Opening

Opening

Shinichi Takamoto (Mitsui Memorial Hospital, Japan)

Invited Lecture

IL

HEALTH CARE POLICY AND CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY

Bruce Keogh (National Health Service in England, UK)

Invited Lecture

PA

FORWARD AND LIVE TOGETHER WITH PATIENTS

Shinichi Takamoto (Mitsui Memorial Hospital, Japan)

VALVE SPARING AORTIC ROOT REPLACEMENT

Duke cameron (Johns Hopkins Hospital,USA)

SURGICAL TREATMENT FOR PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS AND RELATED DISEASES

Rajan Santosham (Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery,Santosham Chest Hospital Egmore,Chennai,India)

LVAD AS A NEW PLATFORM FOR SURGICAL STRATEGY FOR END-STAGE HEART FAILURE

Koichi Toda (Department of Cardiovascular Surgery,Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan)

A GLOBAL VIEW OF THE FUTURE OF CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY

Chuen Neng Lee (University Surgical Cluster,National University Health System,Singapore)

PATIENT SAFETY

Thoralf M Sundt (Department of Surgery,Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital USA)