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Heart Failure: Women are not small men

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Heart Failure
Sunday, August 4, 2024
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Riverside Theatre‎

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Dr Sara Thorne
Toronto General Hospital and University of Toronto

Pregnancy and the failing heart

9:00 AM - 9:20 AM

Biography

Dr. Sara Thorne joined Toronto ACHD in 2019 after 20 years in practice at University Hospital Birmingham UK where she established the regional Adult Congenital Heart Disease Unit and the renowned Obstetric Cardiology Programme with Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital. She collaborated closely with the UK Confidential Enquiry for Maternal Mortality and other national bodies. She has published widely in the fields of adult congenital heart disease and obstetric cardiology. She has brought her experience to the Toronto ACHD and High-Risk Pregnancy Programs and is now working to establish a National Canadian Maternal Morbidity and Mortality review system. She is a skilled clinician teacher and her areas of expertise include adult congenital heart disease, inherited aortopathy, and obstetric cardiology.
Dr Faith Njue
Cardiologist
Fiona Stanley Hospital

The role of a cardio-obstetrics service

9:20 AM - 9:40 AM

Biography

Faith Njue is a heart failure/heart transplant cardiologist with a special interest in adult congenital heart disease and cardio-obstetrics. She completed 2 years of fellowship in advanced heart failure/transplant followed by a fellowship in ACHD and cardio-obstetrics. She is the clinical lead for cardio-obstetrics at Fiona Stanley Hospital.
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Prof Susanna Price
Royal Brompton Hospital

Acute cardiovascular care in women - challenges and opportunities

9:40 AM - 10:00 AM

Biography

Professor Susanna Price is a consultant cardiologist and intensivist based at Royal Brompton Hospital. She trained at King's College London, and continued training in cardiology and intensive care medicine at a number of centres, including St Thomas', St George's and Royal Brompton hospitals, London. During her cardiology training, she undertook a fellowship in echocardiography at the Thoraxcenter under Jos Roelandt. On completion of her training, she was awarded the Jill Dando GUCH fellowship, allowing her to train for a further two years in imaging and management of the critically ill grown-up congenital heart disease (GUCH) patients.
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Assoc Prof Dominica Zentner
Cardiologist
Royal Melbourne Hospital

Assisted reproduction in cardiac disease and when to consider fertility preservation

10:00 AM - 10:20 AM

Biography

A/Prof Dominica Zentner is an adult cardiologist who completed a PhD on 'Cardiac structure and function during human pregnancy'. She works at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and was one of the founders of the Cardiac Pregnancy Clinic in June 2013, a service run in collaboration with the Royal Women's Hospital.
All Speakers

Panel discussion

10:20 AM - 10:30 AM

Biography

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Dr Cara Barnes
Cardiologist
Royal Perth Hospital

Chairperson

Biography

Dr Cara Barnes is an Interventional Cardiologist at Royal Perth Hospital with expertise in mitral, tricuspid and aortic valve intervention.
Han Shin Lee

Chairperson

Biography

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