About this event

  • Date and time Thu 23 Jan 2025 from 11:30am to 5:00pm
  • Location Royal Society of Medicine
  • Organised by Cardiology, Vascular, Lipid and Metabolic Medicine Section

Register for our third General Day to learn about the importance of cardiovascular disease prevention in both primary and secondary care. This training day explores risk factors, particularly lipids, for the development of cardiovascular disease and how to address them.

Attendees will build on their skills in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease, learning more about where the future might lie in these areas. Through a series of lectures from some outstanding speakers, this will assist听attendees in improving their skills.

By attending, you will understand:

  • The role of risk factors in the development of cardiovascular disease.
  • How to assess risk factors in both primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease
  • To understand how to treat hyperlipidaemias

Information will be updated closer to the date, including the addition of a programme. Timings are subject to change.

Trainees: Claiming reimbursement

Once you have booked your place for this event, claim reimbursement for the full amount from your employing Trust via their usual local study leave processes. The relevant approval code to claim reimbursement for these events is MED0008.

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This activity has been supported by Boston Scientific and Medtronic in the form of an educational grant. We would also like to thank our sponsor Amarin UK for their support of this meeting.

Please note that the companies listed above have had no input into the arrangement or educational content of this activity.

Agenda

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Registration, tea and coffee
Welcome and introduction

Dr Dan Sado, Consultant and Clinical lead for Cardiology, Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Session 1: Introduction and Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD)

Cardiovascular risk and lipids: An introduction

Riyaz Patel听

Primary prevention of CVD: Whom and how ? National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and European Society of Cardiology (ESC) guidelines

Paul Flynn

Triglycerides and TGRL - are they a risk factor?

Dr Dan Sado

Lifetime and genetic risks of CVD

Aroon Hingorani

Familial Hypercholesterolaemia: All you need to know

Jai Cegla

Tea and coffee break

Session 2: Risk Factors For CVD

Autoimmune disease and cardiovascular risk

Luke Dancy

Fat attenuation index: A novel marker of CVD

Ken Chan

Visceral Fat and CV disease

Jiliu Pan

Was I right if I had my Lipoprotein A measured at the British Cardiology Society meeting?

Dr Tina Khan, Consultant Cardiologist, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, Guy鈥檚 and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

The role of Race, socioeconomic class and gender in CVD

Tom Almond

Lunch break

Session 3: Lifestyle Interventions

Dietary impacts on lipids and CVD: What's in, what's out, what do I advise my patients?

Wendy Hall, Professor of Nutritional Sciences, King鈥檚 College London

Exercise and cardiovascular risk: What and how much?

Raghav Bhatia

Psychological interventions for lowering CVD risk

Sophie Butler

Networking session

Session 4: Secondary prevention

Secondary prevention: Guidelines, treatments and targets

Fizzah Choudhry

Emerging and novel therapies for lipids and CVD risk reduction

Abhishek Joshi

Glucagon-like peptide-1 agonists: A silver bullet for CVD ?

Andrew Krentz

Cardiovascular rehabilitation: Why it matters 

Ian Waite

Close of meeting

Sponsors

Amarin

Location

Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom

Disclaimers:

Registration for this event will close on 22 January 2025 at 1:00am (GMT). Late registrations will not be accepted.

The agenda is subject to change at any time听

All views expressed at this event are of the speakers themselves and not of the Royal Society of Medicine, nor the speaker's organisations.

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