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You are invited to attend the CSANZ NSW Annual Education Day at the Aerial UTS Function Centre on Saturday 4 May 2024 from 9.00am to 4.15pm, following by networking after the presentations.

Benefit and learn from engaging speakers and presentations, with session topics including interventional cardiology, imaging, heart failure and cardiomyopathies, and electrophysiology.

View the Program | Register HERE  OR SCAN the QR CODE above to register

CSANZ MEMBER: FREE
NON-MEMBER: $150

Registration for all attendees is essential and will close by COB Friday 26 April 2024.  The full day Includes morning and afternoon tea, lunch and a fabulous networking opportunity to join the expert presenters at the end of the day. For more information please contact us on [email protected] 

LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE

This survey aims concerns the factors influencing the decision to pursue adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) as a career around the globe.

The investigators are focused on gathering insights from cardiologists and trainees regarding their ACHD interest.

The primary objective is to understand what motivates physicians to pursue a career in ACHD, and to identify factors that may discourage them from doing so. By examining both the positive and negative forces, they hope to gain a comprehensive understanding of the factors that influence career choices in this field.

This questionnaire will request demographic, and training factors and can be completed in 5-7 minutes.

Principal Investigator Katia Bravo ([email protected])

Read more and start survey here 

This study has been deemed exempt by Mayo Clinic Institutional Review Board (23-006759).

Congratulations to Dr Jessica Orchard for receiving the prestigious NSW Ministerial Award for Rising Star in Cardiovascular research 2023 – recognising the outstanding contributions and emerging talents in cardiovascular research. Awarded at the recent Cardiovascular Research Network Awards in Sydney. Hear about Jessica’s journey here on Youtube

Congratulations to FCSANZ, Prof Ben Freedman, Awarded the 2023 NSW Ministerial Award for Cardiovascular Research Excellence. Be inspired! Watch Prof Ben Freedman’s work here on Youtube.

(Photos and videos courtesy of CVRN and the Heart Foundation).

Keep your eye on the CSANZ ASM 2024 as the International Speakers confirm their attendance in Perth from 1 – 4 August 2024.
Abstracts are filing into the Conference Abstract Portal  – don’t miss this opportunity to get your research in front of all the experts. Start planning your trip to WA!

Join us for the 2024 CSANZ ASM and ANZET24 in Perth from 1-4 August 2024.

csanzasm.com     anzet.com.au

Congratulations to the following CSANZ members who were recently awarded Honours by the Australian Governor-General for their service to medicine.

Prof Sally Lewers Dunwoodie AO
For distinguished service to medical research as an embryologist and geneticist, particularly in the field of foetal, and neonatal heart disease.
Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute.

Dr Alan Lansell Soward OAM.   (Image courtesy: Ben Gross, Sunraysa Daily, Mildura)
For service to cardiology.
Founding cardiologist for Mildura Cardiology, and Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Rural Health Mildura at Monash University, VIC.

The ICCG 2024 always provides a fantastic learning experience, bringing together a vast multidisciplinary audience, including cardiologists, geneticists, nurses, genetic counsellors, and researchers. It is also a great meeting for students, early career researchers, trainees, fellows etc.

A key theme of this year’s meeting is the rapidly growing impact of genetics in cardiology practice, resulting in more precise diagnosis, guiding therapies, informing prognosis, screening families, and influencing reproduction decisions.

Read more about the international and national faculty here

Check out the full program on the website – talk topics include but not limited to:
• Inherited cardiomyopathies: what’s new?
• New Australian initiatives in familial hypercholesterolaemia
• Cardiovascular genomics in 2024
• Intersection of imaging and genetics in cardiomyopathies
• Utility of genetic testing – across the lifespan
• Genomics and therapeutics – the time is now
• Plus The Great Debate! Patients should (only) be seen in a specialised multidisciplinary clinic.
Are you For or Against? LISTEN AND LEARN as the experts battle it out!

SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT:
Abstracts may include: instructive case reports, development of methods, establishments of cohorts or registries, and abstracts presenting preliminary data

Read more about abstract submission here.              Abstracts close:  Wednesday, 28 February 2024.

Register NOW!     NB: Early bird registration closes: 11 Mar 2024

To be held at the Brisbane Convention Centre 8 – 10 May 2024

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The CSANZ New Zealand Annual Scientific Meeting 2024 to be held Ōtautahi Christchurch, from Thursday 13 June to Saturday 15 June 2024.

Planning is under way for a comprehensive program, with working group workshops, Nurses symposium and Registrar meeting on Thursday, and the Scientific Meeting opens on Friday 14th June

Read more about the International keynote speakers here

Abstracts can be submitted until 20:00 4 March 2024 (NZDT)  under the following themes:

Congenital / Genetics / Paediatrics / Pulmonary, Coronary Artery Disease, Heart Failure, Electrophysiology, Imaging
Structural and Valve Disease, Rehabilitation/Prevention, Nursing and Translational Research

Registration is now open – early bird discounts closing on 15 April 2024.