UPMC Children's at AHA Scientific Sessions 2023

Connect with us at AHA Scientific Sessions 2023, November 11-13 in Philadelphia, Pa. Our faculty and fellows will be lecturing and presenting research abstracts on a number of important topics in pediatric cardiology.

Below is a listing of our faculty participation at this year’s event. We hope to see our friends and colleagues at this year’s conference and invite you to get in touch with us at the event. You can also stop by the UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute's evening reception on Saturday, November 11 from 6 to 8p.m.

Full details of the lecture days/times are available on the conference website program. 

Primary repair vs. staged palliation for symptomatic neonates: lessons learned from the CCRC

Bryan H Goldstein, Pittsburgh, PA

Session CH.APS.P6 – Congenital Heart Disease

Nov. 12, 2023, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Su2022 - Timing and Mode of Death Following Treatment of Neonatal Symptomatic Tetralogy of Fallot

Sara M. Trucco, UPMC Children's Hosp of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Yun Zhang, NY; Courtney McCracken, NY, GA; Andrew C Glatz, Washington Univ Sch of Med, St. Louis, MO; Christopher J Petit, Columbia Univ, New York, NY; Athar Mahmood Qureshi, Texas Children's Hosp, Houston, TX; Je!rey Zampi, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Shabana Shahanavaz, Univ of Michigan, AnnArbor, MI, Cincinnati, OH; George Nicholson, Vanderbilt Univ Medical Cente, Nashville, TN; Nathalie Abejero, Vanderbilt Univ Medical Cente, Nashville, TN, NY; Allen Ligon, Vanderbilt Univ Medical Cente, Nashville, TN, NY, GA; Jay Patel, Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA; Christopher Mascio, West Virginia Univ, Morgantown, WV; Shiraz A Maskatia, Stanford Univ Medical Sch, Palo Alto, CA; Jennifer Romano, Stanford Univ Medical Sch, Palo Alto, CA, MI; Michael L Obyrne, CHOP/Perelman Sch of Med, Philadelphia, PA; Kathryn Stack, Children's Hospof Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Jeannette Wong-Siegel, Washington Univ in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO; Asaad Beshish, Emory Univ, Atlanta, GA; Mark Law, Emory Univ, Atlanta, GA, AL; Kristal Hock, Emory Univ, Atlanta, GA, AL, AL; Sarosh P Batlivala, Cincinnati Children's Hosp, Cincinnati, OH; Sarah Speed, Cincinnati Children's Hosp, Cincinnati, OH, OH; Je!ery J Meadows, UCSF, San Francisco, CA; Disha Goel, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, CA; Hala Khan, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, CA, Houston, TX; Bryan H Goldstein, Childrens Hosp of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Session CH.APS.P10 – Pediatric Heart Failure and Transplantation

Nov. 13, 2023, 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Mo2009 - Cardiac MRI Adds Value in Discerning Pediatric Heart Transplant Rejection and Its Management

Laura Olivieri, UPMC Childrens Hosp Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Nicolle Ceneri, Karin Hamann, John T Berger III, Yue-Hin Loke, Ravi Vegulla, Children's Natl Medical Ctr, Washington, DC; Tacy E Downing, Childrens Natl Medical Ctr, Washington, DC; Joshua Kanter, Children's Natl Medical Ctr, Washington, DC; Steven Sta!a, David Zurakowski, Boston Children's Hosp and Harvard, Boston, MA; Russell Cross, Nemours Children's Hosp, Wilmington, DE

Advances in Heart Failure and Transplant Therapies Session

November 11, 2023, 1:45 PM - 1:55 PM

Abstract: 124 - Prevalence and Time Course of Adverse Events After a Biopsy Diagnosis of Antibody-Mediated Rejection in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients

Melanie D Everitt, Children's Hosp Colorado, Aurora, CO; Elfriede Pahl, Ann Robert h Lurie, Wilmette, IL; Devin A Koehl, Kirklin Inst for Res in Surgical Outcomes, Pelham, AL; Ryan S

Cantor, Kirklin Inst for Res in Surgical Outcomes, Murray, UT; James K Kirklin, Kirklin Inst for Res in Surgical Outcomes, Birmingham, AL; Christine reed, Children's Hosp Colorado, Aurora, CO; Matthew D Zinn, Childrens Hosp of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Amanda D McCormick, C. S. Mott Children's Hosp, Ann Arbor, MI; Jessie Yester, Nationwide Children's Hosp, Pickerington, OH; Philip Thrush MD, Ann and Robert H Lurie Children's Hosp of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Jenna Schauer, Seattle Children's Hosp, Seattle, WA; Donna Lee, Lucile Packard Children's Hosp Stanford, Palo Alto, CA

Alexander S. Nadas Lecture and Outstanding Research Awards in Pediatric Cardiology

November 12, 2023, 4:00 PM - 4:10 PM

Abstract: 110 - The Impact of Fontan Circulatory Failure on Heart Transplant Survival: A 20 Center Study

Kurt R Schumacher, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; David N Rosenthal, Stanford Univ, Palo Alto, CA; Adriana Batazzi, Sunkyung Yu, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Garrett Reichle, Ann Arbor, MI; Maria Bano, Ann Arbor, MI, Dallas, TX; Shriprasad R Deshpande, Children's Natl Health System, Washington, DC; Matthew O'Connor, Children's Hosp of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Humera Ahmed, Seattle Children's Hosp, Seattle, WA; Sharon Chen, Stanford Univ, Palo Alto, CA; Lydia Wright, Nationwide Children's Hosp, Columbus, OH; Steven J Kindel, Nationwide Children's Hosp, Columbus, OH, Milwaukee, WI; Anna Joong, Nationwide Children's Hosp, Columbus, OH, Milwaukee, WI, Chicago, IL; Michelle Ploutz, Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; Brian D Feingold, UPMC Childrens Hosp of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Justin Godown, UPMC Childrens Hosp of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, Brentwood, TN; Chad Y Mao, UPMC Childrens Hosp of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, Brentwood, TN, Atlanta, GA; Angela Lorts, Cincinnati Childrens Hosp, Cincinnati, OH; Kathleen Simpson, Cincinnati Childrens Hosp, Cincinnati, OH, Denver, CO; Aecha Ybarra, Washington Univ in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO; Marc E Richmond, Columbia Univ Mschony, New York, NY; Shahnawaz Amdani, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; Jennifer Conway, Stollery Children's Hosp, Edmonton, AB, Canada; Elizabeth Blume, Boston Children's Hosp, Boston, MA; Melissa Cousino, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Congenital Heart Disease Session

Nov. 12, 2023, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Su2029 - Resource Utilization After Cardiac Surgery in Adults With Congenital Heart Diseases: A Nationwide Analysis

Carlos E Diaz Castrillon, Ibrahim Sultan, Melita Viegas, Univ of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Arvind Hoskoppal, UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA; Jennifer Nelson, Nemours Children's Hosp, Orlando, FL; Mario Castro Medina, UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA; Luciana da Silva, UPMC Children's Hosp, Blawnox PA, PA; Nidhi Iyanna, Univ of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Sarah Yousef, Univ of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, Bethel Park, PA; Yisi Wang, Univ of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, BethelPark, PA, Pittsburgh, PA; Victor Morell, Univ of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Nov. 12, 2023, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Su4292 - Aortic Valve Neocuspidization (Ozaki Procedure) is Non-Inferior to Surgical Bioprosthetic Aortic Valve Replacement: A Society of Thoracic Surgeons Nationwide Propensity Matched Analysis

Bryant Fisher, ahmet sezer, Univ of Pittsburgh Medical Ctr, Pittsburgh, PA; Keith Dufendach, UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA; Ibrahim Sultan, Univ of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Victor O Morell, Children's Hosp Of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Pyongsoo Yoon, Univ of Pittsburgh Medical Ctr, Pittsburgh, PA; Vinay Badhwar, WVU Heart & Vascular Inst, Morgantown, WV; Je! Jacobs, Congenital Heart Ctr, Univ of Florida, FL; Vinod H Thourani, Piedmont Heart Inst, Atlanta, GA; Joanna Chikwe, Cedars-Sinai Medical Ctr, Los Angeles, CA; Edward P Chen, Duke Univ, Durham, NC; Markus Krane, Yale Sch of Med, New Haven, CT; Shinya Unai, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; Danny Chu, Univ of Pittsburgh Sch of Med, Pittsburgh, PA

120 - Contemporary Practices and Outcomes in Primary Pulmonary Vein Stenosis: A PVS Network Study

Rachel D Vanderlaan, The Hosp for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada; Athar Mahmood Qureshi, Texas Children's Hosp, Houston, TX; Russel Hirsch, Cincinnati Children's Hosp, Cincinnati, OH; Crystal Tran, The Hosp for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada; Ryan Callahan, Boston Children's Hosp, Boston, MA; Delphine Yung, Childrens Hosp & Regional Med, Seattle, WA; Eric D Austin, Vanderbilt Univ Medical Ctr, Nashville, TN; Stephanie S Handler, Children's Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; David M Kalfa, Morgan Stanley Children's Hosp, Columbia Univ Medical Ctr, New York, NY; Carl H Backes, Nationwide Children’s Hosp Heart Ctr, Columbus, OH; Christian Pizarro, Alfred I. DuPont Hosp for Children, Wilmington, DE; Lourdes R Prieto, Nicklaus Children's Hosp, Miami, FL; Bassel Mohammad Nijres, Univ of Iowa, Stead Family Children's Hosp, Iowa City, IA; Liezl Domingo, Primary Children’s Hosp, Salt Lake City, UT; Sara M Trucco, Children's Hosp of Pittsburgh, Pittsburg, PA; Christopher J Petit, Columbia Univ, New York, NY; Chris Baird, Boston Children's Hosp, Boston, MA; Manish Bansal, Baylor Coll of Med, Houston, TX; Erika Vorhies, Alberta Childrens Hosp, Calgary, AB, Canada; David M Overman, The Children's Heart Clinic, Minneapolis, MN; Alomgir Hossain, The Hosp for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada; Jonathan J Rome, Childrens Hosp of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Ronald W Day, Univ Utah Sch of Med, Salt Lake Cty, UT; Dunbar D Ivy, Univ of Colorado, Aurora, CO; Christopher A Caldarone, Texas Childrens Hosp, Houston, TX