Scientific Programme

0900 - 0915 Opening Ceremony
Plenary Session I:
ADVANCED HEART FAILURE MANAGEMENT IN THE ASIA PACIFIC REGION: QUO VADIS?
Moderators: Sek-Ying Chair, Erik Fung, Randolph HL Wong
0915 - 0940 Keynote Lecture – Heart Function Replacement: The Current State and a Look into the Future
Steven SL Tsui
0940 - 1005 The Challenges and Triumphs of Establishing a Heart Failure Programme in Singapore
David KL Sim
1005 - 1030 Experience of LVAD as Destination Therapy at Ramathibodi Hospital, Bangkok
Teerapat Yingchoncharoen
1030 - 1055 Bridges to Transplant
Christopher Hayward
1055 - 1115 Coffee Break
Plenary Session II:
MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY SUPPORT: EXPERIENCES FROM EAST ASIA
Moderators: Elaine MC Chau, Gary SH Cheung, Katherine YY Fan, David KL Sim
1115 - 1140 Mechanical Circulatory Support Programme: Experience in Hong Kong
Michael KL Wong
1140 - 1205 Mechanical Circulatory Support Program at Chiba University Hospital, Japan
Goro Matsumiya
1205 - 1230 Early Experience with Implantable LVAD at Samsung Medical Center, Seoul
Yang-Hyun Cho
1230 - 1255 Heart Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support: Past, Present and Future
Wei Jeng
1255 - 1400 Lunch
CHALLENGES & OPPORTUNITIES IN HEART FAILURE MANAGEMENT
Concurrent Session I
Moderators: Sylvia Au, Mitsuaki Sadahiro, Malcolm J Underwood
Concurrent Session II
Moderators: Jenny CL Ngai, Priscilla CH Wong
1400 - 1425 Understanding and Managing CRT Non-responders
Joseph YS Chan
Heart Failure and Rheumatic Heart Disease in India
Ganesan Karthikeyan
1425 - 1450 Preoperative Multimodality Imaging for LVAD
Teerapat Yingchoncharoen
Interventions to Prevent Right Heart Failure in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Yuichi Tamura
1450 - 1515 Success with MCS: Starting from Patient Selection
Jakob R Lahpor
Heart Failure in Cancer Patients: Management Through Onco-Cardiology Collaboration
Anecita Fadol
1515 - 1540 Effectiveness of Simultaneous Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy in Surgical Valvular Patients with Severe Heart Failure
Tetsuro Uchida
Perioperative Care of LVAD
Ka-Lee Kerk
1540 - 1600 Coffee Break
Concurrent Session III
THE NUTS & BOLTS
Moderators: Cheuk-Kit Wong, Eugene B Wu
Concurrent Session IV
ADVANCED HEART FAILURE CARE & ASSESSMENT
Moderators: Timothy CY Kwok, Raymond SK Lo
1600 - 1620 Imaging of LVAD Complications: Experience from Mayo Clinic
Kevin KH Kam
Behavioural and Psychometric Analysis in the Care of LVAD Patients
Lily L Cheng
1620 - 1640 Principles of Extracorporeal Life Support (ECLS)
Gordon YS Choi
Symptom Cluster among Patients with Advanced Heart Failure: Implications for Service Planning in Supportive Cardiology
Doris SF Yu
1640 - 1700 Aortic Valve Replacement for Severe Aortic Stenosis with Low Ejection Fraction
Takayoshi Kato
Supportive Cardiology: An Innovative Practice Model to Integrate Palliative Care into the Management of Advanced Heart Failure
Polly WC Li
1700 - 1720 Coffee Break
Concurrent Session V
CHALLENGES IN MANAGEMENT
Moderators: Ka-Lung Chui, Kevin KC Hung, Raymond SM Wong
Concurrent Session VI
ADVANCED HEART FAILURE CARE & ASSESSMENT
Moderators: Li-Li Cheung, Bosco HM Ma
1720 - 1740 Anticoagulation for Mechanical Circulatory Support
Erik Fung
Managing Drug-related Problems in Advanced Heart Failure Patients
Vivian WY Lee
1740 - 1800 Interventions for Acute Pulmonary Embolism to Prevent Right Heart Failure and Circulatory Collapse
Bryan PY Yan
Palliative Care for End-stage Heart Failure
Jacqueline K Yuen
1800 - 1820 Weaning of VA ECMO: Our Experience
Kai-Man Chan