9th Annual Hands-On Surgical Training (HOST) - Aortic Valve & LVOT Reconstruction
February 4, 10-12, 2023
|Toronto
Get the opportunity to perform Aortic Valve and LVOT Reconstruction on surgical simulation models.


Time & Location
February 4, 10-12, 2023
Toronto, 555 University Ave, Toronto, ON M5G 1X8, Canada
About the Event
The annual HOST course is a 3-day program held annually at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids). Following the first course in 2015, the course has been run worldwide in countries including Canada, USA, South Korea, Vietnam, India, and China.
The 2023 Annual Course will be a hybrid program for both in-person and on-line attendance. The registered applicants will be provided with 4 surgical simulation models for 5 procedures. Each session is led by experienced congenital cardiac surgeons who coach the surgeons through the surgical procedures for a variety of congenital heart defects. The number of attendees for each course is limited to maximum of 15 in-person and 30 online to secure close interactive interaction of the attendees with the proctors.
Time & Location
Priming session: Feb 4, 2023, 7:30-10:00 AM EST
Main course: Feb 10, 2023, 7:30 AM EST – Feb 12, 2023, 12:00 PM EST
Additional Equipment required by attendees (Online Participants):
- Laptop computer and Zoom® account
- Surgical Instruments
- Sutures
- Chest-Wall Operating-Table Simulator (optional)



