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Annual CASSA Symposium Virtual SeriesSPEAKERS & MODERATORSProfessor Karen Silwa is widely recognized as a world expert incardiovascular diseases (CVDs), with a special interest inreducing mortality in women with cardiovascular disease(CVD) in maternity. She has contributed to betterunderstanding on the pathophysiology, treatment options andawareness of peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM), a globaldisease particularly prevalent in African populations.She leads several inter-Africa research projects, which havehad a major impact for creating knowledge about CVDscommon in Africa, leading to changes in policy.Professor Karen Silwa(Speaker)Professor Julian Gillmore(Speaker)Professor Julian Gillmore undertook MD and PhD degrees inthe field of amyloidosis. His research interests includepathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of amyloidosis. He wasappointed Centre Head at UCL’s Centre for Amyloidosis &Acute Phase Proteins in 2019 and is research lead at the UKNational Amyloidosis Centre. He has published more than 250peer-reviewed articles, has supervised a number of studentsthrough their post-doctoral research degrees, is CI/PI on arange of amyloid-related clinical trials, and has receivedextensive grant funding.Dr Jane Moses is a Consultant Cardiologist andElectrophysiologist at Tygerberg Hospital / StellenboschUniversity and Busamed Paardevlei Private Hospital.Dr Jane Moses(Moderator)
Annual CASSA Symposium Virtual SeriesSPEAKERS & MODERATORSProfessor Helmut Friedrich Pürerfellner, MD, FESC, FHRS, ishead of the Department of Electrophysiology and SeniorConsultant at Ordensklinikum Linz, Austria. He has beenactively working for the European Heart Rhythm Association(EHRA) since 2011 and was elected in the Executive Board asTreasurer for 2018-2020. He currently serves as theInternational Affairs Coordinator in the period 2020-2022.Professor HelmutPürerfellner(Speaker)Dr Henry-Lines trained as an ICU Nurse. She holds amongstothers two Master’s degrees from Stellenbosch & Barcelona aswell as a PhD from Stellenbosch.Areas of research/publication - Collaboration betweenFaculties of Economics, Business Management and HealthSciences.She as been an invited international speaker for EuroPCR andEuropean Doctoral Programmed Association in Management &Business Science.Dr Heather Henry-Lines(Speaker)Professor Paulus Kirchhof(Speaker)Professor Paulus Kirchhof is Director of the Department ofCardiology at the University Heart and Vascular Center UKEHamburg and holds a part-time position as Professor ofCardiovascular Medicine at the University of Birmingham. Hestudied Medicine in Heidelberg, Lille, Georgetown, andMünster. After graduating, Professor Kirchhof learned andpracticed cardiology at the University Hospital Münster andworked in Birmingham from 2011 until moving to Hamburg in2020. Professor Kirchhof researches translational mechanismsand management of cardiovascular diseases, especiallyarrhythmias and heart failure. He is a highly cited researcher, anenthusiastic teacher and a mentor for cardiologists andcardiovascular researchers.
Annual CASSA Symposium Virtual SeriesSPEAKERS & MODERATORSDr IWP Obel is an Electrophysiologist previously practicing atJohannesburg Hospital, now in private practice at MilparkHospital, Johannesburg.Dr IWP Obel(Moderator)Professor Carsten Israel(Speaker)After obtaining State Exam at the Medical School of BochumUniversity in 1992, Professor Carsten W. Israel undertookinternship and residencies at Bochum University, Germany. Heobtained the Boards of Internal Medicine in 1999 and movedto Frankfurt University where he served he as consultant ofInternal Medicine and Cardiology, Master Teacher, andDirector of Arrhythmia Services-Devices until 2009. He wasthen appointed as Chief of Cardiology at Bethel-Clinic,Bielefeld, an Academic Hospital of Munster University,Germany. Carsten W. Israel participated in numerouslandmark trials in the field of arrhythmias.Professor Aimé Bonny is a consultant CardiologistElectrophysiology at the University of Douala-Cameroon andthe President of the African Heart Rhythm Association (AFHRA)Professor Aimé Bonny(Speaker)
Annual CASSA Symposium Virtual SeriesSPEAKERS & MODERATORSAshley Chin is a cardiologist/electrophysiologist at GrooteSchuur Hospital and UCT Private Academic Hospital. He is anassociate professor of cardiology and electrophysiology at theUniversity of Cape Town. He is the director of the Pan-AfricanSociety of Cardiology (PASCAR) fellowship in cardiac pacingand co-director of the Andrzej Okreglicki (AO) MemorialAdvanced ECG & Arrhythmia Interpretation Course forcardiology registrars since 2012. He is the immediate pastpresident of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Society of Southern Africa(CASSA).Professor Ashley Chin(Speaker & Moderator)Professor Nico Blom(Speaker)Professor Nico Blom has been named Professor of PaediatricCardiology, in particular cardiac arrhythmia in children, in theFaculty of Medicine at the University of Amsterdam (AMCUvA). He is specialised in the treatment of heart rhythmdisorders in children and patients with congenital heartdisease and his work has resulted in the introduction of anumber of treatment methods for children that are consideredadvanced in the Netherlands, including catheter ablation,cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) and implantablecardioverter defibrillator (ICD) therapy for congenital heartdisease.Professor Eric Rosenthal is appointed as a consultantpaediatric and adult congenital cardiologist at Guy's and StThomas' NHS Foundation Trust in 1996. He is the Clinical leadfor congenital catheterisation laboratory andelectrophysiology service. 200 journal articles and bookchapters.Professor E Rosenthal(Speaker)
Annual CASSA Symposium Virtual SeriesSPEAKERS & MODERATORSDr Joachim HebeBoard certified in Internal Medicine/Cardiology, CardiacElectrophysiology; main focus on management of arrhythmiaand interventional electrophysiology for children and patients(all ages) with congenital heart disease.Dr Joachim Hebe(Speaker & Moderator)Dr Kavi Govender is a practicing electrophysiologist at Milparkand Sunninghill Hospital. She is a graduate of the university ofWitwatersrand and completed a two-year fellowship in clinicalelectrophysiology at St Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, Canada in2018.Her interests include mapping of complex atrial andventricular arrhythmia's and currently she is working on beingable to provide this service in the public sector to the peopleof Johannesburg.Dr Kaveshree Govender(Moderator)Rob Scott Millar is Emeritus Associate Professor, University ofCape Town and is a Part-time Honorary Senior Lecturer, Dept.Of Medicine, Division of Cardiology. He qualified at WitsMedical School. His interest in Cardiac Electrophysiology (EP),arrythmias and cardiac pacing in began 1969 while workingwith Dr Pro Obel. He moved to Groote Schuur Hospital in 1984to develop EP there until retirement in 2006, since when hehas continued to teach ECGs to undergraduates andpostgraduates. He has an extensive library of high-quality ECGsbuilt up over the past 40years and in 2015 published “The ECGAtlas of Cardiac Arrhythmias” containing 100 examples of fullsize 12 lead ECGs with explanatory text.
Annual CASSA Symposium Virtual SeriesSPEAKERS & MODERATORSProfessor Rob ScottMillar (Speaker)Mr Mark Lyons is an Invasive Cardiac Physiologist specialisingin Electrophysiology and Devices. He is also the InvasiveCardiology Service Manager and Device follow-up service LeadPhysiologist at Nottingham University Hospitals, England, UK.Mr Mark Lyons(Speaker)Dr Christophe Garweg(Speaker)Dr Adèle Greyling(Moderator)Dr Andrew Thornton(Moderator)Dr Ruan Louw(Moderator)
Dr Kavi Govender is a practicing electrophysiologist at Milpark and Sunninghill Hospital. She is a graduate of the university of Witwatersrand and completed a two-year fellowship in clinical electrophysiology at St Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, Canada in 2018.Her interests include mapping of complex atrial and
