Blessing

Welcome and Opening by Hon. Jody McKay, MP  NSW Government Minister for Science and Medical Research 

Sr Anthea Groves, RSC

Chairs: Richard Harvey & Bob Graham

Princesses' Lecture - Andreas Zeiher, Cardiology Division, University of Frankfurt, Germany Title: Regeneration therapies for the failing heart

(Sponsored by Pfizer)

Chair: Bob Graham

Seassion I

Cardiac Developmental Biology

Chair: Richard Harvey

Antoon Moorman, Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Title: Growth of the early mouse heart

(Sponsored by the European Union)

Robert Kelly, Developmental Biology Institute of Marseilles-Luminy, France Title: Transcriptional regulators of second heart field development

(Sponsored by the European Union)

Vincent Christoffels, Heart Failure Research Centre, Department of Anatomy & Embryology, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Title: T-box transcription factors and conduction system development

(Sponsored by the European Union)

Session II :

Cardiac Developmental Biology and Congenital Heart Disease

Chair: Nadia Rosenthal

Richard Harvey, Developmental Biology Division, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Sydney, Australia Title: Cardiogenesis and congenital heart disease - probing the regulatory landscape

(Sponsored by Quantum Scientific)

Session III :

Systems Biology and Stem Cells

Chairs: Vincent Christoffels

Doug Hilton, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia Title: Pathways in blood formation

(Sponsored by the Australian Stem Cell Centre)

Brian Black, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, USA Title: A combinatorial transcriptional code for endothelial cell development

(Sponsored by the ARC Network for Genes and Environment in Development)

Shuomo Bhattacharya, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford University, UK Title: Genome-wide mouse mutagenesis in cardiac development

(Sponsored by The European Union and the International Society of Developmental Biologists)

Andrew Elefanty, Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Title: Embryonic stem cells - tools for regenerative medicine

(Sponsored by Sapphire Bioscience)

Session IV :

Adult Stem Cells and Regeneration

  Chair: Bob Graham

Nadia Rosenthal, EMBL Mouse Biology Unit, Rome, Italy and Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Title: Enhancing cardiac regeneration

(Sponsored by the European Union)

John Rasko, Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine & Cell Biology & Sydney Cancer Centre, University of Sydney, Australia Title: Heart cell therapy: lost in translation

Stefanie Dimmeler, Institute of Cardiovascular Regeneration, Centre for Molecular Medicine, University of Frankfurt, Germany Title: microRNAs in cardiovascular repair  

Dinner (Speakers Only) 

Dinner Speaker - David Celermajer, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Heart Research Institute, University of Sydney, Australia Title: St Vincent's, Australia and the Heart

Session I

Heart Failure, medical management and Pulmonary Hypertension

(Session Sponsored by Actelion)

Chair: Eugene Kotlyar

Peter Macdonald, Heart Transplantation Program, VCCRI/St Vincent's Hospital Sydney Title: Medical overview and novel medical management of heart failure

(Sponsored by AlphaPharm)

Rob Doughty, Director of Heart Failure Services, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, NZ Title: Diastolic heart failure

(Sponsored by GSK)

Anne Keogh, Heart Transplantation Program, VCCRI/St Vincent's Hospital Sydney Title: Update on pulmonary arterial hypertension

(Sponsored by Servier)

Morning Tea

Session II:

Surgical Therapy for Heart Failure

Chair: Anne Keogh

Christopher Hayward, Heart Lung Transport Unit, St Vincent's Hospital Sydney Title: STITCH trial results

(Sponsored by AlphaPharm)

Nicola Hiemann, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Heart Transplantation Program, German Heart Institute, Berlin, Germany Title: Heart transplantation today - early, intermediate and long-term issues

(Sponsored by Novartis Transplant Medicine)

Session III:

Mechanical Support for Heart Failure

Chair: Phillip Spratt

Paul Jansz, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St Vincent's Hospital Sydney Title: The use of left ventricular assist device update

(Sponsored by HeartWare)

Richard Smith, Chief Scientific Advisor & Clinical Engineer, SynCardia Systems, Inc, Tucson, Arizona, USA Title: Total artifical heart

(Sponsored by SynCardia)

Session IV:

Clinical Applicants of Stem Cells

Chair: Bob Graham

Suka Thambar, Senior Staff Specialist, Cardiovascular Department, John Hunter Hospital, Newscastle, Australia Title: Intramyocardial BM implantation for chronic ischaemia and LV dysfunction

Andreas Zeiher, Cardiology Division, University of Frankfurt, Germany Title: Cell therapy post-myocardial infarction: current clinical status and future prospects

(Sponsored by Pfizer)

Concluding Remarks