Arrhythmia / EP: Advances in ventricular arrhythmia management
Tracks
Track 2
| Saturday, August 8, 2026 |
| 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM |
Speaker
Assoc Prof Saurabh Kumar
Staff Specialist Cardiologist
Westmead Hospital
Imaging guided VT ablation
3:45 PM - 4:00 PMBiography
Assoc Prof Pierre Qian
Cardiologist
Westmead Hospital
PFA for VT - ready for prime time?
4:00 PM - 4:15 PMBiography
Pierre is a cardiac electrophysiologist and clinician scientist based at Westmead and Blacktown Hospitals, Sydney, and the Westmead Applied Research Centre. He leads a translational biomedical engineering team at Westmead Hospital developing ablation technology to treat heart rhythm disorders and high blood pressure. He returned in 2020 from a clinical and research Fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School where his training in complex arrhythmia management included zero fluro techniques and clinical applications of novel ablation technologies.
Assoc Prof Haris Haqqani
Senior Electrophysiologist
Prince Charles Hospital
Management of electrical storm
4:15 PM - 4:30 PMBiography
A/Prof. Haris Haqqani is a Senior Consultant Cardiologist & Electrophysiologist at the Prince Charles Hospital. He was trained at the University of Melbourne, Royal Melbourne Hospital and the University of Pennsylvania. His research has focused on the mechanisms of VT in heart failure. Haris has authored or co-authored more than 100 journal papers, 20 book chapters and several national and global arrhythmia guidelines and is a regularly invited conference speaker.
Dr Luciana Marcondes
Paediatric Cardiologist
Starship Children's Hospital
Ventricular arrhythmias: When to call the geneticist
4:30 PM - 4:45 PMBiography
