Arrhythmia / EP combined session with Genetics: SCD risk assessment and managing arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathies in adults
Tracks
Track 2
| Friday, August 7, 2026 |
| 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM |
| Cockle Bay 1 |
Speaker
Prof Andrew Krahn
Professor, Division of Cardiology
University of British Columbia
Genes and prognostication: Where are we now?
3:45 PM - 4:05 PMBiography
Andrew Krahn, M.D., FRCPC, FHRS, is a Professor in the Division of Cardiology at the University of British Columbia. He received his MD from the University of Manitoba. His clinical expertise is in management of cardiac arrhythmias. Current research interests include investigation of genetic causes of arrhythmias, causes of loss of consciousness and implantable arrhythmia devices.
Dr. Krahn has research funded by a Foundation grant from the Canadian Institute of Health Research through 2027. His research has been published in numerous high-impact scientific journals such as Circulation, JAMA, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the European Heart Journal. He founded the Hearts in Rhythm Organization (HiRO – www.heartsinrhythm.ca). He has published >500 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He sits on the Editorial Board of the Canadian Journal of Cardiology, Heart Rhythm and the Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology.
Dr. Krahn is affiliated with several professional associations, including the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, the Canadian Cardiovascular Society, and the Heart Rhythm Society. He is past-President of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society, and past-President of the Heart Rhythm Society. He was the Head of Cardiology at UBC from 2012-2023. He is the Paul Brunes Chair in Heart Rhythm Disorders, and the Sauder Family and Heart & Stroke Foundation of BC & Yukon Chair in Cardiology.
Prof Andre La Gerche
Head Of The Heart Lab
St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research / Victor Chang
Electrical and mechanical remodelling in the athletes heart
4:05 PM - 4:25 PMBiography
André heads the National Centre for Sports Cardiology that comprises a young team of multi-disciplinary researchers based at the HEART Lab, supported by St Vincent’s Institute and the Victor Chang Cardiovascular Research Institute. He has pioneered novel imaging techniques including exercise cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and contrast echocardiography. He has more than 300 peer-review publications and text-book chapters, serves on multiple international guideline statements and is regularly invited to present at all major international cardiology conferences.
Prof Andrew Krahn
Professor, Division of Cardiology
University of British Columbia
Long QT: State of the art
4:25 PM - 4:45 PMBiography
Andrew Krahn, M.D., FRCPC, FHRS, is a Professor in the Division of Cardiology at the University of British Columbia. He received his MD from the University of Manitoba. His clinical expertise is in management of cardiac arrhythmias. Current research interests include investigation of genetic causes of arrhythmias, causes of loss of consciousness and implantable arrhythmia devices.
Dr. Krahn has research funded by a Foundation grant from the Canadian Institute of Health Research through 2027. His research has been published in numerous high-impact scientific journals such as Circulation, JAMA, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the European Heart Journal. He founded the Hearts in Rhythm Organization (HiRO – www.heartsinrhythm.ca). He has published >500 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He sits on the Editorial Board of the Canadian Journal of Cardiology, Heart Rhythm and the Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology.
Dr. Krahn is affiliated with several professional associations, including the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, the Canadian Cardiovascular Society, and the Heart Rhythm Society. He is past-President of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society, and past-President of the Heart Rhythm Society. He was the Head of Cardiology at UBC from 2012-2023. He is the Paul Brunes Chair in Heart Rhythm Disorders, and the Sauder Family and Heart & Stroke Foundation of BC & Yukon Chair in Cardiology.
Assoc Prof Hariharan Raju
Cardiologist
MQ Health
Brugada syndrome: Electrical or structural? Role of ablation
4:45 PM - 5:00 PMBiography
A/Prof Hari Raju works in specialist practice as a Sports Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist at Macquarie University and Concord Hospitals in Sydney. His research and clinical expertise in unexplained sudden death, genetic heart disease and athletes' heart was developed during his PhD study at St George's University of London and has worked with world leaders in these fields: Professors Jon Kalman, Sanjay Sharma, Elijah Behr, Aldo RInaldi and Mark O'Neill.
A/Prof Belinda Gray
Cardiologist
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Return to play for patients with channelopathies and cardiomyopathies
5:00 PM - 5:15 PMBiography
A/Prof Belinda Gray is a Cardiologist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at University of Sydney. She is a Heart Foundation Future Leadership Fellow. Dr Gray completed her PhD in Genetic Heart Disease at University of Sydney and postdoctoral fellowship in Inherited Cardiac Conditions and Sports Cardiology at St George’s, University of London, UK. Dr Gray’s research focuses on risk stratification, genetics and prevention of sudden cardiac death in the young, including young athletes.
Prof Jodie Ingles
Laboratory Head
Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Chairperson
Biography
A/Prof Jodie Ingles is Head of the Ingles Laboratory and Director of Genomics and Inherited Disease Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research. She is a cardiac genetic counsellor in the Department of Cardiology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.
Prof Eddy Kizana
Cardiologist
Westmead Institute for Medical Research / Westmead Hospital / University of Sydney
Chairperson
Biography
Dr Kizana is a clinician/researcher at the Westmead Research Hub who divides his time between clinical cardiac electrophysiology and translational research. Dr Kizana is Co-Director of the Centre for Heart Research and Cardiac Gene Therapy Group Leader at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney. To dovetail his clinical and research activities, he leads a research group focused on the development novel therapies for cardiac disease. The group are developing AAV vectors as a platform technology for targeting human myocardium and using these in preclinical models of human disease to advance gene therapy for heart disease.
