Agenda

2025 Program Agenda

(The program and schedule are coming soon.)

2025 Scientific Program

(The program is subject to change.)

Saturday, October 4, 2025

 

TIME

LECTURE

FACULTY

6:45 AM – 4:45 PMREGISTRATION & NAME BADGE PICKUP

INDUSTRY BREAKFAST SESSION I – (NON-ACCREDITED)

7:15 – 8:00 AMBREAKFAST SYMPOSIUM (Non-CME) 
8:00 – 8:30 AMNON-CME PROGRAM BREAK – VISIT EXHIBIT HALL

SESSION I

Moderators: Sherene Shalhub, MD, MPH, Vascular Surgery, and Joseph Bavaria, MD, Cardiac Surgery
Panelists: Drs. Michol Cooper, Sara Zettervall, Claire Watkins, Carlos Bechara and J. Westley Ohman
8:30 – 8:40 AMWELCOME REMARKSCherrie Abraham, MD, Vascular Surgery
8:40 – 8:55 AMDIDACTIC LECTURE #1: Penetrating Aortic Ulcer- When and How to Treat (Slides)Barbara Hamilton, MD, Cardiac Surgery
8:55 – 9:10 AMAORTIC DISSECTION CASE PRESENTATION #1 (Slides)Kendall Endicott, MD, Vascular Surgery
9:10 – 9:25 AMAORTIC DISSECTION CASE PRESENTATION #2 (Slides)Jade Hiramoto, MD, Vascular Surgery
9:25 – 9:40 AMAORTIC DISSECTION CASE PRESENTATION #3 (Slides)Barbara Hamilton, MD, Cardiac Surgery
9:40 – 9:55 AMAORTIC DISSECTION CASE PRESENTATION #4 (Slides)Peter Rossi, MD, Vascular Surgery
9:55 – 10:10 AMAORTIC DISSECTION CASE PRESENTATION #5 (Slides)Bjoern Suckow, MD, MS, Vascular Surgery
10:10 – 10:30 AMDIDACTIC LECTURE #2: Does ALL Aortic Dissection Originate from a Genetically Flawed Aorta? (Slides)Sherene Shalhub, MD, MPH, Vascular Surgery
10:30 – 11:00 AMREFRESHMENT BREAK –VISIT EXHIBITS

SESSION II

Moderators: Claire Watkins, MD, Cardiac Surgery and Olamide Alabi, MD, Vascular Surgery
Panelists: Drs. Castigliano Bhamidipati, Kendall Endicott and Joseph Bavaria
11:00 – 11:15 AMAORTIC DISSECTION CASE PRESENTATION #6 (Slides)G. Chad Hughes, MD, Cardiac Surgery
11:15 – 11:30 AMAORTIC DISSECTION CASE PRESENTATION #7 (Slides)Misty Humphries, MD, Vascular Surgery
11:30 – 11:45 AMAORTIC DISSECTION CASE PRESENTATION #8 (Slides)Castigliano Bhamidipati, DO, PhD, MSc, Cardiac Surgery
11:45 AM – 12:00 PMDIDACTIC LECTURE #3: Patient Specific Prophylactic Aortic Repair – Are We There Yet? (Slides)G. Chad Hughes, MD, Cardiac Surgery
12:00 PM – 12:30 PMNON-CME PROGRAM BREAK – VISIT EXHIBIT HALL

INDUSTRY LUNCH SESSION I – (NON-ACCREDITED)

12:30 – 1:15 PMLUNCH SYMPOSIUM (Non-CME) 
1:15 – 1:45 PMNON-CME PROGRAM BREAK – VISIT EXHIBIT HALL

SESSION III

Moderators: Castigliano Bhamidipati, DO, PhD, MSc, Cardiac Surgery, and Kendall Endicott, MD, Vascular Surgery
Panelists: Drs. G. Chad Hughes, Peter Rossi, Eanas Yassa, Carlos Bechara, Barbara Hamilton and Olamide Alabi
1:45 – 2:00 PMDIDACTIC LECTURE #4: Use of Self Expanding Bare Dissection Stent in the Treatment of AD. How and When? (Slides)Eanas Yassa, MD, Vascular Surgery
2:00 – 2:15 PMAORTIC DISSECTION CASE PRESENTATION #9 (Slides)Claire Watkins, MD, Cardiac Surgery
2:15 – 2:45 PMAORTIC DISSECTION CASE PRESENTATION #10 (Slides)Christos Lioupis, Vascular Surgery
2:45 – 3:00 PMAORTIC DISSECTION CASE PRESENTATION #11 (Slides)J. Westley Ohman, MD, Vascular Surgery
3:00 – 3:15 PMAORTIC DISSECTION CASE PRESENTATION #13 (Slides)Claire Watkins, MD, Cardiac Surgery
3:15 – 3:30 PMAORTIC DISSECTION CASE PRESENTATION #14 (Slides)Carlos Bechara, MD, Vascular Surgery
3:30 – 3:45 PMDIDACTIC LECTURE #5: OHSU Institutional Approach to Aortic Arch Pathology (Slides)Castigliano Bhamidipati, DO, PhD, MSc, Cardiac Surgery
3:45 – 4:45 PMSOCIAL HOUR
5:45 – 8:00 PMEVENING EVENTLocation: Portland Spirit Dinner Cruise

Sunday, October 5, 2025

 

TIME

LECTURE

FACULTY

6:45 AM – 12:00 PMREGISTRATION & NAME BADGE PICKUP

INDUSTRY BREAKFAST SESSION II – (NON-ACCREDITED)

7:15 – 8:00 AMBREAKFAST SYMPOSIUM (Non-CME) 
8:00 – 8:30 AMNON-CME PROGRAM BREAK – VISIT EXHIBIT HALL

SESSION IV

Moderators: Julie Doberne, MD, Cardiac Surgery, and Enjae Jung, MD, Vascular Surgery
Panelists: Drs. Barbara Hamilton, Jade Hiramoto, Chad Hughes, Joseph Bavaria and Misty Humphries
8:30 – 8:45 AMAORTIC DISSECTION CASE PRESENTATION #15 (Slides)Joseph Bavaria, MD, Cardiac Surgery
8:45 – 9:00 AMAORTIC DISSECTION CASE PRESENTATION #16 (Slides)Eanas Yassa, MD, Vascular Surgery
9:00 – 9:15 AMAORTIC DISSECTION CASE PRESENTATION #17Prasad Jetty, MD, Vascular Surgery
9:15 – 9:30 AMAORTIC DISSECTION CASE PRESENTATION #18 (Slides)G. Chad Hughes, MD, Cardiac Surgery
9:30 – 9:50 AMAORTIC DISSECTION CASE PRESENTATION #18B (Slides)Kendal Endicott, MD, Vascular Surgery
9:50 – 10:00 AMAUDIENCE DISCUSSION 
10:00 – 10:15 AMAORTIC DISSECTION CASE PRESENTATION #19 (Slides)Michol Cooper, MD, Vascular Surgery
10:15 – 10:45 AMREFRESHMENT BREAK – VISIT EXHIBITS

SESSION V

Moderators: Cherrie Abraham, MD, Vascular Surgery
Panelists: Drs. Peter Rossi and Joseph Bavaria
10:45 – 11:15 AMKEYNOTE LECTURE: Gibbon’s Odyssey: The Story of the first Open Heart Operation using the Heart-Lung Machine (Slides)Joseph Bavaria, MD, Cardiac Surgery
11:15 – 11:30 AMAORTIC DISSECTION CASE PRESENTATION #20 (Slides)Sara Zettervall, MD, MPH, Vascular Surgery
11:30 AM – 11:45 AMAORTIC DISSECTION CASE PRESENTATION #21 (Slides)Carlos Bechara, MD, Vascular Surgery
11:45 AM – 12:00 PMCLOSING REMARKSCherrie Abraham, MD, Vascular Surgery
12:00 PMADJOURN