RegistrationEmail:cvi-courses@kgu.deTelephone+49-69-6301-86763Coursefee:100,-Euro(50,-Euroforparticipantsbornafter17.2.1983)Registrationlink:https://www.cardiac-imaging.org/opening-symposium.html

Withsupportfrom:

GermanCardiacSociety(DGK)SocietyforCardiovascularMagneticResonance(SCMR)

InstituteforExperimentalandTranslationalCardiovascularImagingInternalMedicine,CardiologyInstituteforDiagnosticandInterventionalRadiologyUniversityHospitalFrankfurt

OpeningSymposium16.-17.2.2018UniversityHospitalFrankfurt,Theodor-Stern-Kai760590FrankfurtamMain,Germany

CardiovascularImaging2018

Consolidatingthebasicsandimagingthefuture

Endorsedby:

GermanCenterforCardiovascularResearch(DZHK)LOEWEZentrumfürZell-undGentherapieforschungSiemensHealthineersBayerAGNeoSoftHeartITMEDISGEHealthcare

Welcome Program–16.2.2018

Consolidatingthebasics

Imaginghasmadegiganticstepsoverthelastdecadesandnowformsanimportantandirreplaceablepartofmoderncardiology.Ithasshownitspotentialforunderstandingcomplexpathophysiologies,suchasinheartfailureorcardiacremodeling,largestudieshaveprovenitsdiagnosticaccuracyandvalueinpredictingoutcome.Wearenotonthebrinktodemonstratecomparativeeffectivenesstofullyembedimagingintherapeuticpathways.Therearestilllargeknowledgegapsconcerningaccurateandreproduciblequantification,establishingnewreferencestandards,providinglargescaleaffordableutilizationandavoidingover-andunderutilization.

Imagingthefuture

Thefuturewillbringfurtherrapidchangesrangingfromincreasedabilitiestomeasurenovelparameters,suchascellularsizeandfunction,furtherdecipherpathophysiologiesandbythatprovidethenecessaryknowledgeforprecisionmedicineaswellastheconnectionbetweenindividualabnormalitiesandtherapy(precisionmedicine).

TheInstituteofExperimentalandTranslationalCardiovascularImaging

ThenewInstituteisequippedwithstate-of-theartmagneticresonanceimaging,computedtomographyandechocardiographyandstrategicallyplacedasanindependentresearchinstitutebetweencardiologyandradiologytohelpshapingthisfutureintheinterplaybetweenscienceandclinicalapplication.

09:30–10:00 Welcomeaddressandregistration

10:00–10:45 Whatdoesaclinicalcardiologistexpectfromcardiovascularimaging;JeroenBax

10:45–14:00 Understandingcomplexpathophysiologies

10:45–11:15 HFpEFandHFmrEF,WalterPaulus

11:15–11:45 CardiacRemodeling,StefanJanssens

11:45-12:15 Debate:Similaritiesanddifferencesinhypertonic,compensatedanddecompensatedremodellling

12:15-12:45 Coffeebreak

12:45-13:10 Whyatherosclerosisisallthatmatters,JamesMin

13:10-13:35 Ischemiaandfunction,EikeNagel

13:35-14:00 Debate:whatarethenextstepstoworkouthowtominimizetheburdenofischemicheartdisease

14:00-15:00 Lunch

15:00-18:30 ImagingBiomarkers–towardsprecisionmedicine

15:00-15:30 Imagingatherosclerosisfromprecisionmedicinetopopulationhealth,JagatNarula

15:30-16:00 Imagingforprecisionmedicine,FrankRademakers

16:00-16:30 Theneedforqualification,standardizationandvalidation,DavidBluemke

16:30-17:00 Coffeebreak

17:00-17:30 Theproblemof“gold”standards,TomMarwick

17:30–18:00 ValidationofBiomarkers,LesleeShaw

18:00–18:30 Debate:Havewedoneourhomework?Canwecreateareasoffocusedaction?

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Program–17.2.2018

09:00–13:10 Thefutureofcardiovascularimaging

09:00–09:30 Imagingofcellularprocesses;ZahiFayad

09:30–10:00 Imagingofcardiacregenerativetherapy,JosephWu

10:00–10:20 Debate:Whatdoweneedtodotokeepthepromisesofmolecularimaging?

10:20-10:50 Coffeebreak

10:50-11:20 Guidelinerelevantstudies,JohnGreenwood

11:20-11:50 Imaginginpharmacologicaltrials,ScottSolomon

11:50-12:10 Debate:Howtoimprovetheimagingcomponentinguidelinerelevantstudies?

12:10-12:55 Thefutureofimagingincardiovascularmedicine,ValentinFuster

12:55-13:10 Closingremarks

13:10-14:10 Lunch

The scientific director and the speakers confirm the product neutrality of the program and the presentations. Potential conflicts of interest will be announced prior to each presentation.

Faculty

Speakers

Prof.ValentinFuster,MountSinai,NewYork,USA

Prof.JeroenBax,LeidenUniversityMedicalCenter,TheNetherlands

Prof.JagatNarula,MountSinai,NewYork,USA

Prof.WalterPaulus,VUUniversityMedicalCenterAmsterdam,The

Netherlands

Prof.StefanJanssens,KUUniversityLeuven,Belgium

Prof.JamesMin,WeillCornellMedicalCollege,NewYork,USA

Prof.EikeNagel,GoetheUniversity,FrankfurtamMain,Germany

Prof.FrankRademakers,KUUniversityLeuven,Belgium

Prof.DavidBluemke,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison,USA

Prof.TomMarwick,BakerHeart&DiabetesInstitute,Melbourne,

Australia

Prof.LesleeShaw,EmoryClinicalCardiovascularResearchInstitute,

Atlanta,USA

OrganizingCommittee

PD.Dr.ValentinaPuntmannProf.AndreasZeiherProf.EikeNagel