Artificial Heart Program: Breathing Life into Patients with Chronic Heart Failure
Dr. Robert Kormos discusses viable therapeutic options for patients with end-stage CHF and the evolution of cardiac support. Patients can now be co-managed with our team and local referring cardiologists allowing for greater patient and family freedoms and satisfaction. MORE >
Hepatocyte Transplantations: Minimally Invasive Therapy for Life-Threatening Diseases
Dr. Kyle Ansel Soltys discusses the evolution of Hepatocyte Transplantations as well as methods and strategies for pediatric liver transplantation. MORE >
Hepatitis C Recurrence after Live Donor Liver Transplant
Nationally recognized expert in abdominal transplant surgery, Dr. Abhinav Humar, provides an in-depth presentation on the advantages and disadvantages of living donor liver transplant or LDLT. MORE >
Optimizing Outcomes In Pediatric Liver Transplant
Dr. George V. Mazariegos, discusses the current state of pediatric liver transplant. The presentation provides a review of the determinants of early outcomes, surgical and medical factors that impact long term survival, and the assessment of the pediatric transplant recipient following surgery. MORE >
Pediatric Lung Transplantation: Advances, Controversies, and Conundrums
In this presentation, Dr. Kurland discusses the major contraindications, chronic immunosuppressive medications, and limitations of long-term survival associated with pediatric lung transplantation. MORE >
Quality: Raising the Bar- Implications for Performance
Francis Solano, MD, discusses the shift in medicine from volume-based health care to a system based on quality metrics, cost, and value. This presentation was part of the 2011 Update in Internal Medicine: Evidence Based Approaches to Common Medical Problems. MORE >