EACVI Brainstorming meeting on Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac CT 2018

The EACVI Brainstorming meeting on Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac CT is an outstanding meeting and exchange platform dedicated to Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac CT that will be held from 25 to 27 October 2018 in Valencia, Spain.

Course directors

• Oliver Gaemperli (Switzeland)
• Pal Maurovich-Horvat (Hungary)

Call for abstracts

If you are under 38 years old or under 40 years old in training, submit your abstract and take your chance to be selected to attend the EACVI Brainstorming meeting on Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac CT 2018.

Up to 8 of the best abstracts will be selected. The submitters will be invited at no charge to take part of this open forum to discuss crucial topics with key opinion leaders and industry representatives taking part and to present their work.

Submit your abstract

Deadline: 20 August 2018.

Faculty

In alphabetical order
(The Faculty members may be subject to changes)

• Constantinos Anagnostopoulos
• Ronny Buechel
• Marc Dweck
• Oliver Gaemperli
• Alessia Gimelli
• Senta Graf
• Fabien Hyafil
• Philipp Kaufmann
• Anastasia Kitsiou
• Paul Knaapen
• Juhani Knuuti
• Riccardo Liga
• Natalia Maroz-Vadalazhskaya
• Pal Maurovich-Horvat
• Danilo Neglia
• Stephan Nekolla
• Gianluca Pontone
• Francesca Pugliese
• Eliana Reyes
• Antti Saraste
• Artur Scholte
• Richard Underwood

Scientific programme

(The programme may be subject to changes)

Day 1 – EACVI and NC/CT section, politics and strategy

• 12:00-14:00 Lunch
• 14:00-14:15 Welcome address
• 14:15-14:30 Brainstorming Meeting Program
• 14:30- 17:00 Present and future of the EACVI NC&CCT
  • The history of NC&CCT “Club”
  • The present role of the EACVI NC/CT section
  • The future pathway of the section within EACVI
  • The voice of the young community
  • Strategic outlook from EACVI leadership
  • Discussion
• 17:00-17:30 Coffee break
• 17:30-19:15 Update on the EACVI NC/CT section activities
  • CT certification, online platform
  • NC certification, teaching courses and events
  • An update on ICNC
  • An update on the EHJ CVI
  • Strategic overview from the industry
• 20:00-22:00 Dinner

Day 2 – Research and innovation

• 08:30-10:00 2018 Research in NC & CCT I
  Multicenter International Trials and Registries
  • EURECA registry
  • CREDENCE study
  • PACIFIC trial
• 10:00 -10:30 Coffee break
• 10:30 – 12:00 The voice of the young community part 1
  YIA on innovative research in Nuclear Cardiology
• 12:00-13:00 Lunch
• 13:00 -15:00 2018 Research in NC & CCT II
• 13:00-14:00 Nuclear Cardiology
  • Solid-state cardiac SPECT
  • New tracers
  • Innervation imaging
  • PET
• 14:00-15:00 Cardiac CT
  • Small footprint cardiac CT scanners
  • CT-FFR and CT perfusion
  • Machine learning and deep learning in cardiac CT
  • Radiomics
• 15:00-16:30 Round table with industry on Research (Recent developments in the industry field)
• 16:30-23:00 Networking and Dinner

Day 3 – Clinical implementation

• 08:30-10:00 The voice of the young community part 2
  YIA on innovative research in Cardiac CT
• 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
• 10:30- 12:30 Radionuclide imaging and CT in clinical practice
  • PET/MR: role for cardiac imaging
  • New pharmacologic stress agents: experience with regadenoson
  • CT for structural/valvular heart disease
  • Updated NICE guidelines for stable CAD: CT for all patients?
  • round table with industry
• 12:30-12:35 Closing Remarks and End of the meeting
• 12:35-13:00 Lunch