Wednesday, 21 April 2010

Pre-conference Workshop
1500-1900

Topic: Computational ECG models for DUMMIES: How can we use them?
Organizer:
Wataru Shimizu and Vladimir Shusterman
Speakers:
Colleen Clancy, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Joel Xue, GE Healthcare, Wauwatosa, WI, USA
Adriaan Van Oosterom, The Netherlands
Raja Ghanem, Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN, USA
Natalia Trayanova, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

Thursday, 22 April 2010

0815-0830

Welcome & Opening Remarks
Conference Chair:
Vladimir Shusterman, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Session I
0830-1200

The Art & Science of building the algorithms for ECG processing and analysis
Chair: Shen Luo
Co-chair: Linda Ricci
Speakers:
Mitch W. Krucoff, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
Shen Luo, Cardiac Science Corporation, Deerfield, WI, USA
Ian Rowlandson, GE Healthcare, Wauwatosa, WI, USA
Dave Mortara, Mortara Instrument, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Shibaji Shome, Boston Scientific Corporation, St. Paul, MN, USA
Linda J. Ricci, USFDA, Rockville, MD, USA

Poster
Session 1
1700-1800

Presenters:
Salah Al-Zaiti, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA
Mads Peter Andersen, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
Ljuba Bacherova, International Laser Center, Bratislava, Slovakia
Robert Farrell, GE Healthcare, Wauwatosa, WI, USA
Richard Gregg, Philips Healthcare, Thousand Oaks, CA, USA
David M. Hadley, Quinton/Cardiac Sciences, Seattle, WA, USA
Patricia Harris, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, USA
Hans Koch, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Berlin, Germany
Peter W. Macfarlane, University of Glasgow, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, Scotland
Ana Mincholé, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
Pentti Rautaharju, Wake Forest University Medical School, Winston-Salem, NC, USA

Session II
1900-2145

Important challenges in the analysis of P-QRS segment in different groups of patients
Chair: Rory Childers
Co-chair: Fabio Badilini
Speakers:
Omer Berenfeld, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Rory Childers, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Jerome Liebman, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland, OH, USA
Fabio Badilini, AMPS, Italy
Edward Berbari, Purdue University, Indiana, IN, USA

Poster
Session 1
2145-2300

Continuing Discussions

Friday, 23 April 2010

Session III
0830-1200

Papers from Submitted Abstracts
Chair: Charles Antzelevitch
Co-chair: Raja Ghanem
Speakers:
Mads Peter Andersen, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
Saeed Babaeizadeh, Philips Healthcare, Thousand Oaks, CA, USA
Robert Fischer, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Marjorie Funk, Yale University School of Nursing, New Haven, CT, USA
Larisa Tereschenko, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Joel Xue, GE Healthcare, Wauwatosa, WI, USA

Poster
Session 2
1700-1800

Presenters:
Ghassan Abusaid, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
Jose Baez-Escudero, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Martin Burke, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
John Dyer, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
Mathias Emmel, University Hospital of Kðln, Kðln, Germany
Hans Koch, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Berlin, Germany
Rewa Nazzal, Universityof Kðln, Kðln, Germany
Iñaki Romero, IMEC-NL, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Autumn Schumacher, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, USA
Robert Warner, Hill-Warner Enterprises, Tigard, OR, USA
Joel Xue, GE Healthcare, Wauwatosa, WI, USA
Miki Yokokawa, National Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan

1900-1950

Kenichi Harumi Plenary Address
Barbara J. Drew, RN, PhD, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco CA USA

Session IV
2000-2205

Jos Willems Young Investigators Competition
Chair: Konrad Brockmeier
Co-chair: Natalia Trayanova
Speakers:
Raymond Bond, University of Ulster, Newtownabbey, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Ashish Doshi, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Lichy Han, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
David Pickham, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, USA

Poster
Session 2
2145-2300

Continuing Discussions

Saturday, 24 April 2010

Session V
0830-1200

Repolarization analysis: where does the field go?
Chair: Mary Carey
Co-chair: Robert L. Lux
Speakers:
Wataru Shimizu, National Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan
Marek Malik, University of London, London, United Kingdom
Robert L. Lux, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Session VI
1030-1200

Space, leads, and vectors in the surface and sub-surface ECG
Chair: Stefan Nelwan
Co-chair: Robert Arzbaecher
Speakers:
Robert Arzbaecher, AJ Medical Devices, Inc., Wilmette, IL, USA
Stefan Nelwan, Erasmus Medical College, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Dewar Finlay, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland

Session VII
1650-1905

Emerging Applications
Chair: Sophia Zhou
Co-chair: Peter Clemmensen
Speakers:
Niraji Varma, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
Wojciech Zareba, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
Peter Clemmensen, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
G. Stuart Mendenhall, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Banquet
1930-

Poster Awards
JWYI Awards
President's Remarks
Chair's Remarks

Sunday, 25 April 2010

Closing breakfast