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2008 Program & Abstracts
AATS 88th Annual Meeting, May 10-14, 2008, San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California
 
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SATURDAY, MAY 10, 2008
8:00 am - 12:00 pm   Catheter-Based Approaches to Structural Heart Disease
8:00 am - 12:00 pm   New Technologies and Procedures in General Thoracic Surgery
1:00 pm   DEVELOPING THE ACADEMIC SURGEON – A SYMPOSIUM
Room 23, San Diego Convention Center
Chairman: R. Morton Bolman, III
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
1:00 pm - 1:10 pm   Introduction
R. Morton Bolman, III
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
1:10 pm - 1:30 pm   How to Plan a Successful Career in Academic Cardiothoracic Surgery
Fred A. Crawford, Jr.
Medical University of South Carolina
1:30 pm - 1:50 pm   Clinical Research in Cardiothoracic Surgery
Tirone E. David
Toronto General Hospital
1:50 pm - 2:10 pm   Basic Research in Cardiothoracic Surgery
Yolonda L. Colson
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
2:10 pm - 2:30 pm   Translational Research and the Interface with Industry
Eric A. Rose
Columbia University
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm   Keynote Speaker: The Future of Cardiothoracic Surgery
William A. Baumgartner
Johns Hopkins University
3:00 pm - 3:20 pm   BREAK
3:20 pm - 3:40 pm   Research Funding – From Seed Grants to the NIH
Pedro J. del Nido
Boston Children’s Hospital
3:40 pm - 4:00 pm   How to Design and Execute a Clinical Trial
Eugene H. Blackstone
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
4:00 pm - 4:20 pm   Training for the Future: The “Hybrid Specialist”
Michael J. Davidson
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
4:20 pm - 4:40 pm   Training for the Future: The Program Director’s Perspective
R. Morton Bolman, III
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
4:40 pm - 5:00 pm   Panel Discussion
5:00 pm   ADJOURN
 
5:00 – 7:00 pm   General Thoracic Biology Club
Location: TBA
5:00 – 7:00 pm   Cardiac Surgery Biology Club
Location: TBA
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