Following the previous successful symposia, the fourth two day symposium on Clinical
Cardiovascular Genetics is being organised to focus on the current practices and new developments in diagnosis and treatment of inherited cardiovascular conditions.
The programme will include invited plenary talks and lectures on major topics delivered by international experts. Separate sessions on major themes will be arranged. There will be ample opportunity for discussion, networking and multi-disciplinary team development.
Abstracts for open/poster presentations are welcome.
Sessions will include:
 Developmental cardiovascular abnormalities
 Inherited arteriopathies
 Inherited cardiomyopathies
 Inherited arrhythmias and conduction abnormalities
 Inherited cardiac metabolic disorders
 Genomics of complex cardiovascular diseases
 Genetics and genomics of chronic heart failure
 Pulmonary and systemic hypertension
 Sudden unexplained/cardiac death
 Cardiovascular pharmacogenetics and pharamcogenomics
 Surgical treatment including cardiac transplantation
 Current trends in pharmaco-therapeutics/preventive cardiac devices
 Gene, stem cell and regenerative therapy
CPD credits applied for (Approx. 12 hours)
( Royal College of Physicians of London)
For programme information, please contact Symposium Director and Chair-Organising Committee:
Professor Dhavendra Kumar,
Consultant Clinical Geneticist,
Institute of Medical Genetics,
University Hospital of Wales,
Tel:02920 744037;
07766310291
Lead Clinician- Cardiovascular
Genetics
Cardiff CF14 4XW Email: kumard1@cf.ac.uk
For registration and further information please contact:
Angela Burgess The Wales Gene Park, Cardiff University
Education & Project
Manager
2 nd Floor, Neuadd Meirionnydd
Heath Park Cardiff CF14 4YS
Tel: 029 2068 7267
Email: burgessam@cf.ac.uk

Day 1 21 November 2013
0800 Registration and coffee
0900 Welcome
Professor Julian Sampson, Head of the Institute of Medical Genetics, Cardiff University
0905 Introduction
Professor Dhavendra Kumar, Institute of Medical Genetics, Cardiff University
Session I
Chair:
Cardiovascular Developmental Disorders
0915 Clinical utility of animal models of cardiovascular development
Professor Robert Hinton, Cincinnati, USA
0945 Molecular diagnosis for CHDs
Professor Judith Goodship, Newcastle ,UK
1015 Managing an adult with CHD/National guidelines for adult CHD/GUCH
Dr Helen Wallis, UHW, Cardiff
0915-1045
1045-1115 Coffee
1115 Plenary Lecture
High risk pregnancy with inherited cardiac diseases
Professor Catherine Nelson-Piercy , Imperial College, London
Session II Pregnancy and Inherited Cardiac Disease
Chair :
1200 Managing aortic disease in pregnancy
Dr Julie De Backer, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium
1230 Pregnancy complicated with cardiomyopathy
Dr Julie McGouhgran, Queensland genetic Service, Brisbane, Australia
1300 Inherited rhythm disorder during pregnancy
Dr Elijah Behr, St George’s Medical School, London
1330-1430 Lunch
1200-1330
Session III Heart Rhythm Disorders 1430-1600
Chair :
1430 Genomic basis of complex arrhythmic disorders
Dr Pier Lambiase, The Heart Hospital, London, UK
1500 Molecular diagnosis of channelopathies including next generation sequencing
Dr Anneke Seller, Oxford

1530 Recent trends in themanagement of inherited arrhythmic disorders
TBC
1600-1630 Tea break
Session IV Disorders of Cardiac Muscle 1630-1800
Chair :
1630 Diagnostic dilemmas and controversies for inherited cardiomyopathies
Professor Perry Elliott, ESRC The Heart Hospital, London
1700 Current trends in managing metabolic heart rate
Dr Duncan Cole, UHW, Cardiff, UK
1730 Recent tends in imaging for cardiomyopathies
Dr Andrew Wood, UHW, Cardiff, UK
1800 Close of Day One
1900
followed by
1930
Day 2 22 November 2013
0830 Registration and coffee
0915 Plenary Lecture
Surgical interventions for inherited cardiac conditions
Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub , Imperial College, London (TBC)
Session V Open Presentations I
Chair :
1000
1015
1030
1045
1100
1115- 1145 Coffee break
Session VI Open Presentations II
Chair :
1145
1200
1215
1230
1245
1300-1400 Lunch break
1000-1115
1145-1300

Session VII Novel Therapies for Inherited Cardiovascular Conditions
1400-1530
Chair :
1400 Anti-sense oligonucleotide therapy
Dr Annemieke Aartsma-Rus, Leiden, Netherlands
1430 Stem Cell Therapy for Inherited Cardiovascular Conditions
Dr Matthew Daniels, The John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
1500 New interventional therapeutic approaches for Inherited Cardiovascular Conditions
Dr Zaheer Yousef UHW, Cardiff, UK
1530 Vote of Thanks/ Close of Meeting
Approved applied for from the
Royal College of Physicians, London

21 st & 22 nd November 2013, Cardiff
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