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Session 5: Knocking Down the Right Doors in Shock

Friday, March 6, 2026
1:30 PM - 2:52 PM CST
Location: Main Arena

    Moderator(s)

  • Nir Uriel, MD, MSc, FACC

    Seymour, Paul and Gloria Milstein Professor of Medicine
    New York Presbyterian
    New York, New York, United States

  • Holger Thiele

    Director
    Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany

    • Panelist(s)

  • Ayaaz Sachedina, MD FRCPC

    Clinical Associate Professor
    University of Calgary, Libin Cardiovascular Institute
    Calgary, Alberta, Canada

  • Ouriel Saura, MD, MSc

    Intensivist and Cardiologist
    Paris, Ile-de-France, France

  • Duc Pham, FACS

    Surgical Director, Center for Advanced Heart Failure
    Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
    Chicago, Illinois, United States

  • Marwan Jumean, MD

    Professor
    Houston, Texas, United States

  • Sean Van Diepen, MD

    Associate Professor of Critical Care Medicine
    Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

  • Shelley Hall, MD

    Chief, Transplant Cardiology, MCS and Adv HF
    Texas A&M Health Science Center, College of Medicine
    Dallas, Texas, United States

Disclosure(s):
Navin Kapur, MD, FAHA, FACC, FSCAI, FHFSA: No relevant disclosure to display
Holger Thiele: No financial relationships to disclose
Ayaaz K. Sachedina, MD FRCPC: No relevant disclosure to display
Ouriel Saura, MD, MSc: No financial relationships to disclose
Duc Pham, FACS: No financial relationships to disclose
Marwan Jumean, MD: No relevant disclosure to display

Presentations:

  • 1:30 PM - 1:37 PM CST
    Door-to-Unload: Universal Role for Impella CP in CS?

    Speaker: Abdulla A. Damluji, MD, PhD, MBA, MPH – Cleveland Clinic Foundation

  • 1:37 PM - 1:45 PM CST
    Discussion
  • 1:45 PM - 1:52 PM CST
    Door-to-Support: Timely Mechanical Circulatory Assistance in CS

    Speaker: Ajar Kochar, MD,MHS – Brigham and Women's Hospital

  • 1:52 PM - 2:00 PM CST
    Discussion
  • 2:00 PM - 2:07 PM CST
    Door-to-Lactate Clearance

    Speaker: Holger Thiele – Heart Center Leipzig at Leipzig University

  • 2:07 PM - 2:15 PM CST
    Discussion
  • 2:15 PM - 2:22 PM CST
    Door-to-Cost: Financial Sustainability of Shock Interventions

    Speaker: Stavros Drakos, MD, PhD, FACC – University of Utah

  • 2:22 PM - 2:30 PM CST
    Discussion
  • 2:30 PM - 2:37 PM CST
    Door-to-ECMO in ECPR

    Speaker: Keshava Rajagopal, MD PhD – Sidney Kimmel Medical College/Thomas Jefferson University Toll Heart and Vascular Institute, Jefferson Health

  • 2:37 PM - 2:45 PM CST
    Discussion
  • 2:45 PM - 2:52 PM CST
    Door-to-Nowhere: Defining Futility?

    Speaker: Shelley Hall, MD – Baylor University Medical Center

  • 2:52 PM CST
    Discussion