The Heart Valve Society Annual Meeting on CTSNet: Live from Sitges, Spain

The Annual Meeting of the Heart Valve Society (HVS) will take place in Sitges, Spain, from April 11-13, 2019. For those who cannot be in Spain, the plenary sessions from the HVS 2019 Annual Meeting will stream live on CTSNet.org and in the CTSNet YouTube channel. Tune in for these exciting presentations and discussions:

Thursday, April 11, 2019

• Presidential Session: Back to the Future, 8 – 10 am CEST (1 – 3 am CDT)
  Johanna Takkenberg begins the meeting by delivering her Presidential Address. Jose Pomar, Alain Carpentier, and Alain Cribier look back at important influences and lessons. Liesl Zuhlke, Martin Leon, and Magdi Yacoub look forward at progress yet to come.
• The Era of the Atrioventricular Valve, 3:30 – 5:30 pm CEST (8:30 – 10:30 am CDT)
  Rakesh Suri and Vinod Thourani moderate this discussion of mitral and tricuspid valves.

Friday, April 12, 2019

• Battle of the Giants, 8 – 10 am CEST (1 – 3 am CDT)
  Rakesh Suri and Ourania Preventza moderate debates between Blasé Carabello and Jean François Obadia, Magdi Yacoub and Patrick Serruys, Murat Tuzcu and Ourania Preventza, and Marta Sitges and  Joanna Chikwe.
• Networked HVD Science Today and Tomorrow, 3:30 – 5:30 pm CEST (8:30 – 10:30 am CDT)
  Emmanuel Lansac and Jane Grande-Allen moderate this discussion of the importance and future of research on heart valve disease.

There is still time to register to attend HVS 2019 in person. In addition to the plenary sessions, this year’s meeting has sessions on the aortic, mitral, and tricuspid valves, congenital heart valve disease, and valve science, as well as special focuses on neglected mitral valve disease and sex-differences in valve disease. The meeting also features several abstract sessions and presentations of challenging cases by experts. View the complete program for more details.