Recipient)
• Live-Case Presentation: Complex Coronary - New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center (Live Case Moderator)

Tuesday, October 29th:

• Live-Case Presentation: Complex DCB - Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy (Live Case Discussant)

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Monday, October 28th:

• Live-Case Presentation: Complex Coronary - New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center (Live Case Operator)

Tuesday, October 29th:

• A Guide to Left Main Bifurcation Revascularization: A Calcified LM Stenosis Treated With IV Imaging-Guided Plaque Modification and Stent Implantation or Surgery (Case Presenter)
• Complex Cangrelor Case Presentation Symposium (Discussant)

Wednesday, October 30th:

• Beyond Obstructive Coronary Disease: Misunderstood and Undertreated (Discussant)

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Monday, October 28th:

• A Case-Based Primer on TAVR Complications (Discussant)

Wednesday, October 30th:

• Coronary: Myocardial Infarction Involving Left Main (Discussant)
• Controversies in the Future of Coronary Intervention (Discussant)

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Monday, October 28th:

• Moderated Abstracts: CAD and PCI Outcomes (Discussant)

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Sunday, October 27th: 

• Cardiovascular Nurse and Technologist Symposium: Focus on Coronary (Discussant)

Monday, October 28th:

• Imaging Interpretation Training: Left Main/ Bifurcation (Training Faculty)
• Imaging Interpretation Training: ISR (Training Faculty)

Tuesday, October 29th:

• Imaging Interpretation Training: Calcium (Training Faculty)
• Imaging Interpretation Training: ACS (Training Faculty)
• Imaging Interpretation Training: CTO (Training Faculty)
• Coronary Anatomy vs Physiology (Moderator)

Monday, October 28th:

• Imaging Interpretation Training: Left Main/ Bifurcation (Training Faculty)
• Live-Case Presentation: Complex Coronary - New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center (Live Case Operator)

Tuesday, October 29th:

• Imaging Interpretation Training: Calcium (Training Faculty)
• Imaging Interpretation Training: ACS (Training Faculty)
• Imaging Interpretation Training: CTO (Training Faculty)
• Utilizing Coronary CTA & HeartFlow AI to Non-Invasively Assess Anatomy, Physiology and Plaque: Evaluating AI-enabled Technologies for Clinical Adoption
  (Satellite Presenter)
• Imaging Interpretation Training: ISR (Training Faculty)
• Imaging Interpretation Training: Left Main / Bifurcation (Training Faculty)
• Live-Case Presentation: - Calcified Lesions (Two Cases) - The Mount Sinai Hospital (Discussant)

Wednesday, October 30th:

• Beyond Obstructive Coronary Disease: Misunderstood and Undertreated (Discussant)
• Intravascular Imaging and Physiology – In Whom, When, and How: AI In Intravascular Imaging and Physiology in the Modern Cath Lab (Lecturer)
• Late-Breaking Clinical Trials in Collaboration with the Journal of the American Medical Association (Discussant)

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Monday, October 28th:

• Moderated Abstracts: Pulmonary Embolism and Pulmonary Hypertension Studies (Discussant)

Tuesday, October 29th:

• Intervention to Prevention: Medical Therapy and Lifestyle for PAD (Discussant)

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Monday, October 28th:

• Hot Topics in PAD Intervention with Live Case: Drug Delivery Technologies for the SFA: Where are We Now After the Paclitaxel Scare? (Lecturer)
• EndoMasters at TCT: Esprit BTK Real-World Case Reviews & Escalation (Satellite Faculty)
• Featured Clinical Science: Cost Effectiveness of Drug-Eluting Resorbable Scaffold Versus Angioplasty for Infrapopliteal Artery Disease From the LIFE-BTK Trial (Presenter)

Tuesday, October 29th:

• Intervention to Prevention: Medical Therapy and Lifestyle for PAD (Moderator)
• Complementary Device and Drug Therapies and Threading the Reimbursement Needle: A Hot Regulatory & Coverage Topic - Drug-Coated Balloons (Discussant)
• Late-Breaking Clinical Trials in Collaboration with The Lancet (Moderator)
• Real-World Study of IVL in Challenging BTK Lesions: Acute Results of the Disrupt BTK II Study (Lecturer)
• MagicTouch for PAD treatment: Current Data (OUS) and the way forward (IDE Trials) (Satellite Presenter and Moderator)

Wednesday, October 30th: 

• Endovascular Innovation: Insights and Innovations in Scaffold Technologies for Peripheral Intervention - Bioresorbable and Metal Scaffolds Are The Answer (Lecturer and Discussant)
• Hot Topics in Pulmonary Embolism (Moderator)

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Monday, October 28th:

• Moderated Abstracts: Robotics in the Cath Lab (Discussant)

Wednesday, October 30th:

• Best of Endovascular Cases with Live Case from Mount Sinai - Complex PAD Case (Lecturer)
• PE and New Technology with Live Case from University Hospitals (Discussant)

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Monday, October 28th:

• ACUTE DVT Management: State of the Art (Discussant)

Tuesday, October 29th:

• Moderated Abstracts: Peripheral Arterial and Venous Disease and Intervention (Discussant)
• Deep Dive on Pulmonary Embolism Trials (Moderator)

Wednesday, October 30th: 

• Complex Venous Disease - Post-Thrombotic Iliac Vein Obstruction: Tips and Tricks (Lecturer)
• PE and New Technology with Live Case from University Hospitals Cleveland: Other Disease Entities Treated With PE Technologies: Vegetations And Masses
  (Lecturer and Moderator)
• Hot Topics in Pulmonary Embolism - PE is a R Heart Disease: How Can We Integrate Hemodynamics Into Current Risk Stratification Paradigms? (Lecturer)

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Monday, October 28th:

• LAAO II: It’s Not Always as Simples as it Looks - Complex Case Scenarios in LAAO (Discussant)
• Moderated Abstracts: Robotics in the Cath Lab (Discussant)
• Live Case 2 + Live Case 3 - New TAVR Systems - Instituto do Coracao (InCor), Sao Paulo, Brazil & UPMC (Live Case Discussant)

Tuesday, October 29th:

• Deep Dive I: Mitral TEER (From A to Z) With Case Examples (Discussant)

Wednesday, October 30th: 

• Late-Breaking Clinical Science in Collaboration with Circulation (Discussant)

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Sunday, October 27th:

• Cardiovascular Nurse and Technologist Symposium: Focus on Clinicians - The Soft Skills are the Hard Skills (Moderator and Lecturer)
• Cardiovascular Nurse and Technologist Symposium: Focus on Interventional Heart Failure (Moderator)
• Cardiovascular Nurse and Technologist Symposium: Focus on Structural (Discussant)

Monday, October 28th:

• HFrEF Reborn: Modern Era GDMT and LV Remodeling Therapies: What Is "Reverse Remodeling" and How Can It Best Be Achieved? (Lecturer)

Tuesday, October 29th:

• Tricuspid Regurgitation: Fundamentals and Updates – ‘What to Remember About the Once Forgotten Valve’ (Moderator)
• Between Pressure and Volume: Right Heart Physiology in TR (Lecturer)
• TR in the Setting of Advanced LV Dysfunction – Finding the Sweet Spot (Case Presenter)

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Monday, October 28th:

• Live Case 1 - Redo TAVR - New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center (Live Case Operator)
• Live Case 4: TAVR in AR - New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center (Live Case Operator)

Tuesday, October 29th:

• Innovations in Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Replacement Technologies - Novel Early Stage Orthotopic TTVR Systems: The Trisol TTVR System -Technology Differentiation and Early Clinical Experience (Lecturer)
• Disease-Based Management of Mitral Annular Calcification (Discussant)
• The Surgeon’s Perspective: Therapeutic Options and Outcomes (Lecturer)

Wednesday, October 30th:

• Live Case 8: TMVR - Mayo Clinic (Moderator)
• Live Case 9 - TTVR and Tricuspid Valve Interventions: From Clinical Trials to Clinical Practice (Live Case Moderator)
• Live Case 9 - Cedars Sinai Medical Center (Discussant)

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Monday, October 28th:

• Live Case 1 - Redo TAVR - New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center (Live Case Operator)
• Live Case 4: TAVR in AR - New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center (Live Case Operator)

Tuesday, October 29th:

• Deep Dive: Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Replacement - TTVR – Avoiding Jail Time – The Issue of RV Leads and Conduction Disorders (Lecturer)
• Lunch Symposium: From Artificial Intelligence to Miniaturization: A Golden Age of Innovation in Echocardiography (Engagement Faculty Hub)
• Late-Breaking Clinical Science in Collaboration with the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (Lead Discussant)

Wednesday, October 30th:

• Late-Breaking Clinical Trials in Collaboration with the Journal of the American Medical Association: TRISCEND II Trial: Transcatheter Valve Replacement vs. Optimal Medical Therapy for Severe Tricuspid Regurgitation
• Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Intervention (TTVI): Trial Design Considerations Post TRILUMINATE and TRISCEND II (Discussant)
• Optimizing TR Treatment: Latest Data and Key Insights on Repair vs. Replacement (Discussant)
• How to Treat With TTVI? (TEER vs. TTVR vs. surgery vs. OMT): Imaging Considerations (Satellite Presenter)
• Heart Team Discourses 2: Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Disease (Discussant)
• Characterizing Atrial FMR: From Diagnosis to Management Pathway (Lecturer)

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Monday, October 28th:

• Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement for Asymptomatic Severe Aortic Stenosis: Results of the EARLY TAVR Trial (Study PI)
• Live Case 1 - Redo TAVR - New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center (Live Case Operator)
• Live Case 4: TAVR in AR - New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center (Live Case Operator)

Tuesday, October 29th:

• Deep Dive: Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Replacement (Moderator)
• Tricuspid Valve Interventions: Complications and Controversies (Discussant)
• Innovations in Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair Technologies: Role of Advanced Imaging Guidance by AI-Based Device Intelligence (Lecturer)

Wednesday, October 30th:

• Late-Breaking Clinical Trials in Collaboration with the Journal of the American Medical Association: TRISCEND II Trial: Transcatheter Valve Replacement vs. Optimal Medical Therapy for Severe Tricuspid Regurgitation (Late-Breaking Trial Presenter)
• Live Case 9 - TTVR and Tricuspid Valve Interventions: From Clinical Trials to Clinical Practice (Live Case Moderator)
• Optimizing TR Treatment: Latest Data and Key Insights on Repair vs. Replacement (Discussant)
• Dilemmas in Coronary Revascularization in Patients with Concomitant Valve Disease (Moderator)

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Sunday, October 27th:

• Moderated Abstracts: TAVR Outcomes – 1 (Discussant)
• Moderated Abstracts: TAVR Outcomes - 2 (Moderator)​​​​​​

Sunday, October 27th:

• Moderated Abstracts: LAA Occlusion – 1 (Moderator)

Monday, October 28th:

• Disruptive Imaging Concepts in Valvular Heart Disease: Video Game or Interventional Echo? Augmented Reality and Holography in Imaging for Structural Heart Disease (Lecturer)

Tuesday, October 29th:

• Live Case 4 - Emory University Hospital (Live Case Discussant)

Wednesday, October 30th:

•  Heart Team Discourses 2 - Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Disease: THE Tricuspid RV Failure Conundrum: Severe TR With RV Dysfunction and Refractory Right Heart Failure (Case Presenter)

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Sunday, October 27th:

• Welcome to TCT MedTech Innovation Forum (Moderator)

Monday, October 28th:

• Global Regulatory Harmonization and Health-Related Mis-information: Health Related Misinformation – Role of the Clinical Community (Moderator)
• Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement for Asymptomatic Severe Aortic Stenosis: Results of the EARLY TAVR Trial (Study Chairman)
• Transforming Coronary Interventions: The Role of Sirolimus Coated Balloons in the US Market (Satellite Moderator)
• CathWorks FFRangio: Coronary Physiology Redefined (Satellite Moderator)

• Treatment of Severe Aortic Stenosis: Why Wait for Symptoms? - Perspectives on the "Modern Era" of Aortic Stenosis Therapy (Satellite Moderator)

Tuesday, October 29th:

• Next Generation TAVR Planning with DASI Simulations: Artificial Intelligence and Prediction Based Algorithms (Satellite Faculty)
• Late-Breaking Clinical Science in Collaboration with the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (Moderator)
• Sirolimus Coated Balloon for CAD & PAD Treatment: The MagicTouch Phenomenon (Satellite Moderator)

Wednesday, October 30th:

• "Pre-emptive" Treatment of Aortic Stenosis: An Emerging Strategy (Discussant)
• Drug-Coated Balloons in Coronary Intervention: A Mainstream Therapy? (Discussant)

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Monday, October 28th:

• A Case-Based Primer on TAVR Complications -Transcatheter Valve Thrombosis – Clinical and Subclinical: Rising Gradients Soon After TAVR (Case Presenter)​
• Heart Team Discourses 1: Aortic Valve Disease - Heavily Calcified Severe AS With Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease in a 65 yo Patient (Case Presenter)

Tuesday, October 29th:

• Moderated Abstracts: Tricuspid Regurgitation and Outcomes - Real World Outcomes of Patients With Severe Tricuspid Regurgitation Stratified by Clinical Sequelae (Abstractor Presenter)

Wednesday, October 30th:

• Coronary Stent Technology - Still Relevant and Evolving: Are Metallic Drug Eluting Stents As Good As it Gets? (Lecturer)
• Hemodynamic Controversies After TAVR - The Small Annulus, Bioprosthetic Valve Durability, and Patient-Prosthesis Mismatch: Late Clinical Outcomes in Small Annulus Patients in the PARTNER Trials (Lecturer)
• Case-Based Learning: Complicated TAVR Scenarios I (Discussant)
• Case-Based Learning - Complicated TAVR Scenarios II: Between a Rock and a Hard Place – The Ultimate Bicuspid! (Case Presenter)

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Monday, October 28th:

• Live Case 1 - Redo TAVR - New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center (Live Case Operator)​​​​​​

• Heart Team Discourses 1: Aortic Valve Disease (Discussant)

Wednesday, October 30th:

• Valve Leaflet Modification and Ancillary Tools in TAVR: Novel Technologies in CEP During TAVR - Emboliner, ProTembo, Emblok, Filterex, and Others (Lecturer)
• Live Case 10 BAV and Management of Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease: Updates, Controversies, and Evidence Gaps - Cedars Sinai Medical Center (Live Case Moderators)
• Case-Based Learning: Complicated TAVR Scenarios II (Moderator)

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Monday, October 28th:

• LAAO II: It’s Not Always as Simples as it Looks - Complex Case Scenarios in LAAO (Discussant)
• LAAO III: Evidence Gaps, Expanded Use Trends, and Future Directions (Discussant)

Wednesday, October 30th:

• Live Case 5 - LAAO - CardioVascular Center Frankfurt (Live Case Discussant)
• Case-Based Learning: Complicated TAVR Scenarios II (Discussant)

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Sunday, October 27th:

• Cardiovascular Nurse and Technologist Symposium: Focus on Structural (Discussant)
• Cardiovascular Nurse and Technologist Symposium: Focus on Structural - Here We Grow! What Do Teams Need to Know about the Current and Future State of Tricuspid Therapies? (Lecturer)

Monday, October 28th: 

• LAAO I: All about Patient Selection, Imaging, and Procedural Considerations (Discussant)

Tuesday, October 29th:

• Structural: Pulmonary Malformations (Moderator)

Wednesday, October 30th:

• Live Case 5 - LAAO - CardioVascular Center Frankfurt (Live Case Moderator)

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Monday, October 28th:

• Live Case 4: TAVR in AR - New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center (Live Case Operator)

Tuesday, October 29th: 

• Innovations in Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement Technologies: InnovHeart (Lecturer)
• Late-Breaking Clinical Science in Collaboration with the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: The ALIGN-AR Trial: Two-Year Outcomes of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement With JenaValve TrilogyTM in High Surgical Risk Patients With Moderate-to-Severe or Severe Native Aortic Regurgitation (Late-Breaking Science Presenter)
• Live Case 4 - Emory University Hospital Midtown (Live Case Moderator)

Wednesday, October 30th:

• Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement: Lessons Learned and the Path Forward - Lessons Learned From Screen Failures in TMVR Trials: Implications for Future Device Innovation (Lecturer)

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