Invitation

Scientific Programme

General Information

Accreditation

Tue 30.04 – Fri 03.05.2024

City: London

Type of event: on site

Invitation

Dear Colleagues

It is a pleasure to announce a truly innovative Postgraduate Course in Cardiometabolic Medicine, a timely and highly acclaimed educational programme conceived by Zurich Heart House – London Heart House, King’s College, and Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals, which will address an unmet educational need.

Cardiometabolic disorders represent a cluster of interrelated risk factors, primarily dyslipidemia, hypertension, elevated fasting blood glucose, obesity and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. A combination of several of these risk factors massively increases the incidence and mortality of coronary heart disease and stroke. The strong association between metabolic disorders and cardiovascular health delivers a compelling reason to improve awareness of this cluster by identifying the risk factors and inducing targeted interventions.

The Postgraduate Course in Cardiometabolic Medicine consists of a four-day programme. State of the art lectures alternate with a great variety of interactive sessions, including workshops, rapid fire sessions and hands-on imaging sessions.

The course offers a unique opportunity to become one of the first experts in the seminal area of cardiometabolic medicine. We are looking forward to receiving your application and meeting you in London.

Sincerely,

Andrew Krentz
Thomas F. Lüscher
Naveed Sattar
John Deanfield
Mahmud Barbir
Michael Papadakis

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Scientific Programme

Tuesday, April 30^th, 2024 (UK time)

Venue: The Royal Society of Medicine

08:00 | REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
08:30 | Welcome Session
08:30	Welcome by the course directors
08:45	Course concept and structure	Eleanor Wicks, Oxford

09:00 | Session 1: Obesity I- Causes and mechanisms Chairs: John E. Deanfield & Michael Papadakis
09:00	Is obesity a disease? If so, how do we diagnose it?	Francesco Rubino, London
09:40	The gut microbiome: a new cardiovascular risk factor	Thomas F. Lüscher, London
10:00	What links adiposity to CVD?	Marc Donath, Basel
10:20	Panel discussion	Naveed Sattar, Glasgow
11:00 | COFFEE BREAK

11:30 | Session 2: Obesity II – Management Chairs: Naveed Sattar & Marc Donath
11:30	Bariatric surgery: pros is there still a role?	Barbara McGowan, London
11:50	Behavioural management: Nutrition	Michael Lean, Glasgow
12:10	Behavioural management: Exercise & sports – ESC guidelines 2020 and beyond	Michael Papadakis, London
12:30	Medical management of obesity: GLP-1/GIP agonists	Michael Papadakis, London
12:50	Panel discussion
13:30 | LUNCH BREAK and INTERACTIVE		INDUSTRY EXHIBITION

14:30 | Session 3: ASCVD Assessment I Chairs: Mahmoud Barbir & Thomas F. Lüscher
14:30	Inflammation and plaque formation	Christian Weber, Munich
14:50	LDL-C and cardiovascular disease: Why is lower better?	Lale Tokgozolu, Ankara
15:10	Cardiovascular risk assessment: the ESC SCORE/SCORE2-OP	Frank Visseren, Utrecht
15:30	Lifetime risk: CVD prevention – personal and national strategy	John E. Deanfield, London
15:50	Panel discussion
16:30 | COFFEE BREAK

17:00 | Case-based interactive seminars
	How to assess adiposity: Clinical, MRI and beyond	Geltrude Mingrone, London
	How to manage obesity	Barbara McGowan, London
18:00 | End of day 1

Wednesday, May 1st, 2024

09:00 | Session 4: ASCVD Assessment II Chairs: John Chapman & Christian Heiss
09:00	Multimodality imaging to assess ASCVD	Chrsitoph Gräni, Bern
09:20	CT-based coronary imaging for CV risk prediction	Charalambos Antoniades, Oxford
09:40	Novel lipoproteins: Lipoprotein(a)	Francois Mach, Geneva
10:00	Are triglycerides a cardiovascular risk factor?	Borge Nordestgaard, Copenhagen
10:20	Panel discussion
11:00 | COFFEE BREAK

11:30 | Session 5: ASCVD – Management Chairs: Jürg H. Beer & Francois Mach
11:30	Secondary hypertension: an underrecognized condition	Tomasz Guzik, Edinburgh
11:50	Unsaturated fatty acids and CV risk reduction	John Chapman, Paris
12:10	Personalized LDL-C management: From pills to nucleic acids	Kausik Ray, London
12:30	Arterial hypertension: from drugs to devices	Vikas Kapil, London
12:50	Panel discussion
13:30 | LUNCH BREAK and INTERACTIVE		INDUSTRY EXHIBITION

14:30 | Hands-on seminars
	Practical lipid apheresis	Mahmoud Barbir, London/ Jo Senior, Harefield/ Alison Pottle, Harefield/ Stefan Bornstein, Dresden
	Assessing vascular structure and function – practical demonstrations	Christian Heiss, Guildford
16:30 | COFFEE BREAK

17:00 | Session 6 ASCVD: Platelets and coagulation Chairs:Thomas F. Lüscher & Shouvik Haldar
17:00	Intravascular thrombus formation: platelets and intrinsic/extrinsic system	Jürg H. Beer, Baden
17:20	Platelet inhibition: DAPT or SAPT? the 2023 ESC guidelines on ACS	Robert Byrne, Dublin
17:40	Novel oral anticoagulants in VTE and AF: the ESC Guidelines and beyond	A. John Camm, London
18:00	Panel discussion
18:15 | NETWORKING RECEPTION

Thursday, May 2nd, 2024

09:00 | Session 7: Diabetes mellitus (DM) Chairs: Andrew Krentz & Thimotheus Speer
09:00	Pathogenesis of Type 2 DM	Marc Donath, Basel
09:20	Diabetes Type 2 and CVD beyond glucocentricity	Stephan Jacob, Villingen
09:40	Management of CVD risk in type 2 diabetes – the 2023 ESC Diabetes guidelines	Dirk Müller-Wieland, Aachen
10:00	Panel discussion
10:30 | COFFEE BREAK

11:00 | Session 8: Nephrology – Chronic kidney disease (CKD) – Causes & Mechanisms Chairs: Ian Wilkinson & Andrew Krentz
11:00	Causes and clinical presentation of CKD	Britta George. Zurich
11:20	CKD and cardiovascular risk	Thimoteus Speer, Frankfurt
11:40	Albuminuria, eGFR slopes and outcomes: impact of pharmacotherapy	David Wheeler, London
12:00	Panel discussion

12:30 Industry Sponsored Symposium: Challenging the Status Quo in Cardiorenal Management This is a promotional symposium sponsored and organised by AstraZeneca, intended for GB HCPs only
13:15 | LUNCH BREAK and INTERACTIVE INDUSTRY EXHIBITION

14:00 | Session 9: Nephrology – Chronic kidney disease (CKD) – Management Chairs: Stephan Jacob & Britta George
14:00	SGLT2i and GLP1-RA bin CKD and DKD – the 4 pillar approach	Christoph Wanner, Würzburg
14:20	Non-steroidal MR antagonists	Bertram Pitt, An Arbor (remote)
14:40	Management of hyperkalemia in CKD and HFrEF	Joao Pedro Ferreira, Porto
15:00	Panel discussion
15:30 | COFFEE BREAK

16:00 | Case-based interactive seminars
	Managing type 2 diabetes and CVD risk	Stephan Jacob, Villingen
	Managing patients with CKD	Timo Speer, Frankfurt
17:00 | End of day 3

Friday, May 3rd, 2024

11:30 | Session 10: Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) and Endocrinology Chairs: Andrew Krentz & Kamlesh Khunti
09:00	Screening and diagnosis of MASLD	Philip Newsome, Birmingham
09:20	Extrahepatic cardiometabolic disease associations with MASLD	Kevin Moore, London
09:40	Management of MASLD	William Alazawi, London
10:00	Cardiovascular risk in endocrine disease	Adrian Heald, Manchester
10:20	Sex hormones	Andrew Krentz, London
10:40	Panel discussion
11:00 | COFFEE BREAK

11:30 | Session 11: Amyloid heart disease Chairs: Rakesh Sharma & Eleanor Wicks
11:30	The spectrum of amyloid heart disease	Ashutosh Wechalekar, London
11:50	Diagnosis and management of cardiac amyloidosis	Roy S. Gardner, Glasgow
12:10	Panel discussion
12:30 | LUNCH BREAK and INTERACTIVE		INDUSTRY EXHIBITION

13:30 | Session 12: Heart failure Chairs: Roy Gardner & Rajdeep Khattar
13:30	Prevention of heart failure	Pardeep Jhund, Glasgow
13:50	The different forms of heart failure	Aigul Baltabaeva, London
14:10	Comorbidities of heart failure	Mark C. Petrie, Glasgow
14:30	Iron deficienca nd heart failure	Paul Kalra, Portsmouth
14:50	Management of heart failure: the 2021 and 2023 ESC guidelines	Theresa McDonagh, London
15:10	Panel discussion
15:30 | COFFEE BREAK

16:00 | Hands-on seminars
	Diagnosing MASLD with abdominal ultrasound	Kevin Moore, London
	Diagnosing heart failure with echocardiography	Rajdeep Khattar, London
17:00 | End of day 4

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Industry Sponsored Symposium

Thursday, May 2nd, 2024

12:30 Challenging the Status Quo in Cardiorenal Management This is a promotional symposium sponsored and organised by AstraZeneca, intended for GB HCPs only
Speakers: Professor Derek Connolly, BSc[Hons] MB ChB[Edin] PhD[Cantab] DSc[Hon] FRCP FRCPE FESC, Consultant Cardiologist, Birmingham City & Sandwell Hospitals Dr Kate Bramham, Reader of Nephrology & Maternal Medicine and Honorary Consultant Nephrologist, King’s College London

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General Information

Registration

Category
Registration fees
Regular fee	GBP 950
Early registration fee (until March 1, 2024)	GBP 850
Trainees/Residents, Research fellows, Nurses, Students <40 years (ID proof required)*	GPB 700
Day Tickets	GPB 240

*For the reduced registration (Trainees/Residents, Research fellows, Nurses, Students <40 years) please send a copy of your ID to Ms. Christine Lohmann at christine.lohmann@zhh.ch

Registration will be confirmed upon receipt of payment.
Please note that UK banks may charge high fees for international bank transfers. We therefore recommend payment by credit card.

Modification & Cancellation

All modifications or cancellations must be notified in writing (by mail, fax or e-mail) to Zurich Heart House. For each modification requested by the participant, GBP 15 will be charged for administrative costs. In case of cancellation up to March 31st, 2024, deposits will be refunded less 35% for administrative costs. After this date, no refund will be possible.

Venue

The Royal Society of Medicine,
1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London W1G 0AE, United Kingdom

Organisation

Zurich Heart House, Foundation for Cardiovascular Research
Dr. Ruth Amstein
Christine Lohmann
Hottingerstrasse 14, CH-8032 Zurich, Switzerland
Phone +41 (0) 44 250 40 95, Fax +41 (0) 44 250 40 90

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Accreditation

The Postgraduate Course in Cardiometabolic Medicine has been approved by the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom for 26 category 1 (external) CPD credit(s).

The Postgraduate Course in Cardiometabolic Medicine has been accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME) for a maximum of 26 European CME Credits (ECMECs).

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Teaching Faculty

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