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Coherex Medical Announces Breakfast Symposium and Executive Presentations during This Week’s TCT 2008 (the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Techniques Conference)
SALT LAKE CITY and WASHINGTON, D.C. – October 12, 2007 – Coherex Medical, Inc., a privately held medical device company, today announced its TCT 2008 schedule of events and highlighted two presentations its executives will deliver during the 20th annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium held in Washington, D.C. October 12-17, 2008 and produced by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF).
Coherex is sponsoring a breakfast symposium during TCT 2008 entitled “The Science of Headache: A New Collaboration Between Neurology and Cardiology.” This symposium will be held from 7 to 8 a.m. (EDT) on Tuesday, October 14 in Room 144C in the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. TCT participants are welcome to attend the symposium.
In addition, Coherex executives will deliver two presentations during TCT and also participate in follow-up panel discussions.
Specifically, Dr. Brian Whisenant, chairman and founder of Coherex Medical, will deliver a presentation on Monday, October 13 at 4:59 p.m. (EDT) titled “The Coherex ‘Intra-Tunnel’ PFO Closure Device: Early Clinical Experiences (Special Emphasis on Migraine Prevention).” Additionally, Richard J. Linder, president and CEO of Coherex, will deliver a presentation on Wednesday, October 15 at 4:59 p.m. (EDT) titled “Industry Perspectives: The Challenge of Consensus Building.”
Coherex Medical’s Breakfast Symposium Program Details The specific schedule for the Coherex breakfast symposium program is as follows:
7:00 a.m. “Coherex Medical: Bringing Science to the Forefront,” Richard J. Linder (Coherex Medical, President & CEO) 7:05 a.m. “PFO Headache: Evolution of a Connection,” Brian Whisenant, M.D. (Utah Heart Clinic, Salt Lake City and Coherex Medical co-founder) 7:20 a.m. “Migraine and the Heart: What Every Cardiologist Should Know About PFO and Migraine” Richard B. Lipton, M.D. (Vice Chair of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Director, Headache Center, Montefiore Medical Center, both Bronx, N.Y.) 7:35 a.m. “Update: International Experience with the Coherex FlatStent™ PFO Closure System,” Jonathan M. Tobis, M.D. (UCLA Medical Center) 7:45 a.m. Panel Discussion and Q&A Session 8:00 a.m. Program Close
About Coherex Medical Formed in 2003 by Brian Whisenant, M.D., Coherex Medical is focused on addressing structural heart disease and conditions through medical devices. For more information, please visit www.coherex.com or call 801-433-9900.
About the Coherex FlatStent PFO Closure System The Coherex FlatStent™ PFO Closure System is similar in use and function to self-expanding vascular stents which are widely used by interventional cardiologists. However, the patent-pending Coherex FlatStent Closure System incorporates a unique fusion of PFO closure mechanisms and accepted medical practices in a design expected to naturally seal a PFO tunnel.
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Coherex Medical and Coherex FlatStent are trademarks of Coherex Medical, Inc. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.
Coherex Medical Contacts: Trent Loveless, Coherex Medical, 801-433-9900, tloveless@coherex.com or David Politis, Politis Communications, 801-523-3730(w)/801-556-8184(c), dpolitis@politis.com |
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