DC Area Consortium for Integrative Cardio-Pulmonary Biology presents:

Dinner Discussion

Pulmonary Hypertension and Right Heart Failure

October 11, 2006 

6:30 - 9:30pm

at Maggiano's (Registration Required) Sponsored by Pfizer

5333 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20015

http://www.maggianos.com/locations/detail.asp?unit_id=001.025.0088

Parking: 50 cents/hr up to 4 h at Chevy Chase Pavilion garage next door to Maggiano’s with validation from Maggiano’s

Metro: 2 - 3 min walk from Friendship Heights Metro on Red Line

Please contact ys82@georgetown.edu to register.

The objective of this Dinner Discussion is to gather clinicians, researchers, administrators and educators from various disciplines to provide an opportunity to have a Forum in order to gain insights for better treatment strategies for pulmonary hypertension. Specific topics of the October 11 meeting will be to discuss: (i) Should early medical education cover therapeutic strategies for pulmonary hypertension? (ii) How should we gain insights for treating right heart failure?

Tentative Agenda (as of 10/4/06):

Introduction: Clinical Problems in Pulmonary Hypertension

by Vivek Jain, M.D. (George Washington U.)

Brief Discussion on Medical Education & Pulmonary Hypertension

Should early medical education cover therapeutic strategies for pulmonary hypertension?

Discussion Leader: Yuichiro Suzuki, Ph.D. (Georgetown U.)

Special Presentation: Differential Innervation to Right and Left Ventricles

by Martha Davila-Garcia, Ph.D. (Howard U.)

Special Presentation: Molecular Mechanism of Right Heart Failure in Severe Pulmonary Hypertension

by Michael Crow, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins U.)

Keynote Lecture on Right Heart Failure

Speaker: Paul Forfia, M.D. (U. Pennsylvania)

Discussion on Pulmonary Hypertension and Right Heart Failure

Chairs: Paul Hassoun, M.D. (Johns Hopkins U.) & Norbert Voelkel, M.D. (U. Colorado)

To Main Page of “From Oxygen Sensing to Heart Failure” Workshop: http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/ys82/oxygen.htm