Congratulations to the Poster Winners!
Moderated Poster Winners
Adult Cardiac
Dr. Maral Ouzounian, University of Toronto, “David vs. Goliath: Valve-Sparing Root Replacement Improves Outcomes Compared to Bentall Procedures in Patients with Aortic Root Dilatation”
Congenital
Dr. Ed Peng, Freeman Hospital, United Kingdom, “Durable Ventricular Assist Device Support for End-stage Heart Failure: An Extended Role in
Pediatric and Congenital Population”
General Thoracic
Dr. Chi-Fu Jeffrey Yang, Duke University, “Should Lobectomy be Performed when Unsuspected pN2 Disease is Found at the Time of Planned Lung Cancer Resection? A National Cancer Data Base Analysis”
Allied Health Winner
Tamara Goda, DNP, ANP-BC from East Carolina Heart Institute at Vidant Medical Center. Her poster titled “An Interdisciplinary Education Initiative to Promote Blood Conservation in Cardiac Surgery”
Resident Winners
Cardiac
1st Place: Dr. Yangsin Lee from Mitsui Memorial Hospital. Poster titled “Long-term outcome of isolated coronary artery bypass grafting in patients with left ventricular dysfunction”
2nd Place: Dr. Scott Johnson from Medical University of South Carolina. Poster titled “Pulmonary Embolectomy for Acute and Subacute Type a Pulmonary Embolism on Cardiopulmonary Bypass with a Beating Heart”
3rd Place: Dr. Pouya Youssefi from St. George’s Hospital, London, United Kingdom “Effect of Aortic Valve Morphology on Haemodynamics and Aneurysm Formation in the Thoracic Aorta”
Congenital
1st Place: Dr. Mohammed Al-Jughiman from the University of Toronto. Poster titled “Is the Rastelli Procedure Falsely Maligned?”
2nd Place: Dr. Elizabeth Stephens from Columbia University. Poster titled “Cardiac Function after Tetralogy of Fallot/Complete Atrioventricular Canal Repair”
3rd Place: Dr. Mark Roeser from Texas Children’s Hospital. Poster titled “Transloaction of the Descending Thoracic Aorta for Releif of Distal TRaeal and Proximal Bronchial Compression”
Thoracic
1st Place: Dr. Gary Schwartz from Johns Hopkins Hospital. Poster titled “Treatment effect of Rapamycin in laryngotracheal stenosis”
2nd Place: Dr. Nicholas Baker from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Poster titled “Stereotactic Radio Surgery in the Octogenarian”
3rd Place: Dr. Laura Donahoe from St. Joseph’s Health Centre. Poster titled “CT-guided Microcoil VATS resection of lung nodules”