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Heart Failure Update 2018
May 11, 2018 - May 12, 2018
Canada’s largest meeting devoted to heart failure returns to the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, as the Canadian Heart Failure Society and Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research unite to host Heart Failure Update 2018.
The event assembles clinicians, investigators, nurses, research staff, allied health professionals and trainees working in this evolving and critical area. *** Members of Ted Rogers Centre partner institutions may register at no cost.
When: Friday, May 11 – Saturday, May 12, 2018
Where: Metro Toronto Convention Centre, South Building, 222 Bremner Blvd, Level 700
With a bench-to-bedside makeup, the event focuses on the latest clinical advances for the practicing clinician and nurse while exploring novel basic and translational science in key areas that have a major impact on heart failure care.
We are inviting national and international heart failure experts to lead plenaries, scientific sessions, interactive workshops, and panel discussions.
Highlights include:
- Individualized therapy
- Evolving concepts in heart failure
- The link to diabetes
- Atrial fibrillation and heart failure
- Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
- New and emerging therapies
- Genetics and heart failure
- Cardiotoxicity
- CCS heart failure guidelines
- Poster session featuring novel research