e-SPACE Heart Failure 2024

Published: 28 October 2024

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Overview

Translational Medicine Academy (TMA) in partnership with Radcliffe Cardiology were delighted to announce the return of e-SPACE Heart Failure held on the 18-19 October 2024.

 

e-SPACE Heart Failure 2024 once again provided top-tier free virtual education and optimised geographical reach whilst delivering both global and regional insight. The thoughtfully curated programme explored how leading experts are incorporating heart failure guidelines into clinical practice and offered the latest information on patient profiling in heart failure for tailored medical therapy.

 

Building on the tremendous success of previous years, this event once again brought together TMA’s mandate for the delivery of continuing professional development to healthcare professionals to achieve concordance with appropriate treatment plans, with Radcliffe Cardiology’s goal to deliver cardiovascular knowledge to best support cardiovascular communities transform theory into practice.

 

Related sessions to e-SPACE Heart Failure 2024:

e-SPACE Heart Failure 2024 would like to thank the following sponsors:

Learning Objectives

  • Review the burden of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) as one of the leading causes of disability and mortality worldwide
  • Understand the latest guideline recommendations and discuss their applicability according to patients phenotypes
  • Discuss the implementation in clinical practice of the four foundational therapies and additional drugs and devices to improve patient outcomes
  • Develop a comprehensive understanding of best practices for the screening, diagnosis and management of the patient with heart failure and comorbidities
  • Translate the findings of recent studies and guidelines into optimal patient management

Target Audience

  • Heart Failure Specialists
  • General Cardiologists
  • General Practitioners (GPs)
  • Nurses, Pharmacists, and other Allied Healthcare Professionals

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Faculty Biographies

Ileana L Piña

Ileana L Piña

Dr Ileana L Pina is Professor at the Department of Medicine (Cardiology) and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health at Montefiore Einstein Center for Heart and Vascular Care, US. 

Dr Piña has a particular research and clinical interest in rehabilitation of heart disease in patients with heart failure. She completed a NHLBI HF ACTION trial and is in the process of examining recovery after exercise which could be translated to an additional parameter that may better predict prognosis of outcomes. In addition, there was a R21 to NHLBI to examine Vitamin D levels as another predictor from the HF ACTION database.

Dr Ileana L Pina is an Editorial Board member of Cardiac Failure Review.

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Stefan Anker

Stefan Anker

Professor of Cardiology

Prof Stefan Anker is professor of (Tissue) Homeostasis in Cardiology & Metabolism at Charité Berlin, Germany, since June 2017. Prodigious researcher who has authored more than 1,000 articles. He has also won several prizes, including the 2018 Copernicus Prize of German DFG & Polish FNP. In October 2020, he was awarded a Doctor honoris causa of Medical University Wroclaw, Poland.

Prof Anker has been serving on the board of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC since 2006 and was HFA President from 2012 to 2014. He currently chairs the HFA committee on regulatory affairs. He is founding Editor-in-Chief of the first open-access heart failure journal, ESC Heart Failure. Prof. Anker has served on several ESC Guideline task forces.

Prof Anker is the founding president of the International Society on Sarcopenia, Cachexia and Wasting Disorders (SCWD) and founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and…

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David Duncker

David Duncker

Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist

Prof David Duncker is a cardiologist and electrophysiologist. He is Head of Hannover Heart Rhythm Center at the Department of Cardiology and Angiology at Hannover Medical School, DE.

Prof Duncker was a member of the EHRA Young EP committee 2018 to 2020 and is currently an EHRA board member and chair of the EHRA e-Communications committee 2020 to 2022.

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Marat Fudim

Marat Fudim

Assistant Professor

Dr Marat Fudim is a cardiologist, advanced heart failure specialist and assistant professor at Duke University, Durham, US. He has a clinical and research interest in heart failure, including advanced therapies such as mechanical assist devices or "heart pumps" and heart transplantation.

As part of his work, Dr Fudim also performs cardiac catheterizations to understand a patient’s disease. 

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Dirk  Westermann

Dirk Westermann

Department of General and Interventional Cardiology, University Heart Centre Hamburg, Germany

Dr Westermann is Deputy Director of the Department of General and Interventional Cardiology, University Heart Centre Hamburg. He is a specialist in Internal Medicine and Cardiology

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William T Abraham

William T Abraham

Professor of Internal Medicine and Chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine

Prof Abraham is a College of Medicine Distinguished Professor. He has been recognized as one of the “Best Doctors in America” for 18 consecutive years.

His research has led to the approval/adoption of new heart failure therapies, including beta-blockers, natriuretic peptides, cardiac resynchronization therapy, ultrafiltration, implantable hemodynamic monitoring, transvenous phrenic nerve stimulation, cardiac contractility modulation, baroreflex activation therapy, and mitral valve repair.

Prof Abraham has authored more than 1,000 original works and has been named a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher and one of The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds.

He received the 2017 Distinguished Scientist Award from the American College of Cardiology.

With his permission, Prof Abraham is contactable here.

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