QMB Heart Programme

Sunday 28th August

9.00 - 10.30: Atherosclerosis and Lipoproteins

Chair: Sally McCormick
Alison Heather (Sydney) - Inflammatory mechanisms in atherosclerosis
Wendy Jessup (Uni of NSW) - ABC transporters in atherosclerosis
Anne von Zychlinski (Biochemistry, Otago) - Proteomics of Lp(a)
Speakers selected from abstracts

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10.30-11.00: Morning Tea

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11:00 am - 12:30 pm: Public Health and Lifestyle

Chair Kirsten Coppell
Sponsor: NHF
Dr Boyd Swinburn (Deakin University) - Obesity Prevention
Dr Brandon Orr-Walker (Middlemore & Counties Manakau DHB) - Let's Beat Diabetes and cardiovascular disease: a community approach to disease prevention
Dr Alex Brown (Chair in Indigenous Health, Baker IDI Central Australia) - Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Indigenous Communities

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12.30pm - 1.30pm: Lunch

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1:30 pm - 3:30 pm: Animal Models of Cardiovascular Pathologies

Chair Ivan Sammut
Xiao-Jan Du (Baker) - Anti-fibrotic action of relaxin and translational implication: findings from models of cardiovascular fibrosis
Louise Burrell (University of Melbourne) - ACE2 and heart disease- experimental and clinical studies
Clive May (Howard Florey Inst) - Cardiac sympathoexcitation in Heart Failure, consequences and causes
Assoc Prof Simon Malpas (Auckland University) - Neural control of blood pressure

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4.30 pm - 7:30 pm: POSTERS and SOCIAL SESSION

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Monday 29th August

9:00 am - 10:30 pm: The Heritability of Heart Disease: New Genetics

PLENARY LECTURE - Sponsor: University of Otago Functional Genomics
Chair Vicky Cameron
Alexandre Stewart (Ottawa, Canada) - GWAS of Coronary Artery Disease and the Mechanisms of the Risk Locus at 9p211
Dr Anna Pilbrow (UOC) - Cardiac gene expression profiling
Speakers selected from abstracts

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10.30-11.00: Morning Tea

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11:00 am - 12:30 pm: Biomarkers and Heart Disease

Chair Torsten Kleffman
Peter Meikle (Baker IDI, Melbourne) - Lipidomic analysis of stable and unstable coronary artery disease
Steven Geiseg (University of Canterbury) - Hydroneopterin and atherosclerosis
Chris Charles (Christchurch Cardioendocrine Research Group) - Cardiac Biomarkers
Speakers selected from abstracts

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12.30-1.30: Lunch

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1:30 pm - 3:00 pm: New Technologies in Echocardiography and Imaging

Chair Steven Geiseg
David Celemajer (Sydney Medical School) - Non-invasive methods to assess arterial structure and function using brachial ultrasound
Anthony Butler (Canterbury Bioengineering MARS Team)
Gregory Giles (Otago) - Using the synchrotron to study free radical biology in cells Speakers selected from abstracts

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3.00-3.30: Afternoon Tea

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3.30 pm - 5:00 pm: Channelopathies and Electrophysiology e

Chair Bruce Smaill
Organised with Andrew Schelling and Jamie Vandenberg (Victor Chan Institute)

5:00 pm: Close of Meeting

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