WCPCCS 2025

9th WORLD CONGRESS OF PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY & CARDIAC SURGERY
7-12 DECEMBER 2025 HONG KONG, CHINA

Embracing With All Our Hearts & Moving Forward With Patients

WCPCCS

PRESENTATIONS

Adel Younoszai - Imaging and Diagnosis
Adriana Tremoulet - Patient burden and medical needs of grown-up Kawasaki Disease
Alaa Roushdy - Balloon pulmonary valvoplasty: what should trainees learn from seniors? Technical tips
Alfonzo Limon - Role of AI in Healthcare Educatio
Alfred Asante-Korang - Global burden of heart failure in 2025
Andreas Tulzer - Lessons learned from fetal cardiac interventions
Angela Mcbrien - Early fetal echo possibilities and associated uncertainty
Anjali Sadhwani - Construction and application of CHD-specific early childhood developmental growth charts for the Bayley-4”
Anna Fisk - Nurse training and retention, will we always be catching our tail? Recruitment, mentorship, incentivization and career progression
Anna Fisk - Strategies for Nurse Retention
Anthony Chang - Terms, Applications and Ethics
Ariuntsatsral Erdenebileg - Will digital technology redefine the pediatric cardiac workforce in emerging economies?
Asma Salloo - Hypercyanotic spells
Aya Miyazaki - One patient, one device: Optimizing individual programming
Aya Miyazaki - What are the data for pacemaker chronotropy in post-operative recovery?
Aya Miyazaki - What is the best ECG guideline: Arrhythmia
Azadeh Assadi - What the chest X-ray tells us
Babar Hasan - Benefits of international credentialing
Babar Hasan - Data-Driven Quality Improvement: A Global Imperative
Babar Hasan - Leadership and Innovation - ground up or top down? What is the role of the private sector in building capacity?
Babar Hasan - Outcomes for Cardiac Catheterization
Benjamin Eidem - Ebstein Anomaly and Other TV Disorders: Cone, Plasty, or Go Home?
Bettina Cuneo - Management of fetal bradyarrhythmias - where are we in 2025?
Bistra Zheleva - Importance of Adaptability
Bistra Zheleva - Recommendations for developing effective and safe PCHD services in LMIC-A public health framework
Bistra Zheleva - The global need for education and the WCPCCS call to action
Bistra Zheleva - The sustainable development goals and universal access to care. Are we serious about congenital heart diseases?
Bistra Zheleva - Who will define the workforce requirements and how? Making the case for national planning process
Brian Quinn - Lessons from C3PO
Bruce Searles - Best Practices in Perfusion Education: Application of a Validated Immersive Simulation Curriculum to Teach and Assess Fundamental Skills of CPB
Bruce Searles - Education Without Borders: Applying Contemporary Educational Methods to Expand Perfusion Learning in Areas of Need
Brynn Dechert-Crooks - Virtual care and telemedicine practice
Brynn Dechert-Crooks - What the ECG tells us
Carmen Lopez - Borderline RV: Small May Not Be Too Small
Carolina Escudero - Differentiating types of SVT on the catheter table when the going gets tough
Charitha Reddy - Current and upcoming clinical applications in echocardiography
Charitha Reddy - Echo and AI: How much can we improve outcomes?
Charitha Reddy - Echo and AI: functional assessment
Cheyenne Beach - Evaluating and treating arrhythmias after ventricular assist device, or catheter-based hemodynamic device deployment
Cheyenne Beach - The various uses of ivabradine
Ching Kit Chen - Borderline LV: The Never-Ending Short Story
Christian Brizard - Transition Planning and Serendipity
Chun-Wei Lu - Living with chronic heart failure - A patient's perspective
Claire Irving - When should medical therapy be offered in pediatric heart failure?
Clara Vazquez-Antona - Preoperative 3D echo and its role in decision-making
Clare O'Donnell - IE on transcatheter pulmonary valves and other intracardiac devices: Which valves are highest risk?
Clare O'Donnell - When do we start advanced care planning for end-of-life care in ACHD?
Daphne Hsu - Con: Why I do not prescribe ARNI and SGLT2 inhibitors to this patient?
Darren Hutchinson - Application and impact of first trimester foetal echo
David Overman - Surgery for unbalanced AVSD
David Werho - Failed extubations - Can we predict them?
Debasis Das - Quality improvement requires data - Is it asking for too much in LMIC?
Delphine Yung - Pulmonary hypertensions in developmental lung diseases
Di Yu - Investigations of standard strategies for pediatric mitral valve reoperation
Dorothy Pearson - Global ARCH: Empowering Parent and Patient Advocacy
Duminda Samarasinghe - Providing pediatric cardiac services amidst humanitarian challenes
Durga Prasanna Misra - Takayasu disease in children
Eduardo Macias Enriquez Enriquez - Innovative Educational Models 1
Edward Callus - Can artificial intelligence and machine learning help us predict psychosocial trajectories in individuals with CHD?
Edward Callus - How can we best use telemedine /telepsychology to address these issues?
Edward Callus - Improving long-term psychosocial outcomes
Edward Callus - Psychosocial care in ACHD: A focus on implementation in the hospital setting
Edwin Francis - Planning and management of cardiac interventions
Elisabeth Martin - Optimal surgical approaches for pulmonary atresia with VSD and MAPCAs
Elisabeth Martin - Transplantation in pulmonary hypertension - timing and outcomes
Eric Horlick - Complications of device closure in elderly: How to mitigate the risks?
Etsuko Tsuda - How I surveil and manage adult Kawasaki disease
Etsuko Tsuda - Pregnancy in women with a history of Kawasaki disease
Frank Scholl - Update on late outcomes of different pulmonary valves and conduits
Gabriele Hessling - ECG screening for children and athletes: European Perspectives
Gabriele Hessling - What is “try everything” before ablating small kids with SVT?
Gareth Morgan - Update on current technologies used and what is the future
Gary Sholler - Developing a national CHD strategy - the experience of Australia
Gary Sholler - Families as partners in advocacy
Gerald Tulzer - The borderline right heart
Gerhard-Paul Diller - Use of ambient technology to improve diagnostic imaging
Gi-Beom Kim - Con: We need to protect the right ventricle kudos to the transcatheter pulmonary valve
Gi-Beom Kim - PPVI (Pulsta)
Greg Webster - Diagnosis and acute management of aborted sudden cardiac death
Greg Webster - Which of my patients need genetic testing beyond a simple commercial panel?
Gregory Latham - Bloodless surgery: is that a dream?
Hamilton Baker - Clinical interactions and decision support
Hao Zhang - Reporting systems standardization; Ethical and legal barriers to quality pediatric and congenital heart disease data acquisition
Hopewell Nitsinjana - How can imaging guide coronary interventions in repaired TGA?
Hopewell Nitsinjana - How do we improve heart failure care and quality of life in resource-Limited communities?
Jack Rychik - Basic echo reading skills
Jack Rychik - The placenta - importance in CHD
Jack Rychik - The whodunit in protein losing enteropathy: Sir hemodynamics or lady lymphatics?
Jack Rychik - Whose responsibility are psychosocial issues, should we go there, and how?
Jae Young Lee - MV Disease: Like Music, It Is All in the Chords
Jafesi Pulle - Community-based participation to optimize adherence
Jafesi Pulle - Training the next generation of non-physician health care workers
Jai Nahar - Bias, ethics and implementation barriers in congenital cardiology
Jeffrey Kim - Ablating challenging structural and cardiomyopathy substrates
Jennifer Romano - Strategies for Leadership in Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac
Jennifer Su - What is the role of an interdisciplinary team in a pediatric heart failure service?
Jessica Bainton - How do we recognize, prevent and manage trauma and PTSD in our patients and families?
Jinping Liu - Patient Blood Management in Pediatric Congenital Heart Disease. Where Are We Heading
John Jairo Araujo - Stress echocardiography in CHD: When and how should it be done?
Jonas Del Rosario - Aortic coarctation stenting
Joseph Kado - Novel long-term antibotic prophylaxis options
Julian Cameron - Is the failing Fontan really a pulmonary vascular disease?
Julie De Backer - Novelties from ESC 2O25 pregnancy guidelines
Julien Grynblat - Pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary artery branch stenoses
Julien Grynblat - Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease
Justin Skowno - Cardiac surgery: total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA) or inhalational?
Kanwal Farooqi - Abnormal Coronary Artery Origin: Is Echo Good Enough?
Karpagam Jayabalan - Nutrition Management for CHD
Karpagam Jayabalan - Palliative and end of life care
Kathryn Dodds - Healthcare economics: the perspective of high resource country
Kathryn Dodds - It's a journey: How can we provide longitudinal care?
Kathryn Dodds - Murmurs and Pulses: What the physical examination tells us
Kathryn Dodds - Specialized outpatient programs and clinics - Fontan
Kathryn Taubert - How has epidemiology of RHD changed since the first World Congress
Kathy Jenkins - Quality and safety: Compliance and risk
Katya De Groote - Counselling and psychosocial support after a diagnosis of foetal cardiac disease - what is our role?
Katya De Groote - Neurodevelopmental and psychological considerations of Turner syndrome across the lifespan
Kenji Suda - Con: Patients with small coronary aneurysms that resolve within the first year after illness onset can be discharged from cardiac care
Kerry Gaskin - Developmental care in the ICU
Kirsten Odegard - How to evaluate, triage and sedate a patient in the cath lab?
Koichi Yuki - Update on anesthetics and surgical outcomes
Kothandam Sivakumar - Sinus venosus defect closure in patients less than 18 years - Outcome data
Leo Lopez - 3D Echo and advanced imaging evaluation of the congenital AV Valve
Leo Lopez - CCTGA: To Band or Not To Band? That Is Truly the Question
Li Ma - Outcomes and surgical strategies for pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect and major aortopulmonary collaterals: A Chinese perspective
Lillian Su - Improving resuscitation through simulation and team training
Lindsay Rogers - Imaging approach
Lindsey Gakenheimer-Smith - Can my center perform MRI in patients with non-conditional devices?
Lindsey Justice - A growing role for advance practice providers
Liqun Sun - Is there a role for hemodynamic assessment by CMR in fetal CHD?
Lorna Browne - How do I use Doppler ultrasound in fetal CMR?
Lucile Houyel - Morphology
Lucile Houyel - The spectrum of foregut malformations associated with congenital heart defects
Lucy Eun - Multimodality imaging to support timing of transcatheter valve intervention in ACHD
Lynda Shaughnessy - How I bridge the gap: My role as an ACHD nurse practitioner
Lynda Shaughnessy - Meeting the home feeding challenge
Lynda Shaughnessy - Regionalization of care: Can we be creative?
Lynda Shaughnessy - Sustainability: How to keep nurses in the workforce
Marcelo Biscegli Jatene - Arterial switch operation
Marhisham Che Mood - Balloon aortic valvoplasty: do we still need to argue with surgeons, especially for neonates? Technical modifications to improve results in neonates
Marhisham Che Mood - PDA stenting in duct dependent pulmonary circulation - Tips and tricks
Maria Ina Bunyi - What program models can be used for low resource areas?
Martina Brueckner - Flow sensors in valve development
Masood Sadiq - Multivalvar disease
Masood Sadiq - Persuading governments to invest in new training programs
Mattew Bacon - Con: Pro: Hight flow nasal cannula should be used in all patients peri-extubation
Michael Goldsmith - Leveraging AI to assess wearable data
Mike Saji - Role of biomarkers to guide the treatment of heart failure in ACHD
Mike Seed - Neurodevelopment and neuroprotection in CHD: Advances and strategies
Ming Ye - Outcomes of arterial switch operation in transposition of the great arteries in Eastern China
Molly Oldeen - AmSECT's Pediatric and Congenital Standards Update
Naomi Gauthier - What do we mean by “cardiac rehabilitation”?
Nico Blom - Fetal tachycardia: what to do when first-line therapy fails
Nikhil Chanani - Neonatal Ebstein anomaly of the tricuspid valve
Nina Hakacova - Prothetic valves in children: Is It working?
Pak Cheong Chow - I'm starting from scratch! How to develop a transition program
Pak Cheong Chow - What I wish adolescents knew before transfering to adult care
Panduleni Penipawa Shimmanda - Echo screening for rheumatic heart disease: A new role for nurses
Pascal Amedro - Can adult models of cardiac rehabilitation be applied?
Pedro Becker - Con: The ross procedure is the gold standard operation in children and adolescents with a non-repairable BAV
Pedro Becker - Ethics in resource allocation and moving he mountain - Increasing government investment for pediatric and congenital heart disease care
Pedro Becker - Interrupted aortic arch with LVOTO: Surgical options
Peter Aziz - Arrhythmia management and device indications in myocarditis
Peter Laussen - Risk Assessment and Decision Making in Cardiac Surgery
Peter Roeleveld - ECPR
Philip Moons - Can AI replace our unique nursing role?
Philip Moons - Using AI to make CHD care more person-centered
Philip Moons - What's new in transition? Novel strategies to support adolescents
Qalab Abbas - Acute neurologic events
Qalab Abbas - OR to ICU Handoff - What matters and what doesn't?
R. Krishna Kumar - Balloon mitral valvuloplasty for rheumatic heart disease: experience in 2025
R. Krishna Kumar - Developing and maintaining centers of excellence in low-resource settings
R. Krishna Kumar - Telehealth in ambulatory patient care - Telehealth in resource-limited environments
R. Krishna Kumar - When resources are limited: when should we say NO?
Rachel Hopper - Bronchopulmonary dysplasia and pulmonary hypertension
Raju Vijayakumar - Risk Adjustment for CHD Surgery in LMICs
Robert Radke - Emerging role of large language models (LLMs) in cardiovascular care
Roberta Keller - Management of neonates with pulmonary hypertension
Roberta Keller - Pulmonary hypertension in diaphragmatic hernia
Ron Angona - No FFP in the prime - A good idea?
Rosita Bihariesingh - Management of anemia: Is there a role for autologous blood transfusion
Ruth Heying - Cardiovascular genetics in the management of fetal heart disease
Ruth Heying - Creating learning networks in paediatric cardiac care
Ryo Inuzuka - Assesing the liver in CHD- when and in whom?
Sabrina Tsao - Arrhythmia burden in RASopathies
Sabrina Tsao - Home monitoring: what's new and what's coming
Salman Pervaiz Butt - The need for a structured pathway to facilitate perfusionist mobility across borders
Sami Chaouki - Are we ready for the future? Open window, voltage mapping, pulsed field, and coming technologies
Sandra Staveski - Delirium - diagnosis and management
Sandra Staveski - Empowering Nurses in Cardiac Critical and Acute Care in LMICs
Sandra Staveski - Special needs of underserved communities
Sarah Henson - Epidemiology of cardiovascular risk factors in youth and role of non-invasive imaging
Satoshi Yasukochi - How to assess RV function: A practical case-based approach
Shahnawaz Amdani - Reducing recipient wait times by improving organ allocation: The UNOS experience
Shaine Morris - Maternal hyperoxia therapy-beneficial or harmful?
Shakeel Qureshi - How to protect pulmonary veins or deal with additional veins draining high into SVC
Shakeel Qureshi - Paediatric Cardiology in low-income countries - what can be offered for improvement of services?
Sharon Chen - Pediatric multi-organ transplantation in 2025
Shelby Kutty - Value creation through AI and cardiovascular Imaging
Sherard Little - Pediatric and congenital cardiac care in the Jamaica: Challenges and successes
Sheunn-Nan Chiu - Evaluating aborted sudden death from infancy to young adulthood
Shiraz Maskatia - Heterotaxy Syndrome: Oh the Places We Can Go
Shubhika Srivastava - The Value of a Global Strategy for Curricula Development and Credentialing
Shuenn-Nan Chiu - What is the best ECG guideline: Pediatric heart diseases other than myocardial disease and arrhythmias
Silvana Molossi - Anomalous Coronary Arteries - What does the imaging tell
Silvana Molossi - ECG screening of young athletes in US
Sit-Yee Kwok - The Hong Kong experience in cardio-genetics
Sivakumar Sivalingam - Pro: Early PVR subjects patients to multiple interventions - What is the rush?
Sivakumar Sivalingam - Surgery is better
Snehal Kulkarni - Complex case multidisciplinary team discussion - A simulation
Stephen Paridon - What is the current state of pediatric/ACHD rehabilitation programs?
Steve Bleyl - Single site experience substituting CMA for WGS in the CICU
Steven Abman - Alveolar capillary dysplasia
Steven Abman - Diagnostic work up of neonates with pulmonary hypertension
Steven Abman - Down syndrome as a risk factor for pulmonary hypertension
Steven Lipshultz - Cardio-oncology: mechanisms, risk factors and epidemiology
Steven Lipshultz - Cardio-oncology: prevention and treatment of cardiac dysfunction
Steven Lipshultz - Genetic susceptibility in anthracycline- induced cardiomyopathy
Steven Lipshultz - Innovation and Discovery in Pediatric Cardiology Direction and Barriers.pptx.pdf
Steven Lipshultz - Medical treatment of childhood-onset HCM - past, present and future
Sulafa Ali - Anticoagulation for patients living with RHD - Hospital and community management of INR
Sulafa Ali - WHO Guidelines
Supaporn Roymanee - Is it time to close all perimembranous VSDs? What do the data show?
Tak-Cheung Yung - Are pacemaker indications universal when resource access is limited?
Teiji Akagi - ASD closure in the elderly with left ventricular dysfunction
Teiji Akagi - Cutting edge strategies for PAH-CHD
Teiji Akagi - Igniting the fire-How to entice more ACHD cardiologist?
Teiji Akagi - What data is needed on lifelong CHD to better inform health policy? - Replicating Japan's national CHD registry to better inform health policy
Thomas Glenn - How can clinicians partner with patient and family support organizations?
Timothy Colen - Assessment of ventricular size and function by 3D echo
Tomoko Ishizu - Advanced GDMT management for heart failure in ACHD
Tomoko Ishizu - Pro: Why I prescribe ARNI and SGLT2 inhibitors to this patient?
Unnikrishnan Vettickal Sasi - Application of AI at the bedside-low resource countries
Uri Pollak - d-TGA and severe cyanosis
Viviane Nasr - Intraoperative ventilation strategies in neonates
Vladimiro Vida - Indications and timing for placement of pulmonary valves following repair of TOF
Woo Goo Hyun - Kawasaki's Disease - acute and long term imaging strategies
Woong-Han Kim - 1. Lecture 1: DORV
Wyman Lai - AI powered education in low- and middle-income countries
Wyman Lai - Resource Efficiency and Collaboration
Yiu-Fai Cheung - Echocardiographic assessment
Yogeswary Muniandy Muniandy - Advanced Clinical Site Nurse Practitioner Programs
Yoko Yoshida - Choosing the right time and patient for VT ablation in children
Zhao Ju - Progress in pediatric cardiopulmonary bypass