Conference Venue

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Address for Communications

Please contact the Conference Managers at the address below for further information.

Heart Foundation 2009 Conference Managers
Address:
Level 10, 51 Druitt Street,
Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
Postal Address:
GPO Box 128, Sydney NSW 2001 Australia
Ph: +61 2 9265 0700
Fax: +61 2 9267 5443
Email: heartfoundation2009@tourhosts.com.au

Conference Managers

Tour Hosts Pty Limited
ABN 28 000 386 676

Tour Hosts Pty Limited has been appointed as the official PCO (Professional Conference Organiser). Tour Hosts is the largest total service provider for conferences, events, business travel and exhibitions in Australia. They are the only Australian partner of INCON, an exclusive international network of the world’s top conference organisers and event managers. They are ideally placed to combine international know how and local expertise to this Conference and look forward to working with Heart Foundation and all its members to produce the best Conference in its history.

Conference Program

The Conference theme, "Hearts in Focus,Celebration, Collaboration and Challenges" aims to not only celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Heart Foundation in Australia, which also occurs in 2009, but also reflect the cross continuum nature of the conference topics.

The continuum of care principles includes: epidemiology, genetics, prevention, health promotion, basic science, diagnosis, treatment / intervention and ongoing prevention and management.

Heart Foundation Conference 2009 is targeting the following priority populations:
a) women
b) Indigenous communities

The Conference program will encompass the following themes:

Epidemiology and burden of disease (national, global, economics)
Healthy lifestyle (healthy weight, physical activity, food supply and nutrition, tobacco, diabetes)
Risk (Absolute risk, assessing risk, managing risk)
Arrhythmias and sudden death
Hypertension
Vascular disease
Depression / psychosocial issues
Acute coronary syndrome (incl. patient delay, ongoing prevention and management)
Cardiomyopathies and heart failure (incl. devices and management programs)
Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease
Quality use of medicines
Lipids
Technological advances

Poster Presentations

Download the Poster Presentations - Thursday 14 May 2009 (PDF, 17KB)

Download the Poster Presentations - Friday 15 May 2009 (PDF, 17KB)

Due to the overwhelming number of abstracts received and the high calibre of poster presentations which will be on display at the conference, the accepted posters will be displayed either on Thursday, 14 May or Friday, 15 May 2009.

A panel of cardiovascular experts will be judging all poster presentations throughout the conference, and six finalists will be chosen (3 early career finalists and 3 senior finalists) and their posters displayed on Saturday, 16 May 2009. They will then be given the opportunity to present their paper in a dedicated oral plenary session to be held on Saturday, 16 May in the Great Hall. From this, two winners will be chosen to receive exclusive awards which will be presented during the Closing Ceremony. We look forward to sharing this unique part of the conference with you.

Conference Program Outline

To view the final program outline please click on the link below.

Download the Final Progam Outline (PDF, 504KB, Last Updated 11 May 2009)

Associated meetings being held during the Heart Foundation Conference 2009

13th Asia-Pacific Conference of Doppler Echocardiography, Hosted by University of Queensland. For further information, please visit the website: www.brisbane-echo.org