A Year in Cardiology
Our flagship educational course is the culmination to the cardiovascular year.
About the course
This course will cover the 2026 ESC guidelines, review the year’s hot topics and provide subspecialty updates. There will also be four dedicated Ask the Expert sessions where you can ask the faculty your questions.
The faculty will be made up of a variety of prominent speakers from the field of cardiology.
Course Directors:
Dr Shouvik Haldar, BCS Vice-President for Education
Key information
Date: Friday 11 December 2026
Location: Royal College of Physicians, 11 St Andrews Place, London, NE1 4LE
Costs:
- BCS Associate (BJCA) members: £TBC
- BCS Affiliate, Emeritus, International and Ordinary members: £TBC
- Non-members: £TBC
Course Programme
Below is the course programme for 2025 – the course programme for 2026 will be confirmed in Summer/Autumn 2026.
8:15am -8:50am: Registration and refreshments
8:50am – 9am: Welcome and Introduction, Prof André Ng
9am – 9:15am: 2025 ESC/EACTS Guidelines – Valvular Heart Disease, Prof Jonas Lanz
9:15am – 9:30am: 2025 ESC Guidelines – Myocarditis and pericarditis, Prof Vanessa Ferreira
9:30am – 9:45am: 2025 ESC Guidelines – Cardiovascular disease during pregnancy, Dr Matthew Cauldwell
9:45am – 10am: 2025 ESC Guidelines – Focused update: Dyslipidaemias, Prof Jeanine Roeters van Lennep
10am – 10:35am: Ask the Experts, Chair: Dr Louise Buchanan
11:05am – 11:15am: 2025 ESC Consensus Statement – Mental health and cardiovascular disease, Prof Christi Deaton
11:15am – 11:35am: Cardiology & the NHS Long Term Plan: From Ambition to Impact, Prof Simon Ray
11:35am – 12noon: Ask the Experts, Chair: Dr Louise Buchanan
12noon – 12:15pm: Industry Sponsored Session
1:15pm – 1:30pm: Structural Heart Disease, Dr Tiffany Paterson
1:30pm – 1:45pm: Electrophysiology, Prof Rachel Myles
1:45pm – 2pm: Heart Failure & Devices, Dr Fozia Ahmed
2pm – 2:15pm: Coronary Artery Disease – Medical & Intervention, Dr Shazia Hussain
2:15pm – 2:45pm: Ask the Experts, Chair: Dr Andrew Ludman
3:15pm – 3:30pm: Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Dr Joanna Lim
3:30pm – 4:15pm: Cardiac Imaging:
- CT, Presenter TBC
- CMR, Presenter TBC
- Nuclear, Dr Rebecca Schofield
- Echo, Dr Dominik Schlosshan
4:15pm – 4:45pm: Ask the Experts, Chair: Dr Andrew Ludman
4:45pm: Closing remarks
Testimonials
Excellent day! Sessions were perfectly timed and breaks were well planned!
If you can manage one short course per year, this would be a good choice!
An excellent and relevant course for Core Cardiology Training.
If you have any questions about this course, email our education team: [email protected].