A Year in Cardiology

Our flagship educational course is the culmination to the cardiovascular year.

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About the course

This course will cover the 2025 ESC/EACTS 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 19 September 2025

Location: Royal College of Physicians, 11 St Andrews Place, London, NE1 4LE

Costs: 

  • BCS Associate (BJCA) members: £135
  • BCS Affiliate, Emeritus, International and Ordinary members: £265
  • Non-members: £530
 
Accreditation: Applied for from the Federation of the Royal College of Physicians, UK. 
 

Course Programme

8:15am -8:50am: Registration and refreshments

8:50am – 9am: Welcome and Introduction, Prof André Ng

Session 1 - Guidelines and Hot Topics

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

Networking Break

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

Lunch
Session 2 - Subspecialties Update

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

Networking Break

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

A very time efficient way to get updated with a gallop through the important developments in fields outside one's own.

If you can manage one short course per year, this would be a good choice!

As an IMT 3 about to tackle specialty applications, the course provided plenty of thought regarding the future of the specialty.

If you have any questions about this course, email our education team: [email protected].