Program

3:20-5:00 p.m. Friday February 10, 2006          Hawaiian Village Room		Artificial Heart and Ventricular Assistance II Chair: Robert White — MicroMed Technology, Inc. Co-chair: Dongfang Wang — UTMB, Galveston
	Development of Centrifugal Pump with Hybrid Passive Maglev Bearings
		D. Wang1, X. Zhou1, K.X. Qian2, S. Topaz3 and J.B. Zwischenberger1 — 1UTMB, Galveston, 2Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China, and 3SP Tech, St Helens, OR
	Modifications to the Flow Path of the MicroMed DeBakey VAD System
		S. Alexander1, R. Benkowski1, R. White1, R. Rao1, A. McLellan1, J. Geiger1 and A. Lammel2 — 1MicroMed Technology Inc.and 2Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
	Flow in the MicroMed-DeBakey Pump Analyzed by CFD
		D. Arora1, M. Behbahani4, A. Lammel1, B. Benkowski2, R. White2, F. Hussain3, M. Behr4 and M. Pasquali1 — 1Rice University, 2MicroMed Technologies, Houston, 3University of Houston, 4Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
	Mock Circulatory System for the Continuous Flow Artificial Heart
		H.A. Khalil1,2 , R.W. Metcalfe1 and K.A. Kadipasaoglu2 — 1University of Houston and 2Texas Heart Institute
	Model of Axial-flow LVAD with Pulsatile Cardiovascular System
		W. Mohiuddin, T. Nguyen and C. M. Quick— TAMU, College Station