National Heart, Lung,
and Blood Institute Form and Function: New Views on Disease and Therapy for
the Heart
April 25-26, 2002 Bethesda Marriott
Hotel, Bethesda, Maryland
[Agenda
(PDF)][Logistics][Participants]
NHLBI Workshop Form and Function: New
Views on Disease and Therapies for the Heart
Leslie Reinlib, Ph.D. and George Sopko, M.D., M.P.H.
Division of Heart and Vascular Diseases, National Heart, Lung, and Blood
Institute
Co-chairs Gerald Buckberg, MD, UCLA,
Department of Surgery Michael Weisfeld, MD, The Johns Hopkins University,
Department of Medicine
Place and Location This activity will be
held April 25-26, 2002 at the Bethesda Marriott Hotel on Pooks Hill Road in
Bethesda, Maryland
Workshop Goals The primary purpose of this
Workshop is to discuss the relationships of cardiac form to function to produce
a prioritized set of novel research recommendations that will likely lead to
improved diagnosis and treatment of myocardial dysfunction. The Workshop goals
are to be accomplished by assembling applied and basic scientists, including
clinicians, physicists and bioengineers to define crosscutting research
directions on how altered heart shape may dictate the mechanisms of heart
failure and disease progression.
It is anticipated that the recommendations will
embrace several disciplines and encourage crosscutting research directions on
the relationships among altered ventricular shape, altered myocardial
performance, and the mechanisms responsible for such changes that lead to
development of heart failure and cardiovascular disease. The key areas of
interest for the Workshop are:
- Improved understanding of the temporal structural
and mechanical changes of the heart in disease progression and how these
changes alter cardiac performance
- Development of new surgical and non-surgical
therapies to restore optimal myocardial structure and performance in diseased
and malformed hearts
- Development and validation of novel technologies
and simulations (e.g. imaging) to assess the features of altered structural and
functional states of the heart, and application of novel diagnostic concepts to
produce therapeutic strategies to maintain proper cardiac function
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute is
organizing this workshop of a panel of experts to discuss how new strategies to
maintain normal cardiac shape apply to heart disease, failure, and congenital
defects. The workshop will serve as a broad forum to extending prioritize
future research directions from the cellular level to the whole organ to
develop methods to restore proper cardiac form; determine surgical and other
therapeutic procedures towards that goal; elucidate cellular, molecular, and
organ temporal changes associated with the evolution between abnormal and
normal cardiac shape; and apply the concepts of maintaining shape to
congenitally malformed hearts.
List of
Participants Agenda
Sub-Group Summaries will be posted after the meeting
Logistics and Information
If you have any questions, please contact NHLBI,
Leslie Reinlib, Ph.D.
(301-435-0504).
Participants
Subgroup: Imaging
CHAIR Dr. David Sahn Portland, Oregon sahnd@ohsu.edu
Members:
Dr. Raphael Bayer Haifa, Israel rafael@biomed.technion.ac.il
Dr. Gerald Pohost Birmingham, Alabama gerry@uab.edu
Dr. Manel Ballester Barcelona, Spain mballesterr@wanadoo.es
Dr. Matthew ODonnell Ann Arbor, MI odonnel@umich.edu
Dr. Edward Shapiro eshapiro@jhmi.edu
Dr. Martin LeWinter Burlington, VT martin.lewinter@vtmednet.org
Subgroup: Surgery
CHAIR Dr. Cecil Coghlan Birmingham, Alabama
ccoghlan@cardio.dom.uab.edu
CO-CHAIR Dr. Henry Spotnitz New York, New York
hms2@columbia.edu
MEMBERS
Dr. Gerald Buckberg Los Angeles, California gbuckber@surgery.medsch.ucla.edu
Dr. Myron L. Weisfeldt Baltimore, Maryland mlw5@jhmi.edu
Subgroup: Electrical
CHAIR Dr. Francis Spinale Charleston, South
Carolina wilburnm@musc.edu
CO-CHAIR Dr. Ray Ideker Birmingham, Alabama
rei@crml.uab.edu
MEMBERS
Dr. David Kass Baltimore, Maryland dkass@bme.jhu.edu
Dr. James Cox Washington D.C. jamescoxmd@aol.com
Dr. Neal Epstein Bethesda, MD epsteinn@nhlbi.nih.gov
Dr. Louis Terracio New York, NY louis.terracio@nyu.edu
Subgroup: Mechanics
CHAIR Dr. Neil Ingels Palo Alto, California
ingels@stanford.edu
CO-CHAIR Dr. Morteza (Mory) Gharib Pasadena,
California mory@caltech.edu
MEMBERS
Dr. Raphael Bayer Haifa, Israel rafael@biomed.technion.ac.il
Dr. Daniel Burkoff New York, New York db59@columbia.edu
Dr. James W. Covell La Jolla, California Jcovell@ucsd.edu
Dr. Arthur Feldman Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania feldmanam@msx.upmc.edu
Dr. Francisco Torrent Guasp Denia, Spain ftorrentg@meditex.es
Ms. Carmine Clemente Los Angeles, California
cdclem@ucla.edu
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