USCAP 2017 Recap

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San Antonio

Once again, the SCVP held two excellent companion meetings. Each offered a new twist for the society. The Saturday evening session was held at the campus of the University of San Antonio. The event consisted of two parts. The first part was the Young Investigator Day presentations. The second part was our first ever attempt to open the floor to anyone. It was our Open Mic(roscope) Night and it was a huge success.

The second event was our first ever joint companion meeting with the Binford-Dammin Society of Infectious Disease Pathologists. This meeting was comprised of four outstanding talks by Drs. Castonguay, Pritt, Milner and Padera. These talks were followed by our Distinguished Achievement Awardee Jay Fallon. Dr. Fallon’s keynote lecture pertained to his recent work in using deep RNA-sequencing to find novel infectious agents in cardiac tissues.

The Sunday evening awards banquet was at Biga on the Banks. A delicious meal preceded our hearty congratulations to Jay Fallon and the announcement of our young investigator awardee, Melanie Bois.

During the USCAP meeting, there were excellent presentations during the poster session, the oral session and the evening specialty conference. With the exception of a drenching rain storm on Saturday, San Antonio was warm and inviting to all attendees.

We look forward to another excellent meeting with great topics at the 2018 USCAP meeting to be held in Vancouver, Canada.

The eager audience awaits young investigator talks and our first ever Open Mic(roscope) night.
Rick Mitchell and Greg Fishbein are caught in the moment.
Jay and Missy Fallon
Marc Halushka and Joe Maleszewski reminisce about old times
The Cohle's sharing drinks.
Joe Maleszewski being thanked for his service to the SCVP.
Rick Mitchell being thanked for his service to the SCVP.
Fred Schoen being thanked for his service to the SCVP.
Billie Fyfe being thanked for her service to the SCVP.
Jay Fallon, flanked by Gayle Winters and Cristina Basso, our president, shows off his new plaque.
Melanie Bois gives one of two excellent presentations during the Young Investigator Presentations
Baidarbhi Chakraborty talks about S100A1 levels after LVAD use.
Carolyn Glass tells us why PDL1 might be dangerous to the heart.
Kevin Waters gets ready to tell us about ascending aortic disease.
Our SCVP members taking it all in.
A break in the action as our Open Mic sesstion is about to get started.
SCVP luminaries: Fred Schoen, Jay Fallon and Jeff Saffitz
The passing of the torch from Distinguished Awardee 2016 to 2017
Line up of the start of the joint meeting between SCVP and Binford-Dammin Society
Mathieu Castonguay tells us everything we need to know about endocarditis.
Bobbi Pritt explains the best approaches to identify infectious agents in valve tissue.
Despite some AV challenges, Danny Milner kept us entertained about heart parasites.
The complete joint meeting lineup: Joe Maleszewski (moderator); Jay Fallon (distinguished awardee); Bobby Pritt; Mathieu Castonguay; Danny Milner; Bobby Padera; TC Wu (moderator)
Bobby Padera finally enlightened Gaetano Thiene (and the rest of us) to what a biofilm is.
Jay Fallon's triumphant speech!
Greg Fishbein, Mathieu Castonguay and Giulia D'amati enjoying a quick lunch before the big executive meeting.
Joe Maleszewski and Brandon Larsen explain to Rick Mitchell why it's better to work at the Mayo Clinic.
Giulia D'amati, Allard van der Wal and Fred Schoen.
Billie Fyfe and Jim Stone.
Max Buja, Cristina Basso and Elena Ladich are waiting for food.
Bobby Padera, Steve Cohle and Stan Radio bring it in for a quick picture.
Melanie Bois, Brandon Larsen, Bobby Padera and Greg Fishbein talk heart.
Mathieu Castonguay, Joe Maleszewski and Melanie Bois share fellowship stories.
Dennis Firchau, Philipe Romeo, Mathieu Castonguay and Joe Maleszewski.
Stan Radio and Vidhya Nair do a little catching up.
Jay Fallon and Gayle Winters share old memories.
The Fallons
The Seidmans
Jason Winkler, Michael Seidman and future cardiovascular pathologist Juliana
Karen Kelly, Steve Cohle, Mary Cohle and Carolyn Glass
Max Buja, Micahael Allard, and Pete Anderson bringing it in for a photo op.
Billie Fyfe and the Gotliebs
Sylvio Litovsky, Deborah Vela, Ana Maria Segura, and Jose Diez
Giulia D'amati and Gaetano Thiene share a story.
Maria Romero and Elena Ladich catch up on CVPath doings.
/Rick Mitchell, Cristina Basso and Dylan Miller discuss the past, present and future of SCVP leadership.
Dylan Miller emceeing the Sunday banquet's events
Dylan Miller presenting Melanie Bois her YIA.
Gayle Winters having fun roasting Jay Fallon.
Jay Fallon about to present his Distinguished Achievement Award Lecture
Steve Cohle sharing an interesting case of histiocytoid cardiomyopathy
Sarah Thomas, a trainee from U. of South Florida shares a great infectious myocarditis autopsy case
Stefania Rizzo shares an interesting case that had everyone talking.
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