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About the Symposium
The second annual CathSHOCK Symposium is a multidisciplinary conference for physicians and allied health professionals. It will showcase up-to-date approaches and management strategies for cardiogenic shock in the cath lab. Presentations will 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
- Support of the unstable patient in the cath lab
The event will provide a practice-based learning opportunity for the delivery of care when managing cardiogenic shock. Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in simulations with both Proceduralist and Allied Health streams.
Learning Objectives
- To understand the frontier of percutaneous MCS strategies
- To review current approaches and management of cardiogenic shock in the cath lab
- To provide a practice-based learning opportunity when managing cardiogenic shock patients
2023 CathSHOCK Agenda
Dr. Ayaaz K. Sachedina
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.
Clare Puzey
Clare has over 30 years of critical care experience in ED and ICU settings and as a Flight Nurse with STARS Air Ambulance. She is the Clinical Nurse Educator for the Cardiac Catheterization Lab and Short Stay Cardiology unit at the Foothills Medical Centre. She is actively involved with the E-Simulation program, Provincial STEMI, ACS initiatives, and the CathSHOCK program. Clare developed the National Cardiac Educator Group to share knowledge, pool resources, and promote best practice standards across Canada and acted as the National Director for Professional Education for the Canadian Council of Cardiovascular Nurses for several years.
Samantha Morahan
Samantha is a dedicated liaison to the Department of Cardiac Sciences, guiding clinical members in fostering collaborations and advancing impactful initiatives. She leads the planning and execution of the Clinical Innovation Initiatives such as Heart Failure, Calgary Aortic Program, Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery, Cardio-Oncology, and CathSHOCK.
Keynote Speaker
Sean F.P. van Diepen, MD, FRCPC
Sean van Diepen is an academic Cardiologist-Intensivist with a medical staff appointment at the University of Alberta Hospital. He is co-director of the Coronary Intensive Care Unit at the University of Alberta Hospital. Dr. van Diepen is an Associate Professor of Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Critical Care, and is cross appointed to the Division of Cardiology (Department of Medicine) at the University of Alberta. He is also a faculty member of the Canadian VIGOUR Centre (Virtual Coordinating Centre for Global Collaborative Cardiovascular Research). Dr. van Diepen completed medical school at the University of Toronto, and after moving west, he undertook Internal Medicine, Cardiology and Critical Care Training at the University of Alberta. He completed a Clinical Research Fellowship at the Duke Clinical Research Institute in Durham, North Carolina and received his Masters of Science in Experimental Medicine from the University of Alberta.
Dr. van Diepen’s clinical interests lie in the care of critically-ill cardiac patients. His research interests include critical care cardiology, cardiovascular surgical care, cardiogenic shock, and cardiac arrest care. He has published over 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. van Diepen serves as an associate editor of the American Heart Journal and the European Journal of Cardiology: Acute Cardiovascular Care, and he is also on the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Cardiology. He is a Fellow of the American Heart Association, and the 2017 recipient of the Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award (in recognition of teaching excellence by University of Alberta cardiology trainees).
Dr. Bryan Har
Dr. Bryan Har is an interventional cardiologist at Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary, AB. He completed his medical training at Western University and his cardiology and interventional cardiology fellowships at the University of Calgary. He is a Clinical Associate Professor and is the Lead of the Cardiac Catheterization Lab Research Program at Foothills Medical Centre. His clinical interests include high-risk coronary interventions, intracoronary calcium modification, and intravascular imaging.
Dr. Daniel Holloway
Dr. Daniel Holloway is a cardiac surgeon at the Libin Cardiovascular Institute and the Cardiac Surgery Residency Program Director at the University of Calgary. He received his medical education at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and his cardiac surgery training at the University of Calgary. He underwent fellowship training in cardiac transplantation, mechanical circulatory support, and TAVI at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. His clinical practice includes minimally invasive valve and coronary surgery, mechanical circulatory support, TAVI, and open-heart surgery.
Dr. Ismael Salas-De Armas
Dr Ismael Salas-De Armas is an associated professor in the Center for Advanced Cardiopulmonary Therapies and Transplantation at UTHealth McGoverment Medical School in Houston and is the director of Arrhythmias Surgery. He is American board certified in general surgery and cardiothoracic surgery. He completed residencies in general surgery at the Venezuelan Central University as well as at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He then completed his fellowship training in Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Texas Heart Institute/Baylor College of Medicine and was elected as Alpha Omega Alpha member. His clinical and research interest includes high risk surgical revascularization, cardiac and lung transplantation, arrhythmias, cardiogenic shock, implantation and management of percutaneous and durable mechanical circulatory support, management and cannulation of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, particularly in special situations like trauma and peri-partum cardiomyopathy.
Dr. Juan Russo
Dr. Juan Russo is an interventional cardiologist and clinician investigator. He earned his medical degree at McMaster University in 2011. He completed residencies in internal medicine at the University of Toronto, and adult cardiology at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. He then completed his fellowship training in interventional cardiology at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, and subspecialty training in complex higher-risk interventions and advanced hemodynamic care at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Dr. Russo has a clinical interest in higher-risk coronary interventions and cardiac critical care. His primary research focus is developing neuroprotective strategies for the early management of comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
Dr. Omid Kiamanesh
Dr. Omid Kiamanesh is a cardiologist specializing in echocardiography and advanced heart failure/transplantation at the University of Calgary.
Dr. Kiamanesh is Medical Director of the Cardiac Function Clinic at the Peter Lougheed Centre and the Neuromuscular Cardiac Disease Clinic at the Peter Lougheed Centre. Dr. Kiamanesh sits on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Society of Echocardiography and his research is published in international peer-reviewed journals.
Dr. Kiamanesh completed internal medicine and cardiology residencies at the University of British Columbia. He completed fellowship training in Advanced Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support, and Cardiac Transplantation followed by Advanced Echocardiography at the University of Toronto. Dr. Kiamanesh subsequently completed his Advanced Echocardiography fellowship at the University of Calgary.
Lisa Janowiak CCP, LP
Lisa Janowiak is a clinical perfusionist in the Center for Advanced Cardiopulmonary Therapies and Transplantation at UTHealth McGovern Medical School in Houston. She oversees Life Flight®, Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation particularly pre-hospital and intra hospital and mechanical circulatory support cardiogenic shock programs.
Sandeep Nathan, MD, MSc, FACC, FSCAI
Sandeep Nathan, MD, MSc is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago Medical Center where he serves as the Medical Director of the CICU, Co-Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and Director of the Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program
He has authored nearly 150 original scientific manuscripts, review articles, communications and textbook chapters in the areas of ACS, vascular thrombosis, PCI, mechanical circulatory support (MCS) and cardiogenic shock. He has been in practice over 20 years with clinical focus on complex coronary/peripheral intervention, transradial intervention, TAVR/TAVI as well as MCS in complex PCI, cardiogenic shock and heart failure.
Dr. Jessica Wang
Dr Jessica Wang is an Intensivist and Clinical Assistant Professor with the Department of Critical Care Medicine in Calgary. She completed Internal Medicine and Critical Care training at the Universities of Saskatchewan and Calgary respectively, then completed advanced training in Melbourne, Australia, focusing on extracorporeal life support and ICU Echocardiography. She completed further Advanced Echocardiography training in Calgary and holds the Diploma of Diagnostic Ultrasound in Critical Care (Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine), Diplomate of Critical Care Echocardiography and Testamur status for Adult Echocardiography (National Board of Echocardiography). She is a passionate medical educator and is the CVICU site education lead and Program Director for the CVICU Clinical Scholar Program at the University of Calgary
Dr. Greg Schnell
Dr. Greg Schnell is from Saskatoon where he completed a degree in pharmacy and worked as a pharmacist before going on to medical school at The University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. He subsequently returned to the west and Calgary for his internal medicine and cardiology training. He has completed a fellowship in echocardiography in Calgary and at The University of Virginia. Dr. Schnell has a general cardiology practice with a special interest in critical care cardiology in addition to providing echocardiography services in the Calgary Health Region. He is an associate clinical professor at The University of Calgary and has been Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at the Foothills Medical Centre since 2008.
Dr. Janine Eckstein
Dr Janine Eckstein is an Interventional Cardiologist at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, SK. She completed her Internal Medicine and Cardiology training in Saskatoon prior to completing an Interventional/Structural Cardiology fellowship at St Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. She is Medical Director of the Structural Heart Program for Saskatoon and Northern SK. Her clinical interests include coronary intervention, structural heart disease and percutaneous management as well as percutaneous mechanical support.
Dr. Marwan F. Jumean
Dr. Marwan F. Jumean is American board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases, interventional cardiology, advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology and nuclear cardiology. An associate professor in the Center for Advanced Cardiopulmonary Therapies and Transplantation at UTHealth McGovern Medical School in Houston, he is the director of Program Development and director of the Interventional Heart Failure Fellowship program. His clinical and research interests include high-risk angioplasty, cardiogenic shock, the use of percutaneous mechanical assist devices in management of cardiogenic shock and acute heart failure, and ventricular assist device therapy complications.
Steve Menzies
Steve has been a member of the cardiovascular perfusion team at FMC since 2007 and became the clinical lead of the program in 2016. This team of 11 perfusionists is responsible for the safe operation of the heart lung machines for approximately 1700 open heart cases annually as well as the bedside management of 30-35 ECLS patients in the CVICU. Steve and his team are also responsible for the initiation and troubleshooting for the various ventricular assist devices utilized at FMC. In 2009 Steve began work at the Alberta Children’s Hospital to help develop a rescue ECLS program alongside the PICU team. Despite the challenges related to starting an ECLS program in a tertiary center with no cardiac surgery program, this initiative was launched in late 2010. Critical to the success of ECLS at both ACH and FMC, Steve helped create a high and low fidelity sim doll in collaboration with the eSim departments and is planning to continue to develop and strengthen this education platform.
Dr. Robert Miller
Dr. Robert Miller is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Cardiac Sciences at the University of Calgary. 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 the Advanced Heart Failure service and cardiac function clinic. His research interests include advanced cardiac imaging applications in patients with cardiomyopathies as well as epidemiology in heart failure and cardiac transplantation.
Dr. Ken Parhar
Dr. Ken Parhar is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Calgary. He has completed a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology and Immunology (Honors), as well as a Master of Science in Experimental Medicine from the University of British Columbia. After completing his medical degree at Queen’s University, and fellowships in General Internal Medicine, as well as Critical Care in Calgary, which included training in echocardiography. Ken also completed an advanced fellowship in Cardio-Thoracic Critical Care at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England, with a primary focus on extracorporeal life support and mechanical circulatory support. Ken currently works at the Foothills Medical Center as an Intensivist in the General ICU and the Cardiovascular ICU. He is the medical director of the Cardiovascular ICU and also the lead of the Calgary Extracorporeal Life Support Program. His CIHR funded program of research focuses on acute respiratory failure and ARDS management in Alberta. Ken is currently also the section President for Critical Care in the Alberta Medical Association.
Dr. Jeff Shaw
Dr. Jeff Shaw is a cardiologist specializing in advanced echocardiography, critical care medicine, and critical care cardiology at the University of Calgary.
Dr. Shaw completed internal medicine, cardiology, and critical care medicine residencies at the University of Calgary, where he was the Chief Cardiology Resident. He completed fellowship training in Advanced Echocardiography at the University of Calgary.
Dr. Shaw’s research is published in national peer-reviewed scientific journals. Dr. Shaw leads the Cardiology Simulation program at the University of Calgary and has received teaching awards from the Division of Cardiology and the Department of Medicine. Dr. Shaw is a representative of cardiac critical care within the shock team.
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