8.00am

REGISTRATION

9.00am

INTRODUCTION            

SCD and the athlete: an overview and the British perspective from the CRY / Philips athlete programme

Professor Greg Whyte

9.25am

Sudden death in the young: just a case or predestination?

Professor Gaetano Thiene (Italy)

10.05am

The coronary arteries and athletes

Dr Paul Thompson (USA)

10.45am

COFFEE BREAK

11.15am

Echocardiography in the differentiation of pathologic and physiologic LVH

Dr Roxy Senior

11.40pm

Cardiac MRI and the athlete

Dr Sanjay Prasad

12.05pm

Diagnosis and management of ion channelopathies in young asymptomatic athletes

Professor Domenico Corrado (Italy)

12.30pm

LUNCH

1.30pm

The athlete's heart: mechanisms underlying cardiac enlargement

Professor Keith George

2.00pm

Management of the collapsed athlete

Dr Sanjay Sharma

2.30pm

Is exercise bad for the normal heart?

Professor Greg Whyte

3.00pm

COFFEE

3.20pm

Preparticipation screening in athletes

Dr Sanjay Sharma

3.45pm

The athlete's heart: a clinician's perspective

Dr Nigel Stephens

4.10pm - 4.55pm

INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES IN DEALING WITH DIFFICULT CASES

Chair: Professor Greg Whyte

Case study presentations with expert round table discussion:                    

Professor Domenico Corrado, Dr Sanjay Prasad, Dr Roxy Senior, Dr Sanjay Sharma,

Dr Nigel Stephens, Professor Gaetano Thiene, Dr Paul Thompson, Professor Greg Whyte

4.55pm - 5.00pm

CLOSING REMARKS

Professor Greg Whyte