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

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Adult Congenital Heart Disease

Track Chairs:
  • Teiji Akagi (Japan)
  • Michael Gatzoulis (UK)
  • Geetha Kandavello (Malaysia)

Acquired Diseases of Coronary Arteries and Heart Layers

Track Chairs:
  • Tom Gentles (New Zealand)
  • Jane Newburger (USA)
  • Yoshihide Mitani (Japan)

Administration and Policy

Track Chairs:
  • Daniel Penny (USA)
  • Wyman Lai (USA)

Ambulatory Cardiology and Telemedicine

Track Chairs:
  • Brian McCrindle (Canada)
  • Gary Satou (USA)
  • Elaine Urbina (USA)

Artificial Intelligence, Technology and Personalized medicine

Track Chairs:
  • Anthony Chang (USA)
  • Gerhard-Paul Diller (Germany)
  • Shelby Kutty (USA)

Basic Science

Track Chairs:
  • Martina Brueckner (USA)
  • Hiroyuki Yamagishi (Japan)
  • Marc-Phillip Hitz (Germany)

Cardiac Anaesthesia

Track Chairs:
  • Viviane Nasr (USA)
  • Mona Momeni (Belgium)
  • Luis Zabala (USA)

Cardiac Intensive Care

Track Chairs:
  • Ronald Bronicki (USA)
  • Katherine Brown (UK)
  • David Cooper (USA)

Cardiac Nursing

Track Chairs:
  • Kathryn M Dodds (USA)
  • Lindsey Justice (USA)
  • Philip Moons (Belgium)
  • Brynn Dechert-Crooks (USA)

Cardiac Surgery

Track Chairs:
  • Jeffrey Jacobs (USA)
  • Xin Li (China)
  • Christo Tchervenkov (Canada)
  • Nicholson Yam (China)

Cardiogenetics

Track Chairs:
  • Stephanie Ware (USA)
  • Martin Tristani-Firouzi (USA)
  • Robert Weintraub (Australia)

Cardiovascular Involvement in Systemic and Rare Diseases

Track Chairs:
  • Damien Bonnet (France)
  • Barry Bryne (USA)
  • Giuseppe Limongelli (Italy)

Interventional Catheterization

Track Chairs:
  • Shakeel Qureshi (UK)
  • Worakan Promphan (Thailand)
  • Zahid Amin (USA)

Echocardiography

Track Chairs:
  • Benjamin Eidem (USA)
  • Leo Lopez (USA)
  • Luc Mertens (Canada)
  • Satoshi Yasukochi (Japan)

Electrophysiology

Track Chairs:
  • Gregory Webster (USA)
  • Aya Miyazaki (Japan)
  • Gabriele Hessling (Germany)

Foetal Cardiology

Track Chairs:
  • Julene Carvalho (UK)
  • Mary Donofrio (USA)
  • Edgar Jaeggi (Canada)

Heat failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support and Transplant

Track Chairs:
  • Johnathan Chen (USA)
  • Yuk-Ming Law (USA)
  • Paul Kantor (USA)
  • Matthew Fenton

The Call to Action:Global Health and Congenital Heart Disease

Track Chairs:
  • Christopher Hugo-Hamman (South Africa)
  • Bistra Zheleva

Multimodality Imaging

Track Chairs:
  • Michael Cheung (Australia)
  • Andrew Taylor (UK)
  • Mike Seed (Canada)

Neurodevelopmental and Other Long-term Outcomes

Track Chairs:
  • Adrienne Kovacs (Canada)
  • Colin McMahon (UK)

Perfusion

Track Chairs:
  • Bradley Kulat (USA)
  • James Reagor (USA)

Pulmonary hypertension

Track Chairs:
  • Maurice Beghetti (Switzerland)
  • Dunbar Ivy (USA)

Rheumatic Heart Disease

Track Chairs:
  • Raman Krishna Kumar (India)
  • Craig Sable (USA)

Cardiac Morphology in Extended Reality

Track Chairs:
  • Andrew Cook (UK)
  • Justin Tretter (USA)