Core Curricula

Antithrombotic therapy for cardiac arrhythmias

October 25 – Barbantini Room
October 26 – Barbantini Room

Program Chairs:
A. John Camm / London, UK
Gregory Y.H. Lip / Birmingham, UK


Arrhythmias in the elderly 

October 26 – Borges Room

Program Chairs:
Hugh Calkins / Baltimore, USA
Win-Kuang Shen / Phoenix, USA

Challenges and advances of arrhythmia management in older populations: a state-of-the-art update


Arrhythmogenic hereditary syndromes

October 25 – Capriate Room
October 26 – Photographs Room

Program Chairs:
Sami Viskin / Tel Aviv, Israel
Arthur A. Wilde / Amsterdam, The Netherlands


Cardiac arrhythmia surgery: where are we and where are we going

October 26 – Borges Room

Program Chairs:
Ralph J. Damiano Jr. / St. Luis, USA
James J. Edgerton / Dallas, USA
Domenico Mangino / Venice-Mestre, Italy


Controversies in VT arrhythmias ablation

October 27 – Cenacolo Room
October 27 – Photographs Room

Program Chair:
Antonio Rossillo / Venice-Mestre, Italy


Go back to the basic EP

October 25 – Consiglio Room

Program Chairs:
Warren M. Jackman / Oklahoma City, USA
Melvin M. Scheinman / San Francisco, USA


HF, CRT and… more: evolution of technology and impact on the outcome

October 25 – Cipressi Room

Program Chairs:
Giuseppe Boriani / Modena, Italy
Michael R. Gold / Charleston, USA


How to predict and prevent sudden death in different clinical settings

October 26 – Capriate Room

Program Chairs:
Giovanni Luca Botto / Como, Italy
Eric N. Prystowsky / Indianapolis, USA


Lead extraction and device infection 2017 update

October 26 – Cipressi Room
October 27 – Cipressi Room

Program Chairs:
Maria Grazia Bongiorni / Pisa, Italy
Charles Kennergren / Gothenburg, Sweden


Leadless pacemaker: pearls and pitfalls

October 25 – Cipressi Room

Program Chairs:
Andrew E. Epstein / Philadelphia, USA
Maurizio Lunati / Milan, Italy

Details


Lifestyle modification as treatment for AF

October 25 – Barbantini Room

Program Chairs:
Michele Massimo Gulizia / Catania, Italy
Prash Sanders / Adelaide, Australia

Details


New therapeutic solutions for the arrhythmic patient: promises and challenges

October 26 – Cipressi Room

Details


PLACE Academy: the ECGs of my life

October 25 – Consiglio Room

Program Chairs:
Leonardo Calò / Rome, Italy
Fiorenzo Gaita / Turin, Italy

Details


Remote monitoring of cardiac arrhythmias/device

October 27 – Cipressi Room

Program Chairs:
Cecilia Linde / Stockholm, Sweden
Renato Pietro Ricci / Rome, Italy

Remote monitoring: how, for whom and where are we aiming in the future


Simulation in electrophysiology: expectations and facts

October 27 – Photographs Room

Program Chairs:
R. De Ponti / Varese, Italy
R. Schilling / London, UK

Details


Sport and arrhythmias

October 25 – Photographs Room

Program Chairs:
Franco Giada / Noale, Italy
Sanjay Sharma / London, UK


Strategies in stroke prevention: what’s new?

October 26 – Cenacolo Room

Details


Syncope summit

October 25 – Photographs Room
October 26 – Photographs Room

Program Chairs:
David G. Benditt / Minneapolis, USA
Brian Olshansky / Iowa City, USA


Update on clinical trials on cardiac arrhythmias

October 26 – Barbantini Room
October 27 – Capriate Room

Program Chairs:
Stuart J. Connolly / Hamilton, Canada
Stefan H. Hohnloser / Frankfurt, Germany


Value of cardiac MRI in the management of cardiac arrhythmias

October 26 – Consiglio Room

Program Chairs:
Cristina Basso / Padua, Italy
Henry R. Halperin / Baltimore, USA

Details


Zoom in on VT ablation

October 27 – Capriate Room

Program Chairs:
Francis E. Marchlinski / Philadelphia, USA
William G. Stevenson / Boston, USA