STS 54th Annual Meeting Advance Program Greater Fort Lauderdale/ January 27-31, 2018 Broward County Convention Center Florida President’s Message I invite you to join me and thousands of our colleagues from around the world at the STS 54th Annual Meeting, January 27–31, 2018, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The STS Annual Meeting is the epicenter of the On Tuesday, don’t miss the exciting keynotes; details Don’t Miss Tech-Con latest technology, research, and clinical practice in are forthcoming. And don’t forget to register for Prior to the Annual Meeting, cardiothoracic surgery. This year’s meeting will have the popular hands-on STS University courses on STS/AATS Tech-Con will focus on new devices new formats, lively discussions, and interactions Wednesday; new courses have been added on and procedures that have in every discipline of our specialty. It also will fit all peroral endoscopic myotomy and minimally invasive yet to be FDA-approved learning styles. Educational sessions will mix debates aortic and mitral valve surgery. but could be available and surgical videos with the very best scientific within 1-3 years from the Access to the STS 54th Annual Meeting Online research abstracts. time of presentation. A will once again be included with Annual Meeting highlight of the day will be On Sunday, three “How To” sessions will feature registration—a bonus that will let you review the the Shark Tank session, video presentations on common cardiothoracic outstanding educational content from your home in which entrepreneurs will pitch their innovative surgical procedures, with speakers Tweet about the or office throughout the next year. See page 41 for Annual Meeting cardiothoracic surgery offering unique insights. The Opening more details. products. Separate Reception will highlight approximately #STS2018 There’s so much more to the 54th Annual Meeting, registration is required. 130 exhibiting companies demonstrating See page 6 for details. and in this Advance Program, you’ll find a program their latest products and services. outline, course descriptions, and agendas to help Register for the STS/ Following the Opening Reception, I you plan your schedule. You’ll also find registration CTSNet Career Fair invite, welcome, and encourage ALL to attend my Take advantage of the instructions and information on travel and housing President’s Reception at the Marriott Harbor Beach opportunity to meet face-to- accommodations. Resort & Spa. face with top employers at Please make plans now to join your colleagues in the STS/CTSNet Career Fair, After my Presidential Address on Monday, an held during the STS 54th cardiothoracic surgery this January. You can register important new session will tackle the topic of Annual Meeting. Maximize at www.sts.org/annualmeeting. diversity and inclusion in cardiothoracic surgery. your exposure by posting your CV to the candidate Speakers will discuss how a diverse cardiothoracic I look forward to seeing you in Fort Lauderdale! database prior to the surgery workforce can improve patient outcomes Richard L. Prager, MD meeting. You can find by increasing cultural competency and mitigating more information at President, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons unconscious provider bias. sts.org/careerfair. WHAT’S NEW • The President’s Reception on • Surgical videos will be included in • New sessions will explore the role • Two new STS University courses Sunday evening will be open to several parallel sessions, rather of diversity and inclusion in the on peroral endoscopic myotomy all meeting attendees; there will than in designated surgical motion cardiothoracic surgery workforce, and minimally invasive aortic not be an STS Social Event on picture matinees. how physician documentation drives and mitral valve surgery will Monday. reimbursement, and the experience be offered. with left ventricular assist device therapy around the globe. STS 54th Annual Meeting | Advance Program www.sts.org/annualmeeting 2 STS 54TH ANNUAL MEETING Table of Contents Program at a Glance . 4 STS 54th Annual Meeting . 9 Registration Instructions . 40 STS/AATS Tech-Con 2018 . 6 Sunday, January 28, 2018............. 9 Pricing . 41 Saturday, January 27, 2018 ........... 6 Monday, January 29, 2018 ........... 15 Housing and Travel Information . 42 Tuesday, January 30, 2018........... 24 Annual Meeting Task Forces and Abstract Reviewers . 44 Wednesday, January 31, 2018 ....... 34 Scientific Posters . 37 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Education Disclosure Policy As a sponsor of continuing medical education accredited by the Failure to disclose all relationships with commercial interests Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), disqualifies the individual from being a planning committee The Society of Thoracic Surgeons requires that any individual member, a teacher, or an author of educational materials, and this who is in a position to control the content of an educational individual cannot have any responsibility for the development, activity must disclose all relationships with commercial interests management, presentation, or evaluation of STS educational (including known relationships of his or her immediate family, activities. This requirement is intended neither to imply any department, and partners). The ACCME defines a commercial impropriety of such relationships nor to prejudice any individual interest as “any entity producing, marketing, reselling, or planner, presenter or author. It is merely to identify such distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used relationships through full disclosure, and to allow STS to assess on, patients. The ACCME does not consider providers of clinical and resolve potential influences on the educational activity prior service directly to patients to be commercial interests.” The to the planning and implementation of an educational activity. If question of whether a disclosed conflict situation could represent no relationships with commercial interests exist, the individual undue influence on the educational activity by a commercial must indicate this on the disclosure form. interest or whether the disclosed information is sufficient to Additionally, the fact that the presentation, paper, or other consider an abstract, presentation, or other educational enduring educational product describes (a) the use of a device, product, material to represent potentially biased information must be or drug that is not FDA approved or (b) an off-label use of an resolved prior to an individual’s involvement in STS educational approved device, product, or drug must also be disclosed. programming. This requirement has been adopted in response to FDA policy Required disclosures include (1) a financial interest of any amount and case law involving medical societies, and is not intended (e.g., through ownership of stock, stock options, or bonds) (2) to prohibit or inhibit independent presentation or discussion the receipt of any amount of cash, goods or services within regarding the uses of devices, products, and drugs as described the current 12-month period (e.g., through research grants, in (a) or (b) above. employment, consulting fees, royalties, travel, or gifts) or (3) a For live presentations, all disclosures must be stated orally and nonremunerative position of influence (e.g., as officer, director, on a slide at the beginning of the presentation and will be noted trustee or public spokesperson). EXCLUDED from this disclosure in published material related to the activity. Slides, handouts, requirement are blind trusts or other passive investments such and other materials utilized as part of an educational activity as mutual funds. In the case of a financial or other relationship cannot contain any advertising, trade names or a product group disclosure, the company, product/service, and specific nature of message. Speakers are required to disclose that they have the relationship must be noted. Disclosure is mandatory for any nothing to disclose if this is the case. person involved in the planning, management, presentation, and/ or evaluation of STS educational activities. Amended by the STS Executive Committee: April 11, 2012 STS 54TH ANNUAL MEETING The Society of Thoracic Surgeons is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons designates this live activity for a maximum of 26.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons has been approved by the American Board of Cardiovascular Perfusion to award 31.7 Category I CEUs for this activity. STS 54th Annual Meeting | Advance Program www.sts.org/annualmeeting 3 Program at a Glance 1:00 PM – 4:30 PM Friday, January 26, 2018 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM BREAK—Visit Tech-Con Exhibits How-To Video Session: Technical Tips to 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM Avoid Pitfalls and Simplify Congenital Registration 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM and Pediatric Cardiac Surgical Tech-Con Joint Session: Robotic Procedures Saturday, January 27, 2018 Cardiothoracic Innovations and How-To Video Session: Tips and Tricks “Shark Tank”—Rapid-Fire Pitches of to Maximize Efficiency in Minimally 6:30 AM – 6:00 PM Revolutionary Technology Invasive General Thoracic Surgery Registration 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM 2:00 PM – 6:30 PM 7:00 AM – 6:30 PM Tech-Con Reception Scientific Posters Tech-Con Exhibits Sunday, January 28, 2018 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM Opening