10:20-11:50 a.m. Friday February 11, 2005          Hawaiian Village Room		Ventricular Assist Devices Chair: Joseph B. Zwischenberger — The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston Co-chair: John Criscione — Texas A&M University, College Station
	Evaluation of a Four-Chamber Wedge Pump as a Ventricular Assist Device
		H. Khalil, D. Tamez and K.A. Kadipasaoglu – Texas Heart Institute
	Validating Theoretical Analysis of Flow through an Axial Blood Pump
		R. White1, R. Benkowski1, S. Alexander1, R. Rao1, A. McLellan1 and A. Lammel2 – 1MicroMed Technology Inc. and 2Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
	Fluid Mechanics of the MicroMed DeBakey Ventricular Assist Device
		A. Lammel1, D. Arora1, R. White2, R. Benkowski2, M. Behr3, F. Hussain4 and M. Pasquali1 – 1Rice University, 2MicroMed Technology, Houston, 3Aachen University, Aachen, Germany and 4University of Houston
	Tensor-Based Hemolysis Modeling for Ventricular Assist Devices
		D. Arora1, O. Coronado-Matutti1, M. Behr2, M. Pasquali1, K. Yuri3, T. Motomura3, and Y. Nose3 – 1Rice University, 2Aachen University, Aachen, Germany and 3Baylor College of Medicine
	The New Prototype of Plug and Play Trans-Ventricle LVAD
		D. Wang1, K. Qian2, S. Topaz1 and J.B Zwischenberger1 – 1UTMB, Galveston and   2Jiangsu University, Zhengjiang, China