Re-Do TAVR Webinar October 28, 2022

On October 28, 2022, ViVitro Labs and The Cardiovascular Translational Lab at St. Paul’s Vancouver Canada present Re-Do TAVR Webinar, the latest in translational cardiovascular research in a quarterly interactive webinar format.

• Dr. Toby Rogers of MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute presents: ‘Re-Do TAVR & Lifetime Patient Management’
• Dr. Myriam Akodad of St. Paul’s Hospital presents: ‘Bench Testing to inform Re-Do TAVR’
• Dr. Jaffar Khan of St. Francis Hospital and Heart Center presents: ‘Innovations to Facilitate Re-Do TAVR’

Re-Do TAVR Webinar presentations will be followed by a Discussion Panel with moderators Janar Sathananthan and Stephanie Sellers. Join us on October 28!

A recording of the Re-Do TAVR Webinar will be available afterwards to watch anytime. All registrants will be notified when the recording is online. Post-presentation discussion sessions will not be recorded and will only be available to those attending live.

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Dr. Toby Rogers
MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute

Dr. Rogers is an interventional cardiologist and scientific lead for the MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute Structural Heart Disease program. He has a special interest in all aspects of minimally invasive treatment of structural heart disease, including Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR), Transcaval access, Transcatheter Electrosurgery (LAMPOON and BASILICA techniques), para-valvular leak closure, percutaneous treatment of mitral valve regurgitation including Mitraclip and Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement (TMVR), LAA occluder, percutaneous pulmonary and tricuspid valve interventions, and cerebral protection devices for TAVR.

Dr. Myriam Akodad
St. Paul’s Hospital

Dr. Myriam Akodad is an Interventional and Structural Research Fellow at St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver BC, Canada.

Dr. Jaffar Khan
St. Francis Hospital and Heart Center

Jaffar Khan is a Staff Clinician at St. Francis Hospital and Heart Center. He completed his interventional cardiology fellowship at Medstar Washington Hospital Center. He has a special interest in transcatheter electrosurgery for structural heart disease. Working closely with colleagues at the NHLBI and at Emory University, he has developed the LAMPOON, BASILICA, PASTA, antePASTA, TASTI, and ELASTIC procedures, and worked on developing devices for mitral cerclage and transcaval closure.

Janarthanan Sathananthan BHB MBChB MPH FRACP
University of British Columbia

Dr Janarthanan (Janar) Sathananthan is an Interventional Cardiologist at St. Paul’s and Vancouver General Hospital. Janar graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBChB) from the University of Auckland (Distinction) and completed cardiology training through the Greenlane Cardiology Program in Auckland, New Zealand and is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

Stephanie L Sellers MSc PhD
University of British Columbia

Dr. Stephanie Sellers is a Translational Research Scientist at Providence Health Care and Assistant Professor, UBC Division of Cardiology and Principal Investigator UBC Centre for Heart Lung Innovation. Having completed her PhD at UBC in Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Sellers aims to integrate clinical and basic science research in cardiovascular imaging as it relates to structural heart disease.