Program Topics

Plenary Lectures

• Do Novel Central Arterial Hemodynamic Parameters Improve Over Conventional Brachial BP as Predictor of CV Outcomes?
  
• Reimbursement Issues for Arterial Stiffness and Central Blood Pressure Measurements
  
• History of Central Hemodynamics and Wave Reflection: Translation from Early Experimental Studies to Contemporary Clinical Medicine

Basic Science Lecture 

Clinical/Translational Lectures

Hypertension

• Are There Differences in the Way Current Drugs Affect Central Arterial Hemodynamics and Blood Pressure as Compared with Brachial Blood Pressure?
  
• Prime Time to Target Central Arterial Hemodynamics beyond Brachial BP, Which Drugs and Devices are Available?
  
• Validation of New Parameters into Validated (or Surrogate) Biomarkers and What Studies Are Needed to Enhance Their Validation? 
  

Aging, Disease and Youth

• Central Pulsatile Hemodynamics, Arterial Stiffness and Target Organ Damage
  
• Hypertension, Endothelium and Anti-Hypertensives: Insights from Experimental Hypertension
  
• Large Artery Stiffness with Aging and Disease: From Molecular Mechanisms to Novel Translational Interventions in Humans
  
• Utility of Arterial Stiffness as a Marker of Clinical Cardiovascular Risk in Youth
  
• Effect of Lifestyle Interventions on Central Arterial Function in Aging and Disease

Oral Abstract Presentations

• Resistance Exercise-Induced Increases in Carotid Artery Stiffness Do Not Affect Cerebral Blood Flow Pulsatility
  
• Circulating AGE/RAGE Biomarkers and Aortic Structure and Function in Older Adults
  
• A Monoclonal Antibody to an Endogenous Steroidal Na/K-Atpase Ligand, Marinobufagenin, Reverses Expression of Profibrotic Genes in Aged Rats
  
• Racial Differences in Pressure Responses Following Peak Exercise: Insight from Pressure Wave Separation Analysis
  
• Differential Association of the Forward and Reflected Pulse Waves with Aortic Diameter in a Community-Dwelling Population of Normotensive and Untreated Hypertensive Men and Women

Faculty

Michael Beebe
ADVI

Julio A. Chirinos, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Stella Daskalopoulou,MD,MSc,DIC,PhD
McGill University, McGill University Health Centre

Richard B. Devereux, MD
Weill Cornell Medical College

Daniel Duprez, MD, PhD
University of Minnesota

Bradley S. Fleenor, PhD
University of Kentucky College of Medicine

Edward G. Lakatta, MD
National Institute on Aging

Gary F. Mitchell, MD
Cardiovascular Engineering Inc.

Wilmer W. Nichols, PhD
University of Florida

Leopoldo Raij, MD
University of Miami School of Medicine

Achim Schwarz
IEM GmbH

Norman Stockbridge, MD, PhD
U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Hirofumi Tanaka, PhD
University of Texas at Austin

Raymond R. Townsend, MD
University of Pennsylvania

Elaine M. Urbina, MD, MS
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Dean C. Winter, PhD
AtCor Medical, Inc.

Program Committee

Co-Chair
Bo Fernhall, PhD
Chicago, IL

Co-Chair
Gary L. Pierce, PhD
Iowa City, IA

Industry Liaison
Peter U. Feig, MD
Guilford, CT

Raymond R. Townsend, MD
Philadelphia, PA

Dean Winter, PhD
Portland, OR 

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