10th Annual Pulmonary Embolism Scientific Symposium
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Get ready for the 10th Annual Scientific Symposium in the heart of Boston!
This symposium is not just a meeting—it's a celebration of innovation, collaboration, and excellence in science.
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Pricing
Category | Price |
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Physician NON-Member Rate | $750 |
Physician MEMBER Rate | $650 |
PharmD | $349 |
Advanced Practice Provider | $349 |
Physician in Training | Complimentary |
Industry Professional | $999 |
Agenda
PHYSICIANS-IN-TRAINING BOOTCAMP
Get Ready to Roll Up Your Sleeves: Dress Casual for Hands-On Simulations1:00-1:30 pm: Rapid Fire Introduction
Faculty: Bushra Mina, MD, Matt Langston, Soophia Naydenov, MD; Frances Mae West, MD; Stavros Konstantinides, MD; Rachel Rosovsky, MD1:30- 4:30 pm: Hands-on Sims
STATION 1Point-of-Care Echocardiography
Faculty: Frances Mae West, MD; Belinda Rivera-Lebron, MD; Emily Gundert, MD; Bassel Hassouna, MD; Tamam Mohammed, MD; Soophia Nadenov, MD; David Dudzinski, MD; Oki Ishikawa, MD; James Horowitz, MD; Matthew Langston, MD; Parth Rali, MD; Bob Schainfeld, MD; Charles Grodzin, MD
STATION 2
Radiography: VQ & CTPA
Faculty: Brian Goshhajra, MD; Bushra Mina, MD; Alison Witkin,MD
STATION 3
ICU Cases
Faculty: Brandon Hooks, MD; Roy Smith, MD; Mahir Elder, MD, FSCAI, SCAI
STATION 4
Percutaneous Treatment
Faculty: Mona Ranade, MD; Thomas Todoran, MD
Simulated real-time PERT Case & Wrap Up
Faculty: Bushra Mina, MD; Matt Langston, MD; Soophia Naydenov, MD; Andrew Sharp, MD; Brent Keeling, MD; Jeffrey Kline, MD; Ann Gage, MD; Bushra Mina, MD; Matt Langston, MD; Frances Mae West, MD; James Horowitz, MD
BPA-CTEPH ALLIANCE CONFERENCE
CTEPH Overview
Faculty: Richard Channick, MD; Josanna Rodriguez-Lopez, MD
Technical Considerations…Not as Easy as it Looks
Faculty: Shami Mahmud, MD; Zachary Steinberg, MD; J. Dawn Abbott, MD
Minimizing Risks and Managing Complications
Faculty: Kenneth Rosenfield, MD
What are the Outcomes to Measure after the Intervention…and When?
Faculty: Richard Krasuski, MD
BPA vs PH Targeted Medical Therapy for Inoperable CTEPH…A False Narrative?
Faculty: Michael Cuttica, MD
Special Patient Groups
Faculty: Daniel Schimmel, MD; Wissam Jaber, MD; Vikas Aggarwal, MD
DEBATE: Will BPA Achieve Equipoise with PTE Surgery in Treating CTEPH?
Faculty:Ada Stefanescu, MD; Hiromi Matsubura, MD; Michael Madani, MD
What Does it Take to Establish a BPA Program?
Faculty: Riyaz Bashir, MD
ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING
PERT International Breakfast Roundtable
Moderators: Mona Rande, MD; Mahir Elder, MD; Stavros Konstantinides, MD; Panel: Erik Klok,MD; Menno Huisman, MD; Lana Castellucci, MD; Olivier Sanchez, MD; Fionnuala Ní Áinle, MD; Beverley Hunt, MD; Hiromi Matsubura, MD; Andrew Sharp, MD
SESSION 1: Welcome and Keynote
Rachel Rosovsky, MD; Fionnuala Ní Áinle, MD
SESSION 2: Epidemiology Session
Moderators: Eleni Whatley, PhD & Gregory Piazza, MD; Faculty: Phil Wells, MD; Kenneth Rosenfield, MD; Erik Klok, MD; Maidah Yaqoob, MD
- The Worldwide Weight of VTE: Incidence, Management, and Economic Costs
- Bridging Borders: Collaborative Strategies to Combat the Global VTE Crisis
- Evolving Paradigms in PE Riskmanagement: A Dual Focus on Recurrence and Bleeding
- Equity in Thrombosis: Tackling Disparities in Pulmonary Embolism Treatment
- Panel discussion
SESSION 3: Diagnosis & Risk Stratification
Moderator: Bushra Mina, MD; Faculty: Tamam Mohamed, MD, Stavros Konstantinides, MD; Menno Huisman, MD; Lisa Moores, MD
- Case presentation
- Navigating the Currents: Today’s Landscape in PE risk stratification
- Pro: Risk Stratification for PE: Current Algorithms Fulfill Clinical Needs
- Con: Revamping Risk Stratifcation: The Urgent Need for Improved PE Algorithm
- Panel Discussion (Rapid fire questions in risk stratifcation, Audience questions)
SESSION 4: The times they are a-changin’ …Novel Paradigms for Identifying and Treating High Risk PE
Moderator: Andrew Sharp, MD & Emily Gundert, MD; Faculty: Jay Giri, MD; Joshua Goldberg, MD; Tom Todoran, MD; Emily Gundert, MD; Mark Davies, MD; Julie Bulman, MD; Tom McGillivray, MD
- What do the latest data tell us about High Risk PE and what is missing
- Identifying “true” High Risk PE … A Tale of Three Patients
- Debate & Case Presentiation – “Hi-Risk PERT Alert: It’s a Bad One!!"
- Time Is of the Essence… Push That Bolus!!!
- Let’s Cool Off with ECMO… Stabilize the Situation!
- C’mon Folks, Get with the Program…Catheter-directed Therapy Now Reigns Supreme
- Surgical Embolectomy…Still Forgotten?
- Discussion and Debate
LUNCH AND INDUSTRY SATELLITE SESSIONS
SESSION 5: Tools of the Trade for Thrombus Resolution: A Decade of PERT
Moderators: Ann Gage, MD & Kenneth Rosenfield, MD; Faculty: Eric Secemsky, MD; Peter Monteleone, MD; Maya Serhal, MD; Lana Castellucci, MD; Seth Sokol, MD; Robert Lookstein, MD; Ann Gage, MD
- The Devil We Know: State of the State: Contemporary Trends in Device Selection Based on Utilization Data
- The Devil We Don't Know: Limitations in Current Knowledge Base about Devices and Outcomes
- Debate & Case Presentiation: How I Devour My Clot!: The Challenge of Device Selection
- Keep it Simple: Just Thin It!
- Dissovle to Resolve
- Slice, Dice, & Lyse
- Aspirate
- Discussion and Debate
WORKSHOP A: ICU
Moderators: Belinda Rivera-Lebron, MD; & James Horowitz, MD; Faculty: Maidah Yaqoob, MD; Juan Pulido, MD; Olivier Sanchez, MD; Frances Mae West, MD
- Medical management of the failing RV after PE
- Don’t intubate the critically ill PE patient!!! But when you have to…
- Bedside initiation of mechanical RV support
- Managing complications of catheter-based therapy in the ICU
- Discussion
Moderators: Mona Ranade, MD & Charles Ross, MD; Faculty: Julie Bulman, MD; Charles Ross, MD; Robert Schainfeld, MD; Pavan Kavali, MD
- IVC Filters
- Deep Vein Thrombosis: Medical vs Endovascular
- Post-Thrombotic Syndrome
- Endovascular Treatment of Chronic Occlusion
- Panel
Moderators: Soophia Naydenov, MD & Charles Grodzin, MD; Faculty: Matt Langston, MD; Brendan Clark, MD; Peter Monteleone, MD; Taki Galanis, MD; Maanasi Samant, MD; Paige Castaneda, MD; Bishoy Ragheb, MD; Bushra Mina, MD; Fionnuala Ní Áinle, MD
- Brief Overview & PERT Partners
- Experiences from PERT in Rural/Community
- What's Next? PERT 2.0: The Future
- PERT After Hospital - Fast Program
- PERT After Hospital
WORKSHOP D: PE CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE™
Moderators: Steve Pugliese, MD & Mahir Elder, MD; Faculty: Geoff Barnes, MD
- Overview of PE Centers of Excellence™
- Value Proposition of PERT / How to Sell this to Your Health System
- Discussion and Q & A
SESSION 6: Oral Abstracts
Moderators: Soophia Naydenov, MD & Terry Bowers, MD
- Abstract 1
- Abstract 2
- Abstract 3
- Q & A
Hosts: Erik Klok, MD & Menno Huisman, MD
POSTER SESSION & COCKTAIL RECEPTION
SESSION 8: Welcome and Keynote
John Moriarty, MD; Rachel Rosovsky, MD
SESSION 9: Live PERT Case
Moderators: Mona Ranade, MD & Richard Channick, MD
SESSION 10: Clinical Trials : Devices & Data, All You Need to Know
Moderators: Akhilesh Sista, MD & Amir Darki, MD; Faculty: Mona Ranade, MD; Ann Gage, MD; Amir Darki, MD; Wissam Jaber, MD; Akhilesh Sista, MD; Robert Lookstein, MD; Rachel Rosovsky, MD
- IDE over the Line: Completed Single arm trials (FLARE, EXTRACT, RESCUE, APEX)
- Single arm studies: More devices and evidence on the way (Symphony, ENGULF, Aventus, Akura, Innova)
- Trials in the pipeline
- Post Market Trials: FLAME, STRIKE PE, RESCUE-PE and RAPID-PE
- RCTs 1: HI-PEITHO, PEITHO 3, PE-TRACT
- RCTs 2: STORM-PE, PEERLESS, PEERLESS 2
- Panel Discussion: Where the Data Is Now and Where It is Going
Richard Channick, MD; Michael Risbano, MD; Maanasi Samant, MD; Timothy Morris, MD; Tara Lech, MD
- Pathophysiology of Dyspnea after PE
- Brief survey of available tests and is there any data– 10 min (CT, Vq, RHC, TTE)
- Cases
- Anticoagulation Considerations
- Q & A
SESSION 12: CTED/CTEPH MONITORING
Moderators: Josana Rodriguez-Lopez, MD & William Auger, MD; Faculty: Olivier Sanchez, MD; Timothy Fernandes, MD; Michael Madani, MD; Hiromi Matsubara, MD; Sonia Jasuja, MD
- RPVO
- CTE__: Complications of RPVO other than CTEPH
- PTE
- BPA
- Medical management
- Panel Discussion
Moderators: Ada Stefanescu, MD & Olivier Sanchez, MD; Faculty: Jenny Yang, MD; Gustavo Heresi, MD; Hiromi Matsubara, MD; Paul Forfia, MD
- Defining the Problem. Who are we talking about?
- CTEPD: Watch or Intervene
- BPA in CTEPD: What is the Experience
- What to follow after Intervention
- Q & A
Moderators: Robert Lookstein, MD & Parth Rali, MD; Faculty: Jonathan Paul, MD; Dania Daye, MD; Hamid Mojiban, MD; Collin Stultz, MD
- Acute Diagnosis and Triage
- Chatbots and Other Language Models
- Longitudinal Patient Care Coordination
- Future Directions / Research
- Panel
Moderators: Joshua Goldberg, MD & Eric Lehr, MD; Facutly: Bassel Houssana, MD; Mahir Elder , MD; Zach Kon, MD
- Case Challenge
- Interrupting the death spiral of acute PE- How does MCS address pathophysiology
- Proactive or reactive…When to initiate MCS?
- The "Art" of Cannulation
- When to extirpate and when to decannulate
- Roundtable discussion & Q & A with additional case challenges
Moderators: Brent Keeling, MD; Erik Klok, MD; Roy Smith, MD
10th Anniversary Gala
Matthew Langston, MD
SESSION 15: Meet the Experts
Moderator: Kenneth Rosenfield, MD; Faculty: Stavros Konstantinides, MD; Erik Klok, MD; John Moriarty, MD; Andrew Sharp, MD; Rachel Rosovsky, MD; Mahir Elder, MD; Fionnuala Ní Áinle, MD; Jeffrey Kline, MD; Frances Mae West, MD; Rob Lookstein, MD; Steve Pugliese, MD; Beverley Hunt, MD; Richard Channick, MD
- PERT from the exPERTs…Controversies and Case Challenges
- Challenge the Experts: What is the Right Answer
- Challenge Our Panel
- How We Do It
- Key Controversies and Case Challenges
Moderators: Fionnuala Ní Áinle, MD & Rachel Rosovsky, MD & George Davis, PharmD; Faculty: Bishoy Ragheb, MD; Beverley Hunt, MD; Stephan Moll, MD; Lana Castellucci, MD; Lisa Moores, MD
- Anticoagulation
- Anticoagulation Duration
- Thrombophilia pro/con
- Thrombophilia pro/con
- In or Out-Patient Care
- Discussion/Panel/ Q & A
Moderators: Stephan Moll, MD & Tara Lech, MD & George Davis, PharmD; Faculty: Beverley Hunt, MD; Elizabeth Klings, MD; Ayesha Zia, MD; Rachel Rosovsky, MD
- Understanding Pulmonary Embolism in Women
- Clotting Conundrum: Pulmonary Embolism and Sickle Cell Disease
- More than a SOB Story: Impact of Pulmonary Embolism in Children
- Beyond the Surface: Pulmonary Embolism in Obese Individuals
- Q & A, Discussion
Moderators: James Horowitz, MD; Faculty: Nora Tabori, MD; Frances Mae West, MD; Andrew Klein, MD
- Case 1
- Case 2
- Case 3
- Q & A
Course Directors and Distinguished Faculty
![Rich Channick, MD](https://pertstaging.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Channick-1.jpg#66)
Rich Channick, MD
Pulmonary & Critical Care
UCLA Medical Center
![Brent Keeling, MD](https://pertconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Keeling-1-1.jpg)
Brent Keeling, MD
Cardiothoracic Surgery
Emory University Medical Center
![Rob Lookstein, MD](https://pertstaging.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Lookstein-1.jpg#79)
Rob Lookstein, MD
Interventional Radiology
Mount Sinai Hospital
![Ken Rosenfield, MD](https://pertstaging.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Rosenfield-1-1-scaled.jpg#86)
Ken Rosenfield, MD
Interventional Cardiology
Massachusetts General Hospital
![Rachel Rosovsky, MD](https://pertstaging.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Rosovsky-1.jpg#87)
Rachel Rosovsky, MD
Hematology
Massachusetts General Hospital
![Amir Darki, MD](https://pertconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/amir-2.jpg)
Amir Darki, MD
Cardiology
Loyola Medicine
![George Davis, PharmD](https://pertconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/george-davis-2.jpg)
George Davis, PharmD
University of Kentucky
![Joshua Goldberg, MD](https://pertconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/j-goldberg.jpg)
Joshua Goldberg, MD
Cardiothoracic Surgery
Weill Cornell Medicine
![“Jeff”](https://pertconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/j-kline.jpg)
Jeff Kline, MD
Emergency Medicine
Wayne State University
![“Erik](https://pertconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/e-klok.jpg)
Erik Klok, MD
Internal & Vascular Medicine
Leiden University Medical Center
![“Eric](https://pertconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/eric-lehr.jpg)
Eric Lehr, MD
Cardiothoracic Surgery
Swedish Heart & Vascular Institute
![Description of the image](https://pertconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/p-Monteleone.jpg)
Peter Monteleone, MD
Interventional Cardiology
Ascension Seton Medical Center
![Tim Morris, MD](https://pertconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/t-morris.jpg)
Tim Morris, MD
Pulmonary & Critical Care
University of California San Diego Health
![Soophia Naydenov, MD](https://pertconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Naydenov-200x200-1.jpg)
Soophia Naydenov, MD
Pulmonary & Critical Care
St. Louis University
![Dina Orapallo, MSN, AGACNP-BC](https://pertconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Dina-Orapallo-2.jpg)
Dina Orapallo, MSN, AGACNP-BC
Jefferson Vascular Center
![Steve Pugliese, MD](https://pertconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Pugliese-200x200-1.jpg)
Steve Pugliese, MD
Pulmonary & Critical CarePenn Medicine
![Parth Rali, MD](https://pertconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/p-rali.jpg)
Parth Rali, MD
Pulmonary & Critical Care
Temple Health
![Maanasi Samant, MD](https://pertconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/m-Samant.jpg)
Maanasi Samant, MD
Pulmonary & Critical Care
Washington University St. Louis
![Maidah Yaqoob, MD](https://pertconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Maidah-Yaqoob-2.jpg)
Maidah Yaqoob, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care
Cedars Sinai Medical Center
![Ayesha Zia, MD](https://pertconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/a-zia.jpg)
Ayesha Zia, MD
Pediatric Hematology
UT Southwestern School of Medicine
First Name | Last Name | Credentials |
---|---|---|
J. Dawn | Abbott | MD |
Vikas | Aggarwal | MD |
Fionnuala | Ní Áinle | MD, PhD |
William | Auger | MD |
Geoff | Barnes | MD, MSc |
Riyaz | Bashir | MD |
Terry | Bowers | MD |
Julia | Bulman | MD |
Lana | Castellucci | MD, MSc |
Richard | Channick | MD |
Brendan | Clark | MD |
Michael | Cuttica | MD |
Amir | Darki | MD |
Mark | Davies | MD, PhD |
George | Davis | PharmD, BCPS |
Dania | Daye | MD, PhD |
Mahir | Elder | MD |
Timothy | Fernandes | MD, PhD |
Paul | Forfia | MD |
Ann | Gage | MD |
Jay | Giri | MD, MPH |
Charles | Grodzin | MD |
Emily | Gundert | MD |
Gustavo | Heresi | MD |
Brandon | Hooks | DO |
James | Horowitz | MD |
Menno | Huisman | MD, PhD |
Beverely | Hunt | MD, OBE |
Wissam | Jaber | MD |
Pavan | Kavali | MD |
Brent | Keeling | MD |
Andrew | Klein | MD |
Jeffrey | Kline | MD |
Elizabeth | Klings | MD |
Erik | Klok | MD, PhD |
Zachary | Kon | MD |
Stavros | Konstantinides | MD |
Richard | Krasuski | MD |
Matthew | Langston | MD |
Eric | Lehr | MD, PhD |
Robert | Lookstein | MD |
Michael | Madani | MD |
Shami | Mahmud | MD |
Hiromi | Matsubara | MD, PhD |
Thomas | McGillivray | MD |
Bushra | Mina | MD |
Hamid | Mojiban | MD |
Stephan | Moll | MD |
Lisa | Moores | FCCP, MACP, FRCP |
John | Moriarty | MD |
Timothy | Morris | MD |
Soophia | Naydenov | MD |
Jonathan | Paul | MD |
Gregory | Piazza | MD, MS |
Steve | Pugliese | MD |
Juan | Pulido | MD |
Parth | Rali | MD |
Mona | Ranade | MD |
Michael | Risbano | MD |
Belinda | Rivera-Lebron | MD, MS |
Josanna | Rodriguez-Lopez | MD |
Kenneth | Rosenfield | MD, MHCDS, FACC, FAHA, MSCAI |
Rachel | Rosovsky | MD, MPH |
Maanasi | Samant | MD |
Olivier | Sanchez | MD, PhD |
Robert | Schainfeld | DO |
Eric | Secemsky | MD, MSc, RPVI |
Maya | Serhal | MD |
Akhilesh | Sista | MD |
Roy | Smith | MD |
Seth | Sokol | MD |
Ada | Stefanescu Schmidt | MD |
Zachary | Steinberg | MD |
Tom | Todoran | MD |
Phil | Wells | MD, MSc |
Frances Mae | West | MD |
Eleni | Whatley | PhD |
Alison | Witkin | MD |
Jenny | Yang | MD |
Maidah | Yaqoob | MD |
Ayesha | Zia | MD, MSCS |