XXIX CONGRESS USCMA

JULY 22-25, 2009, LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, USA

Scientific Program

Thursday July 23, 2009

08:00-08:05AM           Congress Inauguration

                                   Daniel Terreros, MD

       Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

       El Paso TX

08:00-08:05AM          Welcome

      Marco Danon, MD

                                   President US-Colombian Medical Association

Cardiovascular Disease Symposium

Coordinator:                           Marco Danon, MD  

Symposium organizers:        Ruben Acherman, MD y Oscar Muñoz, MD

08:15-09:15AM     Special Lecture:

2000-2010 Global Perspective on Diagnostic and Therapeutic Advances in Pediatric Cardiovascular Diseases.

                             William N Evans, MD                           

                             Director of the Children's Heart Center, Las Vegas NV

09:15-09:45AM     New Diagnostic Frontiers in Fetal Cardiology

Ruben Acherman, MD

Children's Heart Center, Las Vegas NV

09:45-10:00AM     Coffee Break

10:00-10:30AM     Interventional Pediatric Cardiology after the Development of the Ductus Arteriosus Stent .

Alvaro Galindo, MD

Children's Heart Center,   Las Vegas NV                         

10:30-11:00AM     New Frontiers in Interventional Cardiology in the Adult.

Oscar Muñoz, MD

Del Sol Hospital, El Paso TX

11:00-11:30AM     Title: Diagnostic Tools for CAD, State of the Art.

                             David Turbay, MD

                             Private Practice, El Paso TX

11:30-12:00PM     Round Table Discussion

Oscar Muñoz MD, Coord., Drs William N Evans MD, Ruben Acherman MD,    Alvaro Galindo MD, and David Turbay MD

Friday July 24, 2009

Immunity and Metabolic Disease Symposium

Coordinator:                           Daniel Terreros, MD                  

Symposium organizers:        Edmond Yunis, MD y Guillermo Pinzon, MD 

08:00-9:00AM       Special Lecture:

                             New Developments on Immunity, Inflammation and Metabolism.

Edmund Yunis, MD

Harvard Medical School

09:00-09:30AM     Epigenetics of Obesity

                              Daniel Terreros MD PHD

                              Paul L. Foster School of Medicine

09:30-10:00AM      Pediatric Obesity: Las Vegas Project

                               William N Evans, MD                             

                               Director of the Children's Heart Center,

                              Las Vegas NV

10:00-10:15AM     Coffee Break

10:15-11:45AM     New Developments in Early Diagnosis of Diabetic Neuropathies. Boris  Kaim, MD – Neurology

                             Texas Tech University 

11:45-12:15PM     Bariatric Surgery.

                             Jorge Acosta, MD

                             Del Sol Hospital,  El Paso TX

12:15-12:45PM     Round Table Discussion

Guillermo Pinzon MD Coord., Drs Edmund Yunis MD, Daniel Terreros MD PHD, William N Evans MD,  Boris Kaim, MD and Jorge Acosta, MD               

Saturday July 25, 2009

Reparative and Regenerative Medicine Symposium

Coordinator:                           Jorge Pardo, MD                  

Symposium organizers:        Luis H. Urrea, MD y Miguel Pirela–Cruz, MD 

08:00-9:00AM       Central Conference

                             Reparative and Regenerative Surgery in Sports Medicine.

Luis H. Urrea, MD

President, El Paso County Medical Society                          

09:00-09:30AM     Neurovascular Tissue Engineering

Tao Xu PhD 

Bioengineering Program

College of Engineering

University of Texas at El Paso    

09:30-10:00AM     Hand Transplantation Neurovascular Strategies and Limitations.

                             Miguel Pirela-Cruz MD

                             Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, El Paso TX

10:00-10:15AM     Coffee Break

10:15-11:45AM     Computer-Assisted Articular Surgery

Enis Kanlic MD

                             Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, El Paso TX

11:45- 12:00         Future of Computer-Assisted and Stem-Cell Based Regenerative. Neurosurgical Technologies

                             Carlos Acosta MD

CEO USMD Hospital

Arlington TX

11:30-12:00PM     Round Table Discussion

Miguel Pirela-Cruz MD Coord., Drs Luis H. Urrea MD, Tao Xu PhD,  Enis Kanlic MD and  Carlos Acosta MD

12:00 – 12:30PM  Strategic Finance Planning and Retirement Plans for physicians under  Economic Turbulent Times.

                             Luis Strohmeier – AXA Advisors

12:30-1:30PM       General Assembly USCMA