APAC STRUCTURAL HEART
NEWSLETTER
April 2019
Welcome to the Asia Pacific Structural Heart April 2019 newsletter!
If you have any feedback, comments or content suggestions please email SH_APAC_Marketing@abbott.com.

Events highlight

MUST WIN 1 – INTENSIFY BRANDING AND COMMUNICATION EFFORTS

Global Valve Masters Meeting in Zurich | 7-8 March
The key objective of this meeting is to gather a group of physicians worldwide who have lead the development of transcatheter Mitral and Tricuspid therapies together, to further advance the procedure and innovation for the treatment of Mitral and Tricuspid Valve disease in partnership with Abbott.
Out of 36 total KOL attendees from global, Asia Pacific had a strong representation with 5 physicians attending the meeting. They are Prof. Greg Scalia (Australia), Prof. David Muller (Australia), Prof. Jurgen Passage (Australia), Dr. Khung Keong Yeo (Singapore) and Dr. Sung Shih Hsian (Taiwan).
During the meeting, physician discussed patient selection and recommendation with COAPTTM and EXPAND, clip selection strategy. Hands-on sessions led by engineers on Gen4, Gen 5 and TriClipTM were scheduled.
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TrifectaTM GT Leadership Japan Workshop | 23-24 March
We had the inaugural TrifectaTM GT leadership workshop for 2 days organized by the Japan team in ATC in Tokyo on March 23rd and 24th. The leadership workshop was developed for the next generation of key opinion leaders in Japan to establish a protocol of optimal implant technique and included wetlabs to optimize their surgical techniques with Abbott heart valves. We invited 15 target physicians for the first workshop and received positive feedback from attendees. We plan to organize leadership workshop 3 times this year in Japan.

MUST WIN 2 – LEVERAGE EDUCATION NETWORK

Congenital COE at The China Medical University Children Hospital, Taiwan | 14 – 15 March 2019
The Congenital COE workshops for 2019 are now rotated to be held in the Taiwan faculty location, CMUCH, instead of Vietnam in 2018. The objective of this rotation is to ensure a good overview of different hospital setup across Asia. The objective of this COE however, continues to be the same, to have continual medical education in congenital heart disease.
The live cases on the 2nd day were a good mixture of the various diseases, and it went all the way from 9am till 8pm.
The feedback from the participating doctors were very positive, with the physicians even forming a group chat at the end of the course to continue with their clinical experience exchange. Citing one of the feedback from the participants, Dr Shiomi (Japan), “the course content is very attractive, and I’ll like Abbott to continue”

LAAO COE at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong | 21 – 22 Mar 2019

We continued with our 3rd LAAO COE at QEH, Hong Kong, and had a good mix of participants from China, Australia and Korea at the course. The feedback from the participants continue to be positive, with many wanting to stay in touch for continuous clinical experiences sharing.
The team at QEH also took the opportunity to introduce a private group chat in facebook: “SHD LAAO Insider: Clinical Chat” to have continuous clinical exchanges and networking with the participants.

LAAO PROCTORS PLAQUE
A new plaque to give recognition to our LAAO proctors in Asia!
Our proctors have chosen our Amulet/ ACP for their LAAO procedures and have been through all the training and cases to attain the proctor status and we will like to recognize their achievement with a personalized plaque to mark their expertise as our APAC LAAO proctors for either Amulet or ACP!
We are continuously working on expanding our LAAO implanter and proctors base to help more patients with LAA occlusion.

MUST WIN 3 – STRENGTHEN FIELD CLINICAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

CSD Fundamental training in Sydney | 5-7 March
We had a fundamental training for cardiac surgery disease from March 5th to 7th in Sydney and 3 team members from ANZ attended the training for 3 days. All attendees have a confidence in Abbott heart valve products after the 3 days training including the wet lab workshop and passed a final exam with good scores.

CSD Fundamental and Advanced training in Bangkok | 27-29 March
We had 2-day Cardiac surgery fundamental training for Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand sales team from March 27th to 28th in Bangkok and 1-day advanced competitors’ training for the Southeast Asia sales team on March 29th. All attendees took pre-online exam & self-study before the classroom training, and also passed a final written exam with 90+ marks after the training in Bangkok.

Competitive Updates
  • Boston Scientific wins CE Mark for Watchman FLX anti-stroke implant

Upcoming Events
  • LAAO Training in Beijing ATC | 31 March – 2 April
  • TrifectaTM Training in Beijing ATC | 1 – 2 April
  • Regent campaign training and Q&A by global | 5 April
  • SI Training in Japan ATC | 3 – 5 April
  • International Proctor Workshop for Portico and LAAO | 15 – 19 April
  • COAPTTM clinical training in Japan | 23 – 25 April