Children’s Hospital Los Angeles to Host Symposium on Congenital Aortic Valve Stenosis
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles will host a special educational symposium on “Aortic Valve Stenosis: From Fetus to Adult” at the 8th World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery in Washington, D.C.
The dinner event, which will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. Aug. 28, will review the diagnosis and management challenges of congenital aortic valve stenosis across the age spectrum.
Paul Kantor, MBBCh, MSc, FRCPC—Chief of the Division of Cardiology and Co-Director of the Heart Institute at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles—will serve as moderator for the event, which will feature multiple presentations from CHLA faculty, as well as a panel discussion.
Presentations will include:
Aortic valve stenosis: a disease for the ages
Alan Lewis, MD
The fetus with aortic valve stenosis: a disease with no treatment?
Jodie Votava-Smith, MD
Pearls and pitfalls of imaging in aortic valve stenosis
Jamie Harrington, MD
Choose wisely: how to palliate aortic valve stenosis in newborns in the catheter lab
Darren Berman, MD
Surgical management of aortic stenosis in children
Luke Wiggins, MD
The Ross procedure then and now
Vaughn Starnes, MD
The World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery will be held Aug. 27-Sept. 1 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. This year’s meeting will mark the first time the event will take place in the continental United States.
