Celebrating 30 Years of the Cone Procedure

Join experts from the UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh’s Heart Institute at the 8th World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery as they commemorate the 30th year of the cone procedure.

Presented by: The Heart Institute at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh

Monday, Aug. 28, 2023
7 - 9 p.m. EST.

Hosted By

Victor O. Morell, MD
Eugene S. Wiener Endowed Professor of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery
Chair, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Co-Director, Heart Institute at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh

Jacqueline Kreutzer, MD
Peter and Ada Rossin Endowed Professor of Pediatric Cardiology
Chief, Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics
Co-Director, Heart Institute at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh

José Pedro da Silva, MD
Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Founding Surgical Director, Da Silva Center for Ebstein’s Anomaly
Heart Institute at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh

Luciana da Fonseca da Silva, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Heart Institute at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh

In 1993, José Pedro da Silva, MD, created the cone technique to repair Ebstein’s anomaly, a rare congenital heart disease. In patients with Ebstein’s anomaly, the tricuspid valve (TV) is malformed and displaced inside of the right ventricle (RV). This displacement and malformation causes tricuspid regurgitation with blood leaking backwards into the right atrium. The cone procedure creates a durable repair using the patient’s own tissue, which creates a TV capable of appropriate growth. 

Now, the cone technique is considered the worldwide gold standard of treatment for Ebstein’s anomaly. Since 1993, Dr. da Silva, alongside Luciana da Fonseca da Silva, MD, have performed more than 360 cone procedures on patients of all ages and achieve excellent outcomes. They travel around the world to perform this procedure and share their knowledge and expertise with other physicians.

This activity is approved for the following credit: AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^™, ANCC, and AAPA Category 1 CME.

Registration

This event is limited to 150 attendees. For more information, or questions about registration, please contact Angie Kinnunen at kinnunenae@upmc.edu and 412-770-4949 or Drew Berkhoudt at berkhoudtd2@upmc.edu and 585-402-2584 by Friday, August 18, 2023.

Note: This event is not part of WCPCCS 2023 as planned by the WCPCCS Program Committee. This event is neither sponsored nor endorsed by WCPCCS.