Upcoming Webinar: "Donor Heart Preservation and Resuscitating Marginal Donors: Hot or Cold?"

CTSNet and ASAIO Journal are excited to host a live event on current donor heart preservation and resuscitating marginal donors with an expert panel discussing donation after cardiac death (DCD), cold heart preservation, and the Organ Care System (OCS). In this collaborative webinar, host Mark S. Slaughter, MD, Editor-in-Chief for the ASAIO Journal and Professor and Chair of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at the University of Louisville and moderator Adam Protos, MD, Division Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center are joined by digital moderator Erin Schumer, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at the University of Louisville, who manages the live Q&A and audience polls.

Internationally recognized panelists Michael E. Bowdish, MD, MS, FACS of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, David D'Alessandro, MD of Massachusetts General Hospital, and Scott Silvestry, MD will discuss:

• DCD Donors: National Trends and Variable State Regulations
• Cold Preservation: The Return of the Ice Age
• OCS: Outcomes the Same or Better

Register for Webinar

Thursday, March 14 at 2:00 p.m. CDT (UTC-5), 7:00 p.m. GMT (UTC+0)

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Host

Mark S. Slaughter, MD

• Professor and Chair, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
• Director, Heart Transplant and Mechanical Assist Device
• University of Louisville

Moderators

Adam N. Protos, MD, FACS

• Division Chief of Adult Cardiac Surgery
• University of Mississippi Medical Center

Erin Schumer, MD, MPH

• Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
• University of Louisville

Panelists

Michael E. Bowdish, MD, MS, FACS

• Professor and Clinical Chief, Department of Cardiac Surgery
• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

David D'Alessandro, MD

• Associate Chief of Clinical Operations in Cardiac Surgery
• Surgical Director, Heart Transplantation and MCS
• Massachusetts General Hospital

Scott Silvestry, MD

• Director of Advanced Cardiac Surgery
• Miami, Florida