Events Include Medical Symposium and Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony

(Bethesda, MD, September 14, 2006) – Suburban Hospital, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health, and Johns Hopkins Medicine will hold the official opening of the NIH Heart Center at Suburban Hospital on Friday, September 29, 2006.
The Heart Center brings the clinical and scientific excellence of two renowned medical institutions to a community-based cardiac program. Through this historic collaboration, Suburban Hospital can provide advanced cardiovascular treatments available in only a handful of medical centers.

All events will be held on Friday, September 29 at Suburban Hospital, 8600 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda, MD 20814.

Presenters at the Medical Symposium: Cardiac Surgery & Angioplasty
The 13th Annual Mark F. Weinstein Memorial Lectures
Friday, September 29, 2006   7 a.m. to 12:15 pm

Welcoming Remarks
Elizabeth G. Nabel, MD, Director, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Heart Surgery at NIH – How it Began, What it Accomplished
Eugene Braunwald, MD, Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine,  Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Mitral Valve Surgery – From Morrow to Tomorrow
Lawrence H. Cohn, MD, Hubbard Professor of Cardiac Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Neurocognitive Outcomes after Cardiac Surgery
William A. Baumgartner, MD, Cardiac Surgeon-in-Charge, The Vincent L. Gott Professor, and Vice Dean of Clinical Affairs, Johns Hopkins Medicine
           
Heart Surgery at NIH/Suburban Hospital – Future Directions
Keith Horvath, MD, Chief, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Suburban Hospital and Director of the Cardiothoracic Surgery Research Program, NHLBI            

PCI – Past, Present and Future
Kenneth Kent, MD, Director, Cardiology, Suburban Hospital

Life after CABG and PCI – the Power of Exercise
Richard O. Cannon, MD, Principal Investigator, Cardiology Branch, NHLBI
           
Prevention and Prediction
Paul M. Ridker, MD, Director, Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Eugene Braunwald Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Imaging – Current Approaches and Future Directions
Andrew E. Arai, MD, Principal Investigator, Lab of Cardiac Energetics, NHLBI

Stem Cells for CHF / Sudden Death
Eduardo Marban, MD, Chief of Cardiology and Michel Mirowski Professor of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Medicine

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The Mark F. Weinstein Memorial Lecture Series
Following his untimely death from cancer in 1990, the partners, family, and friends of Mark F. Weinstein, MD, established an endowed lecture fund at Suburban Hospital in his memory. The annual lecture series brings the latest information on heart disease, treatment, and prevention to physicians in the metropolitan Washington area. We are pleased to dedicate today’s symposium in memory of Dr. Weinstein, a highly respected cardiologist at Suburban Hospital who strived to attain excellence throughout his career. 

Suburban Hospital is a not-for-profit, community-owned hospital in Bethesda, Maryland that has served Montgomery County for more than 60 years. Suburban Hospital is distinguished by a cutting-edge stroke program; level II trauma center; centers of excellence in cardiac care, orthopedics and joint replacement surgery, neurosciences and oncology; state-of-the-art diagnostic and treatment tools; and affiliations with world-class institutions, including the neighboring National Institutes of Health and Johns Hopkins Medicine.