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1. FORMAT
Status update on main endovascular focuses in one working day
Two conductors and 5 invited international experts for each focus
Review of major clinical limitations and unmet needs
No formal lectures or presentations
Confidential Sessions: What is coming up from the industry’s pipeline?
Identifying future directions
Direct interaction with the expert audience and industry leaders
All recorded and uploaded into endovascular.tv
No exhibit area is allowed
Electronic response system is provided
Live streaming transmission (except for the Confidential Sessions)
Limited number of participants (up to 150)

2. Preliminary Program:
Chairman: V. Riambau
Program Directors: J. Fernández-Noya
G. Mestres
N. Mosquera
E. Puras
E. Roche
L.M. Salmerón
F. Gallardo
Venue: Paranimfo. 1
st
Floor
Campus Clínic, Medical School, University of Barcelona. Casanova 143
08036 Barcelona
Date: May 12
th
- 13
th
, 2016
May 12th
: Young Vascular Specialist Workshop + Welcome Dinner
Pre-Meeting events:
12.00-18.00: Young Vascular Specialist Workshop
15 young vascular surgeons (under 40 years old) supported by 15 Endovascular Foundation Grants. (Young Talent Grant)
They are invited to attend the expert Reception as well as to participate in the main sessions
19.30-22.30: Welcome and Expert Reception
Key note conference - The Scientific Method and the Intellectual Joy
Jorge Wagensberg
Doctor in Physics and Professor in the Theory of Irreversible Processes at the University of Barcelona.
Director of “Fundació La Caixa” Science Museum (1991-2004)
Director of the Hermitage Museum at Barcelona
May 13th
, 2015
07.30-07.55 Registration
07.55-08.00 Welcome and Introduction
08.00-13.00 Focus 1: Unsolved problems on Aortic Repair
08.00 - 10.00 Session 1: Current limitations and unmet needs on Thoracic Endografting
Moderators: V. Riambau and F. Veith
Panellists: R. Clough
M. Czerny
F. Gómez-Palonés
J. Martorell
10.00 -10.30 Break

3. 10.30 – 11.30 Session 2: Current unmet needs in Abdominal Aorta endografting. The justa para- renal and ruptured AAA
Moderators: N. Mosquera and F. Moll
Panellists: N. Cheshire
D. Planer
K. Donas
E. Georgakarakos
11.30-13.00 Session 3. THE CONFIDENTIAL SESSION: Taking a look into the pipeline; new devices and innovative concepts
from the industry to be evaluated
Moderators: G. Mestres and L. Capoccia
Panellists: D. Planer and M. Czerny
Presenters: Company A (tbd)
Company B (tbd)
Company C (tbd)
Company D (tbd)
Company E (tbd)
13.00-13.30 Session 4: Invited Plenary Lecture: The physician’s role in Endovascular innovation: An ICI perspective
D. Planer
Director, Center for Endovascular Interventions. Heart Institute. Hadassah Medical Center,
Jerusalem, Israel
13.30-14.30 Working lunch with Faculty
14.30-14.45 First Prize “Forum Champions League” Endovascular.es
14.45-17.30 Focus 2: Lower limb revascularization: unsolved problems
14.45-16.00 Session 5: Unsolved issues in lower limb endo-revascularization
Moderators: J. Fernández-Noya and E. Puras
Panellists: R. Ferraresi
F. Fanelli
K. DeLoose
F. Vermassen
16.00-16.30 Break
16.30-17.30 Session 6. THE CONFIDENTIAL SESSION. Taking a look into the pipeline; new therapies are coming up in lower
limb revascularization
Moderators: G. Mestres and L.M. Salmeron
Panellists: F. Fanelli
K. DeLoose
F. Vermassen
Presenters: Company A (tbd)
Company B (tbd)
Company C (tbd)
Company D (tbd)
Company E (tbd)

4. 17.30-19.00 Focus 3: New endovascular horizons for venous disorders
17.30-18.30 Session 7: Unmet needs for venous recanalization
Moderators: E. Puras and E. Roche
Panellists: O. Hartung
G. O’Sullivan
18.30-19.00 Session 8: THE CONFIDENTIAL SESSION: Taking a look into the pipeline. New therapies are coming up in venous
disorders
Moderators: E. Puras and E. Roche
Panellist: M. Whiteley
Presenters: Company A (tbd)
Company B (tbd)
Company C (tbd)
19.00 Conclusions and Wrapping Up