Cardiac Co-Chairs
Joseph Lamelas, MD
Associate Chief of Cardiac Surgery
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas
Rashmi Yadav, MBBS, PhD, FRCS
Royal Brompton Hospital
London, United Kingdom
Thoracic Co-Chairs
Sebastien Gilbert, MD
Chief-Division of Thoracic Surgery
The Ottawa Hospital
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Giulia Veronesi, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery
Humanitas Research Hospital
Milan, Italy
Ex-officio
Ralph J. Damiano, Jr., MD
Evarts A. Graham Professor of Surgery
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri
Visit ISMICS at Booth #22 during the 31st EACTS Annual Meeting that will take place 7-11 October, 2017 in the Austria Center, Vienna Austria. We look forward to seeing you there!
The ISMICS 2018 Consensus Conference will address "Defining the Optimal Approach to Lobectomy". The ISMICS Expert Consensus Conferences have produced very important scientific results that have benefited all aspects of the minimally invasive specialty. The purpose of a Consensus Conference is to evaluate the available scientific information on a biomedical technology and to develop a consensus statement that advances understanding of the technology or issue in question (assessment) and that will be useful to health professionals and the public at large. A select and geographically diverse expert panel reviews the scientific data, weighs the information, and then composes a consensus statement that addresses a set of questions previously posed to the panel. This statement is an independent report of the panel.
ISMICS Office
500 Cummings Center
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Beverly, MA 01915
Tel: 978.927.8330
Fax: 978.524.0498
www.ismics.org
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Anson Cheung, MD
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Dear Members of ISMICS and Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce that ISMICS had another very successful year in 2017. The 2017 Annual Scientific Meeting in Rome had a record attendance. We are well underway with our plans for the 2018 Annual Scientific Meeting which will take place in Vancouver, Canada, 13-16 June. Program Co-chairs, Drs. Joseph Lamelas and Rashmi Yadav on the cardiac side and Drs. Sebastien Gilbert and Giulia Veronesi on the thoracic side, are putting together an excellent Program which is vital to the growth and value of our Society’s Annual Meeting. I encourage you to submit your abstract to be considered for the 21st Annual Scientific Meeting.
I invite you to visit ISMICS at Booth #22 during the 31st EACTS Annual Meeting that will take place 7-11 October, 2017 in the Austria Center, Vienna Austria. We are also looking forward to the ISMICS Winter Workshop which will take place 8-9 December 2017 at the Rosewood Hotel and Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi Conference Center in Abu Dhabi/United Arab Emirates, in conjunction with the Emirates Cardiac Society Working Group for Cardiac Surgery. I look forward to the program put together by Dr. Johannes Bonatti and his team.
Looking ahead, ISMICS will continue to help drive innovation by co-sponsoring the 9th Re-Evolution Summit, 5-6 April 2018, at the Houston Methodist Research Institute in Houston, Texas.
In an effort to continue our global educational outreach, ISMICS was delighted to offer programming at the WSCTS Meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan and at the SISMICS Meeting in Shanghai last month. ISMICS Faculty participated in scientific sessions at both meetings.
INNOVATIONS, the official publication of ISMICS, continues to be issued bi-monthly as a timely resource providing the latest and greatest technological developments and techniques in the field. INNOVATIONS, is Medline indexed and has been accepted by Thomson Reuters for indexing in the Emerging Sources Citation Index. I encourage ISMICS members, as leaders in the field, to continue submitting their work to the journal, as it is an excellent means to facilitate an international exchange of knowledge and expertise in this growing area of study within the specialty. Again, thank you to all those who contribute.
The first annual Subramanian Innovation Award was presented during the 2017 ISMICS Annual Scientific Meeting in Rome to Muralidhar Padala, PhD of Emory University. The “Subramanian Innovation Award” which awards a $5,000 grant to an ISMICS member, was created through a generous donation from ISMICS Past President and Founding Member, Dr. Valavanur A. Subramanian. I would like to extend my thanks to Dr. Subramanian for his continued support of ISMICS educational initiatives.
I greatly look forward to what 2018 has in store for ISMICS and am honored to have this opportunity as ISMICS President to help our Society lead and promote innovation and technological advancement in cardiothoracic and cardiovascular surgery. I hope to see many of you at the upcoming meetings this fall and in 2018.
Anson Cheung, MD
President
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Save the Date
Annual Scientific Meeting
13-16 June 2018
Westin Bayshore
Vancouver, Canada
The Abstract Submission Site will open the week of October 9, 2017.
ISMICS appreciates the support of its industry partners for the 2018 Annual Meeting.
AtriCure, Inc.
Cardio Medical GmbH
Dr. Franz Koehler Chemie GmbH
Edwards Lifesciences
Fehling Instruments GmbH & Co. KG
Genesee BioMedical
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Getinge Group
Intuitive Surgical, Inc.
KLS Martin
LivaNova
LSI Solutions
Medtronic
NeoChord
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NOVADAQ Technologies
Scanlan International, Inc.
Sontec
Terumo Cardiovascular Group
Wexler Surgical, Inc.
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ISMICS looks forward to the 2017 ISMICS Winter Workshop, which will take place 8-9 December 2017 at the Rosewood Hotel and Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi Conference Center in Abu Dhabi/United Arab Emirates, in conjunction with the Emirates Cardiac Society Working Group for Cardiac Surgery.
Abstracts are now being accepted
Deadline: October 15
More Information
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 ISMICS is pleased to co-sponsor the 9th Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery (MICS); The Ultimate Hands-On Summit that will be held 5-6 April 2018 at the Houston Methodist Research Institute in Houston, Texas. The goal of this conference is to provide up-to-date evidence-based didactic lectures along with expert-instructed hands-on exposure to the latest in all aspects of minimal access cardiac surgery with an emphasis on hybrid approaches.
View the 2018 Video Invitation
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Innovations: Technology and Techniques in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery was accepted for MEDLINE indexing by the National Library of Medicine and by Thomson Reuters for indexing in the Emerging Sources Citation Index. Innovations is the first journal whose main mission is to disseminate information specifically about advances in technology and techniques that lead to less invasive treatment of cardiothoracic and vascular disease. Visit https://ismics.org/journal.cgi to view the current issue and http://www.editorialmanager.com/innov/default.aspx to submit a manuscript.
ISMICS is pleased to congratulate the 2016 Best Paper Award recipients:
Thomas C. Nguyen, MD
University of Texas
"Traditional Sternotomy Versus Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients Stratified by Ejection Fraction"
Daniel M. Bethencourt, MD
MemorialCare Heart & Vascular Institute
"Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Replacement via Right Anterior Minithoracotomy and Central Aortic Cannulation: A 13-Year Experience"
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| New ISMICS Webinar Series |
We are pleased to announce that ISMICS will be introducing a webinar series to supplement its comprehensive educational offerings. Each webinar will feature thought leaders from our specialty who will be speaking on cutting edge minimally invasive topics. Please visit www.ismics.org for the schedule of the upcoming webinars.
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ISMICS created the Research and Education Fund, formerly the Leadership Fund, in 2006 to fund the Presidents' Awards at the ISMICS Annual Meetings and Workshops. The Officers of ISMICS have taken the lead in supporting the ISMICS Research and Education Fund and invite you to assist them in their goal of funding its annual awards. Your generous gift will help them to attain that goal.
Niv Ad, MD - Falls Church, Virginia, USA
Aneez Ahmed, MD - Singapore
Kit V. Arom, MD - Bangkok, Thailand
Johannes Bonatti, MD - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Jorge Catrip Torres, MD - Mexico City, Mexico
W. Randolph Chitwood, Jr., MD - Greenville, North Carolina
Andrea Colli, MD - Padova, Italy
Ralph J. Damiano, Jr., MD - St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Todd L. Demmy, MD - Buffalo, New York, USA
Anno Diegeler, MD, PhD - Bad Neustadt, Germany
Robert W. Emery, MD - Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Volkmar Falk, MD - Berlin, Germany
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Francis D. Ferdinand, MD - Albany, New York, USA
Richard J. Fischel, MD - Orange, California, USA
James D. Fonger, MD - Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Changqing Gao, MD - Beijing, China
Vincenzo Giambruno, MD - London, Canada
Gentaku Hama, MD - Saku, Japan
John L. Knight, MD - North Adelaide, Australia
Joseph Lamelas, MD - Houston, Texas, USA
Richard S. Lazzaro, MD - New York, New York, USA
Simon Maltais, MD, PhD - Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Andreas Martens, MD - Hannover, Germany
Xu Meng, MD - Beijing, China
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Tomislav Mihaljevic, MD - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Yugal K. Mishra, MD, PhD - New Delhi, India
Simon C. Moten, MD - Melbourne, Australia
L. Wiley Nifong, MD - Greenville, North Carolina, USA
Nirav C. Patel, MD - New York, New York, USA
John D. Puskas, MD - Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Hermann Reichenspurner, MD, PhD - Hamburg, Germany
Rex De Lisle Stanbridge, MD - London, England
Valavanur A. Subramanian, MD - New York, New York, USA
Vinod Thourani, MD - Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Naresh Trehan, MD - Medanta, Haryana, India
Randall K. Wolf, MD - Houston, Texas, USA
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The Subramanian Innovation Award was developed in 2016 through a generous donation to the ISMICS Research and Education Fund made by ISMICS Past President and Founding Member Dr. Valavanur A. Subramanian. The winner of the Subramanian Innovation Award shall receive grant funding to be used toward taking their innovation and bringing it to reality for implementation. Recipient is awarded $5,000 USD. The first annual Subramanian Innovation Award was presented during the 2017 ISMICS Annual Scientific Meeting in Rome to Muralidhar Padala, PhD of Emory University.
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Ishtiaq M. Ahmed, MD
Mara B. Antonoff, MD
Joshua Appelstein, MD
Howard Axelrod
Gurjyot Bajwa, MD
Sharon Ben-Or, MD
Piergiorgio Bruno
Tzu-Ping Chen
Nepal C. Chowdhury, MD
Victor S. Costache, MD, PhD
Huy Q. Dang, MD
Jacob DeLaRosa, MD
Paolo PD Denti
Mohd Zamrin Dimon
Joel Dunning, MD
Feng Gao
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Jose P. Garcia, MD
Nora Goebel
Ming Hao Guo
Yan Kit Ho
Daniel Hoefer
Ricardo M Jaramillo, MD
Oswald J Lee
Rashad Mahmudov, MD, PhD
Simon Maltais, MD, PhD
Kaushik Mandal, MD, MPH, FES
Elisa Mikus, MD
Natig Mirzayev, MD, PhD
Eiki Nagaoka, MD, PhD
Madhava J. Naik, MS, FRCS, FRCS(cTH)
Edward Percy, MD
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Claudio Pragliola, MD
Deveja Rezar
Alan D. L. Sihoe, MBBChir, FRCSEd, FCC
Jaroslaw Stolinski, MD, PhD
Hiroyuki Tanaka, MD, PhD
Niels Verberkmoes, MD
Marco Vola, MD, PhD
Alice Wang, MD
Rong Wang
Kyle W. Yancey, MD
Marco Yola
Joseph Zacharias, MD
Ze-Rui Zhao, MD
Da Zhu, MD
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