Speakers and Programme 

Introducing the PATH Africa Speakers

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 Anna Herrey

United Kingdom

Barts Heart Centre, London

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 Preliminary Programme

PATH Africa is a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) accredited event: 15 points (14 clinical + 1 ethical)

 Monday 18 March 2024 


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 



 Tuesday 19 March 2024 


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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