BICCS Programme 2025

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DAY 1

08:30 - BREAKFAST & REGISTRATION

Welcome from BICCS President Dr Stephen Page​

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• BICCS Session - Panel: Dr Stephen Page and Dr Rachel Bastiaenen 

• BICCS Position Statement for ICC Networks - Prof Gerry Carr-White​​

• ICC Competencies for Clinical Nurse Specialists - Dr Tootie Bueser​

• Unified Genomic Record - John Fraser

• RDR UK Cardiovascular Initiative and the NIHR-BHF CV Partnership theme in Rare & Genetic Cardiovascular Diseases - Prof Tom Lumbers and Prof James Ware

MORNING BREAK

• Sudden Death and Cardiac Screening - Panel: Georgiana Neculau and Nora Shannon

• RDR-UK Session - Panel: Prof Tom Lumbers and Prof James Ware 

  • Spectrum of Allelic Requirements in Cardiomyopathies - Dr Roddy Walsh

  • Multi-omics of Human Cardiac Niches - Dr Michela Noseda

  • iPSC-CM CRISPR Modelling of Clinical Variants - Prof Christopher Toepfer

  • Artificial Intelligence Enhanced Electrocardiography - Dr Ewa Sieliwonczyk

• Sudden Cardiac Death: A Pathologist's Perspective - Dr Joe Westaby

• NHS and Coronial Sudden Death Pathway: The story so far and next steps - Prof Elijah Behr

• Personalised ICD Decision Making in ICC Patients - Dr Julian Ormerod

• When to Screen Family Members: Age, Biomarkers or Genetics? - Antonis Pantazis

• INDUSTRY SYMPOSIUM

LUNCH​

• Inherited Arrhythmias - Panel: Dr Luke Starling and Dr Jan Till

• AI-ECG Diagnosis and Risk Prediction ​- Dr Fu Siong Ng

• Risk Stratification in Brugada Syndrome ​- Prof Pier Lambiase

• Catheter Ablation for Brugada Syndrome and Idiopathic VF - Dr Stephen Page

• Sudden Death Risk in Arrhythmic Mitral Valve Prolapse Syndrome - Dr Amanda Varnava

• CORE TRAINING SESSIONS - Panel: David Walker and Gemma Bassindale

  •  How to examine a patient with aortopathy​ - Kate Richardson

  • How to measure the QT interval - Dr Harshil Dhutia

  • How to do a focussed Mavacamten echo - Dr Rob Cooper

  • How to read a post-mortem report - Dr Joe Westaby

  • How to use the decipher database - Leema Robert

  • How to council for a diagnostic gene panel test - Ms Debbie Mackin

AFTERNOON BREAK​

KEYNOTE Emerging therapies for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy - Prof Perry Elliott

DRINKS RECEPTION

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DAY 2

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08:15 - BICCS Annual General Meeting - BICCS President Dr Stephen Page

• Cardiomyopathies I - Panel: Dr Eleanor Wicks and Huafrin Kotwal

• Polygenic Scores for Predicting Cardiomyopathies - Dr Sean Zheng

• Arrhythmic Risk Stratification in DCM: Imaging vs. genetics - Dr Dan Hammersley

• Novel TTR Therapies: A Paradigm for Personalised Medicine - Dr Carol Whelan

• Gene Elusive HCM: Mitochondrial Disease - Dr Luis da Rocha Lopes

MORNING BREAK​

• Cardiomyopathies II - Panel: Dr Stephen Page and Bethan Cowley

• Clinical Cases Presentations - Panel: Dr Eleanor Wicks, Stephanie Oates and Nora Shannon

  • Beyond the Brain: Cardiac Disease in MELAS Syndrome - Edna Mensah

  • A Novel RyR2 Splice-SIte Variant in a Sudden Cardiac Death Survivor - Michael Malaty

  • Complete Heart Block in a Thick Heart - should we search further? - Dr Georgia Vogiatzi

• TTN Dilated Cardiomyopathy: Novel Approaches - Dr Brian Halliday

• Cardiac Transplantation in ICC: HCM, ARVC and Refractory VT - Dr Andy Morely-Smith

• Abstract Showcase - Panel: Prof James Ware and Prof Tom Lumbers

  • Automated Identification of Mavacamten-Eligible Patients with Obstructive HCM - Tobi Soge

  • Genetic Testing in Cardiomyopathies: Do we need to redefine the UK National testing criteria? - Andrew Madu

  • Single centre experience of a novel pharmacist led mavacamten service at Imperial College Heathcare NHS Trust (ICHNT) - Amber Ajaz & Deepa Lakhani

  • Sarcopenia amplifies risk of adverse cardiovascular outcomes in individuals with left ventricular hypertrophy - Mihir Sangvhi

• Pharmacogenomics in Clinical Practice CYP2C19 and Beyond - Prof Bill Newman

• The NHS Rapid Whole Genome Sequencing Service: Diagnosis of Acutely Unwell Children with Syndromic Cardiomyopathies -
  Nicholas Head

• INDUSTRY SYMPOSIUM

LUNCH

• Aortopathies - Panel: Leema Robert and Huafrin Kotwal 

• Devolved Nations Session​ - Panel: Prof Gerry Carr-White and Dr Claire Turner

  • England: Dr Stephen Page​

  • Wales: Dr Abbas Zaidi 

  • Scotland: Dr Caroline Coats

  • Northern Ireland: Dr Katie Linden

• Fetal Aortopathy - Prof Julene Carvalho​

• Paediatric Aortopathy - Dr Elena Cervi

• NHS Genomic AI Network: Harnessing  AI to Improve Aortopathy and Cardiomyopathy Care - Dr Antonio de Marvao

•  ICC in Pregnancy: Managing Aortopathy, LVOTO, Heart Failure, Refractory VT  - Dr Alex SImms 

AFTERNOON BREAK​

• The BICCS MDT Chair: Prof Gerry Carr-White - Panel: Dr Caroline Coats, Dr Stephen Page, Bethan Cowley, David Walker, Dr Claire Turner, Dr Katie Linden

  • Case 1: Noor Sharrack​

  • Case 2: Will Young and Lucy Sivaraman

PRIZE-GIVING SESSION​

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