Events and Classes

Master Class in Congenital Cardiac Morphology

Event Description:

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Oct. 10–12, 2012
John G. Rangos Sr. Research Center
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Pittsburgh, PA

Join us for the 5th Annual Master Class in Congenital Cardiac Morphology sponsored by Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC's Heart Institute and Department of Pathology.

This comprehensive two and a half-day course in congenital cardiac morphology will use didactic presentations, live video demonstrations, and hands-on examination of cardiac specimens from the Frank E. Sherman and Cora C. Lenox Heart Museum to cover a wide range of congenital cardiac malformations.

This year's master class and hands-on workshop will focus on septal defects and other left-right communications. Topics will include:

Development of the Normal and Abnormal Heart
Morphology of the Normal Heart
Sequential Segmental Analysis
Interatrial Communications
Interventricular Septal Defects
Atrioventricular Septal Defects
Aorto-Pulmonary Window

This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM.

Course Directors

Professor Robert Anderson, MD, FRCPath
Visiting Professor, Pediatrics
Medical University of South Carolina

Steven A. Webber, MBChB, MRCP
Chief, Division of Pediatric Cardiology
Co-Director, Heart Institute
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Professor of Pediatrics
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine