About this event

  • Date and time Thu 24 Apr 2025 from 8:30am to 5:00pm
  • Location Royal Society of Medicine
  • Organised by Cardiology, British Society of Echocardiography

Join us for this exciting annual meeting on advanced imaging and clinical strategies for managing heart failure. This event continues the collaboration between the British Society of Echocardiography and the Royal Society of Medicine, and this year, it is also organised in association with the British Society for Heart Failure.

Looking ahead, sessions will highlight cutting-edge imaging for phenotyping Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), pulmonary hypertension, and amyloidosis. A keynote lecture on the future of heart failure treatment will also be presented. The day concludes with a multidisciplinary team discussion featuring real-world cases, offering actionable insights for improved patient outcomes.

By attending this event, you will learn:

  • Advanced imaging's role in cardiogenic shock, transplant assessment, CRT optimisation, and guiding interventions for valvular heart failure
  • HFpEF as the "new pandemic"
  • The interplay with atrial myopathy, and identifying elevated filling pressures in atrial fibrillation.

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We would like to thank our sponsors Alnylam and Edward Lifesciences who have provided sponsorship towards this independent programme. None of the companies listed have had editorial input into or control over the agenda, content development or choice of speakers, nor opportunity to influence.

Tickets

Standard pricing available until 22 April 2025.

Member

RSM Fellow RSM Associate RSM Retired Fellow RSM Trainee RSM Student
£125.00 £100.00 £100.00 £100.00 £60.00

Non - Member

Consultant / GP / SAS Doctors AHP / Nurse / Midwife Trainee Student BSE Member
£175.00 £140.00 £140.00 £84.00 £75.00

Agenda

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Registration, tea and coffee
Welcome and introduction

Dr Liam Ring, Consultant Cardiologist, West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, and Professor Nik Patel

Session 1: Imaging in advanced systolic heart failure

Cardiogenic shock: How imaging is useful in the intensive therapy unit

Dr Richard Fisher, Consultant Cardiologist, King's College Hospital

Imaging in the assessment for transplant

Dr Jacquelen Hooper, Consultant Cardiologist, Manchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Targeting and optimising cardiac resynchronization therapy: Is there any point?

Dr Maria Paton, NIHR Clinical Lecturer, University of Leeds and 
Honorary Cardiac Scientist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Intervention in valvular heart failure: From TEER to TAVR-unload

Dr Liam Ring

Testing for viability: Dead, or can it be REVIVED?

Professor Roxy Senior, Professor of Clinical Cardiology, Imperial College London

Questions and answers
Tea and coffee break

Session 2: Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF): The new pandemic

Chair: Dr Patricia Campbell, Consultant Cardiologist and Lead Clinician for Heart Failure NI, Southern Trust and Social Care Trust Northern Ireland

Clinical and epidemiological background of HFpEF

Professor Gerry Carr-White, Consultant Cardiologist, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Mechanistic insights into diastolic dysfunction using echo

Professor David Oxborough, Professor of Echocardiography and 
Cardiovascular Physiology, Liverpool John Moores University

Atrial myopathy and HFpEF: Which is it, or are they the same?

Dr Karina Bunting, BHF Career Development Research Fellow and Senior Cardiac Physiologist, University of Birmingham and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Identifying elevated filling pressures in atrial fibrillation: From data to guidelines

Mr Shaun Robinson, Consultant Clinical Scientist, Imperial College Healthcare 
NHS Trust 

Questions and answers
Lunch

Session 3: From the present to the future

Chair: Professor Gerry Carr-White

Phenotyping HFpEF: An MRI perspective

Dr Rosita Zakeri, Senior Clinical Lecturer, King’s College London

Pulmonary hypertension: Is it right heart failure or left heart failure? The role of imaging

Professor Dan Augustine

Amyloid: Integrated imaging pathway and new interventions – a paradigm shift?

Dr Lucia Venneri, Consultant Cardiologist, Royal Free London

Session 4: Keynote lecture

Chair: Professor Gerry Carr-White

Heart failure 2024: Current treatment and future perspectives

Dr Patricia Campbell

Questions and answers
Tea and coffee break

Session 5: The heart failure multidisciplinary team

Chair to be confirmed 

Cases and panel discussion

Dr Patricia Campbell, Professor Gerry Carr-White, and Dr Maria Paton

Closing remarks

Professor David Oxborough

Close of meeting

Sponsors

Alnylam (1)
Edwards Lifesciences

Location

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

Disclaimers:

Registrations for the in-person event will close on 23 April 2025 at 1:00am (BST). 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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While you’re attending this event

Why not stay in the comfort of our hotel, Domus Medica, book dinner in the restaurant, or even hire one of our private dining rooms to socialise with your peers?

RSM members enjoy access to our enviable club facilities. For more information, please contact our team at domus@rsm.ac.uk or restaurant@rsm.ac.uk.

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