2024 Highlights & New Sessions

Vascular Innovation Lab

The 3rd annual Vascular Innovation Lab offers a unique opportunity to explore peripheral vascular imaging, access, and intervention techniques on cadaveric specimens. These artificially revascularized lower limbs provide a pulsatile, lifelike “blood flow” and are the perfect model for practicing:

• Vessel prep and ballooning
• Pedal and other lower extremity access
• SFA and popliteal vessel access
• Stent placement
• PTA modalities from laser to DCA to orbital and rotational

This year we’ll offer 2 industry-sponsored sessions on Wednesday, with a morning session reserved for attendees in our Fellows & Residents and Nurses + Techs: Life on the Frontline programs, and an afternoon for all attendees, with multiple tables showcasing a variety of applications, techniques, and products. Pre-registration is not required, but these popular labs will fill up quickly. Early arrival is advised.

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GLOBAL THEATER

The Global Theater offers presentations from our multidisciplinary, international faculty, the popular global live case broadcasts, and the newest data in our Late-Breaking Clinical Trial sessions.

The 2019 featured live case sites and operators included:

J. Michael Bacharach, MD - Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Tony Das, MD - Dallas, Texas

Andrew Holden, MBChB - Auckland, New Zealand

Jason T. Lee, MD - Stanford, California

Andrej Schmidt, MD - Liepzig, Germany

THE ROUNDTABLE

The Roundtable offers concentrated clinical discussions on real-world issues and practical approaches. Members of our expert faculty offer their opinions and review the latest controversies in order to provide new insight and understanding for attendees.

STRATEGIES ON THE FRONTLINE

This small-theater experience offers interactive discussion on the most challenging clinical cases. Audience members are encouraged to interact with VIVA faculty to discuss real-world issues and practice approaches. These sessions will expand attendees' clinical boundaries and prepare them to achieve successful outcomes in the most challenging case situations.

FACE-OFF COMPETITION

U.S. Physicians in training (fellows and qualifying residents) and international physicians present original research or interesting cases that focus on complex procedures, complication management, advanced and novel techniques, or new technology. Presenters face-off with VIVA faculty for 7 minutes, followed by 3 minutes of Q&A. Afterward, VIVA faculty grade each presentation on clarity, interest, value, originality, and depth/scope. Winners of the competition have the opportunity to present their research or case on the Global Theater stage on the final day of VIVA.

Congratulations to our 2019 winners:

Winner: Deanna Yamamura, DO

First runner up: Ankeet Bhatt, MD

Third place: Eudoro Jorge Orozco, MD

PHARMACORX

Management of patients with vascular disease requires a comprehensive approach, ranging from medical therapy to intervention and surgery. Medical therapy is especially important as it treats the underlying condition and modifies the impact of interventional therapies. PharmacoRx sessions review the well-known and lesser-known aspects of medical therapy for peripheral artery disease, abdominal aortic aneurysm, and venous thromboembolism to provide clinical pearls for the practitioner.

Nurses + Techs

This educational symposium focuses on the needs of the allied cardiovascular healthcare professionals who play a critical role in the team-based delivery of vascular care. Integrated, interdisciplinary faculty tailor their presentations to the unique needs of nurses & technologists, and feature a wide variety of interesting topics. In 2019, our Nurses + Techs program joined the Global Theater audience for global live cases, the conference keynote, and more, offering a more integrated format for our N+T attendees.

MORNING TRACKS

Aortic: Experts highlight need-to-know treatments and techniques, including aortic dissection and thoracoabdominal aorta intervention.

CLI: This morning track features in-depth analysis of deep venous arterialization as well as emerging technologies for CLI.

VIVA UNSCRIPTED

Selected speakers discuss hot topics affecting the vascular medicine and intervention arena in brief interviews with a course director.

Satellite Symposia

VIVA commercial supporters host sessions that enhance the VIVA learning experience by offering attendees an extended and more varied selection of educational programs.

VIVA Pre-course

Aortic Armageddon: This unique aortic session will bring together expert operatives to share their best and worst aortic cases, from the ascending aorta to the iliac bifurcation, and discuss complications, bailouts, and lessons learned.

Critical Limb Ischemia: Emerging data and ground-breaking techniques are highlighted in presentations and case reviews, and will change the way your CLI team cares for these complex patients.