International Symposium on Experimental &Clinical Cardiovascular Medicine Organized by: World Hellenic Biomedical Association & Hellenic Cardiological Society May 17-20, 2018 Athens, Greece Venue (TBC) Konstantinos Tsioufis Evangelia Kranias Maria Kontaridis Konstantinos Drosatos Yassemi Capetanaki George Dangas Katia Karalis Dimitris Kardassis Walter J. Koch Despina Sanoudou Sakthivel Sadayappan Konstantinos Stellos Mark Sussman Alex Spyropoulos Organizing Committee
9:00 9:45 Thursday, May 17 Panel Discussion 1: Transitioning to a successful career in Cardiovascular Medicine & Research If I Knew Then What I Know Now Sakthivel Sadayappan (University of Cincinnati, USA Chair, AHA-BCVS Early Career Committee) Konstantinos Stellos (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany European Society of Cardiology Young Community) Panelists (20 min brief introductions + 25 min Q&A) Nikki Purcell (University of California at San Diego, USA) Susmita Sahoo (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA) Sarah Franklin (University of Utah, USA) Anna Zampetaki (King s College London, UK) Session 1: Novel mechanisms and therapeutic approaches in Cardiovascular Disease George Dangas (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA) Anastasios Lymperopoulos (Nova Southeastern University, USA) 9:45 11:00 9:45 - Walter J. Koch (Temple University, USA) 10:00 - Johannes Backs(University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany) 10:15 - Jeff Molkentin (Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, USA) 10:30 TBC 10:45 - TBC 11:00 11:15 Break Session 2: Systems Biology in Medicine & Novel Therapeutics : TBC 11:15 12:30 REGULAR SESSION (VI NAMES) Panelists (15 min TALK with Q&A) 11:15 - Peipei Ping (UCLA, USA) 11:30 - Jennifer van Eyk (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA) 11:45 - Tom Vondriska (UCLA, USA) 12:00 - Robert Gerszten (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA) 12:15 - Saumya Das (Massachusetts General Hospital, USA) 12:30 13:30 Lunch Break 13:30 14:45 Panel Discussion 2: Genetics & Epigenetics in CVD Despina Sanoudou (University of Athens, Greece) TBC Speakers (10 min Talk + 25 Min panel discussion) 13:30 - Jill Tardiff (University of Arizona, USA) 13:45 - Panos Deloukas (Queen Mary University of London) 14:00 - Konstantinos Stellos (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) 14:15 - George Kararigas (Charité-Medical University Berlin, Germany) 14:10 Panel Discussion 14:45 15:00 Break 15:00 16:15 Session 3: Novel interventional treatments in heart failure : Denny Cokkinos (Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Greece) & Panagiotis Vardas (University of Crete, Greece)
15:00- Joshua M. Hare (University of Miami, USA) 15:15 - Roger Hajjar(Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA) 15:30 - Eduardo Marban(Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA) 15:45 - Jianyi "Jay" Zhang (University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA) 16:00 - Stavros Drakos (University of Utah, USA) 16:15 16:30 Break Keynote session : Litsa Kranias, & Konstantinos Tsioufis 16:30 17:30 Welcoming remarks of the organizing committee Keynote Lecture Eric Olson (UT Southwestern) Introduction by Litsa Kranias 18:30-22:00 Dinner TBC
: TBC Friday, May 18 Session 4: Mitochondrial Cardiovascular Biology 9:00 Asa Gustaffson(Univ. of California at San Diego, USA) 9:00 10:30 9:15 - Tish Murphy (National Institutes of Health, USA) 9:30 - Junichi Sadoshima (Rutgers University, USA) 9:45 - David Lefer(Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, USA) 10:00 - Hossein Ardehali(Northwestern University, USA) 10:15 - John Elrod (Temple University, USA) 10:30 10:45 Break Session 5: Apoptosis & Necrosis : TBC 10:45 12:15 10:45 - Richard Kitsis (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA) 11:00 - Madesh Muniswamy (Temple University, USA) 11:15 - Nektarios Tavernarakis (University of Crete, Greece) 11:30 - Lorrie A. Kirshenbaum (College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Canada) 11:45 - Evris Gavathiotis (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA) 12:00 Merry Lindsey (University of Mississippi) 12:15-13:30 Lunch break 13:30 14:55 Panel Discussion 3: Interorgan interactions in the Cardiovascular System : Angelika Chroni(Democritos Research Institute) & Maria Kontaridis (Harvard Medical School, USA) Speakers (10 min presentation 25 Min Discussion) 13:30 - Steven P. Jones (Univ of Louisville, USA) 13:40 - Pilar Alcaide (TUFTS university, USA) 13:50 - Loren Wold(Ohio State University, USA) 14:00 - Ioakeim Spyridopoulos (Newcastle University, UK) 14:10 - Alex Spyropoulos (Hofstra University Medical School, USA) 14:20 - Xin-Liang Ma (Thomas Jefferson University, USA) 14:30 Panel Discussion 14:55-15:15 Break 15:15-16:15 Session 6: Cardiovascular metabolism Dimitris Kardassis (University of Crete, Greece) Konstantinos Drosatos (Temple University, USA) 15:15 - Ira J. Goldberg (New York University Langone Medical Center, USA) 15:30 - E. Douglas Lewandowski (Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, USA) 15:45 - Daniel P. Kelly (Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, USA) 16:00 - Rong Tian (University of Washington, USA) 16:15 - P. Christian Schulze (Clinical University of Jena, Germany) 16:30 - Antigone Lazou (Aristotelian Univ of Thessaloniki) 17:00 22:00 Dinner Sounio????
: TBC Saturday, May 19 Session 7: Signaling mechanisms in Heart Failure 9:00 10:30 9:00 - Burns Blaxall (Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, USA) 9:15 - Howard Rockman (Duke University, USA) 9:30 - Susan Steinberg (Columbia University, USA) 9:45 - Michael S. Kapiloff (Univ of Miami, USA) 10:00 - Jiang Chang (Texas A&M University, USA) 10:15 Yassemi Kapetanaki (BRF Academy of Athens, Greece) 10:30-10:45 Break 10:45 12:15 Session 8: Cell therapy at the forefront of treating ischemic cardiomyopathy Konstantinos Hatzistergos (University of Miami, USA) Marcello Rota (New York Medical College, USA) Panelists (15 min presentation with Q&A) 10:45 - Mark Sussman (San Diego State University, USA) 11:00 - Steven Houser (Temple University, USA) 11:15 - Don Merrick (Medical University of South Carolina) 11:30 - Raj Kishore (Temple University, USA) 11:45 - Ronglih Liao (Harvard Medical School, USA) 12:00 - Thomas Eschenhagen (University Medical Center Hamburg, Germany) 13:00 17:00 Departure to Acropolis Acropolis Museum Lunch (at your own) 18:00 Dinner & Party MAY 20 May 20-23 Excursion to Nafplion (optional - participants will cover their own expenses) Departure to Nafplion (2h drive from Athens) Dinner MAY 21 MAY 22 MAY 23 Daily tour at Epidavros & Nafplion Daily boat trip to Spetses or tour at Nafplion Departure