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University Hospital Zurich
Department of Cardiology
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Rämistrasse 100
CH-8091 Zurich
6th Zurich International Symposium on Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathies
| 19.09.2024 | 13.30 - 19.00 | Thursday |
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| 20.09.2024 | 8.30 a.m. - 7 p.m. | Friday |
Preliminary program
| 1:30 pm | Welcome speech Firat Duru (Zurich) and Corinna Brunckhorst (Zurich) |
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| 1:40 pm | Opening remarks Monika Jänicke (Zurich) |
| 1:45 pm | Introduction: Rationale for a new international expert consensus document on arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy Hugh Calkins (Baltimore) and Firat Duru (Zurich) |
General sessions (I) (Each presentation is followed by 10 minutes of discussion) Chairs: William McKenna (London) and Gaetano Thiene (Padua) |
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| 2:00 pm | Pathology of arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy Cristina Basso (Padua) and Jeffrey Saffitz (Boston) |
| 2:25 pm | Pathophysiology and mechanisms of disease Mario Delmar (London) and Chantal van Opbergen (Amsterdam) |
| 3:00 p.m. | Genetic basis of disease Peter van Tintelen (Amsterdam) and Cynthia James (Baltimore) |
| 3:30 p.m. | Coffee break |
| General sessions (II) (Each presentation is followed by 10 minutes of discussion) Chairs: Richard Hauer (Utrecht) and Wojciech Zareba (Rochester) General approach to diagnostic testing |
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| 4:00 pm | Electrocardiography Pyotr Platonov (Lund) |
| 4:20 pm | Echocardiography Kristina Haugaa (Oslo) |
| 4:40 pm | Magnetic resonance imaging Stefan Zimmerman (Baltimore) |
| 5:00 pm | Risk stratification in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy Julia Cadrin-Tourigny (Montreal) |
| 5:30 p.m. | Effects of physical activity Ardan Saguner (Zurich)ICD and catheter ablation: Hari Tandri (Nashville) Gene-based therapies: TBD |
| 6:00 pm | Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy at a young age: special considerations for the pediatric population Dominic Abrams (Boston) and Juan Pablo Kaski (London) |
| 6:30 pm | Concluding remarks Frank Ruschitzka (Zurich) |
| 6:35 pm | Cocktail |
| 7:00 pm | Faculty Dinner |
| 8:30 a.m. | Opening remarks Corinna Brunckhorst (Zurich) |
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| Genotype sessions (I) (Each presentation is followed by 10 minutes of discussion) Chairs: Firat Duru (Zurich) and Hugh Calkins (Baltimore) |
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| 8:35 a.m. | Plakophilin-2 (PKP2) cardiomyopathy Cynthia James (Baltimore) and Anneline te Riele (Utrecht) |
| 9:20 a.m. | Desmoglein-2 (DSG2) / Desmocollin-2 (DSC2) Cardiomyopathy Julia Cadrin-Tourigny (Montreal) and Daniel Judge (Charleston) |
| 10:00 a.m. | Desmoplakin (DSP) cardiomyopathy Adam Helms (Ann Arbor) and Kalliopi Pilichou (Padova) |
| 10:40 a.m. | Coffee break |
| 11:20 a.m. | Phospholamban (PLN) cardiomyopathy Moniek Cox (Utrecht) and Peter van Tintelen (Amsterdam) |
| 12:20 pm | Transmembrane protein 43 (TMEM43) cardiomyopathy Kathy Hodgkinson (St. John’s) and Sean Connors (St. John’s) |
| 1:00 pm | Lunch Break |
| Genotype sessions (II) (Each presentation is followed by 10 minutes of discussion) Chairs: Corinna Brunckhorst (Zurich) and Hugh Calkins (Baltimore) |
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| 2:00 pm | Plakoglobin (JUP) cardiomyopathy Alexandros Protonotarios (London) and Adalena Tsatsopoulou (Athens) |
| 2:35 pm | Desmin (DES) cardiomyopathy Juan Jimenez Jaimez (Granada) and Andreas Barth (Baltimore) |
| 3:10 pm | Filamin-C (FLNC) cardiomyopathy Luisa Mestroni (Denver) and Job Verdonschot (Maastricht) |
| 3:40 pm | Cadherin-2 (CDH2) cardiomyopathy Lia Crotti (Milan) and Paolo Cerea (Milan) |
| 4:10 pm | Coffee break |
Genotype sessions (III) Treatment of arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy
(Each lecture will be followed by 10 minutes of discussion) |
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| 4:40 pm | Antiarrhythmic therapy Wojciech Zareba (Rochester) |
| 5:00 pm | ACE inhibitors, ARBs and aldosterone inhibitors Larissa Fabritz (Hamburg) |
| 5:20 pm | Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Andrew Krahn (Vancouver) |
| 5:40 pm | Catheter ablation Harikrishna Tandri (Nashville) |
| 6:00 pm | Summary of Day 2 and closing remarks Hugh Calkins (Baltimore) and Firat Duru (Zurich) |
| 7:00 pm | Gala Dinner |
- Abrams Dominic (Boston)
- Ackerman Michael (Rochester)
- Eagle Eric (San Diego)
- Amin Ahmad (Amsterdam)
- Anastasakis Aris (Athens)
- Asatryan Babken (Baltimore)
- Barth Andreas (Baltimore)
- Basso Cristina (Padua)
- Bauce Barbara (Padua)
- Bermúdez Francisco (Granada)
- Biller Ruth (Unterschleissheim)
- Bluemke David (Madison)
- Brunckhorst Corinna (Zurich)
- Bundgaard Henning (Copenhagen)
- Cadrin-Tourigny Julia (Montreal)
- Calkins Hugh (Baltimore)
- Cerea Paolo (Milan)
- Cerrone Marina (New York)
- Chelko Stephen (Baltimore)
- Chen Ju (San Diego)
- Chen Liang (Beijing)
- Chen Vincent (Indianapolis)
- Chevalier Philippe (Lyon)
- Christensen Alex (Copenhagen)
- Connors Sean (St. John’s Newfoundland)
- Corrado Domenico (Padua)
- Cox Moniek (Utrecht)
- Cramer Maarten Jan (Utrecht)
- Crotti Lia (Milan)
- de Boer Rudolf (Utrecht)
- Delmar Mario (New York)
- Duru Firat (Zurich)
- Elliott Perry (London)
- Fabritz Larissa (Hamburg)
- Gandjbakch Estelle (Paris)
- Garcia Hernandez Soledad (Seville)
- Gasperetti Allessio (Baltimore)
- Gerull Brenda (Würzburg)
- Gigli Marta (Trieste)
- Gilotra Nisha (Baltimore)
- Groeneweg Judith (Utrecht)
- Hamilton Robert (Toronto)
- Hastrup Svendsen Jesper (Copenhagen)
- Hauer Richard (Utrecht)
- Haugaa Kristina (Oslo)
- Hays Allison (Baltimore)
- Helms Adam (Ann Arbor)
- Hershberger Ray (Columbus)
- Hodgkinson Kathy (St. John’s Newfoundland)
- James Cynthia (Baltimore)
- Jimenez Jaimez Juan (Granada)
- Jordan Elizabeth (Columbus)
- Judge Daniel (Charleston)
- Jurcut Ruxandra Oana (Bucharest)
- Kaski Juan Pablo (London)
- Krahn Andrew (Vancouver)
- La Gerche Andre (Melbourne)
- Lakdawala Neal (Boston)
- Landstrom Andrew (Durham)
- Macias Ruiz Rosa (Granada)
- MacRae Calum (Boston)
- Manka Robert (Zurich)
- Mazzanti Andrea (Padova)
- McKenna William (London)
- Mestroni Luisa (Denver)
- Monserrat Lorenzo (Coruna)
- Murray Brittney (Baltimore)
- Namasivayam Mayooran (Sydney)
- Ochoa Juan Pablo (Coruna)
- Olivotto Iacopo (Florence)
- Parikh Victoria (Stanford)
- Perazzolo Marra Martina (Padova)
- Picard Michael (Boston)
- Pilichou Kalliopi (Padua)
- Platonov Pyotr (Lund)
- Protonotarios Alexandros (London)
- Rampazzo Alessandra (Padua)
- Rizzo Stefania (Padova)
- Saffitz Jeffrey (Boston)
- Saguner Ardan (Zurich)
- Sanborn Danita (Boston)
- Schulze-Bahr Eric (Münster)
- Semsarian Christopher (Sydney)
- Sinagra Gianfranco (Trieste)
- Spindler Volker (Hamburg)
- Syrris Petros (London)
- Tandri Harikrishna (Nashville)
- Tanner Felix (Zurich)
- Taylor Mathew (Denver)
- te Riele Anneline (Utrecht)
- Teske Arco (Utrecht)
- Tichnell Crystal (Baltimore)
- Towbin Jeffrey (Memphis)
- Tsatsopoulou Adalena (Athens)
- van Opbergen Chantal (Amsterdam)
- van Spaendonck-Zwarts Karin (Utrecht)
- van Tintelen Peter (Utrecht)
- van Veen Toon (Utrecht)
- Velthuis Birgitta (Utrecht)
- Verdonschot Job (Utrecht)
- Ware James (London)
- Wilde Arthur (Amsterdam)
- Zareba Wojciech (Rochester)
- Zimmerman Stefan (Baltimore)
The 6th Zurich International Symposium on Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathies is mainly sponsored by the “Georg and Bertha Schwyzer-Winiker Foundation”, as well as partners from the pharmaceutical / medtech industry.
