Programming - Resuscitation Science Symposium
Ernest N. Morial Convention Center | New Orleans, Louisiana
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#ReSS24 Final Schedule
Time | Activity |
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12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. | Early Career sessions (part of Scientific Sessions 2024) McCormick Convention Center |
3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. | #ReSS24 Registration Opens 8th Street Lobby South |
Time | Activity |
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7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. | Registration Open 8th Street Lobby South |
7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. | Exhibits International Ballroom South, 2nd Floor |
7:00 a.m. to 7:45 a.m. |
Updates and Controversies in Post-Arrest Care In this breakfast workshop, experts from the University of Pennsylvania and Mount Sinai Health System will present an overview of post-arrest care recommendation and recent studies into both depth and duration of targeted temperature management, the role of coronary angiography and related topics. Program Director: Benjamin Abella, MD, MPhil; Mount Sinai Professor and System Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
7:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast International Ballroom South, 2nd Floor |
8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. | Symposium Opening Welcome International Ballroom North, 2nd Floor #ReSS24 Program Committee Chair Welcome |
8:30 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. |
Plenary Session 1: Hot Topics in Critical Care Cardiology and Cardiac Arrest
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9:45 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. | Break, Networking, Exhibits International Ballroom South, 2nd Floor |
10:00 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. |
Presentation of ReSS Awards
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10:45 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. | Refreshment Break, Networking, Exhibits International Ballroom South, 2nd Floor |
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. |
Plenary Session 2: Interactive Late-Breaking Resuscitation Science Session
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12:10 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. |
Women in ReSS
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12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. |
Lunch |
1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. |
Plenary Session 3: Long-term Survivorship and Outcomes
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2:45 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. | Refreshment Break, Networking, Exhibits International Ballroom South, 2nd Floor |
3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. | Research Awards International Ballroom North, 2nd Floor Moderators: Sarah Perman, MD, Yale University and Cameron Dezfulian, MD, Baylor College of Medicine
Max Harry Weil Early Career Award Competition for Resuscitation Science Competition
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4:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. | Break, Networking, Exhibits International Ballroom South, 2nd Floor |
4:15 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. |
Best of the Best Oral Abstracts
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5:15 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. |
Poster Session 1 and Reception |
7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. | 3CPR Council Reception Waldorf, 3rd Floor |
Time | Activity |
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7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. | Registration Open 8th Street Lobby South |
7:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. | Exhibits International Ballroom South, 2nd Floor |
7:00 a.m. to 7:45 a.m. |
Breakfast Session: Behind the Science with the Chairs: 2024 AHA/AAP Drowning Focused Update and 2024 AHA/ARC First Aid Guidelines Moderators: Speakers: |
7:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast International Ballroom North, 2nd Floor |
8:00 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. |
Concurrent Plenary Session: Cardiac Arrest due to Drugs of Abuse
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8:00 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. |
Concurrent Plenary Session: Critical Knowledge Gaps in Pediatric Cardiac Arrest
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9:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. | Break, Networking, Exhibits International Ballroom South, 2nd Floor |
9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. |
Concurrent Oral Abstracts – Basic/Translational
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9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. |
Concurrent Oral Abstracts – Clinical
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10:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. | Refreshment Break, Networking, Exhibits International Ballroom South, 2nd Floor |
10:45 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. |
Year in Review: Yesterday, today and tomorrow! A celebration of 100 years of the AHA
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12:10 p.m. to 1:10 p.m. | Lunch (Available for purchase in International Ballroom South) |
12:10 p.m. to 1:10 p.m. |
AHA/Japanese Circulation Society Joint Session
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12:10 p.m. to 1:10 p.m. | AHA Funding Opportunities Continental AB, Lobby Level Glenn Dillon, PhD, American Heart Association |
1:10 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. | Transition to Posters |
1:15 p.m. to 2:45 p.m | Poster Session 2 and Reception Salon D, Lower Level |
2:45 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. |
Plenary Session 5 – Mythbusting: Debates in Cardiac Arrest Clinical Care and Research
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4:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. | Refreshment Break, Networking, Exhibits |
4:15 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. |
Plenary Session 6 - Emerging Technologies in Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation
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5:30 p.m. | #ReSS24 Adjourns |
Resuscitation Science Symposium Program Committee

Sarah Perman, MD, MSCE, FAHA
Program Committee Chair
Yale University

Cameron Dezfulian, MD, FAHA
Program Committee Vice Chair
Baylor College of Medicine

Benjamin S. Abella, MD, MPhil, FAHA
Immediate Past Chair
University of Pennsylvania
Members
- Janet Bray, RN, PhD, Monash University
- Rebecca Cash, PhD, MPH, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Marina Del Rios, MD, MS, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
- Jonathan Elmer, MD, MS, University of Pittsburgh
- Samantha Fernandez, MD, Baylor College of Medicine
- Bryan Fischberg, BSEE, Rutgers University
- Ameera Haamid, MD, University of Chicago Medicine
- Benny Joyner, MD, MPH, UNC Chapel Hill
- Rudolph Koster, MD, PhD, Academic Medical Center
- Jung Li, MD, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Carolina Maciel, MD, MSc, University of Florida
- Ryan Morgan, MD, MS, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
- Laurie J. Morrison, MD, MSc, FRCPC, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto
- Ari Moskowitz, MD, Montefiore, MPH, Montifiore Einstein
- Theresa Olasveengen, MD, PhD, Oslo University Hospital
- Cecelia Ratay, DNP, ARNP, University of Pittsburgh Emergency Medicine
- Michael Saryre, MD, FAHA, University of Washington
- David Seder, MD, Maine Medical Center
- Willard Sharp, MD, PhD, University of Chicago
Liaisons
- Tom Aufderheide, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin
- Erin Bohula, MD, PhD, Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Jeanette Previdi, MPH