UK India Genomic Medicine Alliance

Indo-UK Genetic Education Forum

Frontier KM Lifeline Hospital & Dr. Cherian Heart Foundation

Faculty:

• Professor Dhavendra Kumar, Cardiff, UK (Convenor)
• Dr. Rajaram Anantharaman, Chennai, India (Co-Convenor)
• Dr. Priya Chokhalingasamy, Inherited Heart Diseases Clinic, Chennai, India
• (Co-Convenor)
• Professor Perry Elliott, UCL/Bart’s, London, UK
• Professor Pier Lambiase, UCL/ Bart’s, London, UK
• Professor Meena Bhatt, CHG, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
• Dr. Siddhartha Banka, Genomic Medicine, Manchester, UK
• Professor Arthur Wilde, Molecular Cardiology, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 Programme:

 08:30-09:00   Registration

 09:00 – Welcome/ Introduction                           

•  Dhavendra Kumar, Cardiff, UK
•  Viji Samuel, Vellore, India

09:10 – Scope and Challenges of Clinical Cardiovascular Genetics

• Perry Elliott, London, UK

Session I – Cardiovascular Developmental Disorders

Chairs:

09:30 – Congenital cardiac anomalies- clinical and genetic heterogeneity         

• Meena Bhatt, Bangalore, India

10:00 – Molecular Congenital Cardiology

• Siddhartha Banka, Manchester, UK

10:30 -Inherited aortic and arterial diseases- clinical spectrum and new genes           

• Dhavendra Kumar, Cardiff, UK

11:00 – TEA/ COFFEE

Session II      Disorders of Cardiac Muscle

Chairs:

11:30 – Inherited disorders of the myocardium- clinical spectrum and genomic factors

• Perry Elliott, London, UK

12:10 – Cardiomyopathies in South India- Spectrum and Management

•  Viji Samuel, Vellore, India

12:30 – Cardiomyopathies in North India- Spectrum and Management

•  Ajay Behl, Chandigarh, India

12:50 – Heart muscles disease in Inherited Metabolic Disease

• I.B. Vijayalaxmi, Bangalore, India

13:15 – LUNCH

Session III – Inherited Heart Diseases – Grand Round

Chairs: Professor Viji Samuel & Professor Perry Elliott

14:00-15:30 – Cases presentations by Trainees/ Junior Faculty/ PG Students Maximum 10 minutes each including questions/ discussion

15:30 – TEA/ COFFEE           

Session IV     Disorders of cardiac conduction and rhythm

Chairs:

16:00 – Genetic factors in cardiac conduction and atrial fibrillation

• Perry Lambiase, London, UK

16:30 – Cardiac inherited channelopathies in clinical practice

• Arthur Wilde, Amsterdam, NL

Session V       Inherited Cardiac Diseases Clinic

Chairs:

17:00 – Inherited Cardiac Conditions Multi-Disciplinary service

• Dhavendra Kumar, Cardiff, UK

17:30 – Inherited heart diseases clinic- the Chennai experience

• Priya Chokhalingasamy, Chennai, India

 1800 – Discussion & Reflections

• Faculty and Participants

 18:30 – CLOSE of the Workshop