Tuesday, 9 June
13.00 - 17.00
ISMICS PRE-MEETING WORKSHOP OPPORTUNITY
The International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery (ISMICS) is delighted to announce a Pre-Meeting Training Workshop offered in partnership with Medtronic on Tuesday, 9 June 2026, at the Baptist Health Education Center in Miami. This half-day course will be held from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM.
Course Details
Medtronic Workshop: A Journey Through the Mitral Valve: Exploring the Next Wave of Cardiac Innovation
Come join us for a comprehensive hands-on training on the mitral valve, highlighting MICS repair, replacement, and cannulation strategies. This training will include state of the art simulators and hands-on wet labs.
Key ISMICS leaders will participate as Faculty and work alongside participants.
Participation
The course is open to Cardiothoracic Surgeons and Trainees. There are two (2) pathways:
- SURGEON ATTENDEES TO ISMICS
Surgeons who are already registered for the ISMICS Annual Meeting may sign up at no additional charge; attendees are responsible for securing their own housing prior to the meeting. Registration for the ISMICS 2026 Annual Meeting is a pre-requisite.
Applications for Surgeon Participation will be accepted on a First-Come, First-Served Basis.
Application
- TRAINEE YOUNG SURGEON AWARD - LIMITED AVAILABILITY
Fellows, Trainees and Early Career Surgeons (within 5 years of receiving final degree) may also apply for a limited number of Training and Travel Awards. The selected candidates will participate in the Medtronic Workshop, will receive complimentary Meeting Registration to the ISMICS Annual Meeting (10 to 13 June 226), and a travel and housing stipend to attend ISMICS. Recipients must attend the Workshop and the Annual Meeting or forfeit the stipend.
Eligibility Criteria for the Training and Travel Award:
- must be an ISMICS member in good standing,
- must be a Resident/Fellow, Candidate, or early career Surgeon within 5 years of final degree,
- and must submit an identification letter from their Program Chief or Department Chair.
Trainee/Young Surgeon applications are due by Friday, 8 May 2026.
Application
As there is limited attendance for this special Workshop and Training Course, we encourage you to sign up/apply immediately.
Wednesday, 10 June
13.00 - 15.00
Innovations Corner
18.00 - 20.00
How to Do It Movie Session
Moderators: Wouter Oosterlinck, Sahin Senay, Abbas Abbas
18.00 - 18.13
Talk 1 Cardiac: Robotic implantation of a new mitral tissue valve
Danny Ramzy
18.13 - 18.26
Talk 2 Thoracic: Carinal Resection
18.26 - 18.39
Talk 3 Cardiac: Totally endoscopic aortic valve replacement
Dinh Nguyen
18.39 - 18.52
Talk 4 Thoracic: Superior Sulcus
18.52 - 19.05
Talk 5 Cardiac: Totally Endoscopic Congenital VSD Surgery
Tomas Holubec
19.05 - 19.18
Talk 6 Cardiac: Multivessel MIDCAB
Keita Kikuchi
19.18 - 19.31
Talk 7 Thoracic: SP Robotic Esophagectomy or Lung
19.31 - 19.44
Talk 8 Cardiac: Aortic Root Enlargement Via Upper Hemisternotomy Using the A. Kocher Technique
Alfred Kocher
19.44 - 19.57
Talk 9 Cardiac: Totally Endoscopic TAVR Explanation
Jae Suk Yoo
Thursday, 11 June
08.25 - 08.30
Opening & Welcome Remarks
08.30 - 10:00
Cardiac Session 1: Robotic Valves - Expert Talks & Live Surgery
Moderators: Jörg Kempfert (Berlin) and Nirav Patel (New York)
Panelists: Gry Dahle (Oslo), Tom C. Nguyen (Miami)
(8 min talk, 2 min discussion)
08:30 - 08:40
Talk 1: Robotic heart surgery: how it all began
08.40 - 08.50
Talk 2: How to establish robotic cardiac program under current situation in Europe
Stepan Cerny
08.50 - 09.00
Talk: David and Goliath: Robotic surgery and what makes us unique
9:00 - 10:00
Live Surgery
10.15 - 10:45
Coffee Break in Exhibition Hall
10.45 - 11.30
Cardiac Session 2: Robotic Valve Abstracts
Moderator: Ramachandra Reddy
Panelists: Eric J. Lehr, Daniel Pereda
(4 minute presentation, 2 minutes of discussion)
C2. Robotic Endoscopic Re-repair Of Recurrent Mitral Regurgitation: A Case Series
Yazan AlJamal1, Sarah Nisivaco
2, Husam H. Balkhy
3.
1Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA, 2Northwestern Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA, 3University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
C4. Robotic Mitral Valve Surgery Mitigates Sex-based Disparities In Minimally Invasive Access
Xander Jacquemyn, Andrea Amabile, Kei Kobayashi, Irsa Hasan, Takuya Ogami, Danny Chu, Derek Serna-Gallegos, David Kaczorowski, Ibrahim Sultan, Johannes Bonatti.
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
C5. Robotic AVR Simplified, Longitudinal Aortotomy
Zeynep Sila Ozcan
1,
Gokhan Arslanhan1, Murat Bastopcu
2, Anil Karaagac
2, Ibrahim Gokce
3, Muharrem Kocyigit
4, Aleks Degirmencioglu
5, Sahin Senay
1, Cem Alhan
1.
1Acibadem University School of Medicine, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey, 2Acibadem Altunizade Hospital, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey, 3Acibadem University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, 4Acibadem University School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Istanbul, Turkey, 5Halic University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Cardiology, Istanbul, Turkey.
11.30 - 12.15
Subramanian Innovation Award Competition
Finalist 1: Smokeaway: A Novel Integrated Instrument For Smoke Evacuation Electrocautery And Targeted Illumination In Mini-thoracotomy Surgery
Aakash Dinesh Joshi
Un Mehta Institute Of Cardiology And Research, Ahmedabad, India
Finalist 2: In Vivo Feasibility And Comparative Evaluation Of Novel Vascular Connection Strategies For Long-term Extracorporeal Support
Xiayimaierdan Yibulayin
1, Janina Emunds
1, Valentine Gesché
2, Felix Vorwold
1, Prescher Andreas
1, Ehsan Arkin
1, Kalverkamp Sebastian
1, Johannes Greven
1, Jan Spillner
1.
1University hospital of RWTH, Aachen, Germany, 2PerAGraft GmbH, Aachen, Germany.
Finalist 3: Novel Cryoablation Method For Epicardial Surgical Ablation Of Ventricular Tachycardia On The Beating Heart
Mariusz Kowalewski
1, Grzegorz Wroblewski
2, Sebastian Stec
3, Michal Pasierski
1, Natalia Ogorzelec
1, Anna Chomentowska
1, Piotr Suwalski
1.
1Department of Cardiac Surgery and Transplantology, National Medical Institute of the Ministry of Interior and Administration, Warsaw, Poland, 2 Institute of Metrology and Biomedical Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland, 3Subcarpathian Center for Cardiovascular Intervention, Sanok, Poland.
12.15 - 13.45
Residents and Fellow Lunch
12.15 - 13.45
LUNCH SYMPOSIA
13.45 - 13.50
Presidential Introduction
13.50 - 14.30
Presidential Address
14.30 - 15.00
Coffee Break in Exhibition Hall
15.00 - 16:30
Cardiac Session 3: Robotic/Endoscopic Valves/HOCM - Expert Talks & Abstracts
Moderators: Niv Ad
Panelists: Marco Solinas, Taichi Sakaguchi
(4-minute presentation, 2 minutes of discussion)
C7. Endoscopic Valve-in-ring Technique For Mitral Valve Replacement In Redo Surgery With Severe Mitral Annular Calcification
Johannes Spilka, Adel Sakic, Lukas Stastny, Felix Nägele, Leo Winter-Pölzl, Can Gollmann-Tepeköylü, Daniel Höfer, Michael Grimm, Nikolaos Bonaros.
Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
C8. Ai-applied Machine Learning In Preoperative Planning Of Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Repair
Rosa Giusti1, Rafik Margaryan
2, Giacomo Bianchi
3, Marco Solinas
4.
1Ospedale del Cuore, Massa, Italy, 2Rafik Margaryan, Massa, Italy, 3Giacomo Bianchi, Massa, Italy, 4Marco Solinas, Massa, Italy.
(8 min talk + 2 min discussion)
15:30 - 15:40
Talk 1: Endoscopic AV replacement (rapid deployment)
15:40 - 15:50
Talk 2: Robotic AV replacement (standard prosthesis)
Daniel Pereda
15:50 - 16:00
Talk 3: Minimally invasive ascending and aortic arch repair
Joseph Lamellas
16:00 - 16:10
Talk 4: Robotic HOCM surgery
16:10 - 16:20
Talk 5: Totally endoscopic mitral and tricuspid valve repair
Piroze Davierwala
16:20 - 16:30
Talk 6: Endoscopic rhythm surgery
16.30 - 17.30
Cardiac Session 4: Robotic and MICS Revascularization - Expert Talks & Abstracts
Moderators: Monica Gianoli and Marc Ruel
Panelist: Wouter Oosterlinck
(4-minute presentation, 2 min of discussion)
16:30 - 16:40
Talk 1: Do we need distal connectors and what do we have?
Bob Kiaii
16:40 - 16:50
Talk 2: Quality assessment of CABG (flow measurement/ultrasound)
16:50 - 17:00
Talk 3: Robotic-assisted MIDCAB
Makoto Hashimoto
C12. Hybrid Coronary Revascularization Improves Early Recovery With Equivalent Survival To Multi-arterial Bypass Grafting
Yashraj Srivastava1, Korri Hershenhouse
2, Brandon E. Ferrell
2, Hersh V. Gupta
1, Abigail Haber
1, Abdulbasit Oyefeso
1, Arjun S. Kumar
1, John Skendelas
2, Joseph J. DeRose
2.
1Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA, 2Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA.
C14. Redefining Coronary Artery Bypass: Real-world Outcomes Of Robotic And Non-robotic Coronary Revascularization
Bob Kiaii1, Husam Balkhy
2, Johannes Bonatti
3, Alexander deGroot
4, Tessa Runels
4, Usha Kreaden
4.
1University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, 2University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, 3UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 4Intuitive Surgical, Sunnyvale, CA, USA.
17.30 - 18.30
Reception with Exhibitors
17.30 - 18.30
Poster Competition: Round 1
Friday, 12 June
8.30 - 10.00
Cardiac Session 5: LIVE SURGERY DAY 2, Surgical Valves - Expert Talks & Abstracts
Surgeon:
Moderator: Tomas Holubec
Panelists: Keita Kikuchi, Hermann Reichenspurner
8:30 - 8:40
Talk 1: How important is simulation for minimally invasive cardiac surgery
Peyman Sardari
8:40 - 8:50
Talk 2: Preoperative planning for minimally invasive cardiac surgery and cannulation Strategies
Jörg Kempfert
8:50 - 9:00
Talk 3: Intraoperative pearls and pitfalls - optimizing aortic and mitral valve exposure
Mario Castillo-Sang
9:00 - 10:00
Live Surgery
10.00 - 10.30
Coffee Break in Exhibition Hall
10.30 - 11.30
Cardiac Session 6: Live Surgery Continuation & Transcatheter Treatment and Reoperations - Expert Talks & Abstracts
Moderator: Gry Dahle
Panelists: Sahin Senay
10:30 - 10:40
Talk 1: How to explant TAVI robotically
10:40 - 10:50
Talk 2: How to explant Mitraclip or Pascal device endoscopically
Antonios Pitsis
10:50 - 11:00
Talk 3: Totally endoscopic transatrial TAVI in ring for MAC
Nikolaos Bonaros
11:00 - 11:10
Talk 4: Total endovascular aortic arch repair
Augusto D'Onoforio
C18. Combined Transapical Beating-heart Septal Myectomy And Tavi For Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy With Severe Aortic Stenosis
Cai Cheng1, Xiaoxue Zhang
2, Ningxin Hou
1, Chenhe Li
1.
1The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, 2Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
11.30 - 11:45
Late Breaking Trials
11:45 - 12:00
Presentation of the Cardiac Robotic Investigator Award and the Grundeman Award
12.00 - 13.30
LUNCH SYMPOSIA
13.30 - 14.00
Best Video Abstracts Competition (Joint with Thoracic)
Moderators: Abbas Abbas, Husam Balkhy, and Lana Schumacher
(5 minutes of video presentation, followed by live audience polling)
Robotic Tracheobronchoplasty Performed For Post Pneumonectomy Tracheobronchomalacia Induced Cough
Ky Ngo, MD
1, Mark Dylewski, MD
2, Erik Sylvin, MD
1.
1University of Miami Miller School of Medicine - Holy Cross Health, Miami, FL, USA, 2Baptist Health South Florida – Miami Cancer Institute, Miami, FL, USA.
How I Did My First Beating Heart TECAB LIMA/RIMA Y-graft To LAD And OM In The Absence Of A Robotic Endo-stabilizer
Johannes Bonatti
1, Andrea Amabile
1, Kei Kobayashi
1, Nicholas Hess
1, Martin Winter
1, Noah Rolleri
2, Jared Romeo
1.
1University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
14.00 - 14.45
Keynote Lecture
Introduction: Gry Dahle
Speaker: Steve Bloom
14:45 - 15:45
Cardiac Session 7: Imaging/Pediatric/Education - Expert Talks & Abstracts
Moderators: Nikolaos Bonaros
Panelists: Taichi Sakaguchi
14:45 - 14:55
Talk 1: Benefits of imaging for minimally invasive cardiac surgery
Sahin Senay
14:55 - 15:05
Talk 2: Pediatric robotic cardiac surgery
David Kalfa
15:05 - 15:15
Talk 3: Are autonomous robots taking over?
Ashok Kumar
C21. Percutaneous Bypass In Robotic Cardiac Surgery: A Single-center Experience
James Y. Lao1, Berk Inan
2, Ian Mason
3, Marco Tagliafierro
3, Gerardo Ramos-Lemos
3, Michael R. LaLonde
3, Luigi Pirelli
3, Isaac George
3, Arnar Geirsson
3.
1Hospital of the University of Pennsyvlania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, 3Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, New York, NY, USA.
15.45 - 16.15
Coffee Break in Exhibition Hall
16.15 - 17.15
Cardiac Session 8: ERAS Session - Expert Talks & Abstracts (Joint with Thoracic)
Moderators: Marc W. Gerdisch
Panelists: Peyman Sardari
16:15 - 16:25
Talk 1: How to build up ERAS program?
Evaldas Girdauskas
16: 25 - 16:35
Talk 2: Paravertebral Analgesia in MICS CABG
16:45 - 16:55
Talk 4: Thoracic Talk
C24. Length Of Stay After Enhanced Recovery With Integrated Selective Prehabilitation
Maria G. Lopez Trevino, Marcell Szekely, Istvan I. Gecse, Michael Reardon, Reul M. Ross, Marvin D. Atkins, Andrea G. Quarti, Fernando Ramirez Del Val.
Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
17.15 - 18.15
Poster Competition Finals
17.15 - 18.15
Reception in Exhibit Hall
20.00 - 23.00
Attendee Reception
Saturday, 13 June
08.00 - 08.15
ISMICS Member Business Meeting
08.15 - 09.30
Communications in MICS Award
09.30 - 10.15
Session 9: Fireside Talk
10.15 - 10:45
Coffee Break in Exhibition Hall
10.45 - 11.45
Cardiac Session 10: Expert Talks Female Leadership - How I got there?
Moderators: Gry Dahle and Sharon Ben-Or
Speakers/Panelists: Lana Schumacher, YJ Oh
11.45 - 12.30
Kit V. Arom Lectureship
Speaker: Niv Ad
13:00 - 14:00
Technical Challenges Abstracts: Pitfalls and Disasters and the Solution
Moderators: Gry Dahle and Ram Reddy
Panelists: Valavanur A. Subramanian, Tomas Holubec, and Tom C. Nguyen
Diagnostic Uncertainty Of A Pulsatile Mass After Transapical Beating-Heart Mitral Valve Repair
Navneet Kang1, Amy Brown
2, Toshiro Sembo
2, Bob Kiaii
2, William DT Kent
2, Corey Adams
2.
1University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, 2University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
