Prof Karen Sliwa
South Africa
Director of the Cape Heart Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Prof Dr Johann Bauersachs
Germany
Head of the Department of Cardiology and Angiology at Hannover Medical School (MHH)
Prof Alexandre Mebazaa
France
MD,PhD, FESC, Vice –dean of UP Santé’s International Relations at the health faculty, INSERM’s Director for Unit 942, Chairman of the Department of anesthesia and critical care department of two hospitals: Saint Louis & Lariboisière - Fernand Widal University Hospitals.
Prof Ana Olga Mocumbi
Mozambique
Associate Professor of Cardiology at Universidade Eduardo Mondlane in Mozambique
Prof Kamilu Karaye
Nigeria
Department of Medicine, Bayero University & Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano, Nigeria.
Prof Ntobeko Ntusi
South Africa
Head of Medicine and Clinical Lead for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance at Groote Schuur Hospital
Prof Liesl Zühlke
South Africa
Vice-President South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC); Paediatric Cardiologist, University of Cape Town
Dr Ayesha Osman
South Africa
Head Clinical Unit of Obstetrics at Groote Schuur Hospital, affiliated to the University of Cape Town in South Africa; and Maternal Fetal Medicine Subspecialist.
Prof Mushi Matjila
South Africa
Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town
Assoc Prof Blanche Cupido
South Africa
Groote Schuur Hospital / University of Cape Town
Prof Justiaan Swanevelder
South Africa
Professor and Head of Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine
at UCT/ Groote Schuur and Red Cross War Memorial
Children’s Hospital
Dr Julian Hoevelmann
Germany
Registrar in Cardiology at the Department of Internal Medicine III–Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg, Germany.
PhD student at the Cape Heart Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Dr Rachel Sinkey
USA
Associate Professor, Department of OB/GYN, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Prof Dirk Blom
South Africa
Department of Medicine and Cape Heart Institute, University of Cape Town / Associate Professor
Dr Charle Viljoen
South Africa
Cardiologist and Specialist Physician in Cape
Town, South Africa.
Dr Julius Mwita
Botswana
Associate Professor at the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Botswana
Prof Hawani Prameswari
Indonesia
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Padjadjaran University, Hasan Sadikin General Hospital, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia
Dr Juliet Nabbaale
Uganda
PhD Candidate (University of Cape Town) Consultant Cardiologist. Uganda Heart Institute, Kampala, Uganda
Dr. Sibone Mocumbi
Mozambique
Associate Professor and head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) in Maputo, Mozambique. He is also the residency Director in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Maputo Central Hospital
Prof Vernon Louw
South Africa
Chair and Head Division of Clinical Haematology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital
Dr Abigail Blumenthal
South Africa
BA Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University of Cape Town
Dr Haroun Rhemtula
South Africa
Dr Haroun Rhemtula is a Principal Specialist Obstetrician, Gynaecologist and lecturer at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital (CMJAH) and Wits Medical School.
Dr Marcelle Crowther
South Africa
Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital
Dr Tasneem
Ahmed-Rajie
South Africa
Tertiary Maternity Centre at Groote Schuur Hospital,
PATH Africa is a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) accredited event: 15 points (14 clinical + 1 ethical)
08:30 - 08:45
Registration
Tea and Coffee
08:45 - 09:00
Opening Address and Welcome
Opening Address by the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, UCT
Prof. Lionel Green-Thompson (introduced by Prof. Karen Sliwa)
Welcome
Prof. Mushi Matjila & Dr. Ayesha Osman
Session 1: Management of Acute and Chronic Peripartum Heart Failure
Chairpersons: Mpiko Nsekhe & Ayesha Osman
09:00 - 09:25
Guideline directed medical heart failure therapy: how
applicable is that in peripartum women?
Prof. Alex Mebazaa
09:25 - 09:30
Q&A
09:30 - 09:55
Opening lecture: Use of Devices in acute heart failure
Prof. Johann Bauersachs (Germany)
09:55 - 10:00
Q&A
10:00 - 10:25
Balancing maternal and foetal risk & appropriate mode of delivery
Prof. Harron Rhemtula (South Africa)
10:25 - 10:30
Q&A
10:30 - 11:00
Morning Coffee Break
Refreshment Break
Session 2: Co-Morbidities & Prognosis
Chairpersons: Dr Charle Viljoen & Prof Rachel Sinkey
11:00 - 11:15
Point-of-Care echocardiography
Dr. Julian Hoevelmann (Germany)
11:15 - 11:20
Q&A
11:20 - 11:35
Pre-eclampsia and long-term CVD implications
Dr Rachel Sinkey
11:35 - 11:40
Q&A
11:40 - 12:05
Acute anaesthetic peripartum management
Prof. Justiaan Swanevelder
12:05 - 12:10
Q&A
12:10 - 12:35
Cardiovascular risk screening in pregnant and puerperal
women: pragmatic approach in a low-income setting
Prof. Ana Mocumbi (Mozambique)
12:35 - 12:45
Q&A
12:45 - 13:45
Lunch
Session 3: Managing Underlying Disease in Pregnancy I
Chairpersons: Sibone Mocumbi & Blanche Cupido
13:45 - 14:00
Coronary Artery Disease
Prof. Johann Bauersachs (Germany)
14:00 - 14:05
Q&A
14:05 - 14:20
Hyperlipidaemia
Prof. Dirk Blom (South Africa)
14:20 - 14:25
Q&A
14:25 - 14:40
Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy
Prof. Sibone Mocumbi (Mozambique)
14:40 - 14:45
Q&A
14:45 - 15:00
Rheumatic Heart Disease in Pregnancy
Assoc Prof. Blanche Cupido
15:00 - 15:05
Q&A
15:05 - 15:20
TBC
15:20 - 15:25
Q&A
15:25 - 16:00
Afternoon Coffee Break
Refreshment Break
Session 4: E-posters and Ethical Session
Chairpersons: Priya Soma-Pillay & Dr Anna Herrey
16:00 - 16:25
Peripartum HIV - diagnosis and management
Dr Abigail Blumenthal
16:25 - 16:30
Q&A
16:30 - 16:55
The poorest billion and maternal health
Prof. Ana Mocumbi
16:55 - 17:00
Q&A
17:00 - 17:25
Topic to be confirmed
Prof. Priya Soma-Pillay
17:25 - 17:30
Q&A
17:30 - 18:30
E-poster presentations
CPD POINTS for this day
8 clinical
1 ethics
Session 1: Managing Underlying Disease in Pregnancy II
Chairperson: Prof. Liesl Zuhlke & Prof. Ana Mocumbi
08:00 - 09:00
E-poster presentations
with Tea and Coffee
09:00 - 09:15
Peripartum Cardiomyopathy and subsequent pregnancy
Prof. Karen Sliwa (South Africa)
09:15 - 09:20
Q&A
09:20 - 09:35
Anaemia
Prof. Vernon Louw (South Africa)
09:35 - 09:40
Q&A
09:40 - 09:55
Unoperated Congenital (non-cyanotic)
Assoc Prof. Blanche Cupido (South Africa)
09:55 - 10:00
Q&A
10:00 - 10:15
Operated/cyanotic Congenital HD
Prof. Liesl Zuehlke
10:15 - 10:20
Q&A
10:20 - 10:35
Risk stratification and counselling
Dr Anna Herrey
10:35 - 10:40
Q&A
10:40 - 10:55
Global PPCM
Dr Rachel Sinkey
10:55 - 11:00
Q&A
11:00 - 11:30
Morning Coffee Break
Refreshment Break
Session 2: Imaging the Peripartum Heart
Chairpersons: Prof. Tessa Kotze & Prof. Ntobeko Ntusi
11:30 - 11:55
Role of imaging - MRI
Prof. Ntobeko Ntusi
11:55 - 12:00
Q&A
12:00 - 12:15
Point-of-care echocariography
Dr. Charle Viljoen (South Africa)
12:15 - 12:20
Q&A
12:20 - 12:35
Obstetric talk
Dr. Tasneem Ahmed-Rajie
12:35 - 12:40
Q&A
12:45 - 13:45
Lunch
Session 3: Clinical Scenarios of Cardiac Disease in Pregnancy
Chairpersons: Blanche Cupido & Tasneem Ahmed-Rajie
13:45 - 14:05
Challenging peripartum cases from Botswana
Prof. Julius Mwita (Botswana)
14:05 - 14:10
Q&A
14:10 - 14:30
Challenging peripartum cases from Indonesia
Prof. Hawani Sasmaya Prameswari (Indonesia)
14:30 - 14:35
Q&A
14:35 - 14:55
Challenging peripartum cases from Uganda
Dr. Juliet Nabbaale
14:55 - 15:00
Q&A
15:00 - 15:20
Challenging peripartum cases from Groote Schuur Hospital - Anaesthesia
Dr Marcelle Crowther (South Africa)
15:20 - 15:25
Q&A
15:25 - 15:45
Challenging peripartum cases from Nigeria
Prof. Kamilu Karaye
15:45 - 16:00
Closing
CPD POINTS for this day
6 clinical
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PATH Africa is a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) accredited event:
15 points (14 clinical + 1 ethical)