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.