PROGRAMME (parsisiųsti)
Thursday, 3 December 2026 · Radisson Hotel Kaunas, K. Donelaičio 27, Kaunas · Conference language: English
08:30–10:00 · REGISTRATION
09:00–10:00 · BREAKFAST WITH EXPERTS · Beta Hall · Session in Lithuanian
Topic: Familial hypercholesterolaemia in Lithuania
Moderators: Olivija Dobilienė (Kaunas, Lithuania) and Urtė Aliošaitienė (Vilnius, Lithuania)
09:00–10:00 · Finding the 11,000: a national pathway for familial hypercholesterolaemia
60 min
Jurgita Plisienė (Kaunas, Lithuania), Rimantė Čerkauskienė (Vilnius, Lithuania), Sigita Glaveckaitė (Vilnius, Lithuania), Olivija Dobilienė (Kaunas, Lithuania), Urtė Aliošaitienė (Vilnius, Lithuania)
10:00–11:30 · PLENARY SESSION · Alpha Hall
Topic: Cardiovascular health in Europe: from policy to practice
Moderators: Cecilia Linde (Stockholm, Sweden) and Tomas Lapinskas (Kaunas, Lithuania)
10:00–10:15 · Conference opening: the updated national plan and Heart Defence Year 2027
15 min
Tomas Lapinskas, President of the Lithuanian Society of Cardiology (Kaunas, Lithuania)
10:15–10:30 · Know your numbers: screening and the EU Safe Hearts Plan
15 min
Cecilia Linde, President of the ESC (Stockholm, Sweden)
10:30–10:45 · Hypertension treatment today: current challenges and the road to the next ESH guidelines
15 min
Andrzej Januszewicz, President of the ESH (Warsaw, Poland)
10:45–11:05 · Early escalation of lipid-lowering therapy: from guidelines to practice
20 min
Zlatko Fras (Ljubljana, Slovenia) · Industry-supported lecture – Novartis
11:05–11:25 · Staying out of crisis: preventing worsening heart failure and future hospitalisations
20 min
Kārlis Trušinskis (Riga, Latvia)
11:25–11:30 · Cardiologist of the Year · Announcement and award
11:30–12:00 · COFFEE BREAK
12:00–13:00 · SCIENTIFIC SESSION I · Alpha Hall
Topic: From prevention to rehabilitation
Moderators: Eglė Tamulevičiūtė-Prascienė (Kaunas, Lithuania) and Jolita Badarienė (Vilnius, Lithuania)
12:00–12:20 · Beyond three drugs: resistant hypertension and new therapies
20 min
Reinhold Kreutz (Berlin, Germany)
12:20–12:40 · Before the first heart attack: lessons from VESALIUS-CV
20 min
Gaetano Maria De Ferrari (Turin, Italy) · Industry-supported lecture – Amgen
12:40–13:00 · Heart, body and mind: the first ESC Guidelines on cardiac rehabilitation
20 min
Dominique Hansen (Hasselt, Belgium)
13:00–14:00 · LUNCH
14:00–15:20 · SCIENTIFIC SESSION II · Alpha Hall · Parallel with the Practical Session
Topic: Heart failure and cardiomyopathies: from recognition to therapy
Moderators: Eglė Ereminienė (Kaunas, Lithuania) and Sigita Glaveckaitė (Vilnius, Lithuania)
14:00–14:20 · Beyond the echo: imaging infiltrative and inflammatory heart disease
20 min
Christine Jellis (Cleveland, United States)
14:20–14:40 · Transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy: from red flags to diagnosis and treatment
20 min
Gregor Zemljič (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
14:40–15:00 · HFpEF: cardio-oncology’s missing diagnosis
20 min
Michal Laufer-Perl (Tel Aviv, Israel)
15:00–15:20 · What’s new in clinical electrophysiology 2026: evolving ablation and device therapy
20 min
Paari Dominic (Iowa City, United States)
14:00–15:20 · PRACTICAL SESSION · Beta Hall · Parallel with Scientific Session II
Topic: Cardiovascular imaging: from bedside to expertise
Moderators: Jolanta Justina Vaškelytė (Kaunas, Lithuania) and Ieva Kažukauskienė (Klaipėda, Lithuania)
14:00–14:40 · State-of-the-art tricuspid valve imaging
40 min
Anastasia Vamvakidou (London, United Kingdom) · Industry-supported workshop – Philips
14:40–15:20 · Handheld cardiac and vascular ultrasound in daily practice
40 min
Radosław Nowak (Gdańsk, Poland) · Industry-supported workshop – GE Healthcare
15:20–16:00 · COFFEE BREAK
16:00–17:00 · SCIENTIFIC SESSION III · Alpha Hall
Topic: Innovation and leadership in cardiology
Moderators: Diana Žaliaduonytė (Kaunas, Lithuania) and Rokas Šerpytis (Vilnius, Lithuania)
16:00–16:20 · Sooner and softer: the new valve guidelines in practice
20 min
Wojciech Wojakowski (Katowice, Poland)
16:20–16:40 · Teaching the machine to read the heart: AI in cardiovascular medicine
20 min
Folkert W. Asselbergs (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
16:40–17:00 · The human side of cardiology: leading with connection in a digital age
20 min
Christine Jellis (Cleveland, United States)
17:00–17:10 · CLOSING REMARKS
Tomas Lapinskas (Kaunas, Lithuania)
17:10–19:00 · CONFERENCE DINNER
