Welcome Message
On behalf of A. Menarini Asia-Pacific Pte Ltd (“Menarini”), we are pleased to welcome you to the 1st Asia Pacific CardioConnect Meeting under the theme “Cardiology, Innovations Towards the Future”.This Meeting is Menarini’s first inaugural event supported by 15 international speakers from Greece, Italy, United Kingdom, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea and Thailand to share the latest clinical developments in the field of cardiology for cardiologists all over the world.
Menarini is committed to work alongside healthcare professionals to improve clinical outcomes for hypertensive patients and is pleased to be congregating leading cardiologists from across Asia for this Meeting. We hope that CardioConnect provides you with the opportunity to build networking and updates to cardiovascular diseases.
We look forward to welcoming you to this meeting held in the Land of Smiles, Bangkok, Thailand.
Day 1: 26th March 2016
| TIME | PRESENTATION | TITLE PRESENTER |
| 8:00 | Registration | |
| 08:55 | Welcome address | Chumpol Piamsomboon (Thailand) |
| 09:00 | Introduction | Agabiti Rosei (Italy) Cheol Ho Kim (Korea) |
| Discussion Session I: Hypertension and other risk factors Chairperson: Agabiti Rosei (Italy) | ||
| 09:15 | Hyperlipidaemia and diabetes: What's new? | Low Lip Ping (Singapore) |
| Pulse wave velocity: A surrogate endpoint on hypertension | Claudio Borghi (Italy) | |
| Are all therapeutic approaches the same? | Nakarin Sansanayudh (Thailand) | |
| Lecture I | ||
| 10:30 | Genetics in cardiovascular diseases | Giuseppe Ambrosio (Italy) |
| 11:00 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| Discussion Session II: Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) Chairperson: Aizai Azan (Malaysia) | ||
| 11:30 | An update in the treatment of CHF based on recent published guidelines | Peter Collins (UK) |
| Unmet needs in the treatment of CHF | Giuseppe Ambrosio (Italy) | |
| End-stage HF: What to do? | Carolyn Lam (Singapore) | |
| 13:00 | LUNCH | |
| Discussion Session III: Hot topics Chairperson: Cheol Ho Kim (Korea) | ||
| 14:30 | Prevention of stroke in atrial fibrillation | Agabiti Rosei (Italy) |
| Pulmonary embolism: how to diagnose and how to treat | Panos Vardas (Greece) | |
| The health and wealth of cardiovascular diseases: A look at pharmacoeconomics data | Athanasios Manolis (Greece) | |
| New data on hypertension treatment with ACE-Is | Claudio Borghi (Italy) | |
| 16:00 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| Lecture II | ||
| 16:30 | Endothelial dysfunction and nitric oxide: Beyond hypertension | Low Lip Ping (Singapore) |
| Debate I Chairperson: Panos Vardas (Greece) | ||
| 17:00 | ESH/ESC hypertension guidelines are more relevant to Asian patients than the NICE guidelines | Agabiti Rosei (Italy) & Cheol Ho Kim (Korea) |
Day 2: 27th March 2016
| TIME | PRESENTATION | TITLE PRESENTER |
| Discussion Session IV: Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) Chairperson: Carolyn Lam (Singapore) | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Revascularization in CAD patients | Hyo-Soo Kim (Korea) |
| Gaps in physicians perception and patients disease state | Carolyn Lam (Singapore) | |
| Diabetic patients with Stable CAD: Optimal treatment | Giuseppe Ambrosio (Italy) | |
| Current drugs in Stable CAD | Peter Collins (UK) | |
| Debate II Chairperson: Rafael Castillo (Philippines) | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | The role of factors influencing clinical decision making in stable CAD | Athanasios Manolis (Greece) & Carolyn Lam (Singapore) |
| 11:00-11:30 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| Case studies Chairperson: Giuseppe Ambrosio (Italy) | ||
| 11:30-12:00 | Hypertension | Nakarin Sansanayudh (Thailand) |
| 12:00-12:30 | Chronic stable angina | RafaelCastillo (Philippines) |
| 12:30-13:00 | Heart failure | Dilok Piyayotai (Thailand) |
| 13:00-13:30 | Closing remarks | Agabiti Rosei (Italy) & Cheol Ho Kim (Korea) |
| 13:00-14:30 | LUNCH | |
Speakers
Associate Professor Chumpol PiamsomboonPresident, Heart Association of Thailand
Cardiovascular division, Department of Medicine
Pramongkutklao Hospital
Thailand
Professor Giuseppe Ambrosio
Director of Cardiology
University of Perugia School of Medicine
Ospedale S. Maria della Misericordia
Italy
Professor Claudio Borghi
Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences
University of Bologna
Italy
Professor Peter Collins
Professor of Clinical Cardiology
Imperial College London and R oyal Brompton Hospital
United Kingdom
Professor Athanasios Manolis
Director Cardiology Department
Asklepeion Hospital , Athens
Greece
Professor Agabiti Rosei
Director Clinica Medica Generale
Director Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences
University of Brescia
Director Department of Medicine
Azienda Spedali Civili di Brescia
President of the European Society of Hypertension
Italy
Professor Panos Vardas
Head of Cardiology Department
Heraklion University Hospital, Crete
Greece
Datuk Dr. Aizai Azan
Senior Consultant Cardiologist
Head of the Cardiology Department
Clinical Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation
National Heart Institute
Malaysia
Dr Rafael Castillo
Cardiology Section
Manila Doctors Hospital
Philippines
Professor Cheol-Ho Kim
Geriatrics Department
Seoul National University Bundang Hospital
Republic of Korea
Professor Hyo-Soo Kim
Cardiology Department
Seoul National University Hospital
Republic of Korea
Associate Professor Carolyn Lam
Clinician Scientist and Senior Consultant
National Heart Centre Singapore
SingHealth Duke-NUS Cardiovascular Academic Clinical Programme and Department of Cardiology
Singapore
Professor Low Lip Ping
Consultant Cardiologist
Low Cardiology Clinic
Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre
Singapore
Associate Professor Dilok Piyayotai
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine,
Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University KlongLuang,
Thailand
Associate Professor Nakarin Sansanayudh
Cardiology Unit, Department of Internal medicine
Phramongkutklao Hospital
Thailand
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