“China Night”

Hosted by ACRE-CNAHA Federation (ACF) & Chinese American Academy of Cardiology (CAAC)

Anaheim California,

Saturday, November 11^th, 2017, first night during AHA Scientific Sessions the (Nov. 11-15)

 

Chairs: Drs. Yibin Wang and Yuqing (Eugene) Chen

 

Dinner (6:30-7:30 pm)

 

Welcome Speeches (7:30-7:40 pm)

Hong Wang, MD, PhD, Co-President of CAAC

Yuxin Fan, MD, PhD, President of CnAHA

Jianyi (Jay) Zhang, MD, PhD, President-elected of ACRE

 

Leadership Remarks (7:40 - 8:00pm)

Ronglih Liao, PhD, Chair, AHA Council of BCVS

Mary Sorci-Thomas, PhD, Vice-Chair, AHA Council on ATVB

Svati Shah, MD, Chair of AHA Council on FGTB

Bradley S. Marino, MD, Chair of AHA Council on CVDY

Jennifer Hall, MD, Chief, AHA Institute for Precision Cardiovascular Medicine,

Zorina Galis, PhD, Branch Chief Division of Cardiovascular Science, NHLBI

Mr. Martin Tze, Medtronic

Leader of Amgen

 

Keynote Speech (8:00-8:25 pm)

T cell immunology in cardiovascular diseases

Klaus Ley, PhD

La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology; San Diego, CA

 

CnAHA Bernard Lown Lectureship (8:25-8:50 pm)

“Onco-Cardiology: Past, Present, and the Future”

Edward T.H. Yeh, MD

Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine, University of Missouri, School of Medicine

 

Special Speech (8:50-9:15pm)

Integrating state-of-the-art coronary chronic total occlusion angioplasty and new technologies

Emmanouil Brilakis, MD PhD

Director, Advanced Coronary Interventions, Minneapolis Heart Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Young Investigator Awards (9:15-9:30 pm)

Chairs: Drs. Xiongwen Chen & Yutao Xu

Thanks to Drs. Shusheng Wang & Jiliang Zhou for arranging the facility!

These events are kindly sponsored by Medtronic, Boston Scientific, Amgen