PROGRAMME
*Programme subject to change
Friday 27 February | |
| 3:30PM - 6:30PM | Advanced Surgical Ablation Workshop Articure & ParagonCare Venue: REM Education Centre Register here: www.eventcreate.com/e/nzaphrs |
| 7:00PM - onwards | An Unmissable Affera Dinner Symposium Medtronic Venue: QT Hotel, Auckland RSVP by email to Sarah.Cummins@medtronic.com |
Saturday 28 February | |
| 8:30AM - 9:00AM | Registration |
| 9:00AM - 9:30AM | Opening Martin Stiles, Matt O'Connor, Wei Hua |
| 9:30AM - 10:40AM | Session 1: Controversies in Atrial Fibrillation ablation Chairs: Jonathan Kalman, Yung-Kuo Lin |
| 09:30AM - 09:42AM | Vein of Marshall ablation in the Pulsed Field Ablation era Allan Plant |
| 09:42AM - 09:54AM | Pulsed Field Ablation: The back wall comes back Young-Hoon Kim |
| 09:54AM - 10:06AM | Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation and Poor Left
Ventricular Function Sandeep Prabhu |
| 10:06AM - 10:18AM | Non-Pulmonary Vein triggers of AF Shih-Ann Chen |
| 10:18AM - 10:30AM | Atrial Fibrillation and Diastolic Heart Failure Jonathan Ariyaratnam |
| 10:30AM - 10:40AM | Panel Discussion |
| 10:40AM - 11:40AM | Session 2: Controversies in pacing Chairs: Alyssa Kirby, Wee Siong Teo |
| 10:40AM - 10:52AM | Leadless Pacing: 2026 and beyond Chi-Keong Ching |
| 10:52AM - 11:04AM | Left Bundle Optimised Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy – the new gold standard? Niall Foley |
| 11:04AM - 11:16AM | Primary Prevention ICDs in 2026- Who is left? Khang-Li Looi |
| 11:16AM - 11:28AM | Is it OK to abandon leads? Nigel Lever |
| 11:28AM - 11:40AM | Panel Discussion |
| 11:40AM - 12:00PM | Morning Tea |
| 12:00PM - 1:00PM | Session 3: EP in special populations Chairs: Hui-Nam Pak, Linda Koutbi |
| 12:00PM - 12:12PM | Paediatric ablation -
are children just small adults? Andreas Pflaumer |
| 12:12PM - 12:24PM | Adult Congenital Heart Disease and Pulsed Field Ablation Andrew Martin |
| 12:24PM - 12:36PM | Cardio-Neural Ablation – Ready for the mainstream? Hung Fat Tse |
| 12:36PM - 12:48PM | Atrial fibrillation ablation in the elderly; how old is too old? Jong-Il Choi |
| 12:48PM - 1:00PM | Panel Discussion |
| 1:00PM - 2:00PM | Session 4: State of the art pacing Chairs: Tachapong Ngarmukos, Susan Sinclair |
| 1:00PM - 1:12PM | Extra-vascular ICD – latest data Ian Crozier |
| 1:12PM - 1:24PM | Bachmann’s bundle pacing Chu-Pak Lau |
| 1:24PM - 1:36PM | Pacing and Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve
Interventions Geoff Clare |
| 1:36PM - 1:48PM | APHRS
4S-DDAF approach for stroke prevention in device-detected AF Tze-Fan Chao |
| 1:48PM - 2:00PM | Panel Discussion |
| 2:00PM - 3:00PM | Lunch |
| 3:00PM - 3:48PM | Session 5: Surgical aspects of EP Chairs: Ngai-Yin Chan, Darren Hooks |
| 3:00PM - 3:12PM | Techniques
& Outcomes of Concomitant & Stand-Alone Surgical Ablation Zach De Board |
| 3:12PM - 3:24PM | Surgical ablation in Congenital Heart Disease Ajay Iyenegar |
| 3:24PM - 3:36PM | Hybrid ablation approach Andrew Martin |
| 3:36PM - 3:48PM | Panel Discussion |
| 3:48PM - 5:00PM | Session 6: Ventricular Tachycardia & Sudden Cardiac Death Chairs: Dicky Hanafy, Wataru Shimizu |
| 3:48PM - 4:00PM | Early vs late Ablation for Ventricular
Tachycardia Kyoko Soejima |
| 4:00PM - 4:12PM | Epicardial ablation: techniques and targets? Minglong Chen |
| 4:12PM - 4:24PM | Bi-polar ablation: When and how? Jamie Voss |
| 4:24PM - 4:36PM | Alcohol ablation for Ventricular Tachycardia Matthew Webber |
| 4:36PM - 4:48PM | Sudden Cardiac Death globally – the Lancet
Commission Kumar Narayanan |
| 4:48PM - 5:00PM | Panel Discussion |
| 5:00PM - 5:15PM | Closing Remarks |
| 5:30PM - onwards | Summit Networking/Dinner |
Sunday 1 March | |
| 9:00AM - 5:00PM | Closed Board Meeting |
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