PRESENTATIONS BY THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO CARDIOVASCULAR FACULTY AT THE CANADIAN CARDIOVASCULAR CONGRESS October 25 – 28, 2014 Vancouver, British Columbia Saturday Oct 25, 2014 08:00 – 17:00 - 13th ANNUAL CARDIOVASCULAR TRAINEE DAY 08:00 - 09:00 MORNING PLENARY Fairmont Waterfront (Ballroom C) How to Succeed in the First 3-5 Years of Your Career Kim Connelly 13:10 - 15:20 CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS AND TEACHING LABS CARDIAC CATH Fairmont Waterfront (Malaspina) Neil Fam, Akshay Bagai 10:00 - 18:00 Poster BASIC SCIENCE IN ACS AND CVD TREATMENT Authors will be present from 16:30-18:00. Community Forum (VCC Ballroom) 002-002 EXPLORING THE BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OFS100A6 OVEREXPRESSION IN ACUTE INFARCTIONREPERFUSION:PREVENTION OF FIBROSIS,ENHANCED ANGIOGENESIS AND ATTENUATION OFMYOCARDIAL HYPERTROPHY A Mofid, NS Newman, P Matkar, WJ Cao, PJ Lee,D Rudenko, MA Kuliszewski, JN Tsoporis, KA Connelly, TG Parker, H Leong-Poi 003-003 MINICIRCLE-S100A6 GENE THERAPY BY ULTRASOUND-TARGETED MICROBUBBLE DESTRUCTION FOR TREATMENT OF ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION-REPERFUSION IN RATS A Mofid, D Rudenko, WJ Cao, PJ Lee, NS Newman,MA Kuliszewski, HH Chen, TG Parker, H Leong-Poi 004-004 THE INFUSION OF MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS INCREASES MYOCARDIALS100A6 AND LIMITS ADVERSE LEFT VENTRICULAR REMODELING POST MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION JN Tsoporis, S Izhar, J Desjardins, G Yannarelli,A Keating, TG Parker 10:00 - 18:00 Poster EKG, CLINICAL PRESENTATION , DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT IN ACS Authors will be present from 16:30-18:00. Community Forum (VCC Ballroom) 011-011 PROGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF LOW QRS VOLTAGE ON THE ADMISSION ELECTROCARDIOGRAM IN ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROMES NS Tan, SG Goodman, RT Yan, M Tan, KA Fox, JM Gore, D Brieger, P Steg, A Langer, AT Yan 017-017 EFFICACY OF AN EARLY INVASIVE STRATEGY FOLLOWING FIBRINOLYSIS IN ST-ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION IN RELATION TO THE ANGIOGRAPHIC EXTENT OF CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE B Elbarouni, WJ Cantor, J Ducas, B Borgundvaag,V Dzavik, M Heffernan, CE Buller, A Langer, SG Goodman, AT Yan 018-018 LOW RATE OF CROSSOVER TO TRANSFEMORAL APPROACH WITH SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION IN VASCULAR COMPLICATIONS AMONG OCTOGENARIANS TREATED WITH PCI VIA THE TRANSRADIAL APPROACH S Alnasser, A Bagai, S Jolly, O Bertrand, W Cantor,A Cheema 019-019 EFFICACY OF PHARMACOINVASIVE MANAGEMENT FOR ST-SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION IN RELATION TO SMOKING STATUS: A SUBGROUP ANALYSIS OF TRANSFER-AMI NS Tan, SG Goodman, WJ Cantor, M Tan, RT Yan,AJ Bagnall, SR Mehta, D Fitchett, BH Strauss, AT Yan 023-023 CLINICAL OUTCOMES OF EARLY REPATRIATION FOR PATIENTS WITH ST-SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION: A PROPENSITY-MATCHED ANALYSIS W Abuzeid, M Bennell, F Qiu, S Kassam, C Overgaard, N Fam, H Wijeysundera 10:00 - 18:00 Poster SEX DIFFERENCES AND RISK FACTORS IN ACS TREATMENT AND OUTCOMES Authors will be present from 16:30-18:00. Community Forum (VCC Ballroom) 032-032 NUMBER OF TRADITIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS AND MANAGEMENT AND OUTCOME IN ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME JY Wang, SG Goodman, I Saltzman, GC Wong, T Huynh, JP Dery, LA Leiter, DL Bhatt, RC Welsh, FA Spencer, KA Fox, AT Yan 10:00 - 18:00 Poster EDUCATIONAL ADVANCES IN CARDIOLOGY: IMPACT ON PATIENTS, CLINICIANS AND TRAINEES Authors will be present from 16:30-18:00. Community Forum (VCC Ballroom) 047-047 GLYCEMIC CONTROL AND CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTOR MANAGEMENT IN PATIENTS WITH DIABETES WITH AND WITHOUT CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE: INSIGHTS FROM THE DIABETES MELLITUS STATUS IN CANADA (DM-SCAN) SURVEY JY Wang, LA Leiter, A Langer, MK Tan, L Goldin, H Teoh, AY Cheng, KA Connelly, SG Goodman, AT Yan 048-048 TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION OF CARDIOLOGISTS: ARE WE MEETING THEIR NEEDS? E Yu, P Nair, M Sibbald, P Dorian 10:00 - 18:00 Poster QUALITY IMPROVEMENT: PROVINCIAL AND LOCAL STRATEGIES Authors will be present from 16:30-18:00. Community Forum (VCC Ballroom) 059-059 CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTOR AWARENESS AND PREVALENCE AMONG CANADIAN MEN AND WOMEN - DOES GENDER PLAY A ROLE? A POPULATION BASED SURVEY ANALYSIS KK Quadros, E Coomes, RR Bajaj, LR Finken, W Sharieff, A Bagai, ND Mehdi, AN Cheema 10:00 - 18:00 Poster CAD INTERVENTIONAL POSTER SESSION I Authors will be present from 16:30-18:00. Community Forum (VCC Ballroom) 064-064 QUALITY OF CARE AND OUTCOMES OF CARE OF PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTIONS IN ONTARIO A Czarnecki, T Prasad, J Wang, AN Cheema, V Dzavik, MK Natarajan, CS Simpson, DY So, J Syed, JV Tu, HC Wijeysundera, DT Ko 071-071 SUCCESSIVE TRANSRADIAL APPROACH IS ASSOCIATED WITH AN ACCEPTABLE SUCCESS RATE AND A LOWER RISK OF VASCULAR COMPLICATIONS COMPARED TO THE TRANSFEMORAL APPROACH IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING REPEAT PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION P Dehghani, E Rezaei, A Bagai, S Al Nasser, H Al Lawati, AN Cheema 078-078 RADIAL VERSUS FEMORAL ACCESS FOR CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY/INTERVENTION IN WOMEN WITH ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROMES: INSIGHTS FROM THE RIVAL TRIAL S Pandie, S Mehta, P Gao, W Cantor, A Cheema,M Madden, J Velianou, J Schwalm, S Jolly 10:00 - 18:00 Poster CAD INTERVENTIONAL POSTER SESSION II Authors will be present from 16:30-18:00. Community Forum (VCC Ballroom) 083-083 A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS OF TWO-STENT TECHNIQUES FOR THE TREATMENT OF CORONARY BIFURCATION LESIONS R Ting,S Alnasser, H Parthasarathy, A Bagai, W Sharieff, L Finken, AN Cheema 088-088 ANTIBODY COATING ON IMPLANTABLE INTRAVASCULAR DEVICES TO SELECTIVELY CAPTURE GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CELLS FOR LOCAL DRUG DELIVERY: AN IN VITRO FEASIBILITY STUDY Q Zhang, J Barfield, M Kutryk 10:00 - 18:00 Poster GENERAL PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY AND ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY Authors will be present from 16:30-18:00. Community Forum (VCC Ballroom) 095-095 PREVALENCE OF RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE IN URBAN AND RURAL ANGOLA BY ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY M Kwok, C Chow, K Henriksen, S Foster, A Jones, M Bentley-Taylor, K Kwok Sydney, Australia 11:00 - 12:30 Oral DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF STEMI VCC 119-120 11:00 118 INCIDENCE, CHARACTERISTICS AND OUTCOMES OF FALSE POSITIVE ST-SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION DIAGNOSES IN A COMMUNITY-WIDE PRIMARY PCI PROGRAM J Lu, J Christie, A Bagai, C Buller, A Cheema,J Graham, M Kutryk, N Fam 12:30 - 13:30 Highlighted Poster IMPROVING THE DELIVERY OF CARDIAC CARE: SYSTEMIC AND LOCAL INNOVATION Community Forum, Highlighted Poster Theatre A 12:54 160-H013 AWARENESS OF CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS AMONG IMMIGRANTS AND NON-IMMIGRANTS IN CANADA - A SURVEY STUDY KK Quadros, E Coomes, RR Bajaj, LR Finken, W Sharieff, A Bagai, NB Mehdi, AN Cheema 14:00 - 15:30 Workshop CCS HEART FAILURE GUIDELINES: 2014 UPDATE ON NEW THERAPIES, BIOMARKERS, ANEMIA MANAGEMENT, AND COMPLEX CASES VCC 121-122 Faculty: Gordon Moe Justin Ezekowitz Eileen O’Meara Serge Lepage 16:00 - 17:30 Oral FROM BASIC TO CLINICAL IN ACS VCC 119-120 16:30 186 EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF A ROUTINE EARLY INVASIVE STRATEGY IN RELATION TO TIME FROM SYMPTOM ONSET TO FIBRINOLYSIS: A SUBGROUP ANALYSIS FROM TRANSFER-AMI JJ Russo, SG Goodman, WJ Cantor, M Tan, B Borgundvaag, D Fitchett, V Dzavik, RT Yan, JJ Graham, SR Mehta, AT Yan 16:00 - 17:30 Oral MECHANISTIC INSIGHTS INTO CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS VCC 208-209 16:45 193 REGIONAL REGULATION OF BLOOD FLOW PREDICTS SURVIVAL IN EXPERIMENTAL CARDIAC ARREST A Ramadeen, X Hu, AK Tsui, GM Hare, P Dorian Canadian Society of Cardiac Surgeons 16:00 - 17:30 Oral CABG VCC 121-122 16:30 209 SHOULD DUAL ANTIPLATELET THERAPY BE USED AFTER CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY? A META-ANALYSIS OF 4662 PATIENTS FROM RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS S Verma, SG Goodman, D Latter, M Ruel, MR Ahsan, M Gupta, N Gupta, H Teoh, JO Friedrich 18:00 - 21:00 Accredited Symposium PCSK9: FROM GENOMICS TO CUSTOMIZE LIPID LOWERING APPROACHES VCC 109-110 Faculty: Shaun Goodman, GB John Mancini ,Jacques Genest SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM “Contemporary Analysis of the Dyslipidemia Performance Gap Data”. Presented at the PCSK9: From Genomics to Customized Lipid Lowering Approaches Satellite Symposium, Canadian Cardiovascular Shaun Goodman Sunday October 26, 2014 07:00 - 10:00 Accredited Symposium NEW CONCEPTS IN ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROMES: BEYOND 2000 (XX) Fairmont Waterfront (Ballroom) Faculty: Shaun Goodman Robert Welsh Robert A Harrington Eric A Cohen Richard Bon Christopher B Granger Irene Hramiak GB John Mancini 09:00 - 10:30 Oral EMERGING CARDIAC MRI TECHNIQUES VCC 306 Co-Chairs: Ian Paterson, Kim Connelly 09:15 235 CMR-DETERMINED LV DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION IN DIABETIC PATIENTS IS ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED MYOCARDIAL EXTRACELLULAR VOLUME FRACTIONY Yang, A Zavodni, W Foltz, I Roifman, V Ramanan,L Vivas, L Jimenz Juan, G Basharrika, G Wright, KA Connelly 09:00 - 10:30 Oral INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN CARDIAC REHABILITATION - THE WAY OF THE FUTURE VCC 118 10:00 244 HAS GOOGLE REPLACED TRADITIONALSOURCES OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE AND RISK FACTOR INFORMATION? LR Finken, E Coomes, RR Bajaj, W Sharieff, A Bagai, AN Cheema 09:00 - 10:30 Oral CLINICAL ASPECTS OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION VCC 110 09:00 246 A POPULATION-BASED COHORT STUDY OF A CLINICAL DECISION INSTRUMENT FOR 30DAY DEATH FOLLOWING AN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT VISIT FOR ATRIAL FIBRILLATION: THE ATRIAL FIBRILLATION IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM (AFTER) STUDY CL Atzema, P Dorian, J Fang, JV Tu, DS Lee, AS Chong, PC Austin 10:00 250 HIGH RATES OF CONCOMMITANT ANTIPLATELET USE IN PATIENTS WITH ATRIAL FIBRILLATION TREATED WITH ORAL ANTICOAGULATION: INSIGHTS FROM THE STROKE PREVENTION AND RHYTHM INTERVENTIONS IN ATRIAL FIBRILLATION (SPRINT-AF) REGISTRY M Gupta, N Singh, S Verma, JL Cox, P Dorian,C Fournier, DJ Gladstone, E Lockwood, G Mancini, C Saldanha, A Shuaib, M Kajil, M Tsigoulis, AC Ha 10:15 251 PREDICTORS OF DEATH AND STROKE IN PATIENTS WITH PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION: RESULTS FROM THE CANADIAN REGISTRY OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION A Ahmadi, A Parsa, J Swampillai, S Connolly,P Dorian, M Green, K Humphries, G Klein, H Qian, M Talajic, C Kerr 10:00 - 18:00 Poster PULMONARY HYPERTENSION AND CARDIAC0FAILURE: BASIC MECHANISMS Authors will be present from 17:00-18:00. Community Forum (VCC Ballroom) 294-022 ALPHA-11 INTEGRIN EXPRESSION IS ASSOCIATED WITH LEFT VENTRICULAR REMODELING: HUMAN AND CORRELATIVE EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES RA Civitarese, I Talior-Volodarsky, J Desjardins, M Mitchell, K Thai, PW Fedak, CA McCulloch, KA Connelly 11:00 - 12:30 Workshop MINIMALLY INVASIVE AND PERCUTANEOUS MITRAL VALVE REPAIR VCC 111-112 Faculty: Gideon Cohen Howard Leong-Poi Subodh Verma Eric Cohen Thierry Mesana Michael Chu Neil Fam Anita Asgar 12:30 - 14:00 Oral TRAINEE RESEARCH AWARD FINAL – CLINICAL SCIENCEAD VCC 118 Judges: Howard Leong-Poi Éric Laros 14:00 - 15:30 Workshop CCS ATRIAL FIBRILATION GUIDELINES: MANAGEMENT OF AF IN 2014: PUTING THE NEW GUIDELINES INTO PRACTICE VCC 110 Faculty: Atul Verma Jeff Healey Paul Dorian John Cairns Brent Mitchell Allan Skanes 16:00 - 17:30 Workshop TREATABLE CARDIOMYOPATHIES: WHEN TO SUSPECT AND HOW TO MANAGE? AN UPDATE FOR GENERAL CARDIOLOGISTS VCC 109 Faculty: Pablo Nery Lisa Mielniczuk Paul Dorian Eileen O’Meara Ian Paterson Jean-François Sarrazin Chamoun Chamoun David Birnie SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM “Illuminating the Cloudy Path of Antiplatelet/Anticoagulant Therapy Post ACS: How Much of What, for Whom and for How Long?”. Presented at the New Concepts in Acute Coronary Syndromes: Beyond 2000 Satellite Symposium, Canadian Cardiovascular Congress, October 26, 2014 Shaun Goodman Monday October 27, 2014 Canadian Council of Cardiovascular Nurses VCC 215-216 09:35 – 09:55 ARRHYTHMIA MANAGEMENT N 039 Your Complete Guide to Atrial Fibrillation: Implementation of Canadian Cardiovascular Society/Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada Patient Education resources J Cruz, S Lauck, L Burland, D Crane, A Gillis, P Dorian, C Kerr, M-J Martin, A Skanes 09:00 - 10:30 Oral MULTI -MODALITY AND HYBRID IMAGING VCC 201 09:00 410 LONG TERM FOLLOW UP OF OUTCOMES WITH F-18-FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY IMAGING-ASSISTED MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH SEVERE LEFT VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION SECONDARY TO CORONARY DISEASE: 5-YEAR FOLLOW-UP OF THE PARR-2 RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL T Shukla, BA McArdle, G Nichol, RA Davies, L Duchesne, TD Ruddy, B Chow, H Haddad, L Garrard, K Williams, L Higginson, P Hendry,R Masters, D Humen, M Freeman, K Gulenchyn, F Benard, N Racine, GA Wells, RS Beanlands 10:00 - 16:30 Poster ASO POSTER SESSION II Authors will be present from 15:30-16:30. Community Forum (VCC Ballroom) 445-080 TEMPORALLY DELIVERED COMBINATION PRO-ANGIOGENIC GENE THERAPY FOR NEOVASCULARIZATION OF CHRONIC HINDLIMB ISCHEMIA IN DIABETES HH Chen, Y Kim, C Liao, PN Matkar, WJ Cao, D Rudenko, MA Kuliszewski, H Leong-Poi 10:00 - 16:30 Poster ATRIAL ARRHYTHMIA Authors will be present from 15:30-16:30. Community Forum (VCC Ballroom) 449-002 DOES THE CARE OF PATIENTS WITH ATRIAL FIBRILLATION (AF) DIFFER BETWEEN AF AND GENERAL CARDIOLOGY CLINICS? EVALUATION OF PRACTICE PATTERN VARIATIONS WITH A CHECKLIST OF AMBULATORY AF CARE AC Ha, I Mangat, P Dorian, S Chung, J Cruz, V Szeto, SM Singh 454-007 THE INFLUENCE OF STROKE AND BLEEDING RISK ON ORAL ANTICOAGULATION USE FOR STROKE PREVENTION IN PATIENTS WITH ATRIALFIBRILLATION: INSIGHTS FROM THE STROKE PREVENTION AND RHYTHM INTERVENTIONS IN ATRIAL FIBRILLATION (SPRINT-AF) REGISTRY AC Ha, N Singh, S Verma, JL Cox, P Dorian,C Fournier, DJ Gladstone, E Lockwood, G Mancini, C Saldanha, A Shuaib, M Kajil, M Tsigoulis,M Gupta 457-010 CAN GENDER INFLUENCE SYSTEM OF CARE, PATIENT SATISFACTION AND QUALITY OF LIFE FOR PATIENTS REFERRED TO THE ATRIAL FIBRILLATION CLINIC? Z Mariano, P Dorian, P Angaran, V Dragan, J Cruz,I Mangat 10:00 - 16:30 Poster VENTRICULAR AND DEVICES Authors will be present from 15:30-16:30. Community Forum (VCC Ballroom} 469-022 CARDIAC RHYTHM DEVICE PROCEDURE RELATED COMPLICATIONS - TRACKING AND NEED FOR CONTINUOUS QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS K Ahmad, I Mangat, P Dorian, A Pinter, V Korley,P Angaran 10:00 - 16:30 Poster PREVENTION POSTER SESSION I Authors will be present from 15:30-16:30. Community Forum (VCC Ballroom) 478-031 ASSOCIATION BETWEEN FAMILY HISTORY AND SEVERITY OF CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE IN PATIENTS WITH PREMATURE ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROMES W Hindieh, L Pilote, A Cheema, C Labos, L Dufresne, J Engert, G Thanassoulis 481-034 GENDER-RELATED DIFFERENCES IN CARDIOVASCULAR RISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT IN PRIMARY CARE: INSIGHTS FROM THE PARADIGM STUDY TK Law, AT Yan, M Tsigoulis, M Kajil, S Verma,M Gupta 484-037 RACIAL AND ETHNIC DIFFERENCES IN CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTOR PREVALENCE AND AWARENESS E Coomes, LR Finken, KK Quadros, RR Bajaj, W Sharieff, A Bagai, AN Cheema 10:30 - 11:30 Highlighted Poster EDUCATION HIGHLIGHTED POSTER SESSION Community Forum, Highlighted Poster Theatre B 10:42 503-H006 COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION IN CARDIOLOGY: IS IT TIME? E Yu, P Nair, M Sibbald, P Dorian 12:30 - 14:00 Accredited Symposium THE VASCULAR FORUM : ADVANCING RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF CANADIAN LEADERS Fairmont Waterfront (Ballroom) Faculty: Paul Dorian Jeff Healey John Cairns Atul Verma John Eikelboom Jean Rouleau 14:00 - 15:30 Oral NOVEL INSIGHTS IN ANTIPLATELET THERAPY VCC 210 14:45 531 BLEEDING AND ISCHEMIC EVENTS IN CANADIAN PATIENTS WITH MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION UNDERGOING PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION: INSIGHTS FROM THE CANADIAN OBSERVATIONAL ANTIPLATELET STUDY (COAPT) AT 1 YEAR JP Dery, HN Fisher, Y Qin, YE Zhu, T Huynh, RC Welsh, A Quraishi, E Schampaert, SR Mehta, SG Goodman 15:00 532 PATTERNS OF ADP RECEPTOR INHIBITOR USE DURING THE INDEX HOSPITALIZATION IN PATIENTS WITH MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION UNDERGOING PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION: INSIGHTS FROM THE CANADIAN OBSERVATIONAL ANTIPLATELET STUDY (COAPT) JP Dery, HN Fisher, Y Qin, YE Zhu, RC Welsh, S Lavi, T Cieza, M Henderson, S Lutchmedial, SR Mehta, SG Goodman 14:00 - 15:30 Oral HEART FAILURE: OUTCOMES VCC 119-120 14:00 540 PREDICTORS OF APPROPRIATE IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR (ICD) SHOCK AND DEATH: A COMPETING RISK ANALYSIS DS Lee, J Hardy, R Yee, JS Healey, D Birnie, CS Simpson, E Crystal, I Mangat, K Nanthakumar, X Wang, AD Krahn, P Dorian, PC Austin, JV Tu 15:15 545 IN-HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT AND OUTCOMES OF ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROMES IN RELATION TO PRIOR HISTORY OF HEART FAILURE H Zhang, SG Goodman, RT Yan, P Steg, JM Kornder, GT Gyenes, FR Grondin, D Brieger, J DeYoung, R Gallo, AT Yan 16:30 - 18:00 Oral CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE: BENCH TO BEDSIDE VCC 210 16:45 547 DUAL ULTRASOUND-MEDIATED DELIVERY OF MIR-126 AND VEGF PLASMID DNA FOR PRO-ANGIOGENIC GENE THERAPY IN CHRONIC DIABETIC HINDLIMB ISCHEMIA WJ Cao, P Matkar, HH Chen, YJ Kim, D Rudenko,MA Kuliszewski, H Leong-Poi 17:45 551 MINICIRCLE DNA DEMONSTRATES IMPROVED TRANSFECTION EFFICIENCY AND LONGEVITY OVER CONVENTIONAL PLASMID BY ULTRASOUNDMEDIATED GENE DELIVERY D Rudenko, PN Matkar, SA Alghadeer, C Liao, HH Chen, MA Kuliszewski, H Leong-Poi 16:30 - 18:00 DEBATES 2: CURRENT CONTROVERSIES IN CARDIOVASCULAR SCIENCES VCC 121-122 Are Appropriateness Criteria for Coronary Revascularization Appropriate for Best Patient Care PRO: Dennis Ko CON: Christopher Buller Canadian Cardiovascular Society Affiliates’ Meetings and Events Canadian Heart Rhythm Society 17:30 – 19:00 CHRS Annual General Meeting (members only) Fairmont Pacific Rim (Emerald AB) Chair: Paul Dorian Tuesday October 28, 2014 09:00 - 10:30 Workshop MANAGING SPONTANEOUS CORONARY ARTERY DISSECTION (SCAD) VCC 121-122 Faculty: Jacqueline Saw Subodh Verma Victor Huckell Christopher Buller Ram Vijayaraghavan Robert Welsh Tej Sheth Paul Fedak