For Our Colleagues at Cardiology 2024

Stop by our booth to explore resources for referring providers and discover breakthroughs improving the lives of children with congenital heart disease.

Thursday, Feb. 15

Plenary Session II: 8 – 10 a.m.
What’s Old is New Again

• 8:30 – 8:45 a.m. Pulmonary Arterial Banding: When, How and in Whom? with Katsuhide Maeda, MD, PhD
• 8:45 – 9 a.m. High-tech Imaging Can’t Seem to Settle the Matter in a Complex Case – What to Do? Let’s Get an ECG! with Maully J. Shah, MBBS, FACC, FHRS, CCDS, CEPS; and Jack Rychik, MD
• 9 – 9:15 a.m. A Class of Drugs Finds Exciting New Purpose: SGLT2 Inhibitors in Cardiovascular Disease with Daniel P. Kelly, MD

Plenary Session III: 4:15 – 5:15 p.m.

• 4:15 – 5:15 p.m. Case-based Experience that Helped Form Who I am as a Cardiac Care Provider with CHOP panelists Meryl Cohen, MD, MSEd; Jack Rychik, MD; and Jonathan Rome, MD, FACC

Friday, Feb. 16

Plenary Session V: 8 – 10 a.m.
The Damn Doors Don’t Work! Valves in Congenital Heart Disease

• 8 – 8:15 a.m. Characterizing Valve Dysfunction: Delicately Engineered and More Complex Than You Think! with Matthew A. Jolley, MD
• 8:15 – 8:30 a.m. Nuances in Characterizing Valvular Incompetence - ECHO with Lindsay R. Rogers, MD, MEd
• 8:30 – 8:45 a.m. Nuances in Characterizing Valvular Incompetence – MRI with Mark A. Fogel, MD, FACC, FAHA, FAAP
• 8:45 – 9 a.m. Solutions to Aortic Insufficiency with Jonathan Chen, MD
• 9:15 – 9:30 a.m. Catheter-based Solutions for Atrioventricular Valve Insufficiency with Matthew J. Gillespie, MD

Saturday, Feb. 17

Plenary Session VI: 8 – 10 a.m.
Awards and Featured Lectures

• 8:45 a.m. Annual Pediatric and Congenital Cardiovascular Basic Science Lecture with Robert J. Levy, MD

Plenary Session VII: 3 – 5 p.m.
Innovations in Congenital Heart Care

• 3:30 – 3:45 p.m. Update on the Artificial Placenta — Where Are We Heading? with Jack Rychik, MD
• 4:15 – 4:30 p.m. Can Biomarkers Help Us Improve our Understanding of Congenital Heart Disease? with Laura M. Mercer-Rosa, MD, MSCE
• 4:30 – 4:45 p.m. Advances in Pacemaker Technologies with Maully J. Shah, MBBS, FACC, FHRS, CCDS, CEPS

Sunday, Feb. 18

Plenary Session VIII: 8 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Clinical Wisdom: Perhaps There is Evidence, or Perhaps Not, but This is What I Do…

• 8 – 8:15 a.m. PDE-5 Inhibition Following Fontan Circulation with David J. Goldberg, MD
• 8:15 – 8:30 a.m. Digoxin Use in Single Ventricle with Michael L. O’Byrne, MD, MSCE
• 9 – 9:15 a.m. CC-TGA With and Without Tricuspid Valve Regurgitation with Meryl Cohen, MD, MSEd
• 9:45 – 10 a.m. Use Sirolimus to Treat Cardiac Rhabdomyoma in the Fetus with Jack Rychik, MD
• 10:15 – 10:30 a.m. To Decide When My Patient Needs a VAD with Matthew J. O’Connor, MD
• 10:45 - 11 a.m. When My Patient with Single Ventricle Needs Anesthesia as an Inpatient or Outpatient with Andreas W. Loepke, MD, PhD, FAAP
• 11 – 11:15 a.m. For My Patient with Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome with Christopher Janson, MD

See the full agenda here.

For referrals and second opinions

The Cardiac Center’s Nurse Navigators are exclusively dedicated to helping all referring physicians connect with the appropriate cardiac services at CHOP.

Phone: 267-426-9600
Fax: 267-426-5139
Email: CHOPCardiacReferral@chop.edu

For international referrals

Our Global Care Coordinators can help connect you and your patient to the appropriate services at CHOP.

Phone: 001-267-426-6298

• Global Patient Services Brochure
• Global Patient Services: Creating a Medical Home for International Patients
• How CHOP Shares Pediatric Knowledge Across Borders
• Advanced Cardiac Therapies for Heart Failure Patients Info Card
• Fetal Heart Program Info Card
• Fontan Rehabilitation, Wellness, Activity, and Resilience Development (FORWARD) Program Info Card
• Sports Cardiology Clinic Info Card
• Topolewski Pediatric Heart Valve Center Info Card
• Jill and Mark Fishman Center for Lymphatic Disorders Info Card
• Preventive Cardiovascular Program Info Card
• Cardiovascular Connective Tissue Disorders Clinic Fact Sheet
• Pulmonary Vein Stenonis Program Info Card

Want to join our team of Cardiac Center breakthrough makers? Take a look at these open positions.

SAVE THE DATE! Fourth Annual CHOP Lymphatic Disorder Conference

Date: Sept. 19 – 20, 2024

New Horizons in Lymphology: Lymphatic Imaging, Interventions, Medical Therapy and Microsurgery

Clinical Pathways

Our Clinical Pathways Program aims to incorporate evidence, best practice and local expert consensus into easily accessible, shared mental models for use by clinical teams at the point of care to facilitate the delivery of high-quality medical care.

CHOP Online Pediatric Education Network (OPEN)

CHOP OPEN provides pediatric medical education to healthcare professionals from around the world. Register to access hundreds of free, online lectures in various pediatric subspecialties.