Featured Sessions

Sunday, May 19, 2019

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7:00 PM-7:45 PM


Global Summit - Complex Interventions Without Borders: cPCI Using Radial Approach, Part 1
Luis A. Guzman, M.D., FSCAI, Sunil V. Rao, M.D., FSCAI, Ehtisham Mahmud, M.D., FSCAI, Kyoo-Rok Han, M.D., Shao-Liang Chen, M.D., Ph.D., FSCAI and Adhir R. Shroff, M.D., FSCAI

7:45 PM-8:30 PM


Global Summit - Complex Interventions Without Borders: My Worst Complication, How Did I Solve It? Part 2
David A. Cox, M.D., MSCAI, Ramesh Daggubati, M.D., FSCAI, Emmanouil S. Brilakis, M.D., FSCAI, Cindy L. Grines, M.D., MSCAI, Yukio Ozaki, M.D., FSCAI and Youngkeun Ahn, M.D., Ph.D., FSCAI

Monday, May 20, 2019

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8:00 AM-9:30 AM


SCAI/Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) Joint Session: Interventional Cardiology 2019: What's Next?
Ajay J. Kirtane, M.D., FSCAI, Roxana Mehran, M.D., MSCAI, Sunil V. Rao, M.D., FSCAI, Kendra J. Grubb, M.D. and Anita W. Asgar, M.D.

12:30 PM-12:45 PM


Welcome by 2019 Scientific Sessions Program Chair Sunil Rao, MD, FSCAI and Presidential Address by David A. Cox, MD, MSCAI, President 2018 - 2019

12:45 PM-12:50 PM


SCAI Award Presentations: Helping Hearts Lifetime Service Award

12:50 PM-1:15 PM


Hildner Lecture: First-in-Man: A 40 Year Journey of Discovery in the Cath Lab

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Innovation Session I: Medical Device Innovation - Concept to Reality
Richard R. Heuser, M.D., MSCAI and Rafael Beyar, M.D., FSCAI

Live Cases - Structural
Michael J. Rinaldi, M.D., FSCAI, Hersh S. Maniar, M.D., Brijeshwar S. Maini, M.D., Brittany Zwischenberger, M.D., Jeffrey Allen Southard, M.D., FSCAI, Kendra J. Grubb, M.D., Ziyad M. Hijazi, M.D., MSCAI and Matthew W. Sherwood, M.D., FSCAI

3:00 PM-4:00 PM


Controversies in Stable Angina
Vanesa Fernanda Nuñez, M.D., PhD, Tyrone J. Collins, M.D., MSCAI, J. Jeffrey Marshall, M.D., MSCAI, Ted A. Bass, M.D., MSCAI, Jason R. Wollmuth, M.D. and Jennifer A. Tremmel, M.D., FSCAI

Innovation Session II: Ischemic Heart Disease - Still Room for Innovation
Todd J. Brinton, M.D. and Rafael Beyar, M.D., FSCAI

4:00 PM-4:45 PM


Abstract Poster Session I

4:45 PM-6:15 PM


Best Cases From Around the World
Luis A. Guzman, M.D., FSCAI, Kyung Woo Park, M.D., Ph.D., Kevin J. Croce, M.D., Ph.D., Ramesh Daggubati, M.D., FSCAI and Steven R. Bailey, M.D., MSCAI

Innovation Session III: Innovations in Structural Heart Disease
Ori Ben-Yehuda, M.D. and Ryan R. Reeves, M.D.

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

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8:00 AM-8:20 AM


Founders Lecture: Clinical Decision Making: Trials, Tribulations, and Empiricism

8:20 AM-9:00 AM


SCAI Town Hall

9:00 AM-10:30 AM


Live Cases - Coronary
Sunil V. Rao, M.D., FSCAI, David G. Rizik, M.D., MSCAI, Timothy D. Henry, M.D., MSCAI, Michael J. Lim, M.D., FSCAI, Daniel M. Kolansky, M.D., FSCAI, Issam D. Moussa, M.D., FSCAI, Michael A. Kutcher, M.D., FSCAI and Robert J. Applegate, M.D., MSCAI

SCAI/Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) Joint Session, Part I
David A. Baran, M.D., FSCAI and Srihari S. Naidu, M.D., FSCAI

10:30 AM-11:15 AM


Abstract Poster Session II

11:15 AM-12:15 PM


Featured Clinical Research, Part I
Sara C. Martinez, M.D., Ph.D., Daniel M. Kolansky, M.D., FSCAI, Cindy L. Grines, M.D., MSCAI, Ted A. Bass, M.D., MSCAI and Sunil V. Rao, M.D., FSCAI

SCAI/Heart Failure Society of American (HFSA) Joint Session, Part II
Paul Sorajja, M.D., FSCAI and Shelley Hall, M.D.

1:45 PM-3:15 PM


Cardio-Oncology and Interventional Cardiology, Part I
Konstantinos Marmagkiolis, M.D., FSCAI and Cezar A. Iliescu, M.D., FSCAI

Live Cases - Peripheral Vascular
Douglas E. Drachman, M.D., FSCAI, Herb D. Aronow, M.D., FSCAI, Kusum Lata, M.D., FSCAI, Ramzan Zakir, M.D., FSCAI, Ehrin J. Armstrong, M.D., FSCAI, Subhash Banerjee, M.D., FSCAI, Sahil A. Parikh, M.D., FSCAI and Andrew J. Klein, M.D., FSCAI

3:15 PM-4:00 PM


Abstract Poster Session III

4:00 PM-5:30 PM


Cardio-Oncology and Interventional Cardiology, Part II
Konstantinos Marmagkiolis, M.D., FSCAI

Decision Making in Complex Patients
Emmanouil S. Brilakis, M.D., FSCAI, Jacqueline Tamis-Holland, M.D., FSCAI, Michael A. Kutcher, M.D., FSCAI, Jay Bagai, M.D., FSCAI, Henry S. Jennings III, M.D., FSCAI, Prashant Kaul, M.D., FSCAI and Xiantao Song, M.D.

Wednesday, May 22, 2019

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8:00 AM-9:15 AM


Live Cases - Coronary
Ashish Pershad, M.D., Emmanouil S. Brilakis, M.D., FSCAI, Binita Shah, M.D., FSCAI, Michael J. Lim, M.D., FSCAI, Manish A. Parikh, M.D., FSCAI, Farouc A. Jaffer, M.D., Ph.D., FSCAI, Robert F. Riley, M.D., FSCAI and Jennifer A. Tremmel, M.D., FSCAI

9:15 AM-10:15 AM


Controversies in Antithrombotic Therapy
Connie N. Hess, M.D., FSCAI, Sunil V. Rao, M.D., FSCAI, Usman Baber, M.D., FSCAI, Ricardo A. Costa, M.D., Ph.D., Lawrence Ang, M.D., FSCAI and Youngkeun Ahn, M.D., Ph.D., FSCAI

SCAI/American College of Cardiology (ACC) Joint Session: Appropriate Use Criteria in the Catheterization Laboratory - Bridging the Gap Between the Interventional Cardiologist and the Non-Invasive Cardiologist
Frederick G. P. Welt, M.D., FSCAI and Joaquin E. Cigarroa, M.D., FSCAI

10:15 AM-11:00 AM


Abstract Poster Session IV

11:00 AM-12:00 PM


Featured Clinical Research, Part II
Rajiv Gulati, M.D., Ph.D., FSCAI, Sanjit S Jolly, M.D., Connie N. Hess, M.D., FSCAI, Neal S. Kleiman, M.D., MSCAI, Jeffrey J. Cavendish, M.D., FSCAI and Nadia R. Sutton, M.D., FSCAI

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Live Cases - Structural and Adult Congenital
James B. Hermiller, M.D., MSCAI, Howaida El-Said, M.D., Ph.D., FSCAI, Megan Coylewright, M.D., FSCAI, Robert F. Burke, M.D., Steven J. Yakubov, M.D., MSCAI, John W. Moore, M.D., FSCAI, Joanna Ghobrial, M.D., Katherine Brooks Harrington, M.D. and V. Vivian Dimas, M.D., FSCAI

3:15 PM-4:15 PM


Controversies in Coronary Physiology
Rodrigo Bagur, M.D., Ph.D., Rajesh V. Swaminathan, M.D., FSCAI, Byeong-Keuk Kim, M.D., Ph.D. and Wei-Hsian Yin, M.D., PhD

4:15 PM-4:30 PM


Presidential Address by Ehtisham Mahmud, MD, FSCAI, President 2019–2020

5:00 PM-6:00 PM


Keynote Speaker: Abraham Verghese, MD