The New Concepts of Cardiac Anatomy and Physiology
The Torch of Francisco Torrent-Guasp

Programme

Date: Saturday 28 May 2005 - 9.00 am to 4.00 pm

Venue: Education Centre, Alder Hey Hospital, Eaton Road, Liverpool, L12 2AP, England, UK

Hosts: Mr Antonio F Corno, Mr Roger Franks and Mr Marco Pozzi

0900- 0930 Coffee & Registration

0930- 0945 Welcome Tony Bell, Chief Executive, RLCH NHS Trust, Liverpool
Introduction Marco Pozzi, Consultant Paediatric Cardiac Surgeon, RLCH NHS Trust, Liverpool

Chairman: Magdi H. Yacoub

09:45-10:00 Video with Francisco Torrent-Guasp

10:00-10:30 The ventricular myocardial band (including practical demonstration)
Mladen J. Kocica, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro

1030- 1100 Echocardiography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Francesc Carreras-Costa, Barcelona, Spain

1100- 1130 Electrophysiology
John Pope Boineau, St Louis, Missouri, USA

1130- 1200 The syncytial mesh: the real basis of ventricular myocardial architecture.
Paul P. Lunkenheimer, Muenster, Germany

1200- 1230 Panel Discussion

1230- 1330 Buffet Lunch

Chairman: Ludwig K. Von Segesser

1330- 1400 Physiology
Mladen J. Kocica, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro

1400- 1430 Helical heart: evolution into development, embryology, excitation/contraction coupling and heart failure
Gerald Buckberg, Los Angeles, California, USA

1430- 1445 Torrent-Guasp's Cardiac Anatomical Legacy
Donald N. Ross, London, England

1445- 1500 Potential implications in congenital heart defects
Antonio F Corno, Liverpool, England

1500- 1515 Final Comments
Ludwig K von Segesser, Lausanne, Switzerland

1515- 1600 Panel Discussion with all the speakers

1600 Acknowledgements and Closure
Antonio F Corno

4 CME points approved by the Royal College of Surgeons.