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 08:00-08:15 Welcome
Maria Kiaffas - John Papagiannis - Aikaterini Giannakopoulou - Sanket Shah
08:15-11:00 Session 1: Echocardiography and morphology correlations: The basics, the common and the uncommon
Moderators: Maria Kiaffas – Spyridon Rammos – George Sarris
08:15-08:45 Stephen Sanders: The segmental echocardiographic approach to congenital heart disease
08:45-09:05 Tal Geva: A systematic approach to ventricular septal defects
09:05-09:25 Tal Geva: The secrets of the double outlet right ventricle
09:25-09:55 Stephen Sanders & Shardha Srinivasan: The amazing Mr Truncus Arteriosus
09:55-10:25 Stephen Sanders & Maria Kiaffas: The not so lonely single ventricle
10:25-10:55 Stephen Sanders & Shubika Srivastava: 'Messy directions' - The Criss-cross ventricles
10:55-11:00 Questions
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-13:30 Session 2:  It's all about 3D but not without some strain
Moderators: Cleo Laskari – Antonios Vlachos - Anitha Parthiban

11:30-12:00 Gerald Ross Marx: Three Dimensional Echocardiography: Everyday clinical applications
12:00-12:20
 Anitha Parthiban: 3D TTE and TEE in atrioventricular valve disease
12:20-12:40
 Sanket Shah: Surgical planning and 3D echocardiography
12:40-13:00
 Doaa Aly: All those pretty 3D images - Now how can I get them?
13:00-13:20  Marietta Charakida:  Ventricular strain: Applications in pediatric and congenital heart disease
13:20-13:30 Questions
13:30-14:30 Intermission
14:30-16:40 Session 3:  Special clinical settings and some imaging
Moderators: John Papagiannis – Dimitrios Bobos – Andrew Powell
14:30-14:50 Aikaterini Giannakopoulou: Cardio-oncology in the pediatric patient
14:50-15:10 John Papagiannis: Mitral valve prolapse: Features and management of high risk patients
15:10-15:30 Maully Shah: Utility of echocardiography in electrophysiology procedures
15:30-15:50
 Sotiria Apostolopoulou: What the interventional cardiologist expects from the echocardiographer
15:50-16:10 Petros Anagnostopoulos: What the surgeon expects from the echocardiographer in and out of the OR
16:10-16:30
 Ilias Iliopoulos: What the intensivist expects from the echocardiographer
16:30-16:40 Questions

08:30-10:30 Session 4: Hot Topics in Imaging today
Moderators: Maria Kiaffas - Thomas Vrachliotis - Peter G. Danias
08:30-09:00
Andrew Powell: Imaging innovations in Congenital Heart Disease
 09:00-09:20 Sanket Shah: Cross sectional imaging of the vascular rings
 09:20-09:40 Doaa Aly: AI in cardiac imaging
 09:40-10:00 Nadine Choueiter: Stress MRI in congenital heart disease
 10:00-10:20 Carter Ralphe: It’ all about the image:  Putting together a strong Non-invasive imaging department for your Heart Center
10:20-10:30 Questions
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-13:00 Session 5:  Cardiac MRI in answering clinical questions
Moderators: Ioannis Germanakis - Theodora Zaglavara - Aphrodite Tzifa
11:00-11:30
Tal Geva: Role of MRI in risk stratification of patients with repaired TOF
 11:30-11:50 Stephen Sanders:  Multimodality imaging of pediatric cardiac tumors
11:50-12:10 Maria Boutsikou: The patient with a shunt
 12:10-12:30 Soultana (Tania) Kourtidou: Cross-sectional imaging of the patient with heterotaxy
12:30-12:50
Nadine Choueiter: Multimodality imaging of the patient with Kawasaki disease
12:50-13:00 Questions
13:00-14:00 Intermission
14:00-16:00 Session 6:  MRI and the Challenging Patient
Moderators: Soultana (Tania) Kourtidou - John Papagiannis – Carter Ralphe
14:00-14:30 Juan Pablo Kaski: Sudden death risk stratification in childhood cardiomyopathies
14:30-14:50 Eva Nyktari: The role of MRI in imaging Cardiomyopathies
14:50-15:10 Margaret Samyn: Imaging heart transplant patients with MRI
15:10-15:30 Maully Shah: MRI in the patient with a pacemaker
15:30-15:50 Anne Marie Valente: Cardiac MRI in the adult patient with CHD
15:50-16:00 Questions

08:30-10:30 Session 7:  Everyday Practice in Fetal Cardiology
Moderator: Anastasia Areti Komnou - Maria Kiaffas -  Alexandros Sotiriadis
  
08:30-08:50 Makarios Eleftheriades: Fetal echocardiography in the 1st trimester 
08:50-09:10 Shardha Srinivasan: Vascular rings and slings in the fetus
09:10-09:30 Sheetal Patel: Prenatal detection and perinatal management of d-Transposition of the great arteries
09:30-09:50 Marietta Charakida: Evaluation of the hypoplastic left heart and its variants
09:50-10:20 Mary Donofrio: Specialized delivery planning after a fetal diagnosis of Congenital Heart Disease
10:20-10:30 Questions
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-13:00 Session 8:  The Challenging Fetus plus the Exotic Fetal Heart
Moderators: Ageliki Karatza - Georgia Konstantopoulou – Makarios Eleftheriades
11:00-11:30 Anita Moon Grady: Twin to twin transfusion syndrome and the fetal heart
11:30-11:50 Anitha Parthiban: Fetal arrhythmias
11:50-12:10 Sheetal Patel: Fetal echocardiographic variables associated with pre-surgical mortality in truncus arteriosus
12:10-12:30 Shubika Srivastava: The other transposition – Congenitally corrected transposition in the fetus
12:30-12:50 Maria Kiaffas: Coronary artery fistula in the fetus
12:50-13:00  Questions
13:00-14:00 Intermission
14:00-16:30 Session 9:  Hot Topics in Fetal Cardiology
Moderators: Maria Kiaffas - Pipina Bonou - Anitha Parthiban
14:00-14:30 Anne Marie Valente: Management of the pregnant woman with CHD
14:30-15:00 Mary Donofrio: Interventions to improve outcome after Fetal Diagnosis of CHD
15:00-15:30 Andrew Powell: Fetal Cardiac MRI: Necessity or Luxury
15:30-15:50 Anna Tsirka: The failing fetal heart
15:50-16:20 Anita Moon Grady: The fetal cardiac intervention registry and results from multicenter studies in fetal cardiac intervention
16:20-16:30 Questions