Friday, December 3, :30 10:00 Opening Ceremony. Welcoming Remarks

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1 Lenox Hill Hospital Einhorn Auditorium, New York, New York December 3-4, 2010 Friday, December 3, :30 10:00 Opening Ceremony Welcoming Remarks His Eminence Archbishop Dimitrios of America, Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church, Invocation Dr. Spyros Mezitis, Chairman, Global Hellenic Medical and Biosciences Network President, Federation of Hellenic Medical Societies of North America Honorable Aghi Balta, General Counsel of Greece in New York Honorable Koula Sofianou, General Counsel of Cyprus in New York Honorable Dr. Olga Sarantopoulos, Secretary General of the Federation of Greeks Abroad (SAE) Mr. Pavlos Kotrotsios, President of the Hellenic American National Council (HANC) Mr. Antonis Diamataris, Publisher of the National Herald Daily Greek Newspaper Mr. Dimitrios Filios, President of the Pan-Arcadian Federation of America, President of the Committee for the Panarkadian General Hospital Dr. George Tsioulias, President of the Hellenic Medical Society of New York, President of the World Hellenic Biomedical Association Dr. Thomas Thomou, President of the Hellenic Bioscientific Association, USA Dr. George Dangas, Honorary President of the Global Hellenic Medical and Biosciences Network

2 10:00 12:00 Metabolic Disease Session: Chairs: Dr. George Bakris, Dr. Michael Michelis, Dr. Nicholas Mezitis 10:00 10:15 Spyros G.E. Mezitis, MD, PhD Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine/Endocrinology New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill-Cornell Medical Center Lenox Hill Hospital, New York Title: Metabolic Disease Diabetes, Obesity, Hypothyroidism 10:15 10:30 Nicholas H.E. Mezitis, MD Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine/Endocrinology Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York Title: New Diabetic Therapies 10:30 10:45 Helen Karakelides, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine/Endocrinology New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York Title: Medical Complications Following Bariatric Surgery 10:45 11:00 Michael F. Michelis, MD Clinical Professor of Medicine New York University School of Medicine Chief of Nephrology, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York Title: New Approaches to Treatment of Hyponatremia 11:00 11:15 Ellie Kelepouris, MD, FAHA Professor, Department of Medicine Chief, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Title: Vitamin D in Health and Kidney Disease 11:15 11:30 Alex C. Spyropoulos, MD, FACP, FCCP, FRCP(C) Associate Professor - Department of Medicine McMaster University, Hamilton General Hospital, Thrombosis Unit Hamilton Ontario, Canada Title: The current and future use of novel anticoagulants. 11:30 11:45 Arthur Cosmas, MD Professor of Medicine University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI Title: Chronic, Sustained Hypertension as an Impending Stage of Heart Failure 11:45 12:00 George Bakris, MD Professor of Medicine Director, Hypertensive Diseases Unit University of Chicago, Chicago, IL President, American Society of Hypertension Title: Should we rethink blood pressure goals based on current data in diabetes?

3 12:15 13:00 Greek Medicine Session: 12:15 12:30 Alain Touwaida Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. Title: Digitizing the Hippocratic Oath and Greek Medical Texts 12:30 12:45 Myrto Korai, Helen Webster Chania, Crete Title: Hospice Care in Greece 12:45 13:00 Nikos Sikloglou, MD Hematology- Oncology Specialist CEO and Founder of Medical Mentoring Academy of Rome Title: Anthropocentric-Hippocratic Medicine vs Defensive Medicine 13:00 14:15 Cancer session: Chairs: Dr. Tsioulias and Dr. Arnaoutakis 13:00 13:15 Dimitrios Iliopoulos, PhD Assistant Professor of Pathology Department of Cancer Immunology & AIDS Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Title: Expediting the Process of Cancer Drug Discovery 13:15 13:30 Konstantinos Arnaoutakis, MD Division of Hematology/Oncology, Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Title: Individualized Therapy in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: Present and Future 13:30 13:45 Eleni Tousimis, MD Assistant Professor of Surgery/Breast Surgery New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill-Cornell Medical Center New York, New York Title: Novel surgical treatments for breast cancer 13:45 14:00 George Tsioulias, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Surgery Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York Chief, Department of Surgery New Jersey Veterans Administration Hospital Title: Hepatocellular Cancer Surgery

4 14:15 16:00 Interventional Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery Session: Chairs: Dr. George Dangas and Dr. Konstadinos Plestis 14:15 14:30 Elias A. Iliadis, MD, FACC, FSCAI, RPVI Associate Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories Director, Peripheral Vascular Intervention Program Cooper University Hospital, New Jersey Title: Evaluation and Management of Peripheral Vascular Disease 2010: Urban Hospital Experience 14:30 14:45 Stylianos Papadakos, MD, FACC Associate Director, Department of Interventional Cardiology Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute of New York Title: Coronary Stents: Present and Future 14:45 15:00 John Stathopoulos, MD Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine/Cardiology Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York Title: Interventions in Peripheral Arterial Disease George Dangas, MD, PhD Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Disease) Director, Cardiovascular Innovation Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York Panel Discussant 15:00 15:15 Nicholas Skipitaris, MD Director, Electrophysiology Operations Assistant Professor of Medicine Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York Title: Sudden Cardiac Arrest: The National Cardiovascular Disease Epidemic 15:15 15:30 Konstadinos Plestis, MD Chief, Aortic Surgery and Aortic Wellness Center Lenox Hill Hospital, New York Title: What is New in Aortic Surgery in the 21 st Century Vicken Pamoukian, MD, FACS Director, Vascular/Endovascular Surgery Lenox Hill Hospital, New York Panel Discussant 15:30 16:00 Panel Discussion

5 16:00 17:00 Neuropsychiatry Session: Chairs: Dr. George Alexopoulos and Dr. Nikolaos Robakis 16:00 16:10 George S. Alexopoulos, M.D. SP Tobin and AM Cooper Professor Weill Medical College of Cornell University Director, Weill-Cornell Institute of Geriatric Psychiatry New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York Title: Novel Treatments for Geriatric Depression 16:10 16:20 Diomedes Logothetis, PhD Professor and Chair of Physiology and Biophysics Virginia Commonwealth School of Medicine Richmond, VA Title: Cracking the Mechanism of Action of Atypical Antipsychotics with a Basic Science Approach 16:20 16:30 Nikolaos K. Robakis, PhD Professor of Neuroscience and First A.P. Slaner Professor for Alzheimer disease research. Director, Center for Molecular Biology and Genetics of Neurodegeneration Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NYU, New York Title: The Molecular Neuropathology of Alzheimer s Dementia 16:30 16:40 Angelos M. Stergiou, MD President & COO Chief Medical Officer Genesis BioPharma Group Title: A New Hope for Treating Alzheimer s: Phase I/IIa clinical study of the mixed muscarinic receptor/sigma 1 ligand ANAVEX 2-73, a novel aminotetrahydrofuran derivative 16:40 16:50 Paul Kymissis, MD Clinical Professor of Behavioral Sciences Psychiatry and Pediatrics New York Medical College Chief of Psychiatry at the Children s Village Title: The Effects of Anger Management Treatment for Adolescents 16:50 17:00 Panel Discussion

6 17:00 18:00 GI/Immunology/Basic Science Session: Chair: Dr. Charalabos Pothoulakis 17:00 17:15 Charalabos Pothoulakis, MD Eli and Edythe Broad Professor of Medicine, Head, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Section, Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center Division of Digestive Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles Title: Clostridium Difficile Colitis. From Basic Research to Bedside 17:15 17:30 Themistocles Dassopoulos, MD Associate Professor Director, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Gastroenterology Division Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis, Missouri Title: Advances in the Diagnosis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease 17:30 17:45 Grigorios I. Leontiadis, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, McMaster University Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology Hamilton Ontario, Canada Title: Proton Pump Inhibitors for Peptic Ulcer Bleeding. What is the Evidence? 17:45 18:00 Panel Discussion This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY) through the joint sponsorship of St. Francis Hospital and the Hellenic Medical Society of New York. St. Francis Hospital is accredited by the Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. St. Francis Hospital designates this educational activity for a maximum of eight (8) AMA PRA Category 1 Credits TM. Physicians should claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 09:00 12:00 Community Outreach Health Fair Astoria Medical Offices, Queens, New York Florentia Christodoulidou, MD Women s Health Andreas Cosmatos, MD Hypertension Constantine Kosmas, MD Cardiology Emmanuel Kouroupos, MD Gastroenterology Panagiotis Manolas, MD Surgery Spyros Mezitis, MD, PhD Diabetes Helen Rouvelas, MD Allergy Saturday, December 4, 2010