The CathSHOCK Conference is a multidisciplinary event for physicians and allied health professionals. It showcases up-to-date approaches and management strategies for cardiogenic shock patients. Presentations focus on:
- The role of a Shock Team in the management of Cardiogenic Shock patients
- Percutaneous Mechanical Circulatory Support options
- MCS-assisted PCI - when and how to decide
- Decision making and support of the unstable patient
CathSHOCK provides a practice-based learning opportunity for the delivery of care when managing cardiogenic shock. Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in simulations with dedicated Proceduralist and Non Proceduralist and Allied Health simulation streams.
Learning Objectives
- To understand the frontier of percutaneous MCS options
- To review current approaches and management of cardiogenic shock
- To provide a practice-based learning opportunity when managing cardiogenic shock patients
Faculty & Speakers
Dr. Ayaaz K. Sachedina
Chair, CathSHOCK Conference
Ayaaz is a Canadian Interventional Cardiologist at Foothills Medical Centre and the University of Calgary. He is the Director of CathSHOCK – Calgary Shock Symposium, the Lead for the Percutaneous Mechanical Circulatory Support Program in the Cardiac Catheterization Lab, and the coordinator of the Cardiogenic Shock Team Initiative at Foothills. He completed his medical training at the University of Toronto, the University of Western Ontario, and the University of Texas where he completed a fellowship in Interventional Heart Failure at the Center for Advanced Cardiopulmonary Therapeutics and Transplant, Texas Medical Center, Houston. His focuses include coronary intervention, percutaneous mechanical support in the management of cardiogenic shock, and TAVI.
Dr. Michael Tsang
Lead, Program Advisory Committee
Dr. Michael Tsang is an Interventional and Critical Care Cardiologist. He completed his Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology and Critical Care Cardiology at McMaster University. He holds a MSc. in Health Science Education and is the Assistant Program Director for the McMaster Adult Cardiology Residency Program. His clinical, educational and quality improvement work focus is on Cardiogenic Shock, the Shock Team, Mechanical Circulatory Support and Complex coronary artery disease. He is the Catheterization Laboratory Lead on Cardiogenic Shock and Mechanical Circulatory Support at Hamilton Health Sciences. He co-led the McMaster Cardiogenic Shock Team model through which he continues to strive for excellence.
Samantha Morahan
Clinical Engagement Specialist
Samantha is the Clinical Engagement Specialist overseeing the Clinical Innovation Initiative and supporting the CathSHOCK Conference. She coordinates key activities related to project delivery, financial management, marketing, communications, and stakeholder engagement to help ensure the success of these initiatives.
Megan Smith
Event Specialist
Megan Smith is an Event Specialist with over a decade of experience managing and delivering successful events across a variety of formats and scales. She is currently supporting the CathSHOCK Conference, leading event logistics and execution to help ensure its success.
Dr. Derek So
Dr. Derek So, a professor at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, is an interventional cardiologist and director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Toronto and completed residency in Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology in Ottawa. Dr. So holds a Master’s degree in clinical epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. His research interests include: acute coronary syndromes, pharmacogenomics, personalized anti-platelet therapy and cardiogenic shock. He is the interventional cardiology lead at the UOHI Code Shock Program team. Dr. So also co-leads the Canadian Cardiovascular Research Collaboratory (C3) cardiogenic shock working group.
Dr. Adriana Luk
Dr. Adriana Luk is an advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologist, as well as a cardiac intensivist at UHN. She completed her cardiology and critical care training at U of T, and her heart failure fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Her academic interests include quality improvement and patient safety for the critically ill patients admitted with heart failure
Dr. Eric Horlick
Dr. Horlick is an Adult Interventional Cardiologist specializing in Structural and Adult Congenital Heart Disease at the Toronto General Hospital. Eric completed medical school, Internal Medicine and Cardiology at McGill University and then did fellowship training in PCI and ACHD intervention at the Toronto General Hospital and never left. He was “structural” long before this name was coined. He was named the Inaugural Peter Munk Chair in Structural Heart Disease in 2015 and was promoted to the rank of Professor of Medicine in 2018.
Eric has devoted his career to the care of patients with structural heart disease, the education of advanced trainees in this area, and to research to clarify the long-term outcomes of patients after these interventions. He has trained 35 fellows in structural and congenital heart disease from 6 continents. Dr. Horlick has over 200 publications and has given over 500 invited lectures internationally. Eric co-founded the Canadian Network for Adult Congenital Heart Disease Intervention Research, is a CIHR and Heart and Stroke Foundation funded investigator, and clinical trialist. Dr. Horlick was designated a Master Interventionalist by the Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Intervention in 2023, and remains the only adult Cardiologist in Canada with this designation
Eric has been married to Sheri since 1999, they met on a school trip when they were 15. When friends, family, and Eric have medical questions, they usually ask Sheri, a social worker by training. Eric and Sheri are blessed with 2 teenage children who are their greatest source of pride and happiness.
Dr. Sanjog Kalra
Dr. Sanjog Kalra is recognized nationally and internationally as an expert in advanced coronary revascularization techniques, intravascular imaging, modern hemodynamic support therapies and in the management of shock and critically ill heart patients. He served as the inaugural Director of Complex Coronary Therapeutics and the Associate Director of the Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In September 2020, he returned to Canada to join the Peter Munk Cardiac Center at Toronto General Hospital as an Interventional Cardiologist and Cardiac Intensivist with a full-time academic appointment in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.
Since he arrived in Toronto, Dr. Kalra has greatly expanded the breadth of care offered to patients with complex coronary artery disease. He has won numerous national and international teaching awards and was recently awarded the prestigious Brompton Funds Professorship in Interventional Cardiology by the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre and the University of Toronto. Dr. Kalra remains keenly interested in complex coronary artery disease management, chronic total occlusion revascularization, and temporary mechanical circulatory support use in both high-risk percutaneous coronary interventions and cardiogenic shock.
Dr. Christopher Overgaard
Dr. Christopher Overgaard is inaugrual Chief of the Department of Cardiac Health and the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory director at Southlake Regional Health Centre. He obtained his MD and postgraduate training in Internal Medicine and Cardiology from the University of Toronto. He worked at the University Health Network from 2007 to 2019, where he held multiple leadership positions including Director of the STEMI program, Director of the Coronary Intensive Care Unit, and Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory.
Dr. Phyllis Billia
Dr. Billia is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She is a Clinician-Scientist in the Divisions of Cardiology and Multi-organ Transplant at the University Health Network (UHN). She was also appointed as Medical Director of the Mechanical Circulatory Support Program at UHN and is Co-Director of the Peter Munk Cardiovascular Biobank. She is also a Senior Scientist at the Toronto General Research Institute in the Cardiovascular Pillar, under the umbrella of Advanced Therapeutics. Dr. Billia is an expert in cardiac homeostasis and regeneration and her research focuses on exploring the processes responsible for the heart’s inability to regenerate muscle cells. Dr. Billia’s work is focused on developing strategies to coax the cardiomyocyte into the cell cycle for repair, ultimately to improve cardiac function.
Dr. Robert Miller
Dr. Robert Miller is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cardiac Sciences at the University of Calgary and is the medical director of nuclear cardiology and cardiac CT program. He completed training in Internal Medicine and General Cardiology at the University of Calgary. He went on to complete training in Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation at Stanford University, and Advanced Cardiac Imaging at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. His clinical work also includes nuclear cardiology and cardiac CT as well as time on the Advanced Heart Failure service and cardiac function clinic. His research interests include advanced cardiac imaging applications in patients with cardiomyopathies as well as clinical translation of artificial intelligence.
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