Problem Based Learning (PBL) Discussions

Each table is limited to (15) participants and two faculty members to allow for small group interaction, discussion, and exchange of ideas.

Sunday, April 27, 2003

1. Myocardial Ischemia and Infarction: Should all Cardiac Cases Need Beta Blockade?
Deborah A. Schwinn, MD/John V. Booth, MD

2. Ischemic MR from Diagnosis to Treatment
James M. Bailey, MD/Kristine J. Hirsch, MD

3. Perioperative Decisions in Clinical/Surgical Management of Heart Failure
Stanton K. Shernan, MD/John R. Cooper, Jr., MD

4. Lung Isolation: Endobronchial Tubes
Kathryn Glas, MD/Yaacov Gozal, MD

5. New Methods of Mechanical Ventilation
Manuel Fontes, MD/Jeffrey Vender, MD

6. Monitoring: CABG Surgery with Noninvasive Cardiac Output Monitoring Techniques
James G. Ramsay, MD/Monica Botero, MD

7. Cardioprotection during OPCAB
Peggy Duke, MD/C. David Collard, MD

8. Coagulation Monitoring: Update 2003
Fiona Ralley, MD/Kenichi Tanaka, MD

9. Congenital Heart Disease Interactive Case Discussion
Suanne M. Daves, MD/Bruce Miller, MD

10. OPCAB Surgery, Nuts and Bolts
Jack S. Shanewise, MD/Tod A. Brown, MD

Monday, April 28, 2003

11. Management of the Cardiac Surgery Patient on Multiple Antiplatelet Inhibitory Drugs
Linda Shore-Lesserson, MD/ Thomas F. Slaughter, MD

12. Use of TEE in OPCAB Surgery
Martin J. London, MD/Rebecca A. Schroeder, MD

13. Is There a Role for Regional Anesthesia in CABG?
Mark Chaney, MD/Patricia Gramling-Babb, MD

14. A-fib Prevention Strategies following CABG
Charles W. Hogue, MD/Jeffrey R. Balser, MD, PhD

15. Spinal Cord Injury and Thoracic Aorta Surgery
Lee Wallace, MD/Alina Grigore, MD

16. Neurological Monitoring/Protection during CABG
Mark F. Newman, MD/Elise Delphin, MD

17. Transfusion Best Practices
Bruce Spiess, MD/Davy C.H. Cheng, MD

18. Perioperative Renal Protection
Robert N. Sladen, MD/Nanette Schwann, MD

19. ACLS: Whats New, Amiodarone, Vasopressin and Beyond
Dan Berkowitz, MD/Donald Landry, MD, PhD

20. Right Ventricular Failure, Recognition and Treatment
Laureen L. Hill, MD/Gautam Sreeram, MD

Tuesday, April 29, 2003

21. Heparin-induced Thrombocytopenia in Cardiac Anesthesia: Current Strategies of Diagnosis and Treatment and Perspectives
Andreas Koster, MD/John Apostolakis, MD

22. OPCAB Surgery, Nuts and Bolts
Glenn P. Gravlee, MD/Glenn S. Murphy, MD

23. Pulmonary Catastrophes
Scott T. Reeves, MD/Mary Beth Brady, MD

24. Pre-anesthetic Evaluation of the Elderly Patient
David Cook, MD/Alec Rooke, MD, PhD

25. Neurocognitive Dysfunction, Can we Make a Difference?
John M. Murkin, MD/Hilary P. Grocott, MD

26. Epiaortic Scanning of the Ascending Aorta prior to Manipulation Should we Encourage our Surgeons to do it?
Marc S. Kanchuger, MD/Steven N. Konstadt, MD

27. My Patient has an Active Internal Defibrillator and Needs Urgent Surgery; What should I do?
John L. Atlee, III, MD/Joseph P. Miller, MD

28. Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy: A Challenge for the Cardiac Anesthesiologist
Gerard Manecke, Jr, MD/Roland Demeyere, MD

29. Use of TEE for Intraoperative Non-cardiac Surgery Catastrophes
Kim J. Payne, MD/Mark A. Gerhardt, MD, PhD

30. Protamine Reaction, Mechanisms and Treatment
Jerrold H. Levy, MD/Hamdy Awad, MD

John Apostolakis, MD
Cleveland, OH

John L. Atlee, III, MD
Milwaukee, WI

Hamdy Awad, MD
Columbus, OH

James M. Bailey, MD
Atlanta, GA

Jeffrey R. Balser, MD, PhD
Nashville, TN

Dan Berkowitz, MD
Baltimore, MD

John V. Booth, MD
Durham, NC

Monica Botero, MD
Gainesville, FL

Mary Beth Brady, MD
Baltimore, MD

Tod A. Brown, MD
Charleston, SC

Mark Chaney, MD
Chicago, IL

Davy C.H. Cheng, MD
London, Ontario, Canada

C. David Collard, MD
Houston, TX

David Cook, MD
Rochester, MN

John R. Cooper, Jr., MD
Houston, TX

Suanne M. Daves, MD
Malden, MA

Elise Delphin, MD
New York, NY

Roland Demeyere, MD, PhD (Co-Chair)
Leuven, Belgium

Peggy Duke, MD (Co-Chair)
Atlanta, GA

Manuel Fontes, MD
New York, NY

Mark A. Gerhardt, MD, PhD
Columbus, OH

Kathryn Glas, MD
Atlanta, GA

Yaacov Gozal, MD
Jerusalem, Israel

Patricia Gramling-Babb, MD
Chicago, IL

Glenn P. Gravlee, MD
Columbus, OH

Alina Grigore, MD
Houston, TX

Hilary P. Grocott, MD
Durham, NC

Laureen L. Hill, MD
St. Louis, MO

Kristine J. Hirsch, MD
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Charles W. Hogue, MD
St. Louis, MO

Marc S. Kanchuger, MD
New York, NY

Steven N. Konstadt, MD
New York, NY

Andreas Koster, MD
Berlin, Germany

Donald Landry, MD, PhD
New York, NY

Jerrold H. Levy, MD
Atlanta, GA

Martin J. London, MD
San Francisco, CA

Gerard R. Manecke, Jr, MD
San Diego, CA

Bruce Miller, MD
Atlanta, GA

Joseph P. Miller, MD
Olympia, WA

John M. Murkin, MD
London, Ontario, Canada

Glenn S. Murphy, MD
Chicago, IL

Mark F. Newman, MD
Durham, NC

Kim J. Payne, MD
Charleston, SC

Fiona Ralley, MD (Co-Chair)
London, Ontario, Canada

James G. Ramsay, MD
Atlanta, GA

Scott T. Reeves, MD
Charleston, SC

G. Alec Rooke, MD, PhD
Seattle, WA

Rebecca A. Schroeder, MD
Chapel Hill, NC

Nanette Schwann, MD
Philadelphia, PA

Deborah A. Schwinn, MD
Durham, NC

Jack S. Shanewise, MD
Atlanta, GA

Stanton K. Shernan, MD
Boston, MA

Linda Shore-Lesserson, MD
New York, NY

Robert N. Sladen, MD
New York, NY

Thomas F. Slaughter, MD
Richmond, VA

Bruce D. Spiess, MD
Richmond, VA

Gautam Sreeram, MD
Durham, NC

Kenichi Tanaka, MD
Atlanta, GA

Jeffrey S. Vender, MD
Maywood, IL

Lee Wallace, MD
Cleveland, OH