Structural Heart Webinars

Jeffrey L. Saver, MD, FAHA, FAAN, FANA - 1^st Presenter 
Director, UCLA Comprehensive Stroke Program
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Ruby Satpathy, MD, FACC, FSCAI - 2^nd Presenter 
Medical Director, Structural Heart Program
Baptist Medical Center
Jacksonville, FL, USA

Lars Sondergaard, MD, DMSc, FESC - Moderator
Chief Medical Officer, Divisional Vice-President
Medical Affairs, Abbott’s Structural Heart business

Vincent Thijs, MD, PhD
Matias Yudi, MD

Physicians from Austin Hospital in Melbourne, Australia share their collaboration approach between neurology and cardiology to treat stroke patients and identify appropriate candidates for PFO closure.  The physicians also discuss the latest stroke guidelines. 

Kazunori Toyoda, MD, PhD
Masashi Amano, MD
Masayuki Shiozawa, MD
Kenji Moriuchi, MD

Physicians from the National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center (NCVC) in Osaka, Japan share how the formation of a multidisciplinary unit has helped to better address stroke patients’ needs and concerns, improving patient care. The webinar utilizes two case studies to illustrate how shared decision making about PFO closure through the heart-brain team works at NCVC.

Kazunori Toyoda, MD, PhD
Nicole R. Gonzales, MD

This webinar presents the neurologist’s view on incorporating PFO screening from non-standard to standard practice and highlights the benefits of the collaboration between neurologists and cardiologists to set up a Heart-Brain clinic to treat stroke patients. 

Jeffrey Saver, MD
Professor and Associate Vice-Chair of Neurology, UCLA
Director of the UCLA Comprehensive Stroke Center
Los Angeles, CA

Dr. Saver covers the recent practice advisory update published by the American Academy of Neurology on secondary stroke prevention and its recommendation of PFO Closure over medical management alone for the appropriately selected patients.