2026 FIT Clinical Controversies in Cardiology Dinner: Lifetime Management of Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease: Steel, Tissue, or Autograft?
Agenda
6:30 p.m. Check-In Opens, Networking
7:00 p.m. Dinner Program Begins
First Panel Presentation: Autograft or Artificial? The Young Bicuspid Dilemma
Panelists:
Jordan Bloom, MD, MPH
Cardiac Surgeon
Surgical Director, Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Quality Director, MGB Cardiac Surgery
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Eric M. Isselbacher, M.D., M.Sc.
Edmund N. Ansin Endowed Chair In Healthcare Transformation
Director, Healthcare Transformation Lab
Co-Director, MGH Thoracic Aortic Center
Massachusetts General Hospital
Prem S. Shekar MD, MBA
Chairman - Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery
Lahey Hospital and Medical Center
Professor of Surgery - University of Massachusetts Chan School of Medicine
Anne Marie Valente, MD
Section Chief, Boston Adult Congenital Heart (BACH) and Pulmonary Hypertension Program; Senior Associate Cardiologist, Department of Cardiology
Professor, Harvard Medical School
Second Panel Presentation: Catheter or Cross-Clamp? TAVR vs SAVR in Bicuspid Aortic Stenosis
Panelists:
Jordan Bloom, MD, MPH
Cardiac Surgeon
Surgical Director, Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Quality Director, MGB Cardiac Surgery
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Ashvin N. Pande, MD
Director of Invasive Cardiology
Boston Medical Center
Clinical Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Prem S. Shekar MD, MBA
Chairman - Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery
Lahey Hospital and Medical Center
Professor of Surgery - University of Massachusetts Chan School of Medicine
