Registration and Breakfast

                                         HALL A

Welcome address
Naresh Trehan
Chairman, Medanta-The Medicity

 Mitral Valve Surgery

Moderators: Didier De Canniere, Naresh Trehan

Panelists: Lishan Aklog, John Puskas, RK Bapna,

Right Minithoracotomy For Mitral Valve Repair With Neo-Chordae
Jan F Gummert

“Butterfly Resection” for Mitral Valve Prolapse
Tohru Asai

Clinical Results of “Respect Rather than Resect” Approach for Repair of Posterior Leaflet Mitral Valve Prolapse

“Cut and Transfer” Basal Chordae and Papillary Muscle Relocation  for Functional Mitral Valve Regurgitation
Giampiero Esposito 

Long term experience with Bovine Pericardial Tissue Valves
 Sampat Kumar

Discussion

Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation: Techniques and  Controversies
Moderators:Giampiero Esposito,Jan Gummert
Panelists: Lishan Aklog, Antonio Maria Calafiore,
Herman  Reichenspurner

Always Fix the MR by Surgical Annuloplasty
Antonio Maria Calafiore

No Surgery – Only Devices (BIVIPACER) and Percutaneous Mitral Valve Repair
Hermann Reichenspurner

Discussion

Featured Lecture – to be introduced by V A Subramanian

Hemodynamics and Mechanism of Surgical Repair of Mitral Valve – A Biomedical Engineering Perspective
Ajit Yoganathan

Percutaneous Mitral Valve Repair
Moderators:  Lishan Aklog, Balram Bhargav, KB Joshi
Panelists: BN Das, Balram Airen, BK Goel

Current Status of Transcatheter Mitral Valve Therapies: Progress or Impasse? 
Lishan Aklog

Newer Concepts on Percutaneous Mitral Valve Repair
V A Subramanian

"From Endoscopic to Interventional Mitral Valve Repair
- A Surgeons Perspective"
Herman Reichenspurner

Discussion 

Featured Lecture – To Be Introduced By G Fontana
“Science and Skills”: The Preferred Marriage in Cardiothoracic Surgery
Paul Grundemann

SPY Intra-operative imaging: improving outcomes and reducing costs

Atrial Fibrillation: Settling the Unsettled Rhythm
Moderators:Ralph Damiano, Gerhard Wimmer-Greinecker

Panelists : K K Talwar, Rajneesh Sardana, Kartikeya Bhargav

Rate vs Rhythm : Is it still a contentious issue ?
K K Talwar

Totally Endoscopic Ex-Maze Procedure
Gerhard Wimmer-Greinecker

Minimally Invasive Bilateral Pulmonary Vein Isolation for Atrial Fibrillation: Controversies and Perspective
Yan Li

Catheter is Mightier than the Scalpel in AF
Antagonist: Ralph Damiano
Protagonist: Razali Omar

Aortic Valve Repair and Aortic Surgery

Moderators: Konstadinos  Plestis, Anil Bhan

Panelists: Tohru Asai , Raja Babu, Adarsh Kumar

Aortic Valve Sparing and Aortic Valve Repair Surgery
In The 21st Century “Live On Tape” Presentation –
Konstadinos Plestis

Minimally Invasive Techniques for AVR
Oztekin Oto

Current Status of Thoracic Endografting
Hani Shennib

Less Invasive Surgical Techniques for Aortic Dissections
Tanja Anguseva

Aortic Surgery: Improved Outcomes With Technical Modifications For Intra-Operative Cerebral Protection
Konstadinos Plestis

 Hybrid approach to aortic aneurysms and type A aortic dissections
Stephen Wildhirt

Coronary Artery Disease: Changing Times
Moderators: John Puskas, Anno Diegler
Panelists:  Kit Arom, J P S Sawhney,  S Bazaz, R K Madhok

Biomarkers in acute cardiac care-present use &
future opportunities
Alan Maisel   

CABG: Its Time to Change
Massimo Lemma

Awake Cardiac Surgery – On Pump and Off Pump
Vivek Jawali

Anastomotic Connectors: Fact or Fantasy
Hagen Gorki

How I Do It? – Live on Tape (Video Session) MICS
CABG – Sternal Sparing, Beating Heart, Multivessel
CABG: An Evolved Approach
Mahesh Ramchandani

How I Do It? – Live on Tape (Video Session) Sternal
Sparing – Abdominal OPCAB
V A Subramanian

Rapid Fire Session of New Technologies in CABG
V A Subramanian

Discussion

Acute MI & Newer Methodologies in Intervention

Newer Methodologies
Chairpersons : Satyawan Sharma, R R Mantri
Panelist : Deepak Kapila, Rishi Gupta, Atul Kasliwal,
Rajeev Rajput

Drug Eluting Balloons: Is it an effective option?
R K Premchand

Bioabsorbable Stents: Are we close to reality?
Atul Mathur

Dedicated Bifurcation Stent : will it be a reality ever ?
Sameer Dani

Stenting of unprotected left main CAD: is it here to stay?
Raj Makkar

Acute MI Management

Chairpersons: Vidyut Jain, Manmohan Singh           
Panelist: N. Chandra, Sudipta Acharya, Aman Salwan,
Vineet Malik

Post CABG Acute MI – How to handle Primary PCI for SVG occlusion?
MS Hiremath

BMS or DES in Primary PCI – has the issue finally settled?
Rajesh Mohan

Primary PCI with Bivalirudin– Any Reservations after Horizons AMI
Madhukar Shahi

Debate: All occluded Infarct related arteries should be opened even after a window period
Antagonist: R Kapoor
Protagonist: Anil Kumar

Discussion

Nightmares in Cath Lab!
Interactive Case Presentation
Chairpersons: MS Hiremath, Sameer Dani
Panelists : Vikas Chopra, Suvir Gupta, Sanjeev Sharma
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Session I – ORAL PRESENTATIONS

Moderators: John Puskas , Massimo Lemma, V K Chopra, Rakesh Verma

 AB001   TEE Recognition of Anomalous Origin of Circumflex
Artery from RCA
Rajni Singh
Fellow,Deppt of Anesthesiology and Critical
Care,Heartcenter , Leipzig,Germany

AB002 Is Multi Slice CT Angiography Adequate as the Sole Diagnostic Criteria to Proceed for CABG ?
Harinder Singh Bedi
Head, Department of Cardio Vascular & Thoracic Surgery
Christian Medical College & Hospital, Brown Road,
Ludhiana , Punjab, India

AB003 Robotically assisted off-pump CABG; A new method of harvesting the internal thoracic artery
Munehisa Takata, Go Watanabe, Yoshitaka Yamamoto,
Chikako Ikeda, Yujiro Kikuchi, Teruaki Ushijima,
Norihiko Ishikawa
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Tokyo Medical University,
Tokyo, Japan

AB004 Late outcome of bilateral ITA grafting for patients with acute MI
B. Medalion2, G. Uretzky1, A. Mohr1, D. Pevni1, J. Atlan1,
N. Nesher1, I. Shapira1, R. Mohr1
Departments of  Cardiothoracic Surgery, 1Tel Aviv
Sourasky Medical Center1, Rabin Medical
Center2, Petah Tikva, Sackler Faculty of Medicine,
University of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

AB005 Coronary Endarterectomy Revisited :Three Decades Experience of Over 2000 Patients with Adjuvant
Procedures for Diffuse Coronary Artery Disease.
P Vaijyanath, MN Sankar, R Agarwal, S Abraham,                               
S Sylvester, V Kirthivasan, KM Cherian
Frontier Lifeline Dr K M Cherian Heart Foundation, India

AB006 Endoscopic Vein Harvesting vs Conventional
Vein Harvesting- A Comprehensive analysis
Ramakrishnan Karthik Vaidyanathan 
Frontier Lifeline Dr K M Cherian Heart Foundation,India

AB007 Is bilateral internal thoracic artery grafting contraindicated in patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction 
D. Pevni1, G. Uretzky1, A. Mohr1, B. Medalion2, I. Frolkis,
N. Nesher1, A. Kramer1, Y. Paz1, R. Mohr1
Departments of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Tel Aviv
Sourasky Medical Center1, and  Rabin Medical
Center2, Petah Tikva, Sackler Faculty of Medicine,
University of Tel Aviv, Israel

AB008    LV aneurysm repair: Experience in Apollo hospitals Dhaka
Haider Z,  Zahangir N M, Ahmed S,  Shamsuddin A K,
Hoque Z K,  Dutta P, Attawar Sandeep G
Dept. of Cardiovascular and thoracic surgery, 
Apollo hospitals Dhaka, Bangladesh

AB009    Development and Feasibility Testing of a Novel Low-Cost
Counterpulsation Device for the Chronic Treatment ofHeart Failure
Sanjeev Aggarwal
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Associate Director,
Cardiac Transplantation, University of Louisville School of
Medicine, University Cardiothoracic Surgical Associates,
P.S.C., KY

Session II
Moderators: Stephan Schueler, H S Pannu, Pierluca Lombardi, A P Jain   

AB0010  Awake Anaesthesia for Major Thoracic Surgical
 Procedures: An Observational Study
Mohammad Al-Abdullatief, Abdulrazzak Wahood,
Nehad Al-Shirawi, MRCP(UK), Yaseen Arabi,
Mohammed Wahba, Mohammed Al-Jumah,
Saud Al-Sheha, Nizar Yamani
Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery,
King Abdulaziz Medical City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

AB0011  Vats Lobectomy in The Octogenarians is a Safe Operation
Khan AZ, Modi A, Amer K
Southampton University , Hospital, U.K.

AB0012  Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Excision of  Thymic / Parathyroid / Mediastinal Tumours and Cysts
Khan AZ, Mattam K, Amer K
Southampton General Hospital, Southampton UK

AB0013  VATS Decortication and Intrapleural Antibiotic Washout for treatment of Empyema Thoracis"
Modi A, Khan A, Abeysiri S, Casali G, Amer K
Southampton University Hospital, Southampton, UK

AB0014  Initial experience of totally endoscopic atrial septal defect repair with robotic assistance
Teruaki Ushijima1 , Go Watanabe1, 2 ,,Yro Kikuchi,1
Cikako Ikeda,1 Munehisa Takata,1 Yoshitaka Yamamoto1
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Tokyo Medical University1,
Department of General and Cardiothoracic Surgery,
Knazawa University Graduate 2 School of Medical Science,
Ishikawa, , Japan

AB0015 Intra-right atrium procedures in minimally invasive cardiac surgery via the right mini-thoracotomy using vacuumed venous drainage system with ESTECH femoral two-staged venous cannula
Takeo Tedoriya, Tadashi Omoto, Noboru Ishikawa,
Tadamasa Miyauchi, Masaya Oi, Masahiro Ohno
Showa University School of Medicine,
Cardiovascular Surgery, Tokyo, JAPAN

AB0016  Use of Flouro to Facilitate a Really Minimally Invasive and Safe Open Heart Surgery
Harinder Singh Bedi, Arun Gupta
Department of Cardio Vascular & Thoracic Surgery
Christian Medical College & Hospital
Ludhiana , Punjab, India

AB0017    30 years experience of Septal Myomectomy in Indian Subcontinent           
Vaijyanath P, Madhu Sankar N,  Guhathakurta S.
Kirthivasan,  Cherian K M
Department of Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery,
Cardiac Anaesthesiology#,Cardiovascular Research
FRONTIER –LIFELINE,Dr K M Cherian Heart
Foundation, India

AB0018  Mitral Valve Reconstruction by Chordal transfer in Anterior Leaflet prolapse—Early Experience
Shamsher Lohchab, Kuldeep Laller, Suresh Singhal,
Susheela Taxak
PGIMS Rohtak, India

AB0019    Combined  Konno-Rastan Aortoventriculoplasty with Nick procedure in Double Valve Replacement of 11 yrs old baby: Apollo Hospitals Dhaka – A Case Report
N M Zahangir, Z Haider, S Ahmed, A K Shamsuddin,
K Z Haque, P Dutta, Attawar Sandeep G
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Apollo Hospitals Dhaka,Bangladesh

AB0020  Repair of Complex Supracardiac Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection – A case report   
Ahmed Sohail, Attawar Sandeep, Dutta Prabhat,
Haider Zulfiqur, Shamsuddin Abul,  Zahangir
Nuruddin, Saha Sanjay, Islam Saiful,
Hossain Makbul, Hossain Nazmul,
Zulkernine,S.M.A
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery,
Apollo Hospitals, Dhaka,Bangladesh

AB0021  Journey Through MIDCAB (1997 to 2009)
Tyro to Virtuoso (Study of 159 MIDCAB)
Rajendra Vasaiya
Sterling Hospital, Ahmedabad, India

AB0022 Interesting intra operative TEE showing its vital role for monitoring cardiac surgery
Rajesh Arya, V K Sharma, G S Wander
Hero DMC Heart Institute, Ludhiana (INDIA).

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

 Moderators: Arom Kit, Vinay Krishna, J L Sahni, V K Sharma

PP001 Geometrical Left Ventricular Reconstruction with Novel Indigenous De-cellularised Bovine Pericardium
- Early Experience.
Vaijyanath P,  Madhu Sankar N,  Guhathakurta S, Kirthivasan V, Cherian K M
Department of Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery, Cardiac
Anaesthesiology ,Cardiovascular Research
FRONTIER –LIFELINE,Dr K M Cherian Heart Foundation,
India

PP002 The Sternum Fixation using absorbable Mesh Plates
After median Sternotomy in Cardiac Surgery
Hideo Tsunemoto, Katsuaki Tsukioka, Hidemasa Nobara
Matsumoto Kyoritsu hospital, Departement of
Cardiovascular Surgery, Matsumoto city, Japan

PP003 Comparison of clinical differences of open versus
endovascular repair for abdominal aortic aneurysm
Won-Min Jo1, Jae Seung Shin1, Dong Hwee Kim2,
Seung Hwa Lee3, Hwan-Hoon Chung3
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery1
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation2,
Department of Interventional Radiology Ansan Hospital3,
Korea University Medical Center, Korea University, South Korea

PP004 Novel atrial retractor for totally endoscopic Mitral Valve Repair
Shohjiro Yamaguchi, Norihiko Ishikawa, Noriyoshi Yashiki,
Hiroki Katoh, Hideki Moriyama, Go Watanabe
Department of General and Cardiothoracic Surgery
Kanazawa University, Ishikawa, JAPAN

PP005 Does Ministernotomy improve post operative outcome in isolated aortic valve replacement?
Sandhya Prayaga
Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Scotland, UK

PP006 Some simple Innovative Techniques to make surgeries simpler and safer
Harinder Singh Bedi
Head, Department of Cardio Vascular & Thoracic Surgery
Christian Medical College & Hospital, Brown Road,
Ludhiana , Punjab, India

PP007 Innovative Hybrid Procedure For Dissection Thoracic Aorta
In A Patient With A Previous Bentall Procedure
Harinder Singh Bedi
Head, Department of Cardio Vascular & Thoracic Surgery
Christian Medical College & Hospital, Brown Road,
Ludhiana , Punjab, India

PP008  Cryomaze procedure simultaneously with surgery of Rheumatic Mitral Valve Disease for chronic atrial Fibrillation
Shamsher Lohchab,  Kuldeep Laller,  Suresh Singhal,
Susheela Taxak
PGIMS Rohtak, India

PP009 Repair of Truncus arteriosus by using valve conduit
- Our experience  at Apollo Hospitals Dhaka
Shamsuddin A. K. Zahangir N. M., Haider Zulfiqur,
Ahmed Sohail, Hoque Kazi Zahidul, Dutta Prabhat,
Attawar Sandeep G
Dept. of Cardio-vascular and thoracic surgery at Apollo hospitals
Dhaka, Bangladesh

PP010 High frequency jet ventilation to identify intersegmental border  in VATS Segmentectomy
Makoto Oda, Isao Matsumoto, Masaya Tamura, Yosuke
Shimizu, Nobuhiro Tanaka, Shintaro Takago, Daisuke Saito,
Ryuta Seguchi, Norihiko Ishikawa, Go Watanabe
Department of General and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Kanazawa
University, Kanazawa, Japan

PP011  Evaluation of silicone-coated robotic-forceps
Norihiko Ishikawa, Go Watanabe, Shojiro Yamaguchi,
Noriyoshi Yashiki, Yasumitsu Hirano, Masahiko
Kawaguchi, Makoto Oda
Department of General and Cardiothoracic Surgery,
Kanazawa University, Japan

PP012  MIDCAB –proximal  anostomosis(an enigma)- 
coronary  web mastering a solution
Rajendra Vasaiya            
Sterling Hospital, Ahmedabad, India

DAY 2

HALL A

Heart Failure Management: Drugs, Devices and Despair
Moderators: Arom Kit, Harsh Wardhan

Panelists: G S Wander, Vijay Kohli, Anil Saxena

Preventing Heart Failure : Catch them Young
Sanjay Mittal

Left Ventricular Reshaping
Does It Still Have A Place After Stich Trial
Calafiore Antonio

“Plicath Hf”
Epicaridal LVAneurysm Repair Route to Transcatheter LVAneurysm Repair
Gerhard Wimmer Greinecker   

New Implantable VADs and Cardiac Transplant : Current Status
Stephan Schueler

Heart Failure Management : Devices for all - Formula for   Bankrupcy
Antagonist: Amit Vora
Protagonist: Balbir Singh

Panel Discussion  

Stem Cell Therapy for Heart Failure
Moderators: Jan F Gummert, Vidyut Jain

Panelists: Jeannie M. Fontana, S K Kaushik, R K Madhok

Stem cell therapy for Heart Disease
-Is it myogenesis,angiogenesis or beyond

Angiogenic Peripheral Blood  Cell Precursors for End StageHeart Failure
Kit Arom

Stem Cell Therapy Combined With TMR in diffuse coronary  artery disease
Naresh Trehan

Pitfalls of Cellular therapy
Sanjay Mittal

Different Strokes
Moderators:  Anil Bhan, Tohru Asai

Panelist:    Jacob Jose, K K Kapoor, Vipul Roy

Beyond Cosmesis: The Role of Minimally Invasive  
Techniques in Congenital Cardiac Surgery
Jeff L. Myers

Multimodality Imaging in Valvular Heart Disease :
3D Echocardiography -An Imaging without Frontier
Itzhak Kronzon

Endoscopic Visualisation in Cardiac Surgery
- From Vein Harvesting to Endocardial Procedures
Pierluca Lombardi

Can we do comparative effectiveness research on surgical procedures  and preserve surgical innovation? 

Rob Califf

Presidential Address
Humanism and Romaticism in Cardiovascular Surgery
is Still the Frame Work for Survival
Anno Dieglier

High Risk Aortic Stenosis: Let’s Face the Challenge
Moderators: Gerhard Wimmer Greinecker,
Thierry Folliguet

Panelists: Gregory Fontana, Rakesh Verma, RPS Bhardwaj, Anil Dhal

Difficult Decisions in Aortic Stenosis:
Risk Stratification and Timing of Intervention
Sudhir Wahi

Upper Ministernotomy for AVR
Gerhard Wimmer Greinecker

Off-pump Aortic Valve Bypass for High Risk
Aortic Valve Stenosis
V A Subramanian

High Risk Reop AVR – Mini Reop AVR/Hybrid
Gregory Fontana

The “Perceval” Valve
Thierry Folliguet

Arbor Trilogy Modular Aortic Valve System

Discussion

Guest Lecture
Metamorphosis of a C.T. Surgeon Into a Catheter Based
Practitioner
Hani Shennib

Percutaneous Aortic Valve
Moderators: Gregory Fontana, Patrick Perier

Panelists: Patrick Nataf, Satyavan Sharma, N N Khanna   
R K Madhok

Transfemoral and Trans Subclavian Percutaneous Valves (Sapien Edwards and Core Valve)
Current Status And Future Directions
Raj Makkar

The Edwards SAPIEN Valve: North American and European experience
Gregory Fontana

Direct Flow Aortic Valve
Herman Reichenspurner

Cardiac Imaging And Anesthetic Challenges For Transcatheter Valve Procedure
Chirojit Mukherjee

Complications and Transfemoral & Trans-subclavian Percutaneous  Valve Implantations
Gerhard Schuler

Current status of transapical transcatheter aortic valve implantation
Sven Lehmann

Aortic Valve Replacement in 2020
– Who Will Eat the Pie? Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery or Maximally Invasive Intervention?
Gerhard Schuler
Patrick Nataf

Clinical Controversies & Management  recommendations(Pro/Con)
Moderators : Yatin Mehta / Bishnu Panigrahi

Fast tracking :Extubation on table is ideal
Pro : Mukul Kapoor   Con : K Bhaskaran

Thoracic Epidural : Is a must in my OR
Pro : Murli Chakravarthy Con :Thomas Koshy  

Is the PAC passé: Exposing the data for continued (mis)use
Pro : Poonam Malhotra   Con : Ravinder Sawhney

Current Controversies in Critical Care
Moderators: R K Mani  / Alka Mandke/ Rajeev Juneja

Surviving Sepsis 2008 Guidelines
Rajesh Chawla

Newer  Antibiotics – Update
Deepak Govil

Transesophageal Echocardiography – Is it Useful in the ICU?                           
Deepak Tempe

Discussion

New Horizons
Moderators : P S N Raju / SN Ganguly / Manisha Mishra

Stem Cell Therapy for Cardiac Diseases
Amit Patel

Anaesthesia for Robotic Heart Surgery
Sundeep Chauhan

Anesthetic Challenges for Transcatheter Valve Procedure
Chirojit Mukherjee

Percutaneous Left Ventricular Assist Devices
Kanchi Muralidhar

Hybrid OR & Current Status of Thoracic Endografting
Hani Shennib
  

Medically Challenging Case Scenarios
Moderator: Mahesh Vakamudi
Panel :Manju Butani, Naman Shastri, Sameer Girotra
Suresh G. Nair, Rajesh Chand, Prabhat Tewari

Pregnancy

HIT

CHD in Adult

Challenges in Clinical practice: Echo to the fore!
(Interactive Case-Based Discussion)
Chairpersons: R R Kasliwal, K K Kapoor, S K Kaushik
Panelists: I Kronzon, Sudhir Wahi, JC Mohan, Jacob Jose

Challenging cases from round the world: To be presented by the faculty

Power of Echocardiography- From Detection  of Endothelial Dysfunction to Diagnosis of
Obstructive CAD
Chairpersons: Amal K Banerjee, H K Chopra,
S C Manchanda, Jacob Jose

Endothelial function assessment: How relevant?
R R Kasliwal

Left atrial volume estimation: The HbA1C of echocardiography!
J C Mohan

Exercise stress echocardiography: Status 2010

Discussion

Coffee Break

Advances in Echocardiography: A Practical Guide to Clinical Applications
Chairpersons: Vidyut Jain, S K Kaushik

Strain and Speckle Tracking
Manish Bansal

Echocardiographic Assessment of Myocardial
Dyssynchrony
Vinayak Agarwal

Contrast Echocardiography
Divya Malhotra

Discussion

                                      
HALL A

Sunday Dec 13th

Key Note Address: Speaker to be introduced by Dr. N. Trehan
The Future of Cardiothoracic Surgery – “The Singularity is Near”
Randall Wolf

Face of CAD in 2020: Management of Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease
Moderators: Naresh Trehan, Amal K Banerjee,
Panelists: K S Yadav, H K Chopra, C P Shrivastava, Sameer Dani

Medical Therapy: Do You Have the COURAGE?
R R Kasliwal

Percutaneous Interventions: The SYNTAX Error?
Satyavan Sharma

Surgery for Most: Cut Above the Rest
John Puskas

Polypill – Is It an oversimplification?
Protagonist : Alben Sigamani

Discussion

Robotic Surgery

Moderators: Randall Wolf, Rajneesh Malhotra

Panelists: H S Bedi,  Jean-Luc Jansens, C S Galundia

Robotic Mitral Valve Repair – Current Status
Pierre Didier De Canniere

Robotics in Thoracic Surgery: Current Status and Future Prospects
Kemp Kernstine

Awake CABG & Robotic Cardiac Surgery
Go Watanabe

Discussion     

Journey Together: Lessons Learnt from Other Specialties
Moderators: Kemp Kernstine, Marco Zenati, Ajay Jha, Ashok Rajgopal, Randhir Sood, Vijay Kher, Rajesh Ahlawat

New Approaches in Minimally Invasive Valve Surgery
Alexander R. Marmureanu

 Development of innovative technologies for minimally                          invasive congenital heart surgery
Sitaram M. Emani

Evolving Endoscopic Therapies for Treatment of Early Esophageal Neoplasia
Thomas J Watson

Advancements in Minimally Invasive Urology
Rajiv Yadav

VATS: A Journey from Maximally Invasive to Micro Invasive 
Ali Zamir Khan

Vote of Thanks
Naresh Trehan

Lunch and Adjourn