Conference Agenda 2014

09:00 Introduction
Prof Sanjay Sharma
09:10 QT-interval in young athletic individuals;
The long and short of it
Prof Francois Carre (France)
09:30 Right ventricular enlargement in athletes;
Physiology vs. Pathology
Dr Abbas Zaidi
09:50 Early repolarisation;
Training related or marker of heart disease?
Dr Greg Mellor
10:10 The veteran athlete’s heart;
Unravelling the mystery of chronic, intense exercise
Dr Ahmed Merghani
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 – 13:00 Session: Vexing issues in Sports Cardiology
Session chairs: Prof Domenico Corrado,
Prof Hein Heidbuchel
11:00 Update of pre-participation screening in athletes;
Ten years onwards
Prof Domenico Corrado (Italy)
11:20 Current state of pre-participation screening in
the USA; Facts and fallacy
Prof Christine Lawless (USA)
12:40 The CRY experience;
A pragmatic approach to screening
Dr Rajay Narain
12:00 The Registry on ICD in athletes;
Same dataset but different perspectives
Prof Hein Heidbuchel (Belgium)
12:20 Treating cardiac arrest in the athletic field;
The moment everyone dreads
Prof Sanjay Sharma
12:40 Case series of post-mortem evaluation in athletes;
Challenges and pitfalls
Prof Mary Sheppard
13:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 15:00 Session: Athletes with cardiovascular disease
Session chairs: Prof Mats Borjesson,
Dr Michael Papadakis
14:00 Update of exercise recommendations for athletes
with IHD
Prof Mats Borjesson (Sweden)
14:20 The role of exercise stress testing in the
assessment of athletes; Beyond IHD
Dr Michael Papadakis
14:40 Athletes with HCM; Black and white, or fifty
shades of grey
Dr Nabeel Sheikh
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 – 16:00 Session: The Peter Hinchliffe award Paradigms of hypertrabeculation of the LV
myocardium; Novel cardiomyopathy or physiological response to increased cardiac load?
Dr Sabiha Gati
Session chairs: Prof Sanjay Sharma, Dr Steve Cox
16:00 – 17:20 Case studies in sports cardiology for the clinician
Session Chair: Prof Sanjay Sharma,
Prof Christine Lawless
17:20 Closing remarks
Prof Sanjay Sharma