Unless an alternative location is indicated, sessions will be held in the McGrath Centre at St Catharine’s College (CB2 1RL).
Programme
| 08:45 | Registration, Refreshments | Foyer, McGrath Centre |
| 09:15 | Welcome and Overview of Event: Martin Bennett | |
| Keynote speaker:
Prof Niels Peek - Professor of Data Science and Healthcare Improvement, THIS Institute |
Prediction Technologies in Cardiovascular Medicine: Past, Present, and Future |
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Session 1: Rhythm Disorders |
Chairs: Lay Ping Ong, Angela Wood | |
| 10:05 | Peter Charlton - Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge University | Using wearables to detect atrial fibrillation in daily life |
| 10:20 | Jonathan Mant - Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge University |
Screening for Atrial Fibrillation with ECG to Reduce stroke– the SAFER trial |
| 10:35 | Greg Mellor - Royal Papworth Hospital | Quinidine for the treatment of Idiopathic Ventricular Fibrillation |
| 10:50 |
Poster Previews session Chair: Lay Ping Ong Posters will be available to view in the foyer, garden room and SCR during the morning break and at lunchtime from 13:45 |
Ana Vujic, Dept Medicine, UoC; Beatrice Waller, Dept Medicine, UoC; Eleanor Winpenny, MRC Epidemiology Unit, UoC; Nicola McCarthy, Milner Therapeutics Institute, UoC; Elsa Lawrence, Dept Pharmacology, UoC. |
| 11:05 |
Refreshments Served in the foyer and SCR
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Poster session opens in the SCR |
| Session 2: Imaging and the application of AI
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Chairs: Nick Evans, Joseph Cheriyan |
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| 11:35 |
Smriti Agarwal - CUH NHS Foundation Trust |
AI in acute stroke - promises and challenges |
| 11:50 |
Jason Tarkin - Department of Medicine, Cambridge University |
New imaging modalities to detect cardiovascular inflammation |
| 12:05 |
Jonathan Weir McCall, Department of Radiology, Cambridge University |
Big data and AI in cardiac imaging: Making a difference? |
| 12:20 |
Parallel sessions Numbers are limited for each session – please sign up in advance or during registration |
Topics:
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| 13:10 |
Lunch Served in the downstairs bar. Participants are welcome to carry food upstairs |
Poster session continues from 13:45 in the foyer, garden room and SCR |
| Session 3: Translating omics into better therapies | Chairs: Eric Harshfield, Adam Butterworth | |
| 14:45 |
Alessandra Granata - Neurology Unit, Cambridge University |
Modelling Small Vessel Disease in a dish – towards new treatments |
| 15:00 |
Nicole Soranzo - Human Technopole and Cambridge University |
Large scale functional genomics approaches for target discovery |
| 15:15 |
Elise Needham - Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge University |
Mapping genetic influences on phosphorylation reveals signalling connections and functions |
| 15:30 |
Refreshments Served in the Foyer |
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Session 4: Drug re-purposing and precision medication |
Chairs: Emma Hodson, Carmel McEniery | |
| 16:00 |
Phil Ambery - AstraZeneca |
From systemic hypertension to cirrhosis and CKD, with pulmonary hypertension and prostate cancer in between, the many lives of Zibotentan |
| 16:15 |
Spoorthy Kulkarni - CUH NHS Foundation Trust |
Comparison of optimal hypertension regimes in different ethnicities: The AIM-HY INFORM trial |
| 16:30 |
Rouchelle Sriranjan - CUH NHS Foundation Trust and Department of Medicine, Cambridge University |
The results of the low-dose interleukin-2 for the reduction of vascular inflammation in Acute Coronary Syndromes (IVORY) Trial |
| 16:45 |
Discussion Panel Panel members: Hugh Markus, Sue Ozanne, Sanjay Sinha, Charlotte Summers |
Reflections on the day and questions from participants |
| 17:10 |
Inspirational speaker: Prof Giles Yeo, Institute of Metabolic Science |
Why should we speak to the media? |
| 17:35 | Poster prizes and closing remarks | Prof Martin Bennett |
| Post-event Networking | All are most welcome to stay for drinks and nibbles (McGrath Centre foyer) |
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