Symposium: Heart Failure

Thursday

03 October

2024

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Overview

Heart failure is a major cause of morbidity and hospitalisation that is increasing in prevalence worldwide. Health professionals in many specialties are involved in the management of patients with heart failure in daily clinical practice.

This online symposium will place emphasis on the importance of a multi-specialty approach to patients with heart failure.

The objective of this symposium is to provide an update on contemporary management of heart failure and how this relates to everyday practice in a wide range of patients and clinical settings.

Topics covered include:

Frailty and polypharmacy in heart failure
End of life care in patients with heart failure
The four pillars of heart failure therapy
Devices therapy in patients with heart failure
Advanced therapies for heart failure

The symposium will be of interest to clinicians in medical specialties especially cardiology, geriatrics and acute medicine as well as GP’s, community heart failure nurses, heart failure pharmacists and medical trainees.

Please note that this event will be online only.

Members of Organising Committee

Dr Caroline Scally (Chair)

Dr Sowmya Venkatasubramanian

Dr William Jenkins

Dr Eilidh Hill

Dr Mark McGowan

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Programme

Thursday 3 October 2024

09:00	Livestream opens
09:25	Welcome Professor Andrew Elder, President, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

Session 1 - Management of heart failure (HF) in 2024

Chair: Dr Caroline Scally, Consultant Cardiologist, Royal Infirmary Edinburgh and St John's Hospital Livingston

09:30	Four pillars of heart failure treatment Professor Pardeep Jhund, Professor of Cardiology and Epidemiology, University of Glasgow current evidence of management of HFrEF real world experience
10:00	Device therapies for heart failure Dr Andrew Flett, Consultant Cardiologist, University Hospital Southampton defibrillator or no defibrillator conduction system pacing vs cardiac resynchronization therapy
10:30	Genetic testing in heart failure Dr Brian Halliday, Senior Clinical Lecturer in Cardiomyopathy and CMR, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London who to test cascade screening *inherited cardiomyopathy
11:00	Break

Session 2 - It's not all about the left ventricular ejection fraction

Chair: Dr William Jenkins, Consultant Cardiologist, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

11:20	Understanding heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) Dr Alan Japp, Consultant Cardiologist, NHS Lothian what is HFpEF difference between HFpEF and ageing heart *diagnosis and management
11:50	The right heart - overlooked and undertreated Dr Gerry Coghlan, Consultant Cardiologist, Royal Free Hospital, London when and how to investigate right heart failure when to refer to a specialist pulmonary hypertension centre *contemporary management of right heart failure and primary pulmonary
12:35	DR GEORGE ALEXANDER GIBSON KEYNOTE LECTURE Chair: Professor Andrew Elder, President, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh When is HFpEF not HFpEF? Professor Marianna Fontana, Professor of Cardiology and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, National Amyloidosis Centre, University College London when to suspect Amyloidosis and restrictive cardiomyopathy in patients presenting with HFpEF imaging of HFpEF *an update on novel therapies for Amyloidosis
13:05	Break

Session 3 - Virtual heart failure

Chair: Dr Eilidh Hill, Department of Geriatric Medicine, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow

13:50	What is the future of diagnostics in heart failure Dr Ross Campbell, Clinical Senior Lecturer in Heart Failure, University of Glasgow current diagnostic pathways AI in diagnostics *pitfalls in diagnostics
14:20	Management of heart failure in remote and rural areas Dr Rajiv Sankaranarayanan, Consultant Cardiologist and HF Lead, Liverpool University Hospital telemedicine self-monitoring
14:50	Break

Session 4 - Heart failure in the real world

Chair: Dr Mark McGowan, Cardiologist, South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust, Northern Ireland

Panel: Dr Carys Barton (HF Nurse Consultant), Dr Caroline Scally (Cardiologist), Dr Eilidh Hill (Geriatrician), Ms Janet Reid (HF Nurse)

15:10	Frailty and polypharmacy in heart failure Dr Rebekkah Schiff, Consultant in General and Geriatric Medicine, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London suggested approach to managing in heart failure in frail patients optimising the right medications in HF patients and managing polypharmacy in comorbidity *suggestions for when and how to de-prescribe in older cardiovascular patients
	What to do when the drugs don't work
15:45	Who and when to refer for advanced HF therapies Dr Alison Smyth, Associate Specialist, Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Clydebank when to referfor acute heart failure therapies assessment process
16:10	Delivering equitable palliative care Professor Miriam Johnson, Professor of Palliative Medicine, Hull *integrating palliative care and heart failure services
16:35	Panel and audience discussion
17:00	Close

Fees

Attendance options

RCPE are delighted to welcome delegates to register for online only attendance up until 21 days after the event (24 October 2024). All delegates will have catch-up access to all talks for 28 days following the live event.

Registration fees - for online and on-demand attendance
	Fee £
Delegate (Non-RCPE Member)	265
RCPE Member (Collegiate & Associate) & Fellow discounted rate	165
Allied Health Professional	165
RCPE retired Fellow and RCPE Foundation Member	70
RCPE Fellow in low or lower-middle income country, RCPE Student Member	0

Long term / other leave – Fellows and Members, please contact the Symposium Co-ordinator as some discretion may be available.

Collegiate and Associate Members of the RCPE in clinical research posts may be eligible for funding - please contact the Symposium Co-ordinator for further information.

Trainees – Scotland Deanery medical specialty trainees can attend any number of eligible symposia for a one-off payment from their study leave budget (block grant scheme).

Invoices

If you wish us to invoice an employer/organisation, please contact the Symposium Coordinator. Payment via invoice is not available for online booking.

Free places

Unpaid post – Nil if confirmation of status provided a member of RCPE – please contact the Symposium Co-ordinator.

Refugee doctors – free places are available to refugee doctors who are Associate Members of the College. Associate Membership for refugee doctors is available free of charge. Please visit our website for instructions on how to join, and then apply to the Symposium Co-ordinator for your free place.

Cancellation policy

If you have to cancel your place within seven days of this event, we regret that we are unable to provide a refund. However, you may nominate someone else to take your place at the discretion of the event co-ordinator.

The event will be available to view on-demand for 28 days after the livestream event, therefore, there is still opportunity to view the talks if you are not able to attend on the day.

Further Information

This event is open to all grades of medical, health care and scientific staff and to students. If you are unsure about eligibility, or the correct fee category, please contact the RCPE member of staff responsible for the event (see Fees page).

Please note that on occasion event programmes may be subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances.

Certificates

All relevant events are approved for Continuing Professional Development (CPD). To receive a CPD certificate delegates must have completed the online feedback survey. The survey will close 28 days after the original broadcast of the event, with certificates being issued shortly after this.

Certificates cannot be issued after the survey has closed.

Event Coordinator

Julia Macintosh

Telephone

+ 44 (0)131 247 3680

Email

j.macintosh@rcpe.ac.uk