UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute at AHA Scientific Sessions 2023
November 10-13, 2023
The UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute will be well-represented at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2023 in Philadelphia on Friday, Nov. 10 to Monday, Nov. 13. Our experts will be lecturing and presenting research abstracts on a number of important cardiovascular topics.
Full details of the lecture days/times are available on the conference website program.
The complete list of presentations, workshops, and poster sessions featuring experts from UPMC includes:
Nov. 10, 2023
Introduce What CVSA Committee Does, the Awards, Who Is Eligible, Dates, Past Winners and Where They Are Now, and Leadership
Panelist: Kim Howard-Quijano
Swimming with the Sharks: Present Your Research for Successful Mentor-Mentee Matching
Moderator: Jonathan Elmer
Pediatric Cardiology Care in the Post-COVID Era
Moderator: Jackie Kreutzer
Nov. 11, 2023
Post-GWAS Functional Analysis Of CBLN2 Locus Reveals The Role Of CUX1 In The Inflammatory Pathogenesis Of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Presented by: Wei Sun, Danli Jiang, Ting Wu, Gang Li, Stephen Y. Chan
T-wave Oversensing Secondary to an Inappropriate ICD Shock Resulting in Subsequent Unnecessary Shocks
Presented by: Bosky Soni, Reed Melanie, Neil Patel
Sex Disparities in Optimal Medical Therapy for Ischemic Heart Disease
Presented by: Hassan Adam Alhassan, Harnoor Mann, Malamo Countouris
Heart Failure Hospitalist Service Line Have Decrease All Cause Readmission, Length of Stay and Cost at 3 UPMC Hospitals in Central Pennsylvania in 2022
Presented by: Jesus Vargas
The Benefits of Wearable Physical Activity Tracking Devices and Wellness Initiatives
Presented by: Kristen Davis
Point-of-Care Ultrasound Estimation of Right Atrial Pressure Predicts Early Readmission in Patients With Acute Decompensated Heart Failure
Presented by: Michael Knapp, Oluwatosin Aluko, Himal Chapagain, Faizan Faizee, Aleesha Kainat, Rahul Chaudhary, John Pacella
Cardioprotective Effect of Antiviral Therapy Among Hepatitis C Infected Patients: A Meta-Analysis
Presented by: Kripa Rajak, Nirmit Patel, Alisson Iturburu
Coronary Imaging in Prevention Trials: Past, Present, and Future
Moderator: Anum Saeed
Association of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy With Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction 8-10 Years After Delivery
Presented by: Malamo Countouris, Janet M Catov, Jianhui Zhu, Nikki de Jong, Xucai Chen, Kathryn Berlacher, Robin Gandley, Adam C. Straub, Flordeliza S. Villanueva
Susceptibility to Cardiac-Targeted Irradiation in Wild-Type and Nos1 Haploinsufficient Mice
Presented by: Peter Wipf, Michael Epperly, Joel Greenberger
Aspirin Use for Primary Prevention in High-Risk Patients: Insights From a Large Healthcare Network
Presented by: Pallavi Muluk, Jianhui Zhu, Erin D. Michos, Floyd W. Thoma, Oscar C. Marroquin, Eli Hay, Suresh R. Mulukutla, Anum Saeed
Revascularization Shows Beneficial Cardiovascular Outcomes in Severe Ischemic Cardiomyopathy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Presented by: Shumail Fatima, Abu Hurera, Midori Torpoco Rivera, Ahmet Sezer, Gavin W. Hickey
The Aim2 Inflammasome Deters Myogenic Potential Of Muscle Satellite Cells Affected By Peripheral Artery Disease (pad) And Is A Therapeutic Target To Attenuate Myopathy
Presented by: Bowen Xie, Edwyn Assaf, Ricardo Ferrari, Rohan Kulkarni, Ryan McEnaney, Ulka Sachdev
Circulation Research: COVID-19 and the Cardiovascular System - An AHA Journal Session
Moderated by: Cynthia St. Hilaire
Primary Repair vs. Staged Palliation for Symptomatic Neonates: Lessons Learned From the CCRC
Presented by: Bryan H. Goldstein
Mutations, Myocytes, and Mice: The Latest Discoveries in Functional Genetics
Moderated by:Stephen Y. Chan
Environmental Circadian Desynchronization and Metabolic Stress Drive Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)
Presented by: Varun Mandi, Jeongkyung Lee, Rajaganapathi Jagannathan, Ping Yang, Vinny Negi, FENG LI, Yijen L. Wu, Dhivyaa Rajasundaram, Vijay Yechoor, Mousumi Moulik
Reduced Endothelial ADAR1-Dependent RNA Editing Induces NOCT-Driven Immunoactivation and Promotes Pulmonary Hypertension
Presented by: Chen-Shan Julia Woodcock, Tang, Yi Yin Tai, Satoshi Okawa, Shu-Ting Cho, Robert Lafyatis, Stephen Y. Chan
Phase-Specific Survival After Endovascular versus Open Surgical Repair of Descending Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm
Presented by: Nidhi Iyanna, Takuya Ogami, Yujiro Yokoyama, Derek Serna-Gallegos, Danny Chu, Ibrahim Sultan
A New Approach for Quantification of Cardiomyocyte Generation Identifies a Window for Targeting Cardiomyocyte Proliferation and Differentiation in Human Infants
Presented by: Anita Bargaje, Niyatie Ammanamanchi, Jocelyn Mich-Basso, Mathew L. Steinhauser, Adam Christopher, Kathryn C. Little, Dawn Thomas, Shannon Janzef, Jacqueline Weinberg, Tyler Harris, Gaurav Arora, Joanna Drickman, Kirsten Rose-Felker, Sharon D. Fabellar-Sia, Susan A. Miller, Shawn West, Brian D. Feingold, Victor Morell, Melita Viegas, Luciana da Silva, Mario Castro Medina, Hairu Zhou, Honghai Liu, Mara Sullivan, Bernhard Kuhn
Probing Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Mouse Hearts With Doxorubicin-Induced Cardiotoxicity Using Ungated 4D Oxy-Wavelet MRI
Presented by: Devin Raine Everaldo Cortes, Margaret Stapleton, Kristina Schwab, Noah Coulson, Elizabeth Mazzella, Dalton West, Thomas Becker-Szurszewski, Sean Hartwick, Yijen L. Wu
Genetic and Acquired DHCR7 Deficiency Upregulates 7β-hydroxycholesterol to Drive Endothelial Apoptosis and Pulmonary Hypertension
Presented by: Rashmi J. Rao, Hee-Jung Kim, Siyi Jiang, Yi-Yin Tai, Bing Wang, Ying Tang, Wadih El Khoury, Anna Kirillova, Al Aaraj, Annie Watson, Ankit X. Sharma, Wei Sun, Lloyd David Harvey, Stephen Y. Chan
Late-Breaking Basic Science Oral Abstracts I
Moderated by: Cristina Espinosa
Healthcare Informatics and Health Equity: Opportunities and Challenges
Panel Participant: Jared Magnani
Enhancing CVD Prevention With Mobile Health: Strategies to Overcome the Digital Divide
Presented by: Jared Magnani
RV Surveillance and Treatments for CTEPH
Presented by: Belinda Rivera-Lebron
Nov. 12, 2023
Black Patients With Heart Failure Living in Distressed Communities Disproportionately Experience Excess Risk of Mortality After Emergency Department Visit for Dyspnea
Presented by: Karina Kraevsky-Phillips, Clifton W Callaway, Richard A. Henker, Paul Scott, Salah S. Al-Zaiti
Trends Among Patients Undergoing Transvenous Lead Extraction: A Single Center Experience
Presented by: Muhammad Talha Ayub, Don Mathew, Konstantinos Aronis, Krishna Kancharla, Aditya Bhonsale, Floyd W. Thoma, Andrew Voigt, Sandeep Jain, Nathan A. Estes III, Samir Saba, Alaa Shalaby
Quality of Life in Early-Stage Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: A Secondary Analysis of the VANISH Trial
Presented by: Jason R. Becker
Clinical Outcomes Across Groups of Ejection Fraction and Grades of Diastolic Dysfunction
Presented by: Jacqueline Levene, Aditya Bhonsale, Krishna Kancharla, Floyd W. Thoma, Suresh R. Mulukutla, Andrew Voigt, Alaa Shalaby, Nathan A. Estes III, Sandeep Jain, Samir Saba
Sex-Based Statin Utilization and Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes: A Real World Secondary Prevention Cohort
Presented by: Floyd W. Thoma, Agnes Koczo, Steven Reis, Anum Saeed, Suresh R. Mulukutla
Mid-Term Survival of Low-Risk Patients Treated With Transcatheter versus Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement: Meta-Analysis of Reconstructed Time-to-Event Data
Presented by: Michel Pompeu Sa, Derek Serna-Gallegos, Danny Chu, Ibrahim Sultan
An Uncommon Mass, in an Uncommon Location, in a Common Patient?
Presented by: Ngozi Osuji, Cihan Caglayan, Jacqueline Levene, Ezza Fatima Tariq, Joseph Franz, Rafic Farah, Derek Serna-Gallegos, Jeffrey A. Fowler, Catalin Toma, Adam Olson, Barinder Hansra, Joshua E. Levenson
Association of Social Factors on Sex-Specific Management of Atrial Fibrillation
Presented by: Tanmay A. Gokhale, Mehak Dhande, Suresh R. Mulukutla, Floyd W. Thoma, Aditya Bhonsale, Krishna Kancharla, Andrew Voigt, Alaa Shalaby, Nathan A. Estes III, Sandeep Jain, Samir Saba
Keeping up With the Newest Guideline Directed Medical Therapy for Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction, Resident-Driven Quality Improvement Project
Presented by: Seema Sharma Gautam, Konstantin Golubykh, Kripa Rajak, Aslan Amirian, Iuliia Kovalenko, Taaha M. Mirza, Jesus Vargas, Roberto Hodara, Yijin Wert, Kriti Taneja, Anas Atrash
Long-Term Outcomes of Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch After Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement: Meta-Analysis of Kaplan-Meier-Derived Individual Patient Data
Presented by: Michel Pompeu Sa, Danny Chu, Derek Serna-Gallegos, Ibrahim Sultan
Oxytocin Receptor in the Spinal Neuraxial Modulation of Ventricular Excitability
Presented by: Abigail Hellman, Kimberly Howard-Quijano, Yuki Kuwabara, Siamak Salavatian, Madison Fisher, Aman Mahajan
Resource Utilization After Cardiac Surgery in Adults With Congenital Heart Diseases: A Nationwide Analysis
Presented by: Carlos E. Diaz Castrillon, Ibrahim Sultan, Melita Viegas, Arvind Hoskoppal, Mario Castro Medina, Luciana da Silva, Nidhi Iyanna, Sarah Yousef, Yisi Wang, Victor Morell
Statin Utilization and Recurrent Cardiovascular Disease Events in a Secondary Prevention Cohort of Older Adults
Presented by: Deeksha Acharya, Aaron Walker, Jianhui Zhu, Floyd W. Thoma, Agnes Koczo, Suresh R. Mulukutla, Anum Saeed
Statin Prescription and ASCVD Outcomes in a Secondary Prevention Cohort Stratified by Race
Presented by: Maha Mumtaz, Jianhui Zhu, Floyd W. Thoma, Malamo Countouris, Mahmoud A. Al Rifai, Anum Saeed, Suresh R. Mulukutla
Early Rhythm Control is Associated With Improved Outcomes in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Patients With Atrial Fibrillation
Presented by: Muhammad Talha Ayub, Gautam Rangavajla, David Newhouse, Floyd W. Thoma, Aditya Bhonsale, Andrew Voigt, Suresh R. Mulukutla, Alaa Shalaby, Nathan A. Estes III, Sandeep Jain, Samir Saba, Krishna Kancharla
The Association of Aspirin With and Without Statin on Cardiovascular Outcomes in Primary Prevention Patients With Diabetes Mellitus
Presented by: Pallavi Muluk, Jianhui Zhu, Floyd W. Thoma, Oscar C. Marroquin, Amber Makani, Suresh R. Mulukutla, Anum Saeed
Impact of Guideline-Directed Statin Intervention in Secondary Prevention Patients Stratified by Diabetes Status
Presented by: Saarang S. Mulukutla, Jianhui Zhu, Floyd W. Thoma, Oscar C. Marroquin, Anum Saeed
Statin Utilization and Outcomes Among Patients With Coronary Artery Disease Undergoing Percutaneous or Surgical Revascularization
Presented by: Saarang S. Mulukutla, Jianhui Zhu, Floyd W. Thoma, Oscar C. Marroquin, Amber Makani, Ibrahim Sultan, Anum Saeed
Timing and Mode of Death Following Treatment of Neonatal Symptomatic Tetralogy of Fallot
Presented by: Sara M. Trucco, Bryan H. Goldstein
TEAD1 Regulation of Angiotensin II Signaling in the Heart and NFAT Activity
Presented by: Rajaganapathi Jagannathan, Jeongkyung Lee, Vinny Negi, Feng Li, Vijay Yechoor, Mousumi Moulik
Sotatercept for the Treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: A Systematic Review and Single-Arm Meta-Analysis
Presented by: Luiz Campedelli, Michael G. Risbano
Severity of Diastolic Dysfunction Predicts Risk of Myocardial Infarction
Presented by: Tanmay A. Gokhale, Mehak Dhande, Suresh R. Mulukutla, Floyd W. Thoma, Aditya Bhonsale, Krishna Kancharla, Andrew Voigt, Alaa Shalaby, Nathan A. Estes III, Sandeep Jain, Samir Saba
PRO 1: Cellular Senescence PROMOTES Pulmonary Vascular Disease
Presented by: Stephen Y. Chan
Association of Lactation Duration With Blood Pressure Recovery at One Year Postpartum in Overweight and Obese Individuals With a Hypertensive Disorder of Pregnancy
Presented by: Renee Hart, Janet Catov, Alisse Hauspurg
Diet-Induced Obesity Drives Phospholamban Acetylation and Promotes Cardiomyocyte Calcium Reuptake Into the Sarcoplasmic Reticulum
Presented by: Bellina Mushala, Michael Stoner, Iain Scott, Janet R. Manning
Association of Social Factors on Sex-Specific Management of Atrial Fibrillation
Presented by: Tarryn Tertulien, Gretchen Swabe, Jared Magnani
Impact of Chronic Disease on Lipoproteins and CVD Risk
Presented by: Alison Kohan
Post-GWAS Functional Analysis of CBLN2 Locus Reveals the Role of CUX1 in the Inflammatory Pathogenesis of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Presented by: Wei Sun, Wadih El Khoury, Danli Jiang, Ying Tang, Ting Wu, Yingze Zhang, Gang Li, Stephen Y. Chan
The Syndemic of Atrial Fibrillation and Social Determinants of Health
Presented by: Jared Magnani
Best Practices in Digital Coaching
Panel Moderator: Jared Magnani
Nov. 13, 2023
Is Sleep Disordered Breathing Optimized in Patients With Bradycardic Rhythm Disorders Prior to Pacemaker Implantation? - A Retrospective Observational Study and a Quality Improvement Project
Presented by: Kripa Rajak, Seema Sharma Gautam, Aslan Amirian, Gabriela Calderon Barahona, Hanna Bobrysheva, Yijin Wert, Anas Atrash, Navitha Ramesh
Cardiac MRI Adds Value in Discerning Pediatric Heart Transplant Rejection and Its Management
Presented by: Laura Olivieri
GlycA is Associated With Both Coronary Artery Calcium Incidence and Progression: ELSA-Brasil Cohort Analysis
Presented by: Ronaldo Correa Fabiano Filho, Marcio Bittencourt
Redefining the Assessment of “Therapeutic” Platelet Response to Acetylsalicylic Acid
Presented by: Rahul Chaudhary
Impact of Body Mass Index on Pericardial Effusion After Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation - A Nationwide Analysis From 2016-2019
Presented by: Aakash Sheth, Vivek Verma, Chinmay Patel
Role of Interferon Lambda in Influenza-Induced Exacerbation of Atherosclerosis
Presented by: Crystal Moras, Baskaran Chinnappan, Nicholas J. Constantinesco, Louis De Vito, Sashwath Srikanth, John F. Alcorn, Radha Gopal
Does Mineralocorticoid Receptor Blockade Affect the Occurrence of Perioperative Atrial Fibrillation in Cardiac Surgery Patients? - A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Presented by: Kripa Rajak, Seema Sharma Gautam, Resha Khanal, Anas Atrash
Prior SAVR With Low Coronary Heights
Presented by: Ibrahim Sultan
Acute Pulmonary Embolism – Percutaneous
Presented by: Catalin Toma
Digital Tools in Cardiac Rehabilitation
Panel Participant: Daniel Forman
Rilonacept for Refractory Pericarditis Following Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy: A Case Report
Presented by: Mohanad Hamandi, Janelle Gooch, Joshua E. Levenson
The Future of Aging Research
Presented by: Toren Finkel
Lack of Influence of Comorbidities on NT Pro-BNP/BNP Ratio in ATTR-CA: A Prospective, Single Sample, Paired Data Analysis
Presented by: Bharadwaj Satyavolu, Marcio Bittencourt, Georgia Maria Vasilakis, Majd F. Al Ahmad, Brent Medoff, Prem Soman
Significantly Slower Progression of Aortic Calcification Among Japanese in Japan Than White and Japanese Americans in a Multiethnic Cohort of Middle-Aged Men - ERA JUMP (Electron-Beam Computed Tomography and Risk Factor Assessment in Japanese and US Men in the Post-World War II Birth Cohort) Study
Presented by: Jiatong Li, Yuefang Chang, Akira M. Sekikawa
Association of Copayment Level and Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonist and Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitor Adherence in Diabetes and Heart Failure
Presented by: Utibe R. Essien, Balvindar Singh, Gretchen Swabe, Jared Magnani
Stem Cell Modeling of a Candidate Genetic Variant in a Family With Complex Inherited Cardiomyopathy
Presented by: Anna Kirillova, Siyi Jiang, Yassmin Al Aaraj Yunshan Yue, Rashmi Rao, Michael Creager, Robert Barndt, Haodi Wu, Satoshi Okawa, Stephen Y. Chan
Metabolic Clusters and Their Association With Progression of Coronary Artery Calcification (From the ELSA-Brasil)
Presented by: Marcio Bittencourt
Management of Adverse Outcomes of PE: Post PE Syndrome, CTED and CTEPH
Presented by: Belinda Rivera-Lebron
