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

More from this programme

Part 1

Day One

8 sessions
Plenary session 1 – Practical implementation of GDMT in the clinical setting Watch now
Plenary session 2 – SGLT2s in clinical practice Watch now
Special session 1 – Cardiac rhythm management devices: cornerstones of comprehensive, patient-centred HF care The-DIRECT-HF initiative (The DIRECT HF educational programme is supported by Medtronic) Watch now
Plenary session 3 – Obesity and weight management in HF Watch now
Special session 2 – Face to face with cardiac amyloidosis Watch now
Plenary session 4 – Managing cardiomyopathy in HF Watch now
Plenary session 5 – Cardiac rhythm in HF Watch now
Plenary session 6 – Devices in HF; time to reassess their place? Watch now

Part 2

Day Two

5 sessions
Plenary session 7 – Enabling GDMT in HF Watch now
Plenary session 8 – Iron deficiency: the totality of evidence Watch now
Plenary session 9 – Managing HFpEF in 2024 Watch now
Plenary session 10 – Valvular heart disease Watch now
Plenary session 11 – Remote monitoring and team approaches in the management of HF Watch now

Faculty Biographies

David Sim

David Sim

Consultant

Overview

Dr David Sim is a senior consultant in the cardiology department at the National Heart Centre in Singapore.

 

Academic History

  • Royal College of Physicians (UK) diploma, 2004
  • Masters of Medicine (Internal Medicine), National University of Singapore, 2004
  • Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, National University of Singapore, 2004

 

Career Overview

Dr Sim is the director of both the heart failure programme and the clinical trial research office and plays an active role as coordinator in a number of major global heart failure trials. He is a committee member of the adult heart transplant programme in the NHCS and is the project director for the advanced care planning programme.1

He has worked as an associate professor at the…

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Alicia Chan

Alicia Chan

Cardiologist

Dr Alicia Chan is a cardiologist at Western HeartCare, Henley Beach, AU. 

She specialises in heart failure and implantable devices therapy and also has a keen interest in heart disease in women.

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Gianluigi Savarese

Gianluigi Savarese

Associate Professor of Cardiology

Prof Gianluigi Savarese is currently an Associate Professor of Cardiology and Heart Failure Specialist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. 

Prof Savarese has served on the board for the European Society of Cardiology's Heart Failure Association since 2020, and has previously been a Nucleus member of a working group on Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy for the ESC. He is a member of the Italian Society of Cardiology, and the Swedish Society of Cardiology. 

Prof Savarese attended the University of Naples Federico II University for his degree in Surgery and Medicine between 2004 - 2010. He then went on to stay at the same institution until 2016 as he completed his Specialism in Cardiovascular Diseases. He then continued his postgraduate studies at the University of Zurich between 2015-2017, where he continued his studies into Heart Failure. Finally, Prof Savarese completed his PhD at the Karolinska Institutet in 2018. 

Prof Savarese has…

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Gerasimos Filippatos

Gerasimos Filippatos

Professor of Cardiology

Prof Gerasimos Filippatos is a Professor of Cardiology and Cardiologist at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, GR.

He studied Medicine at the University of Patras, and earned his doctorate Cum Laude from the University of Athens.

Prof Filippatos is Past President of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the European Society of Cardiology and he has published over 600 articles in peer-reviewed journals and authored more than 30 book chapters.

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João Pedro Ferreira

João Pedro Ferreira

Professor

Dr João Ferreira is a Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, Porto, PT.

He is also a colaborator with the Clinical Research Center, Nancy, FR.

Dr Ferreira's areas of research include hypertension, cardiac arrest, biomarkers and internal medicine.

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