Session 3: Valvular Shock - Evolving Approaches

Friday, March 6, 2026

8:35 AM - 9:57 AM CST

Location: Main Arena

Moderator(s)

Abhijeet Dhoble, MD, FACC, FSCAI

Director, Structural Heart Interventions
McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Houston
Houston , Texas, United States
Biykem Bozkurt, MD, PhD

Senior Dean of Faculty, Professor, Cain Chair, Cardiology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States

Nandish Thukral, MD

Medical Director, Cardiac Cath Lab Medical Director, Complex PCI Program Co-Director, Cardiogenic Shock Program
Methodist Heart Hospital
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Joe Aoun, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute
Weill Cornell Medicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute
Houston, Texas, United States
Richard Smalling, MD PhD

Professor
UTHSC - Houston, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States
Feras Khaliel, MD, PhD

Consultant Cardiac Surgeon Chairman of Cardiac Surgery Deputy Executive Director of Heart Center of Excellence
Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
Ismael Salas de Armas, MD

Associate Professor, Center for Advanced Heart Failure
University of Texas Health Science
Houston, Texas, United States
Imran Baig, MD, FSCAI

Medical Director - Cardiac catheterization laboratories, Baylor Scott & White - Lakepointe, Associate Professor - Texas A & M. University College of Medicine
Irving, Texas, United States

Disclosure(s):

Abhijeet Dhoble, MD, FACC, FSCAI: No relevant disclosure to display

Biykem Bozkurt, MD, PhD: No relevant disclosure to display

Nandish Thukral, MD: No relevant disclosure to display

Joe Aoun, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

Richard Smalling, MD PhD: No relevant disclosure to display

Feras Khaliel, MD, PhD: No relevant disclosure to display

Ismael Salas de Armas, MD: No relevant disclosure to display

Imran Baig, MD, FSCAI: No financial relationships to disclose

8:35 AM - 8:42 AM CST

Case Study: LVAD Patient Presenting with Shock – It’s Clearly Aortic Insufficiency
Speaker: Melissa McCormack, MD – University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
8:35 AM - 8:42 AM CST

Discussion
8:42 AM - 8:50 AM CST

Discussion
8:50 AM - 8:57 AM CST

TAVR in Cardiogenic Shock: 2026 State of the Art
Speaker: Imran Baig, MD, FSCAI – Baylor Heart Hospital - Plano/Connected Cardiovascular Care Associates
8:57 AM - 9:05 AM CST

Discussion
9:05 AM - 9:12 AM CST

Case Study: Mitral Stenosis with Disproportionate Pulmonary Hypertension
Speaker: Maria Patarroyo-Aponte, MD – University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
9:12 AM - 9:20 AM CST

Discussion
9:20 AM - 9:27 AM CST

Mitral Valve Interventions in Cardiogenic Shock: Current Insights
Speaker: Pedro Villablanca
9:27 AM - 9:35 AM CST

Discussion
9:35 AM - 9:42 AM CST

Minimally Invasive Surgical Interventions in Valvular Heart Disease - CS
Speaker: Feras Khaliel, MD, PhD – King Faisal Hospital & Research Centre
9:50 AM - 9:57 AM CST

The Shortcomings of TVT Registry in the eyes of a Practicing Structuralist
Speaker: Danny Hermann