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Time & Location
21 May 2025, 09:00 – 17:00
Virtual Event
About the event
PRACTICAL UPDATE IN PAEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY
Target audience:
· Paediatric Consultants
· Paediatric and Paediatric Cardiology Trainees
· SAS (Specialty, Associate Specialist and Specialist) doctors
· Locally Employed doctors (LED)
· Paediatric and Paediatric Cardiology Nurse Practitioners
Course description:
The Practical Update in Paediatric Cardiology is specifically designed for those who want clear answers to questions regarding the management of children with cardiac problems. This highly recommended course will take you through all practical aspects of paediatric cardiology and will cover the key topics in congenital and acquired heart disease.
Learning will be enhanced using real-life examples and clinical scenarios, as well as interactive question and answer sessions after each talk. The course will give you the confidence to effectively manage cardiac patients in your daily practice.
Programme
9:00 – 9:25 Critical heart disease in children: how to make the diagnosis without echo.
[Dr Filip Kucera, Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, GOSH]
9:25 – 9:55 Congenital heart defects that can go unnoticed.
[Dr Gabrielle Norrish, Senior Cardiology Registrar, GOSH]
9:55 – 10:25 When you call GOSH cardiology for advice: frequently asked questions
reviewed through clinical examples.
[Dr Florian Moenkemeyer, Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, GOSH]
10:25 – 10:50 Irregular heartbeat, bradycardias, tachycardias: useful tips and tricks for
day-to-day practice.
[Dr Florian Moenkemeyer, Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, GOSH]
10:50 – 11:10 Break
11:10 – 11:35 How to analyse an ECG Holter and a BP monitor.
[Dr Oliver Bates, Senior Cardiology Registrar, GOSH]
11:35 – 12:05 Paediatric hypertension: diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment
[Dr Iona Madden, Consultant in Paediatric Nephrology, GOSH]
12:05 – 12:35 Myocarditis: diagnostic challenges, treatment options
[Dr Craig Laurence, Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, Heart Failure & Transplantation, GOSH]
12:35 – 13:25 Lunch break
13:25 – 13:55 Exercise-related and post exercise-syncope
[Dr Luke Starling, Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist specialising in Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases and arrhythmia, GOSH]
13:55 – 14:20 Brugada syndrome, long QT syndrome
[Dr Luke Starling, Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist specialising in Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases and arrhythmia, GOSH]
14:20 – 14:50 Orthostatic intolerance (POTS, vasovagal syncope)
[Dr Thushara Rodrigo, Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, GOSH]
14:50 – 15:20 Paediatric pulmonary hypertension: from clinical suspicion to diagnosis
[Dr Shahin Moledina, Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, Lead Clinician for National Paediatric Pulmonary Hypertension, GOSH]
15:20 – 15:40 Break
15:40 – 16:10 Infective endocarditis
[Dr Thushara Rodrigo, Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, GOSH]
16:10 – 16:35 Aortopathies: not just about Marfan syndrome
[Dr Elena Cervi, Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, Clinical Lead, Centre for Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases, GOSH]
16:35 – 17:00 New advances in treatment of Kawasaki disease: beyond IVIG and Aspirin
[Prof Despina Eleftheriou, Professor of Paediatric Rheumatology and Consultant Paediatric Rheumatologist, UCL Institute of Child Health, GOSH]
Registration fees:
£149 (Early Bird until 30th April), £169 after 30th April
Faculty:
– Dr Shahin Moledina, Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, Lead Clinician for National Paediatric Pulmonary Hypertension, Great Ormond Street Hospital
– Dr Luke Starling, Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist specialising in Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases and arrhythmia, Great Ormond Street Hospital
– Dr Florian Moenkemeyer, Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, GOSH
– Dr Thushara Rodrigo, Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital
– Dr Elena Cervi, Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, Clinical Lead, Centre for Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases, Great Ormond Street Hospital
– Dr Craig Laurence, Consultant in Paediatric Cardiology and Heart Failure & Transplantation, Great Ormond Street Hospital
– Prof Despina Eleftheriou, Professor of paediatric rheumatology and Consultant paediatric rheumatologist, UCL GOS Institute of Child Health, Great Ormond Street Hospital
– Dr Oliver Bates, Senior Cardiology Registrar, Great Ormond Street Hospital
– Dr Filip Kucera, Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital
– Dr Iona Madden, Consultant in Paediatric Nephrology, Great Ormond Street Hospital
– Dr Gabrielle Norrish, Senior Cardiology Registrar, GOSH
