Thursday, June 2

• 07:00am - 08:00am: Breakfast (on your own)
• 08:00am - 05:00pm Registration (Sadler Center)
• 08:30am - 09:30am Plenary Presentation
  • Randall Moorman, PhD, University of Virginia, USA - Cardiovascular dynamics at the bedside: heart rate characteristics monitoring in premature infants
• 09:30am - 10:00am Coffee Break
• 10:00am - 12:00n Parallel Paper Sessions
  1. Michael Pencina (chair) – Can We Improve Cardiovascular Risk Prediction
     • Tomasz Zdrojewski, MD, Gdansk Medical University, Poland - Explaining decrease in coronary heart disease mortality in some high risk cardiovascular disease regions in Europe
     • Raluca Mihaescu, MD, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands - Interpretation of results from direct-to-consumer genetic testing
     • Philimon Gona, PhD, Boston University, Framingham Heart Study - Potential statistical errors when adding multiple risk markers to risk prediction models
     • Sarah Rosner Preis, ScD, MPH, Boston University, Framingham Heart Study - Novel measures of obesity and diabetes risk prediction: Examples from the Framingham Heart Study.
  2. Julia Arciero/Gabriel Gruionu (co-chairs) – Blood Flow Regulation in the Vascular System
     • Timothy Secomb, PhD, University of Arizona, USA – Theoretical models for blood flow regulation in microvascular networks
     • Tuhin Roy, MD, PhD, Mayo Clinic - Flow regulation in heterogeneous microvascular networks
     • Gabriel Gruionu, PhD, Indiana University School of Medicine – Mathematical and experimental models of structural adaptation of normal, ischemic and tumor microvascular networks.
     • Julia Arciero, PhD, University of Pittsburgh - Analysis of spontaneous diameter oscillations in blood vessels
• 12:00n -- 01:30pm Lunch
• 01:30pm - 03:30pm Parallel Paper Sessions
  1. Arun Holden (chair) - Atrial Fibrillation
     • Arun Holden, PhD, Leeds University, United Kingdom – Towards a systems biology of atrial fibrillation
     • Robert McLeod, PhD, University of Utah, USA – MR imaging and atrial fibrillation
     • Arkady Pertsov – SUNY Upstate Medical University, USA – Triggers of atrial fibrillation: Do we have a model?
     • Dongdong Deng, PhD, Zhejiang University, China – Simulation of the Biatrial Conduction with Detailed Human Atrial Model
  2. Tarynn M. Witten (chair) – General Paper Session – 2
     • Michael Pencina, PhD, Boston University, Framingham Heart Study, Harvard Clinical Research Institute - How to evaluate improvement in cardiovascular risk prediction?
     • Pamela Coxson, PhD, University of California San Francisco, USA – The coronary heart disease policy model
     • Penny Reynolds, PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA – Multidimensional modeling of physiological response to shock and resuscitation
  3. John “Wes” Cain (chair) – Computational Modeling
     • Jacques Beaumont, PhD, Binghampton, USA - Role played by cardiac tissue microanatomy in the spread of excitation. Multiscale modeling with experimental validation
     • Jose Puglisi, PhD, USA – Modeling force generation/shortening development in a single cardiac myocyte
     • Steven Niederer, PhD, The Rayne Institute, United Kingdom – Analyzing the distribution of work following cardiac resynchronization therapy
• 03:30pm - 04:00pm Break
• 04:00pm - 06:00pm Parallel General Paper Sessions
1. Mahendra Kavdia (chair) - Vascular Systems Modeling & Signaling Molecules
   • Mahendra Kavdia, PhD, Wayne State University, USA - Systems modeling of oxidative and nitrosative stress in endothelial dysfunction
   • Amina Qutub, PhD, Rice University, USA - Modeling Endothelial Cell Interactions as a Function of Hypoxic Response Signaling
   • Shayn Peirce-Cottler, PhD, University of Virginia, USA - Multiscale modeling of tissue remodeling
   • Seungik Baek, PhD, Michigan State University, USA - Computational simulation of enlarging abdominal aortic aneurysms
2. John Delos (chair) – New Quantitative Methods in ICU’s
   • Andrew Seely, PhD, Ottawa Hospital, Canada - Development of multi-organ variability monitoring in critically ill: potential pitfalls and future potential
   • Gari Clifford, PhD, Oxford University, United Kingdom - Bed, death & beyond; prediction models and the ICU data superstore
   • Timothy Buchman, PhD, Emory University, USA - Towards situation awareness in critical care
   • John Delos, PhD, William & Mary, USA - The ICU of the future
• 06:00pm - 08:00pm Dinner (closing banquet)

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