We are pleased to announce the upcoming meeting “The 6th Annual International Hawaii Cardiovascular Symposium (IHCVS)” taking place at UH Cancer Center Sullivan Center

The meeting will explore the latest basic medical research on cell death, mitochondrial dynamics, autophagy, with a specific focus on heart failure. The program will host session talks by international experts on stem cell biology and myocardial repair, mitochondrial dynamics, autophagy, necrosis, and metabolism with a major focus on translating basic and clinical heart failure. The Symposium is sponsored by John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, and the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Manitoba, Canada.

Speakers

Abdellatif, Maha

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, USA

Alcaide, Pilar

Tufts University School of Medicine, USA

Arany,Zoltan

University of Pennsylvania, USA

Ardehali, Hossein

Northwestern Medicine Feinberg School of Medicine, USA

Ardehali,Reza

UCLA School of Medicine, USA

Czubryt, Michael

University of Manitoba, Canada

del Monte, Federica

Medical University of South Carolina, USA

Dhingra, Sanjiv

University of Manitoba, Canada

Diwan, Abhinav

Washington University School of Medicine, USA

Dixon, Ian

University of Manitoba, Canada

Drosatos, Konstantinos

University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, USA

Elrod, John

Lewis Katz School of Medicine, USA

Gramolini, Antony

University of Manitoba, Canada

Gustafsson, Asa

University of California San Diego, USA

Hill, Joseph

UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA

Howlett, Susan

Dalhousie University,Canada

Kirshenbaum, Lorrie

University of Manitoba, Canada

Koch, Walter

Lewis Katz School of Medicine, USA

Kontaridis, Maria

Masonic Medical Research Institute, USA

Lopaschuk, Gary

University of Alberta, Canada

Manabe, Ichiro

Chiba University, Japan

Matsui, Takashi

University of Hawai’i at Manoa, USA

McKinsey, Timothy

University of Colorado Denver, USA

Megeney, Lynn

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Canada

Michalak, Marek

University of Alberta, Canada

Molkentin, Jeffery

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, USA

Oike, Yuichi

Kumamoto University, Japan

Pierce, Grant

University of Manitoba, Canada

Rabinovich-Nikitin, Inna

University of Manitoba, Canada

Sadoshima, Junichi

University of Newark Medical, USA

Sakthivel, Sadayappan

University of Cincinnati, USA

Shohet, Ralph

University of Hawai’i at Manoa, USA

Steinberg, Susan

Columbia University, USA

Sucharov, Kika

Columbia University, USA

Tallquist, Michelle

University of Hawai’i at Manoa, USA

Yoshida, Masayuki

Tokyo Medical Dental University, Japan

Meeting Organizers

Lorrie A. Kirshenbaum, Ph.D.

Director, Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, St. Boniface Hospital Albrechtsen Research Centre

Canada Research Chair in Molecular Cardiology

Head, Division of Cardiovascular Science and Disease,

Professor, Departments of Physiology and Pathophysiology, and Pharmacology and Therapeutics,

University of Manitoba

Ms. Kairee Ryplanski

Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Manitoba

kryplanski@sbrc.ca

Takashi Matsui, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor and Chair

Department of Anatomy, Biochemistry and Physiology

Deputy Director of the Center of Cardiovascular Research

John A. Burns School of Medicine

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Ms. Michele Tom

Department of Anatomy, Biochemistry & Physiology, John A. Burns School of Medicine

kiyono@hawaii.edu