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M AY 1 6 , 2 0 0 8 8 FR IDAY LIVE CASES Real-time performances of ablation procedures provide unique learning experience For practitioners looking for comprehensive instruction in complex ablation techniques, Heart Rhythm 2008 offers two sessions today showing live procedures from two premiere facilities. Viewings of these live cases with panel discussions take place from 8:00 to 9:30 this morning and again from 1:30 to 3:00 this afternoon. Both sessions take place in Room 103 of the Moscone Center. John D. Day, MD, FHRS, Chair of the Heart Rhythm Society Education Committee, said the Society decided in 2006 to revive the live case presentations at the Annual Scientiﬁc Sessions to fulﬁll the demand for real-life education. “Attendees want to see what really happens,” he said. “They want to see how the experts perform actual cases on a day-today basis. There’s a need for reality EP.” Dr. Day said Society leaders feel live case presentations provide an opportunity to learn or see things that only happen when you observe a live procedure. “You see things you just don’t get from a formal presentation,” he said. “Oftentimes it’s the mundane — the catheter used, the approach, how to use the catheter. It’s the little things that really only come out while actually watching someone performing a case.” Dr. Day will chair the afternoon session, which will feature two atrial ﬁbrillation ablation cases performed lived from St. David’s Hospital in Austin, Texas. Douglas L. Packer, MD, FHRS, Abstract Program Committee Chair, will lead the ﬁrst session of the day, which will feature two cases on ventricular tachycardia and will stream live from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. “One case involves a patient with ventricular tachycardia caused by underlying disease or heart attack,” Dr. Packer said. “The other patient will have a more idiopathic or more quirky tachycardia that is a bit more challenging in terms of mapping, ablation, and overall management.” A panel of four experts in VT ablation will also show video clips of their own procedures, which taken together with the live cases will provide a visual, advanced approach to ablating, he said. HeartRhythm Journal recognizes young investigators The HeartRhythm Journal Outstanding Publication Awards recognize two young investigators who have authored outstanding research articles published in HeartRhythm and provide them with the opportunity to travel to Heart Rhythm 2008. The Clinical Research Article Award winner for young investigators for 2007 is Lisa Cronk, MD, and the Basic Research Award winner for young investigators is Hiroshi Morita, MD. The winners were honored Thursday evening during the HeartRhythm Journal Editorial Board meeting at the San Francisco Marriott. To be considered for the award, the authors must have completed their training in the past three years. Supported by an educational grant from Medtronic, Inc., the two winners each receive $2,500 toward travel expenses and lodging at Heart Rhythm 2008. “These articles represent outstanding clinical and basic science articles chosen by the editors of the journal,” said Douglas P. Zipes, MD, FHRS, Editor-in-Chief of HeartRhythm. “They were chosen for their distinguished innovation and contribution of new knowledge to the understanding of arrhythmias.” C r on k ’s c l i n i c a l a r t i c l e , “ N o v e l Mechanism for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: Persistent Late Sodium Current Secondary to Mutations in Caveolin-3” was published in the February 2007 issue of HeartRhythm. Dr. Cronk is currently in the ﬁ rst year of her pediatric residency. She is researching Long QT syndrome and SIDS. Morita’s basic article, “Differences in Arrhythomogenicity between the Canine Right Ventricular Outf low Tract and Anteroinferior Right Ventricle in a Model of Brugada Syndrome” appeared in the January 2007 issue of HeartRhythm. Dr. Morita’s current interests and activities are basic and clinical electrophysiology, sudden death, and inherited arrhythmia. O FFI C I A L S AT E LLIT E S YMP OSI A FRIDAY, MAY 16 Current Concepts in AF Management, 6:00 – 7:45 a.m. Sponsored by AHECME. Supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Astellas Pharma, Inc. How to Manage Heart Failure Patients with CRT Devices, 6:00 – 7:45 a.m. Sponsored by NACCME. Supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Biotronik GMBH & Co., KG. Saving Lives with the Wearable Deﬁbrillator, 6:00 – 7:45 a.m. Sponsored by Medcom. Supported by an unrestricted educational grant from ZOLL Medical Corporation. A great place to live, an even better place to work. Alta Bates Summit Medical Center is the San Francisco East Bay’s largest private, not for proﬁt medical center with nearly 1,100 licensed beds on three campuses. As an afﬁliate of Sutter Health, our vast network of resources offers you boundless career opportunities, making this a terriﬁc place to work. We offer an exceptional level of clinical practice, some of the best wage and beneﬁt levels in the country and a beautiful and exciting place to live and work. 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