Event Details

Event Description

Join us for a full day of expert-led talks and practical insights into inherited cardiac conditions (ICCs). Whether you're a specialist, trainee, or supporting healthcare professional, this is a unique opportunity to deepen your understanding and improve the care you provide to patients with genetic heart disease.

Registration from 09:00. With refreshments, lunch, and discussion built in, this is a day designed for learning and connecting with peers across the region.

The outline agenda for the day is as follows:

09.00 - 09.30      Registration

09.30 - 10.15      HCM, Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction, When to consider Mavacamten and Aficamten - Dr Rob Cooper

10.15 - 10.45      Cardiac Amyloid, Diagnosis, Treatment and new pathways with the National Amyloid Centre - Prof Andrew Crean and Dr Chris Orsborne

10.45 - 11.10      Coffee

Option 1: Focus on Disease Specifics

11.10 - 11.50     Dilated cardiomyopathy, when to consider genetics and how to risk stratify for an ICD - Dr Rhys Beynon

11.50 - 12.30     Channelopathies, including is it RBBB or is it Brugada, when to be concerned and how to investigate. Dr Charlie Pearman

12.30 - 13.10     Genetic Aortopathies - when to consider them? Dr Claire Hopton

Option 2: Physiology assessments in ICC conditions

11.10 - 13.10     Advanced Echo in cardiomyopathies, stress echo in cardiomyopathies, ICD selection and programming.

13.10 - 14.00    Lunch

14.00 - 14.20    Basic genomic revision - Dr Kay Metcalfe

14.20 - 14.50    Principles of genetic counselling, practicalities of using the National Test Directory to order diagnostic tests - Sarah Benett (Genetic Counsellor)

14.50 - 15.10    A laymen's guide to genetic results. When is it hot and when is it cold and does it matter - Dr James Eden and Dr Kay Metcalfe

15.10 - 15.30  The role of the molecular autopsy and the national coronial SCD pilot - Natalie Moreton  (Genetic Counsellor)

15.30 - 15.40    Comfort break/refreshments

15.40 - 16.10   How best to develop ICC services across the North West. - The DGH and Tertiary perspective - Dr Yuran Zheng and Dr Rhys Beynon 

16.10- 16.25   Group discussion

16.30        Wrap up and close

Register your interest via the booking link shown.

Details and official speakers to be confirmed.