Scientific Sessions

Featured Symposia


AF management: current issues

Program Chairmen:

Andrea Natale / Austin, USA
Antonio Raviele / Venice-Mestre, Italy
Sakis Themistoclakis / Venice-Mestre, Italy


How to manage cardiac arrhythmias in different clinical settings

Program Chairmen:

Andrea Natale / Austin, USA
Antonio Raviele / Venice-Mestre, Italy
Sakis Themistoclakis / Venice-Mestre, Italy


Role of standard ECG in the era of interventional arrhythmology

Program Chairmen:

Andrea Natale / Austin, USA
Antonio Raviele / Venice-Mestre, Italy
Sakis Themistoclakis / Venice-Mestre, Italy


Main Symposia/Core Curricula


Arrhythmias in the elderly

Program Chairmen:

Hugh Calkins / USA
Win-Kuang Shen / USA


Arrhythmogenic hereditary syndromes

Program Chairmen:

Sami Viskin / Israel
Arthur A. Wilde  / The Netherlan


Antithrombotic therapy for cardiac arrhythmias

Program Chairmen:

John A. Camm / UK
Gregory Y.H. Lip / UK


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

Program Chairmen:

Ralph Damiano Jr. / USA
James J. Edgerton / USA
Domenico Mangino / Italy


Go back to the basic EP

Program Chairmen:

Warren M. Jackman / USA
Melvin M. Scheinman / USA


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

Program Chairmen:

Giuseppe Boriani / Italy
Michael R. Gold / USA


How to predict and prevent sudden death in different clinical settings

Program Chairmen:

Giovanni Luca Botto / Italy
Eric N. Prystowsky / USA


Lead extraction and device infection 2017 update

Program Chairmen:

Maria Grazia Bongiorni / Italy
Charles Kennergren / Sweden


Leadless pacemaker: pearls and pitfalls

Program Chairmen:

Andrew E. Epstein / USA
Maurizio Lunati / Italy


Lifestyle modification as treatment for AF

Program Chairmen:

Michele Massimo Gulizia / Italy
Prash Sanders / Australia


PLACE Academy: the ECGs of my life

Program Chairmen:

Leonardo Calò / Italy
Fiorenzo Gaita / Italy


Remote monitoring of cardiac arrhythmias/device

Program Chairmen:

Cecilia Linde / Sweden
Renato Pietro Ricci / Italy


Sport and arrhythmias

Program Chairmen:

Franco Giada / Italy
Sanjay Sharma / UK


Syncope summit

Program Chairmen:

David G. Benditt / USA
Brian Olshansky / USA


Update on clinical trials on cardiac arrhythmias

Program Chairmen:

Stuart J. Connolly / Canada
Stefan H. Hohnloser / Germany


Value of cardiac MRI in the management of cardiac arrhythmias

Program Chairmen:

Cristina Basso / Italy
Henry R. Halperin / USA


Zoom in on VT ablation

Program Chairmen:

Francis E. Marchlinski / USA
William G. Stevenson / USA


Practical interactive sessions


Live cases from Venice/Mestre EP lab

Program Chairmen:

Andrea Natale / USA
Antonio Raviele / Italy
Sakis Themistoclakis / Italy


Meet the pioneers

Program Chairmen:

Andrea Natale / USA
Antonio Raviele / Italy
Sakis Themistoclakis / Italy


Pre-recorded complex cases of interventional arrhythmology

Program Chairmen:

Luigi Di Biase / USA
Gerhard Hindricks / Germany


VA and International Scientific Societies joint sessions


AA-VA joint session

Program Chairmen:

John A. Camm / UK
Trudie C. Lobban / UK


APHRS-VA joint session

Program Chairmen:

Yoshinori Kobayashi / Japan
Chu-Pak Lau / China


CSPE-VA joint session

Program Chairmen:

Wei Hua / China
He Huang / China


ECAS-VA joint session

Program Chairmen:

Wyn Davies / UK
Thorsten Lewalter / Germany


HRS-VA joint session

Program Chairmen:

Thomas Deering / USA
Andrea Russo / USA


ISHNE-VA joint session

Program Chairmen:

Jonathan S. Steinberg / USA
Wojciech Zareba / USA


JHRS-VA joint session

Program Chairmen:

Kenzo Hirao / Japan
Yuji Nakazato / Japan


MENA HRS-VA joint session

Program Chairmen:

Amin Al-Ahmad / USA
Marwan M. Refaat / Lebanon


RSCA-VA joint session

Program Chairmen:

Amiran Revishvili / Russia
TBD


SOBRAC-VA joint session

Program Chairmen:

Eduardo Saad / Brazil
Mauricio Ibrahim Scanavacca / Brazil


SOLAECE-VA joint session

Program Chairmen:

Guilherme Fenelon / Brazil
William Uribe / Colombia


WSA-VA joint session

Program Chairmen:

TBD


Geographic Area Corners


Canadian Corner

Peter Guerra

Atul Verma


French Corner

Etienne Aliot

Jean-Jacques Blanc


German Corner

Johannes Brachmann

Werner Jung


Indian Corner

Sanjeev Saksena

Kamal K. Sethi


Mexican Corner

Luis Colín Lizalde

Manlio F. Márquez


Spanish Corner

José Luis Merino *

Lluís Mont


Turkish Corner

Ali Oto

TBD


Other Sessions


Lectures


Debates/Controversies


Young Investigator Corners


Oral communications


Poster and E-Poster sessions


Satellite symposia


Luncheon panels


Allied Professionals sessions