MAVES 2026 Agenda

The Planning Committee has made MAVES a Live Webinar.  We have added presentations that discuss ECPR along with ECMO and VAD talks.

Please join us Saturday May 2, 2026 for our 18th annual Mid-Atlantic VAD and ECMO Symposium (MAVES).  Please send questions to treasurer@mdperfusion.com

Registration for MAVES 2026 is Open!

Fill in all boxes for registration.  Once you have added your phone number hit “Buy Now” That will take you to PayPal for payment.  Details on conference access will be emailed to the account associated with your PayPal account, no later than 1 week before the conference.

Thank you and we will See you at MAVES!!

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Preliminary Agenda

Live | Webinar

 

Moderator:  Harvey Ellis, CCP, LP

07:00 – 10:00 Registration
Exhibits Open/ Breakfast
 

 

08:00 – 08:50

 Cerebral Microcirculation in ECMO

Sung-Min Cho, MD

Assoc. Prof Neuro/Surg/Anes/Critical Care

Johns Hopkins Medicine
 

08:50 – 09:40

 Moving Beyond Primary Graft Dysfunction in Heart Transplantation: Intermittent Oxygenated Cardioplegia

Chetan Pasrija, MD

Surgical Director of Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant assistant prof of cardiac surgery

Johns Hopkins Medicine
 

09:40 – 10:30

 ECMO in Trauma

Col Valiere Sams Col USAF MD

Director CSTARS

Univ of Cincinnati Medical Center
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10:30 – 10:55

 Break/ Exhibits
 

 

10:55 – 11:45

 ECMO History

Billie Short, MD

Prof Pediatrics at GWU School of Medicine/Chief of Neonatology at Children’s National Hospital.

Washington, DC
 

11:45 – 12:35

 Mechanical Ventilation During ECMO: Current Strategies and Future Directions

Ryan Lee MD

Assistant Prof Anes Dept/Critical Care/Emergency Med UVA
12:35 – 13:20 Lunch/ Exhibits
 

13:20 – 14:10

 Non-thrombogenic and Antibacterial Biomedical Surfaces

Dr Orsolya Lautner-Csorba

Assistant Research Prof Dept of Surgery

University of Michigan
 

14:10 – 15:00

 ECMO Roundtable

Shelley Brown, CCP, LP

Perfusion Director

Allegheny Healthl Network, PA
 

15:00 – 15:50

 When VA ECMO Fails:  The Physiology and Practice of V-VA ECMO

Bo Soo Kim, MD

Associate Prof of Medicine

Director of CT Surgery

Austin, Texas
15:50 – 16:05  

Break/ Exhibits
 

16:05 – 16:55

 Neuro-Protection in the Congenital Cardiac Population

Nicole McKinnon, MD, PhD

Staff Physician/Track Investigator

U of Toronto Hosp for Sick Kids

 
 

16:55 – 17:45

 ECMO Tips and Tricks

Seth Moulton, RRT-NPS, CES-A

ECMO Director

Washington Hospital Center, Washington DC
17:45 Adjourn
*Program Directors reserve the right to amend this agenda.*

Preliminary Agenda

 

*Program Directors reserve the right to amend this agenda.*

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