Program Overview

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There will be a series of parallel Specialty Meetings / Symposia on the Monday / Tuesday (22 and 23 June) of the Congress week (the Interventional meeting will commence on Sunday 21 June). These will be branded as World Congress Specialty Meetings, though several will be arranged jointly with other organisations.

On the Wednesday / Thursday (24 and 25 June) of the congress week there will be a range of academic sessions. These will include free abstract sessions, themed "focus" sessions, lunchtime and / or evening symposia (sponsored by industry) and educational sessions (in the early evening). The educational sessions, aimed at trainees, will be programmed to provide an introduction to many of the issues relating to the Topics to be covered in the "themed" sessions on the day following.

Posters will be displayed each day of the meeting and some of those which relate to the specialty areas, which have meetings on Monday / Tuesday, will be displayed in groups on those days. Posters will also be displayed on Wednesday and Thursday, with around 300 posters each day.

There will twelve free abstract sessions at which spoken presentations will be made. In addition selected abstracts, relevant to the topic under discussion, will be presented during specialty meetings and within the focus sessions. A total of around 100 spoken presentations and 1200 posters are currently expected to be accepted for presentation.

On the last day of the meeting (Friday 25 June) there will be a series of World Congress Invited lectures. These will include one on Paediatric Cardiology, one on Paediatric Cardiac Surgery, one on Paediatric Cardiac Nursing and one on Paediatric Cardiac Pathology. The meeting will conclude with a handover ceremony with the flag being passed to the hosting centre for the next meeting (in 2013) and a closing ceremony.

Focus (multi-disciplinary) sessions for World Congress

Care of the unwell neonate
1. Essential Elements of a successful neonatal program
2. Identifying the 'at risk' neonate
3. Toward better imaging to refine the operative plan
4. Is preoperative brain imaging indicated for all neonates?
5. The impact of prematurity and low birth weight in surgical decision making
6. Strategies to progress the most precarious neonates through intensive care
7. Consideration of long term outcomes - who to treat and for how long

Childhood Origins of Atherosclerosis
1. Childhood Origins of Atherosclerosis
2. Familial Hypercholesterolaemia
3. Obesity in Children
4. Salt, a neglected risk factor
5. How to detect arterial change in vivo
6. Screening for atherosclerosis in a hospital setting

Rheumatic Heart Disease
1. ARF: Global burden of RHD. Guidelines for diagnosis of ARF in high prevalence regions
2. Primary and secondary prophylaxis in Africa
3. Standardisation of echocardiographic criteria for RHD
4. School screening for RHD. Implications for vaccines
5. How Echocardiography assists in the timing of surgery and suitability for mitral valve repair
6. Outcomes after valve repair in rheumatic heart disease
7. Global approaches to decreasing morbidity and mortality from RHD

Hypoplastic Left Heart
1. The impact of fetal diagnosis of HLHS on outcome
2. Fetal intervention for HLHS
3. Convential surgical approaches based on single ventirical physiology
4. Feeding and nutrition after surgery for HLHS
5. Hybrid approaches to intervention
6. Opportunities for a two ventricle repair
7. Tailoring the management option in the individual patient
8. Outcomes late after surgery for HLHS

Cardiac Care in The Developing World
1. Setting Priorities. How can burden of disease data and economics help us?
2. What does it mean for a family in the developing world to have a child with CHD?
3. The Mission Model Or The Transfer of Knowledge Model?
4. Paediatric Cardiac Care in The Middle East. What more needs to be done?
5. Paediatric Cardiac Care in India. Where we've come from and where we're going?
6. What Do we need? The view from Papua New Guinea
7. Matching the Introduction of Cardiac Services in a developing country to its economic development
8. Putting It All Together. What do we need to do over the next five years?

Outcomes after surgery for congenital heart disease - looking beyond survival
1. Looking forward - expectations of survival
2. Looking backwards - lessons from the ACHD clinic
3. Assessing functional outcomes in the physical domain
4. The neurodevelopmental signature of congenital heart disease in children
5. Impact of periprocedural events on brain outcome - monitoring and treatments
6. Results of early intervention in children with neurodevelopmental problems
7. Surgical strategies to minimize morbidity in the operating room and intensive care

Forty Years of Fontan
1. Milestones in the Surgical Approach
2. Have the 10 Commandments doubled or halved?
3. Pathophysiology - concepts ventricular volume load vs. pulmonary artery growth
4. Evidence-Based Transcatheter interventions
5. Conduction and Rhythm Management
6. The Forty-year old Fontan Patient
7. When should we transplant?

Sudden Death in The Young
1. Spectrum of autopsy findings in sudden unexpected death in the young
2. The molecular autopsy
3. Sudden death in childhood Cardiomyopathies - lessons from the Australian Childhood Cardiomyopathy Study
4. Resuscitation
5. Debate-Mass infant ECG screening is a waste of health service resource
6. Adult CHD: evidence based data for ICD prescription
7. Preventing sudden death in young people- is there evidence that we can make a difference?

What the Physiologist Can Teach The Clinician....
1. Pump Function
2. Vascular Function
3. The Relationship Between The Heart and End-organ metabolism
4. The development of congenital heart disease
5. Pulmonary hypertension
6. Cardiomyopathy

What Molecular Science Can Teach The Clinician About...
1. The development of congenital heart disease
2. Pulmonary hypertension
3. Cardiomyopathy

Program Development and Improvement - New Initiatives
1. Developing Excellence
2. Fundraising for Excellence
3. Research Collaboration
4. Measuring Performance for Improvement
5. The clinician, researcher, administrator … Balancing competing demands
6. When Things Go Wrong
7. Transition to Adult Services

Program Development and Improvement - Doing Better
1. Measuring Performance for Improvement
2. The clinician, researcher, administrator … Balancing competing demands
3. When Things Go Wrong
4. Transition to Adult Services

Prof Bob Anderson

Prof Bob Anderson

Bob Anderson is an outstanding speaker with a long track record of giving stimulating and thought provoking talks. He wrote his MD (1970) on the cardiac conduction system in animal hearts, and later expanded his interest into congenitally malformed hearts. He was the Joseph Levy Professor of Paediatric Cardiac Morphology at the Royal Brompton Hospital and later at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London. He is regarded internationally as one of the most prominent authorities on the pathology of the congenitally malformed heart.

Ms Kathy Mussatto

Ms Kathy Mussatto

PhDc, RN, Research Manager, Herma Heart Center

Kathy Mussatto graduated from the College of Nursing at Northern Michigan University in 1986. She is currently a doctoral candidate in nursing at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. She has spent her nursing career in general pediatrics and pediatric critical care at the University of Michigan, University of Virginia, Medical Center Hospital of Vermont, and Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. She has been employed by the Herma Heart Center at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin since 1994 in the roles of cardiovascular nurse clinician, outcomes research coordinator and, since 2004, research manager.

Kathy's research interests include psychosocial outcomes for children and families living with pediatric heart disease including quality of life, neurodevelopment, child and family adjustment, parenting stress, and impact on healthy siblings. She actively works with several research teams and has collaborated on multiple projects with investigators from Children's Hospital of Wisconsin and elsewhere. She has authored more than 30 peer-reviewed papers, 6 book chapters and has delivered several invited lectures at national nursing and congenital heart disease conferences.

Kathy is passionate about promoting interdisciplinary research to improve outcomes for children
and families living with pediatric heart disease. She also loves to kayak, read, garden, and travel.

Prof Pascal R. Vouhe M.D.

Prof. Vouhe is a pediatric cardiac surgeon at Hospital Necker for Sick Children (Hôpital Necker Enfants-Malades) in Paris. He has been a leading figure in Europe, in the field of surgery for congenital heart disease, over the past twenty years and is a member of council of the European Association of Cardio-thoracic Surgeons and of the Francis Fontan Prize committee.

He is the author / co-author of several hundred papers over the past three decades.