7:00 am – 8:00 am CST: Breakfast and Registration

SESSION I

8:00 am – 9:00 am CST: Introduction to the International Contrast Ultrasound Society (ICUS)
Chair: Anthony DeMaria, Sharon Mulvagh

Presenter: Barry Goldberg, Steve Feinstein
Panelists: Maria Christina Chammas, David Cosgrove, Brian Fowlkes, Lennard Greenbaum, Michael Main, Fuminori Moriyasu, Petros Nihoyannopoulos, Stephanie Wilson

9:00 am – 9:15 am CST: Regulatory: FDA/EMEA
Chair: Michael Main

9:15 am – 10:00 am CST: Break

SESSION II

10:00 am –10:50 am CST: Emerging Concepts in Contrast Agents
Chair: Harvey Feigenbaum, Michael Picard

Invited Speakers: Jon Lindner, Tom Porter, James Yeh, Liza Villanueva,
Evan Unger

10:50 am – 11:30 am CST: Translational Vascular Biology
Chair: Harvey Feigenbaum, Michael Picard

Invited Speakers: Juan F. Granada, Chris Krueger, Jess Reed, Armando Tellez, Carlos Alviar

11:30 am – 12:00 pm CST: Summary and Panel Discussion
Chair: Michael Domanski

LUNCH: 12:00 - 1:00 pm CST

SESSION III

1:00 pm – 1:40 pm CST: Emerging Imaging Technologies/Software
Chair: James Miller, Seth Powsner

Invited Speakers: Dan Adam, Yanping Cheng, Ton Van der Steen

1:40 pm – 2:40 pm CST: Translational Applications of Emerging Imaging Techniques
Chair: James Miller, Seth Powsner

Invited Speakers: Maria Fabrizia-Giannoni, Blai Coll, Laurence Gavit, Ton Van derSteen, Juan F. Granada, Kai Thomenius

2:40 pm – 3:10 pm CST: Summary and Panel Discussion

3:15 pm – 3:30 pm CST: Break

SESSION IV

3:30 pm – 5:40 pm CST: Clinical Applications: Radiology & Cardiovascular Emerging Technologies
Chair: Roxy Senior, Art Labowitz, Sanjiv Kaul

Invited Speakers: Lennard Greenbaum, Stephanie Wilson, Barry Goldberg, Stefano Coli, Irmina Gradus-Pizlo, Paolo Voci, Hiroshi Ito, Harald Becher, Roberto Lang, Luciano Agati, Otto Kamp, Kevin Wei

NETWORKING FUNCTION: 6:30- 10:30 PM CST,
Frankie's Scaloppine, 900 N. Michigan Avenue (in the Bloomingdale Building)
6:30 pm to 10:30 pm- dinner, music and open bar for all registered attendees

7:00 am – 8:30 am CST: Breakfast

SESSION V

8:30 am – 11:00 am CST: Emerging Therapeutic Applications
Chair: Martin Leon, Franco Pizzuto

Invited Speakers: Cheri X. Deng, Paul Grayburn, Folkert Ten Cate,
David McPherson, Juan F. Granada, Greg L. Kaluza, Michael Davidson

11:00 am – 12:30 pm CST: Wrap up session/Future plans (open microphone)
Chair: Petros Nihoyannopoulos

Al Parisi, Ned Weyman, Ken Ford, Hal Sandler, Richard Kerber, Alan Klein, Marty Goldman, Rami Doukky, Philip Liebson, Payman Sattar, Daniel Staub, Marshall Goldin, Massimo Mischi, Eric Korsten

END OF FORMAL SESSIONS

* As of September 10, 2008