BioEngage Symposium
CARDIOVASCULAR DEVICES, DIAGNOSTICS & THERAPEUTICS
Schedule
8:30 - 8:45 AM Registration and Networking Breakfast
8:45 - 9:00 AM Welcome and BioEngage Introduction
Barry Lutz & Mike Regnier UW BioE
9:00 - 10:15 AM Session 1: Drugs and Therapeutics
9:00 - 9:15 Jim Lewis Abbott
CardioMEMS – A New Era in Heart Failure
9:15 - 9:30 Hector Rodriguez MyoKardia
Targeting the sarcomere to treat cardiomyopathies
9:30 - 9:45 David Dichek UW Cardiology
Gene therapy for the treatment and prevention of atherosclerosis
9:45 - 10:00 Jen Davis UW BioE & Pathology
Engineering approaches to elucidate cellular and molecular underpinnings of cardiac wound healing and the fibrotic response
10:00 - 10:15 Mike Chin UW Cardiology
Development of recombinant enzyme replacement therapy for Barth Syndrome
10:15 - 10:30 AM Break
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10:30 - 11:15 AM Session 2: Devices and Diagnostics
10:30 - 10:45 Dmitry Levin Center for CV Innovation
Multimodality modeling for medical device development
10:45 - 11:00 Ying Zheng UW BioE
Engineering vasculature towards tissue regeneration, and organs on a chip
11:00 - 11:15 Scott Thies UW Heart Regeneration Program
hPSC-derived cardiomyocytes as a candidate therapeutic for heart disease
11:15 - 12:00 PM Discussion Session: Ways to Connect with UW
UW Industry Relations
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12:00 - 2:00 PM Lunch Break (Sponsored by Abbott) and Poster Competition (Sponsored by MyoKardia)
2:00 - 2:50 PM Plenary Session: Part I
2:00 - 2:25 Tom Hatsukami Vascular Imaging Lab
Non-invasive assessment of vascular disease with magnetic resonance imaging
2:25 - 2:50 Rob Entrekin Philips
Application of 3D Ultrasound for quantification of cardiovascular disease
2:50 - 3:25 PM Panel: Inventing the Future of Medicine - The Grand Challenges and Advances On the Horizon for Cardiovascular Health
Robb MacLellan Robert A. Bruce Endowed Chair in Cardiovascular Research, UW Cardiology
Todd Schwoerer Director of Instrument Development, EKOS
Tom Clement CEO, Aqueduct Critical Care
Tom O'Hara Postdoctoral Research Staff, Lawrence Livermore Labs
Hector Rodriguez Senior Director of Research Biology, MyoKardia
Claudius Mahr Associate Professor, UW Clinical Medicine and Cardiac Surgery
3:25 - 3:40 PM Break
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3:40 - 4:30 PM Plenary Session: Part II
3:40 - 4:05 Mark Reisman UW Cardiology
Using Cadaveric models to improve clinical outcomes in valvular heart disease.
4:05 - 4:30 Michael Brown Medtronic
Sensorless Device Diagnostics
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4:30 - 5:30 PM Networking reception