About this event

  • Date and time Tue 23 Jan 2024 from 9:00am to 5:00pm
  • Location Royal Society of Medicine
  • Organised by Cardiology

Join our third General Day of the academic year to understand the different causes of pulmonary hypertension and its treatment strategies. This day is to give you a thorough walk-through of pulmonary hypertension, from diagnostics, aetiology, and advanced management including transplantation.

Aimed towards general Cardiology and Respiratory trainees and Consultants as well as subspecialty heart failure trainees.

By attending this event, you will:

  • Understand aetiology of pulmonary hypertension
  • Learn who to refer
  • Learn the diagnostics and management

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Trainees: Claiming reimbursement
Once you have booked your place for this event, claim reimbursement for the full amount from your employing Trust via their usual local study leave processes. The relevant approval code to claim reimbursement for these events is MED0008.

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This activity has been supported by Boston Scientific and Medtronic in the form of an educational grant.

Please note that the company(s) listed above have had no input into the arrangement or educational content of this activity.

Agenda

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Registration, tea and coffee
Welcome and introduction

Dr Nina Karia, Consultant Cardiologist, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and Dr Laura-Ann McGill, Cardiology Consultant, Guys and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust

Pulmonary Hypertension: Definition, classification and treatment overview

Dr Dan Knight, Consultant Cardiologist, Director of National PH Service, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust 

Shortness of breath

Shortness of breath - it's not just the heart

Dr Colm McCabe, Respiratory Consultant, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital

Shortness of breath - it's not just the lungs

Dr Paramjit Jeetley, Cardiology Consultant, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

A patient perspective - Pulmonary hypertension Association

Dr Ian Armstrong, Chair of the Pulmonary Hypertension Association 

Tea and coffee break
Who to refer to a Pulmonary Hypertension centre: A referrer’s guide

Dr Jay Suntharalingam, Respiratory and Pulmonary Hypertension Consultant, Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust  

Questions and answers
Echocardiography in pulmonary hypertension: What cardiologists should know

Professor Daniel Augustine, Consultant Cardiologist, Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

Lunch
Pulmonary Hypertension and pregnancy

Dr Rachel Davies, Respiratory and Pulmonary Hypertension Consultant, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust 

Pulmonary hypertension due to adult congenital heart disease: How to manage common presentations

Professor Konstantinos Dimopoulos, Cardiology Consultant, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals 

Right heart catheterisation: An expert’s guide

Dr Gerry Coghlan, Cardiology and Pulmonary Hypertension Consultant, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust 

Group 2 pulmonary hypertension – it’s the heart!

Dr Nina Karia 

Tea and coffee break
Acute pulmonary embolism

Dr Tushar Kotecha, Cardiology and Pulmonary Hypertension Consultant, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust 

Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: Medical, interventional and surgical treatments

Dr John Cannon, Consultant Physician, Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 

Pulmonary Hypertension acute presentations and emergencies: A CRASH guide for registrars

Dr Laura Price, Respiratory and Pulmonary Hypertension Consultant, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals

Advanced therapies and transplant in pulmonary hypertension

Dr Jasvir Parmer, Respiratory and Transplant Consultant, Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Closing remarks
Close of meeting

Location

Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom

Disclaimers:

Registration for this event will close on 22 January 2024 at 1:00am (GMT). Late registrations will not be accepted. 

The agenda is subject to change at any time  

All views expressed at this event are of the speakers themselves and not of the Royal Society of Medicine, nor the speaker's organisations. 

We are only able to share presentations that we have received permission to share. This is at the presenter and the RSM’s discretion. 

This event will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed in future on various internet channels. 

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