"Cardiothoracic Surgery"

DEPT. OF THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY THE CLEVELAND CLINIC

in collaboration with

THE DEPT. OF CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY

MED. UNIV. VIENNA

CLEVELAND SEMINAR in

SALZBURG

"Cardiothoracic Surgery"

March 2 – March 8, 2008

CLEVELAND SEMINAR in

SALZBURG

"Cardiothoracic Surgery"

March 2 – March 8, 2008

FACULTY

Wolfgang Aulitzky, MD is the Medical Director of the American Austrian Foundation. He is Associate Dean for International Medicine and Distance Learning, Adjunct Prof. of Clincal Urology and Adjunct Prof. of Clinical Reproductive Medicine at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University/New York Presbyterian Hospital. He is also Associate Prof. of Urology at the University of Innsbruck and was Visiting Scientist at the Population Council at Rockefeller University, New York. He is a member of the American, German and Austrian Societies of Urology and was awarded the Zuckerkandelpreis of the Austrian Society of Urology in 1989. In 1995 he received the Silver Medal and 2007 the Golden Medal for Merits to the Republic of Austria. As Director of the Medical Program of the American Austrian Foundation he has initiated the Salzburg Cornell-, Philadelphia-, Columbia- and Cleveland Duke Seminars. Dr. Aulitzky earned his medical degree at the University of Innsbruck in 1977, was a research fellow at the University of Uppsala, Sweden in 1978-79 and at the New York Hospital - Cornell University Medical College in 1988-1989. He received his training as an urologist at the University of Innsbruck and the General Hospital of Salzburg. As a clinician he works as Medical Director and Chairman of the Department of Urology at the Confraternitaet-Privatklinik Josefstadt in Vienna. He is the author of more than 140 publications on Urology, Andrology and Health Care issues and is co-author of books on basic and clinical urology/andrology. Wolfgang Aulitzky, MD Director Medical Program - AAF/New York Associate Dean for International Medicine & Distance LearningGerhard Andlinger Professor for International Medicine & Distance Learning Adjunct Professor of Clinical Urology Adjunct Professor of Clinical Reproductive Medicine Weill Medical College of Cornell Univ. / The New York Presbyterian Hospital Medical Director and Chairman of the Department of Urology Confraternitaet-Privatklinik Josefstadt GmbH Skodagasse 32 1080 Vienna Austria Phone: +43 1 40114 5505 Fax: +43 1 40114 5507 Email: [email protected]

Tomislav Mihaljevic, MD (Course Director) - Dr. Mihaljevic’s specialties are minimally invasive cardiac surgery, robotic cardiac surgery, image-guided cardiac surgery, heart failure, mitral and aortic valve repair and replacement, coronary artery disease, beating heart revascularization, Maze procedure, heart and lung transplantation, ventricular assist devices, and adult congenital heart disease. He earned his medical degree at the University of Zagreb, School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia, and acquired special training at the University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland and at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. An avid reader, Dr. Mihaljevic enjoys contemporary American and European literature. Tomislav Mihaljevic, MD Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cleveland Clinic/F25 9500 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, OH 44195 USA Phone: +1-216-4440648 Fax: +1-216-4440648 Email: [email protected]

Walter Klepetko, MD (Co-Course Director) is Professor of Special Thoracic Surgery and Director of the Lung Transplantation Program at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. Professor Klepetko received his board certifications from the Austrian Board of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, the Austrian Board of Vascular Surgery and the European Board of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (FEBTCS). He is a full member of several national (Austrian Surgical Society, Austrian Transplant Society, Austrian Pulmonological Society, Austrian Society of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery) and international societies, including the American College of Chest Physicians (FACCP), the American Association of Thoracic Surgeons (AATS), the American Society of Thoracic Surgery, the Germany Society of Thoracic Surgery, the European Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, and an active consulting honorary member of young thoracic societies coming from new community countries like Hungary, Romania and Czech Republic. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Cardio-Vascular Surgery and serves as an editor and reviewer in several international journals. Professor Klepetko is the past president of the European Association of Cardio-thoracic Surgery and Director of the European Postgraduate School for Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery in Bergamo. He is Chairman of the Thoracic Surgical Group of the Austrian Pulmological Society and an active part of the Medical University Educational System as vice chairman of the committee on education in thoracic surgery. Professor Klepetko’s main fields of interests are lung transplantation, lung volume reduction surgery, pulmonary endarterectomy and the field of extended thoracic oncological surgery. Walter Klepetko, MD Professor of Special Thoracic Surgery Director Vienna Lung Transplant Program University Hospital of Vienna Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery Waehringer Guertel 18-20 A-1090 Vienna, Austria Phone: +43-1-40400-5644 Fax: +43-1-40400-5642 Email: [email protected]

Rainald Seitelberger, MD (Co-Course Director) – Dr. Seitelberger’s specialties are adult cardiac disease including coronary bypass grafting, valve reconstruction/replacement, valve endocarditis, thoracic aneurysm, surgery for atrial fibrillation, and adult congenital heart disease. He received his medical degree from the University of Vienna, Austria, and did his special training at the University of California, San Diego, USA, and at Albert Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany, University Vienna, Austria. In his leisure time, Dr. Seitelberger enjoys tennis, skiing and attending the theater and opera. Rainald Seitelberger, MD Professor of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Medical University Vienna /AKH Wien Währinger Gürtel 18-20 A1090 Vienna Austria Phone: +43-1-40400-5620 Fax.: +43-1-440-5309 Email: [email protected]

David P. Mason, MD is a staff surgeon in the Cleveland Clinic Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. He holds joint appointments as a staff surgeon in the Clinic’s Transplantation Center in the Division of Surgery and in the Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center. He specializes in general thoracic surgery, minimally invasive thoracoscopic and laparoscopic surgery, lung cancer, esophageal cancer, malignant mesothelioma and lung transplantation. Dr. Mason is board certified in general and thoracic surgery. Following an undergraduate degree from Harvard University, Dr. Mason received his medical degree from Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons in New York. He did his internship and residency in general surgery at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He continued his clinical training by accepting a position as Senior Research Fellow in Vascular Surgery at the University of Washington in Seattle, followed by a fellowship in Thoracic Surgery from Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Mason has held academic appointments at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore as Assistant Professor of Thoracic Surgery and at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston as a Research Assistant in Vascular Surgery. Dr. Mason was appointed in 2004 as a staff surgeon in the Cleveland Clinic Heart Center, Transplantation Center and Cancer Center. He has authored or co-authored several chapters in medical textbooks on his specialty interests including videothoracoscopic surgery, Barrett’s Esophagus, video-assisted thoracic surgery and gastroesophageal reflux. He has published articles in such leading publications as the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Circulation and Journal of Vascular Surgery. Dr. Mason is a member of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation and the American College of Chest Physicians. David P. Mason, MD Department of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery Cleveland Clinic/ F24 9500 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, OH 44195 USA Phone: +1-216-444-4053 Fax: +1-216-445-6876 Email: [email protected]

Nicholas G. Smedira, MD is the Surgical Director of the Cleveland Clinic Kaufman Center for Heart Failure, Director of the Cardiac Transplantation and Ventricular Assist Device Therapy Program, and a cardiac surgeon in the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. He specializes in heart and heart-lung transplantation, ventricular assist devices, ECMO, heart failure surgery, aortic and mitral valve repair and replacement, off-pump coronary bypass grafting, myectomy, reoperations, and ascending aortic replacement. Dr. Smedira is certified by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery and the American Board of Surgery. In 2006 he was also appointed Professor in the Department of Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Smedira earned his undergraduate (Phi Beta Kappa; Magna Cum Laude) and medical (Alpha Omega Alpha; M.D. with Honors) degrees from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, New York. After completing his residency in general surgery at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center where he became Chief Surgical Resident, Dr. Smedira received fellowships in cardiothoracic surgery, critical care medicine and research from the University of California San Francisco Medical Center. He won a post-doctoral National Research Service Award fellowship. He then received a fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Heart Center, where he was appointed in 1995 as a staff cardiac surgeon. Dr. Smedira was voted the 2004 Teacher of the Year in the Cleveland Clinic’s Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery Department. He also has been a visiting professor at the Ministry of Health in Singapore, at the Atlantic Health System in New Jersey, Ottawa Heart Institute in Canada and the University of California at San Francisco. As principal or co-investigator in more than 100 clinical trials and studies, Dr. Smedira has focused his research efforts on his specialty interests. Currently, he is the principal investigator of multiple clinical trials including the surgical treatment of ischemic heart failure, gene transfer to promote angiogenesis in patients with advanced heart failure, bivalirudin as an alternative to heparin during cardiac surgery, rotary blood pumps such as the Debakey and Heartmate II used to support patients until transplant, and two permanent left ventricular assist device trials Dr. Smedira has been invited to present his clinical experience and research findings at hundreds of conferences and symposia worldwide. He is the author or co-author of numerous book chapters on subjects related to his specialty interests, including advances in cardiac intensive care, cardiac surgery, assist devices, and treatment of heart failure. He has authored or co-authored hundreds of published studies and abstracts related to his research in leading peer-reviewed publications, including The New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Annals of Thoracic Surgery, and Journal of the American College of Cardiology, among others.

Dr. Smedira is a Fellow in the American College of Cardiology, Fellow in the American College of Chest Physicians, Fellow in the American College of Surgeons and Fellow in the American Heart Association He is a member of the American Association of Thoracic Surgeons, the American Society of Artificial Internal Organs, the Ohio Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, the Thoracic Surgery Directors Association, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, and the Scientific Advisory Board for the International Society of Heart Failure and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. Dr. Smedira enjoys playing golf and spending time with his wife and three children. Nicholas G. Smedira, MD Surgical Director, Kaufman Center for Heart Failure Cleveland Clinic Foundation 9500 Euclid Ave. Desk F24 Cleveland, OH 44195 USA Phone: +1-216-445-7052 Fax : +1-216-445-3294 Email: [email protected]

Rudolf Speich, MD, FCCP is Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Zurich, where he is also Deputy Director of Internal Medicine. Professor Speich graduated from the University of Zurich in 1980. He completed his specialization in internal, respiratory and critical care medicine. Together with Professor Walter Weder, Professor Speich founded the Zurich Lung Transplant Program. Later he built up the Zurich Pulmonary Hypertension Program. Professor Speich has conducted extensive research in lung transplantation, complications in immunosuppressed patients, interstitial lung diseases, diagnosis of pulmonary infections, bronchoalveolar lavage and clinical aspects of pulmonary hypertension. He was a member of the 2nd and 3rd WHO World Symposium on Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH). For the first time he described the impact of HIV infection on PAH, and thereafter was engaged in several studies on this issue. At the moment, his focus concentrates in aspects regarding quality of life in patients with pulmonary hypertension. Professor Speich is member of various professional societies and reviewer for many journals in the field of internal, pulmonary and transplant medicine. He also is a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians. Prof. Rudolf Speich, MD, FCCP Department of Internal Medicine University Hospital CH-8091 Zurich Switzerland Phone: +41-44-2552201 Office: +41-44-2552220 Fax: +41-44-2558517 Email: [email protected]

Andreas Zuckermann, MD graduated from the University of Vienna, Austria, before working as a Transplant Coordinator in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Vienna. In this role, Dr Zuckermann organized and coordinated 173 thoracic transplantations. Dr Zuckermann then trained in cardio-thoracic surgery at the University of Vienna and in the Department of Cardiac Surgery at St Pölten Hospital, Vienna. Currently, Dr Zuckermann’s roles include Director of the Cardiac Transplant Program and Coordinator of the Heart-Lung Transplant Program at the Medical University of Vienna. Dr Zuckermann is also a member of the Eurotransplant Thoracic Audit Group and is a member of several societies, including the American Society for Transplantation and the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. He has received numerous awards for his outstanding contribution to the area of transplantation and has 88 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He is reviewer for several surgical and transplant journals and member of the editorial board for Transplantation. In 2007 he performed Austria’s first ‘beating heart transplant’. His main fields of research are clinical use of immunosuppressive drugs, risk factor analysis in cardiac transplantation and new preservation technologies in cardiac transplantation. In addition, Dr Zuckermann has spoken at many national and international meetings. Univ. Prof. Dr. Andreas Zuckermann Director Cardiac Transplantation Dept. of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Medical University of Vienna Waehringer Gürtel 18-20 A-1090 Vienna Austria Phone: +43-1-40400-5643 Fax: +43-1-40400-5642 Email: [email protected]

CLEVELAND SEMINAR in

SALZBURG

"Cardiothoracic Surgery"

March 2 – March 8, 2008

FELLOWS

Zubaydullo Abdurahimov, MD Tajikistan Chief of Service, Professor National Center of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery Department of Cardiac Surgery Sanoi 33 735000 Dushanbe Tajikistan Phone: +992-372-289020 Fax: n/a E-mail: [email protected]

Isber Ademaj, MD Kosovo University Clinical Center QKUK, Prishtine 10000 Prishtine Kosovo Phone: +38-500-6003012 Fax: n/a E-mail: [email protected]

Ara Ananyan, MD Armenia Staff Surgeon Nork-Marash Medical Center Department of Cardiac Surgery Armenakyan Str. 13 0047 Yerevan Armenia Phone: +374-10-653869 Fax: +374-10-653869 E-mail: [email protected]

Kakha Beria, MD Georgia Staff Physician, Teaching/research/clinical Associate Emergency Cardiology Center Department of Thoracic Surgery Cardiovascular Disease Lijubliana 4 380059 Tbilisi Georgia Phone: +995-32-530943 Fax: +995-32-530632 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected]

Robert Blazekovic, MD Croatia Staff Physician, Teaching/research/clinical Assistant Clinical Hospital Osijek Department of Cardiac Surgery Huttlerova 4 31000 Osijek Croatia Phone: +385-31-511337 Fax: n/a E-mail: [email protected]

Sergey Boldyrev, MD Russian Federation Specialist, Assistant Professor Regional Clinical Hospital 1, Cardiothoracic Surgery Centre Department of Thoracic Surgery Cardiovascular Disease 140 Rossiyskaya Str. 350086 Krasnodar Russian Federation Phone: +7-861-2526290 Fax: +7-861-2526290 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected]

Tuvjargal Chultemdarjaa, MD Mongolia Staff Physician National Medical Research Institute Department of Thoracic Surgery Ard Ayush Street 1 210526 Ulaanbaatar Mongolia Phone: +976-11-687902 Fax: +976-11-687902 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected]

Zaklina Davicevic, MD, MSc Serbia Specialist, Assistant Professor Military Medical Academy Clinic of Cardiology Crnotravska 17 11000 Belgrade Serbia Phone: +381-11-3608507 Fax: n/a E-mail: [email protected] [email protected]

Vanik Galstyan, MD Armenia Attending Physician Erebouni Medical Center Department of Cardiac Surgery 14 Titogradian Str. 0087 Yerevan Armenia Phone: +374-10-455671 Fax: +374-10-455671 E-mail: [email protected]

Saulius Giedraitis, MD, PhD Lithuania Specialist, Assistant Professor Kaunas Medical University Hospital Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery Eiveniu 2 LT-50009 Kaunas Lithuania Phone: +370-37-326433 Fax: +370-37-326934 E-mail: [email protected]

Paulius Gradauskas, MD Lithuania Chief of Service Vilnius University Emgergency Hospital Department of Thoracic Surgery Siltnamiu 29 04130 Vilnius Lithuania Phone: +370-52-658197 Fax: n/a E-mail: [email protected] [email protected]

Endri Harja, MD Albania Resident University Hospital Centre "Mother Theresa" Department of Cardiac Surgery Rruga e Dibres 355 Tirana Albania Phone: +355-43-62627 Fax: n/a E-mail: [email protected]

Jacek Jakubaszko, MD Poland Teaching/research/clinical Assistant Wroclaw Medical University Department of Cardiac Surgery Curie-Sklodowskiej 66 50-369 Wroclaw Poland Phone: +48-71-7842221 Fax: +48-71-7841560 E-mail: [email protected]

Povilas Jakuska, MD Lithuania Specialist Kaunas Medical University Hospital Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery Eiveniu 2 50009 Kaunas Lithuania Phone: +370-7-326391 / 326433 Fax: +370-7-326934 E-mail: [email protected]

Gintaras Kalinauskas, MD Lithuania Specialist, Assistant Professor Vilnius University Hospital Santariskiu Clinics Department of Cardiac Surgery Santariskiu 2 08661 Vilniius Lithuania Phone: +370-52-365240 Fax: +370-52-365242 E-mail: [email protected]

Saken Kalnazarov, MD Kazakhstan Specialist, Assistant Professor A.N. Syzganov's SCS Department of Surgery Zheltoxan Str. 62 050004 Almaty Kazakhstan Phone: +7-7272-795909 Fax: n/a E-mail: [email protected]

Khusan Khalikulov, MD Uzbekistan Specialist Republican Center of Surgery Department of Surgery Cardiovascular Disease 10, Farkhad 100115 Tashkent Uzbekistan Phone: +998-71-2772616 Fax: n/a E-mail: [email protected] [email protected]

Janez Kirbis, MD, PhD Slovenia Specialist, Assistant Professor University Medical Center Ljubljana Department of Cardiovascular Surgery Zaloska 7 1525 Ljubljana Slovenia Phone: +386-1-5224941 Fax: +386-1-5222583 E-mail: [email protected]

Jus Ksela, MD Slovenia Resident University Clincal Center Maribor Department of Cardiac Surgery Ljubljanska 5 2000 Maribor Slovenia Phone: +386-2-3211787 Fax: +386-2-3211000 E-mail: [email protected]

Robert Lipovec, MD Slovenia Specialist, Teaching/research/clinical Assistant University Clinical Center Maribor Department of Cardiac Surgery Ljubljanska 5 2000 Maribor Slovenia Phone: +386-41-703461 Fax: +386-2-6240307 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected]

Alexander Litvinov, MD Russian Federation Specialist, Chief of Service Medical Academy of post-graduate Edcuation, St. Petersburg City Hospital No. 26 Department of Thoracic Surgery 2, Kostushco Str. 196247 St. Petersburg Russian Federation Phone: +7-812-7231193 Fax: +7-812-7233939 E-mail: [email protected]

Bahar Mammadova, MD Azerbaijan Staff Physician Central Hospital of Oil Workers Department of Cardiac Surgery Yusif Safarov 17 1000 Baku Azerbaijan Phone: +994-12-4904172 Fax: +994-12-4904173 E-mail: [email protected]

Denis Milko, MD Ukraine General Practitioner, Teaching/research/clinical Assistant Research Institution Ambulance Department of Surgery Surgical Critical Care Big Sychorevska Square 3-6A 107045 Moscow Russian Federation Phone: +7-495-6201006 Fax: n/a E-mail: [email protected]

Plamen Mitev, MD Bulgaria Staff Physician, Assistant Professor National Heart Hospital Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery 65 Konjovica Street 1309 Sofia Bulgaria Phone: +359-88-9138857 Fax: +359-2-9531452 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected]

Igor Mokrik, MD Ukraine Division Chief Gusak Institute of Urgent and Recovery Surgery AMS Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Leninsky Ave. 47 83045 Donetsk Ukraine Phone: +380-622-666159 Fax: n/a E-mail: [email protected]

Raluca Popa, MD, MSc Romania Specialist, Staff Physician Armys Emergency Clinic Center of Cardiovascular Diseases Bucharest Department of Cardiovascular Surgery Calea Plenvei 010242 Bucharest Romania Phone: +40-744-972146 Fax: +40-21-4341055 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected]

Igor Savchenko, MD Kazakhstan Specialist, Assistant Professor Semey State Medical Academy Department of Surgery Abay 103 01 Semipalatinsk Kazakhstan Phone: +7-7222-566955 Fax: n/a E-mail: [email protected]

Arystan Seidalin, MD, PhD Kazakhstan Division Chief, Professor Scientific Centre for Surgery Department of Cardiac Surgery 62 Jeltoksan 050004 Almaty City Kazakhstan Phone: +7-7272-797502 Fax: +7-7272-795306 E-mail: [email protected]

Vitalii Sokolov, MD Ukraine Chief of Service Kiev Clinical Hospital No. 17 Department of Thoracic Surgery Laboratorniy Provulok 20 01133 Kiev Ukraine Phone: +380-44-5287583 Fax: +380-44-5281111 E-mail: [email protected]

Suren Stepanyan, PhD Armenia Division Chief, Associate Professor Republican Medical Center "Armenia" Department of Surgery Margaryan Str. 6 0078 Yerevan Armenia Phone: +374-10-318146 Fax: n/a E-mail: [email protected]

Daniel Unic, MD Croatia Resident Dubrava University Hospital Department of Surgery Av. Gojka Suska 6 10000 Zagreb Croatia Phone: +385-1-2902523 Fax: +385-1-2903819 E-mail: [email protected]

Pavel Valentik, MD Slovakia Staff Physician Children’s Heart Center Department of Surgery Limbova 1 83351 Bratislava Slovakia Phone: +421-2-59371327 Fax: n/a E-mail: [email protected]

Yury Vecherskiy, MD, PhD Russian Federation Specialist, Professor Institute of Cardiology Department of Cardiovascular Surgery Kievskaya Str. 111A 634012 Tomsk Russian Federation Phone: +7-382-2-554416 Fax: +7-382-2-555420 E-mail: [email protected]