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Date: Thursday, 6 December 2018
Chair: Afzal Hussein Yusufali, UAE
Chair: Mekhman Mamedov, Russia
Talk 1 Primary Prevention – risk scoring
Speaker: Pablo Perel, Switzerland
Talk 2 Post Myocardial Infarction – Who is Safe and Who is Unsafe
Speaker, Country Massoud Ghasemi
Talk 3 Chronic Stable CAD – How Do We Stratify for Risk and Choosing Therapy
Speaker, Country Stefan Achenbach
Talk 4 Should Risk Prediction Paradigms be Different in LMICS
Speaker, Country Tom Gaziano, USA
Chair, Country: Ashley Chin, South Africa
Chair, Country: Jasim Mohamed Al Hashmi, UAE
Talk 1 Is it feasible to reverse the NOAC overdose?
Speaker: Adel Khalifa Hamad, Bahrain
Talk 2 Coronary intervention and AF management: Are the guidelines clear?
Speaker: Nassir Marrouche, USA
Talk 3 Oral anticoagulation in the octogenerians: Is it safe?
Speaker: Ali Oto
Talk 4 Use of anticoagulants in LMIC
Speaker: Ganesan Karthkeyan, India
Date: Friday, 7 December 2018
Chair, Country: Aman Amanullah, Bangladesh
Chair, Country: Mohammad Naeem Aslam, Pakistan
Talk 1 Management of hypertension in pregnancy
Speaker: Natalie Bello, USA
Talk 2 Screening for secondary hypertension
Speaker: Khalida Soomro, Pakistan
Talk 3 Hypertension, Left Ventricular Remodelling and Hypertensive Heart Failure in Black African Patients
Speaker: Dike Ojj, Nigeria
Talk 4 Salt-Sensitive Hypertension in Asia: Prevalence, Genome, and Novel Therapy
Speaker: Tzung-Dau Wang, Taiwan
Chair, Country: Mpiko Ntsekhe, South Africa
Chair, Country: Hesham Ahmed Osman, UAE
Talk 1 Role of Ischemia vs. Stenosis in Driving Therapeutic Decisions
Speaker: Sidney C. Smith Jr, USA
Talk 2 What is Optimal Medical Therapy for CAD and What Should Be the Goals
Speaker: Vinay Bahl, India
Talk 3 Diabetes & CAD: Is there a role for PCI?
Speaker: Haitham Amin
Talk 4 Environment and CAD – Pollution, Climate & Stress
Speaker: Daniel Piñeiro, Argentina
Chair, Country: Andrzej Budaj, Poland
Chair, Country: Ntobeko Ntusi, South Africa
Talk 1 Optimal and Still Practical Ways to Manage Hypertension: What the General Practitioner Needs to do
Speaker: Eugene Yang, USA
Talk 2 Helping Your Patient Becoming Active, Be Compliant with Drugs, and Reduce Stress (general overview in motivational interview, compliance, etc.)
Speaker: Marta Supervia, Spain
Talk 3 Smoking Cessation for Practitioners
Speaker: Ondrej Sochor Czech Republic
Talk 4 How to manage obesity in the office
Speaker: Maria Collazo Puerto Rico
Chair, Country: Sharif Bakir
Chair, Country: Mary Walsh
Talk 1 It is vital, only needs a tweak
Speaker: Jayanthi Jayawardena
Talk 2: It’s waste of time
Speaker: Marildes Castro, Brazil
Date: Saturday, 8 December 2018
Chair, Country: Mohammed Zubaid, Kuwait
Chair, Country: Prakash Deedwania
Talk 1 Renal Denervation – From Hero to Zero – and back? Who, when, how?
Speaker: Deepak Bhatt, USA
Talk 2 One drug, many drugs, low dose, high dose?
Speaker: Clara Chow, Australia
Talk 3 What is the ideal BP?
Speaker: Victor Huckell, Canada
Chair, Country: Koji Hasegawa
Talk 1 The guideline of stroke prevention: all NOACs are same or different?
Speaker: Antoni Martínez-Rubio, Spain
Talk 2 Risk stratification of stroke: more than CHADS and CHA2DS2-Vasc
Speaker: Ali Oto, Turkey
Talk 3 Anti-coagulants in frail, high-aged Asian population
Speaker: Dong (Dede) Zhao, China
