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our colleagues around the world has been invaluable. The ability to witness how master operators deal with the challenges we all face in real time is invaluable and the commentary from the assembled expert panel is priceless. The addition of digital moderators to the presentations has further increased the ability of the audience to interact with the operators and moderators in real time. New technology in our eld often debuts during these procedures with clear and thoughtful description and discussion of these tech- niques and devices. PICS live case demonstrations in- clude many rsts in our eld. The rst live cases of pulmonary artery stenting, Amplatzer and Gore Sep- tal Occluders, VSD and PDA occlusion including young infants, RF wire-assisted BPV of pulmonary valve atresia, transcatheter Fontan completion, Hy- brid Stage I palliation of HLHS, Melody and Sapien pulmonary valve implantation, coarctation stenting including the covered C-P stent, just to mention a few. All of these procedures and more were show- cased for the rst time at PICS (Figures 3-5).
One look at the line up of live case venues for the 20th Anniversary meeting taking place in Miami, Flor- ida provides a glimpse of the size and scope of the live case presentations at PICS with 18 live cases from 9 national and international centers of excellence (Table 2).
In addition to the popular live case presentations, PICS has added taped case presentations to further the goal of sharing with our attendees best practices and innovative techniques better suited to an edited case presentation format. For 2017 taped case pre- sentations from 9 centers will bring the total live and taped cases to 27 interventional procedures, a re- markable achievement.
Of course, such an ambitious broadcast schedule including sites from all over the globe requires a sig- ni cant investment in technical support and exper- tise that has also grown steadily over the years. Pro- ducers, broadcast engineers and videographers at each center coordinate with a seasoned team at the PICS venue to ensure the highest quality high-de ni- tion broadcasts possible. All of this considerable ef- fort occurs behind the scenes and may go unnoticed by most attendees. It goes without saying that none of this would have been possible without their dedi-
Table 2. Live case schedule for PICS 2017.
Tuesday, January 17
Prince Sultan Cardiac Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (2 cases)
Khalid Al Najashi, MD
Private Hospital of Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina (2 cases)
Alejandro Peirone, MD
Ponti cia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile (2 cases)
Francisco Garay, MD & Carlos Pedra, MD
Wednesday, January 18
Children’s Medical Center of Dallas, Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX (2 cases)
Alan Nugent, MD
New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, New York, NY (2 cases)
Julie Vincent, MD, Matthew Crystal, MD, & Alejandro Torres, MD
Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX (2 Cases)
Henri Justino, MD & Athar Qureshi, MD
Thursday, January 19
Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH (2 cases)
Darren Berman, MD & Aimee Armstrong, MD
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (2 cases)
Jaqueline Kreutzer, MD & Sara Trucco, MD
LA Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles, CA (2 cases)
Frank Ing, MD
cation to the goal of bringing to the audience the best quality medical procedure broadcasts possible (Figures 6, 7).
Finally and most importantly, live case presenta- tions are only possible because of the dedication of the expert operators and moderators to place patient safety rst. This commitment is paramount to the continued access and success of this time-honored approach to medical teaching. The PICS leadership remains fully committed to this principle in accor- dance with regulatory agency requirements and the highest principles of ethical conduct in patient care.
Didactic Learning
In addition to the live cases that are the backbone
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PICS 20 Year Anniversary