Ever wondered how to prevent and treat stent failure, how to integrate advances in calcium management into your practice, puzzled at where to start with the post CABG patient or struggled with CTOs? If so let us help.
Featuring bespoke content from leading global experts and live cases from the top centres in Europe and the US this meeting offers a unique opportunity to update and invigorate your practice.
Session One: Calcium Modification – One pathway to success?
Session Two: Stent Failure – Prevention or cure?
Session Three: Post CABG – How do you navigate the maze?
Session Four: CTOs – Worth the investment?
Optimal PCI will be streamed from the Royal College of Physicians by WonDr Medical and available to view live on https://wondrmedical.net/ch/Optima
Details of how to register for the virtual event to follow.
James Spratt is a Professor of Interventional cardiology with a sub-specialty interest in complex PCI, intravascular imaging and CTO. He is widely published within this area and has performed live case demonstrations globally. He has an interest in medical education and is the Founder of Optima Education.
Dr Ziad Ali is Director of the Cardiovascular Institute at St Francis Hospital & Heart Center and Director of the Angiographic Core Laboratory at Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York.
Nieves Gonzalo is as interventional cardiologist working in Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain. She worked for 2 years in the Thoraxcenter in Rotterdam obtaining her PhD in the Erasmus University with a thesis about intracoronary optical coherence tomography.
Dr Jonathan Hill is Consultant Interventional Cardiologist and Revascularisation Group Chair at Royal Brompton Hospital, London. His clinical focus is on use of intravascular imaging in complex PCI, CTO and cardiogenic shock.
Allen Jeremias is Associate Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center, New York.
Dr Margaret McEntegart BSc (Hon) MBChB MRCP (UK) PhD is Director of CTO & Complex PCI and Associate Professor of Medicine.
Jeffrey W. Moses is Director of Interventional Cardiovascular Therapeutics and Director of Advanced Cardiac Interventions at Columbia University Medical Center/ St Francis Hospital and Heart Center, New York.
Evan Shlofmitz is Director of Intravascular Imaging at St. Francis Hospital - The Heart Center, New York.
Richard A. Shlofmitz, MD, FACC is Chairman of Cardiology at St. Francis Hospital, The Heart Center, New York.
