Heart Failure Update 2017

Canadian Heart Failure Society
Friday, May 12, 2017 - 7:30am to Saturday, May 13, 2017 - 4:30pm
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, South Building, 222 Bremner Blvd, Level 700

This spring, we are uniting with the Canadian Heart Failure Society to host Canada’s largest meeting devoted to heart failure. Heart Failure Update 2017 will will offer the latest information for the practising clinician and nurse, and a simultaneous stream focused on investigative research – truly bench to bedside.

When: Friday, May 12 to Saturday, May 13, 2017
Where: Metro Toronto Convention Centre

Sessions will feature an interactive roster of expert plenaries, case-based panel discussions, workshops and debates targeted at health-care professionals and investigators whose focus is improved heart failure treatment and prevention. It will feature more than 50 speakers including special guests Michel Komajda, Mandeep Mehra, Calum MacRae and Shoumo Bhattacharya.

 

Program Highlights:

  • Advanced heart failure
  • Mechanical circulatory support
  • Right heart failure
  • Genetics and heart failure
  • HF and comorbid conditions such as diabetes, obesity and atrial fibrillation
  • Novel therapies
  • Regenerative medicine approaches
  • Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) HF guidelines workshop
  • Nursing and patient advocacy workshop

For more visit HFUpdate.ca.

 

 

Program Description

 

The Canadian Heart Failure Society and the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research are uniting to host Canada's largest meeting devoted to heart failure. This special event will offer the latest information for the practising clinician and nurse, and a simultaneous stream focused on investigative research - truly bench to bedside. Sessions will feature an interactive roster of expert plenaries, panel discussions, workshops and debates targeted at health-care professionals and investigators whose focus is improved heart failure treatment and prevention. Faculty will include an array of national and international heart failure experts. We look forward to welcoming the clinical and research heart failure communities under one roof for this unique collaborative event.

 

PLANNING COMMITTEE CHAIRS

JONATHAN HOWLETT

MD, FRCPC, FACC

Past President

Canadian Heart Failure Society

 

MANSOOR HUSAIN

MD, FRCPC

Executive Director

Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research

 

SERGE LEPAGE

MD, FRCPC, CSPQ

Past President, Quebec Heart Failure Society

 

Following this program, participants will be able to:

Evaluate, recognize and treat patients with advanced heart failure

Approach the increasing problem of right-sided heart failure

Identify novel structural heart and surgical interventions

Identify how recent advances in genetics, stem cell and regenerative medicine will impact your patients with heart failure

Treat complex heart failure cases including those with multiple comorbid conditions

 

Friday, May 12, 2017

7:30 a.m. Breakfast Buffet and Registration

 

JOINT PLENARY: ADVANCED HF PART I: EARLY RECOGNITION, PREVENTION AND REFERRAL

Co-Chairs: Jonathan Howlett, MD - Mansoor Husain, MD

8:30 a.m. Welcome and introduction

- Jonathan Howlett, MD

8:35 a.m. What is advanced heart failure and is it on the rise?

- Mandeep Mehra, MD

8:55 a.m. The latest on acute heart failure

- Nadia Giannetti, MD

9:15 a.m. How can we help people with diabetes prevent chronic and acute heart failure?

- Michel Komajda, MD

9:35 a.m. Plenary Q&A

 

9:50 a.m. Break

 

10:15 - 11:30 a.m.

CHFS CLINICAL WORKSHOPS I

* Managing HFpEF - Sean Virani, MD

* CCS heart failure guidelines reload - Kim Connelly, MBBS, PhD, Serge Lepage, MD, Elizabeth Swiggum, MD

* The who, what, why & how of advocacy for heart failure patients - Jillianne Code, PhD

 

TED ROGERS CENTRE SCIENTIFIC SESSION: TARGETING REGENERATIVE MEDICINE

Chair: Milica Radisic, PhD

Translating human development to new therapies with pluripotent stem cells - Gordon Keller, PhD

Injectable biomaterials for treating MI and heart failure - Karen Christman, PhD

Cardiac patterning in zebrafish: Signaling pathways that establish and reinforce cardiac cell fates - Debbie Yelon, PhD

 

11:30 a.m.Lunch Buffet

 

JOINT PLENARY: ADVANCED HF PART II: INTERVENTIONS & RECOVERY

Co-Chairs: Serge Lepage, MD - Carolina Alba, MD

1:30 p.m. Down the rabbit hole of mechanical circulatory support - Mitesh Badiwala, MD, PhD

1:50 p.m. Recovery - from the myocardium to patient quality of life - Josef Stehlik, MD

2:10 p.m. Heart failure and atrial fibrillation: chicken or egg?

- Justin Ezekowitz, MB BCh

 

2:30 p.m.  Plenary Q&A

 

2:45 p.m. Break

3:15 - 4:30 p.m. CHFS CLINICAL WORKSHOPS II

* Goals of care and advanced heart failure symptom management - Catherine Demers, MD

* E-health: taking advantage of technology - Joseph Cafazzo, PhD, Nadia Thomson, NP

* How to use biomarkers for your heart failure patients - Gordon Moe, MD

TED ROGERS CENTRE SCIENTIFIC SESSION: TARGETING INFLAMMATION

Chair: Seema Mital, MD

Inflammation in secondary prevention: What will CIRT and CANTOS tell us?

- Subodh Verma, MD, PhD

Resveratrol in heart failure: an anti-inflammatory effect?

- Jason Dyck, PhD

The original biologic cardiovascular therapy? Influenza vaccination for secondary prevention - Jacob Udell, MD

4:30 p.m. End of Daily Program

 

Saturday, May 13, 2017

7:30 a.m. Breakfast Buffet

JOINT PLENARY

8:30 a.m.

Welcome and introduction

- Mansoor Husain, MD

 

8:35 a.m. Practical integration of genetics in the management of heart failure - Calum MacRae, MD, PhD

 

8:55 - 9:55 a.m.

CHFS PLENARY: THE MANY CONSIDERATIONS OF COMPLEX HF CARE

Chair: Jonathan Howlett, MD

 

HFpEF: Mythbuster

- Scott Solomon, MD

Managing heart failure patients with renal disease and anemia - Eileen O'Meara, MD

Clips, sparks and implantable monitors for heart failure - Anique Ducharme, MD

 

Plenary Q&A

 

TED ROGERS CENTRE SCIENTIFIC SESSION: EMERGING HF RESEARCH

Chair: Hai-Ling Margaret Cheng, PhD

Ten Education Fund recipients to present novel ideas in:

- Clinical innovation

- Technology innovation

- Discovery science

 

Poster Viewing

10:05 a.m. Break

 

10:30 -11:30 a.m. CHFS CLINICAL WORKSHOPS III

* Is this recovered heart failure? - Jonathan Howlett, MD, Josef Stehlik, MD

* Unusual and interesting heart failure cases - Carolina Alba, MD, Karen Harkness, RN, PhD

* Expanding knowledge and awareness in time for the oncoming HF tsunami - Stephanie Poon, MD, Shelley Zieroth, MD

 

TED ROGERS CENTRE SCIENTIFIC SESSION: INNOVATION AWARDS

Chair: Mansoor Husain, MD

Analysis of novel regulators of cardiac function in cardiomyocytes and zebrafish models - Ian Scott, PhD, Anthony Gramolini, PhD

Development of a novel device for treatment of failing Fontan circulation - Osami Honjo, MD

Multifactorial immune cell based development of non-ischemic cardiomyopathy - Xavier Clemente-Casares, PhD

 

11:30 a.m.   Lunch Buffet

1:30 - 2:30 p.m.

CHFS PLENARY: RIGHT HEART FAILURE

Co-Chairs: Sean Virani, MD - Shelley Zieroth, MD

Evaluation and management of chronic right heart failure - Lisa Mielniczuk, MD

Imaging of the right ventricle

- James White, MD

When should you operate on the right ventricle?

- Vivek Rao, MD, PhD

 

Plenary Q&A

 

TED ROGERS CENTRE SCIENTIFIC SESSION: TARGETING FIBROSIS

Chair: Michelle Bendeck, PhD

Therapeutic targeting of organ fibrosis

- Burns Blaxall, PhD

Novel approaches to target myocardial inflammation and fibrosis - Shoumo Bhattacharya, MD

Cardiac fibrosis: Letting the "KAT" out of the HAT is "SirT1"ainly NOT a good idea - Kim Connelly, MBBS, PhD

 

2:45 p.m.  Break

 

DEBATES

Debate Chair: Mansoor Husain, MD

3:05 p.m.

Be it resolved that all patients with heart failure and atrial fibrillation should be cardioverted at least once - Hisham Dokainish, MD vs Anil Gupta, MD

3:35 p.m.  Q&A session

3:45 p.m. CPAP to treat obstructive sleep apnea provides cardiovascular benefit - Douglas Bradley, MD vs John Floras, MD

4:15 p.m.

Q&A session

4:25 p.m.

Closing remarks

- Serge Lepage, MD

4:30 p.m. End of Program

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION

 

Lara Codipietro

contact@HFupdate.ca<mailto:contact@HFupdate.ca>

514-935-1840

 

Jeff Jurmain

jeff.jurmain@tedrogersresearch.ca<mailto:jeff.jurmain@tedrogersresearch.ca>

416-946-8305

This event is an accredited group learning activity under Section 1 as defined by the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada for the Maintenance of Certification program. This program is approved by the Canadian Cardiovascular Society for a maximum of 10 credits.