Dr Rebecca Perry
President of the WCE 2022
The International Society of Cardiovascular Ultrasound is proud to announce XXVII World Congress of Echocardiography and Allied Techniques (WCE), to be held in Adelaide, Australia from May 6-8, 2022.
On behalf of the local organising committee it is my pleasure to invite you to Adelaide for the 27th WCE – the first time that this congress has been held in Australia. This congress represents a unique opportunity to see and present the latest findings in echocardiography research and clinical practice. This will include discussion and interaction with research and clinical colleagues and a distinguished faculty from across the world. This hybrid meeting will bring together the leaders as well as up and coming future leaders in one place.
On site delegates will have the chance to experience Adelaide, a cosmopolitan capital city, situated on the River Torrens which is home to one of the largest health and medical research precincts in the Southern Hemisphere. Adelaide lies in close proximity to pristine metropolitan beaches and within excess of 200 cellar doors on its doorstep, Adelaide is the wine capital of Australia – and one of the nine Great Wine Capitals of the World. The state of South Australia is famous for its incredible national parks, wildlife reserves, stunning natural scenery and its outstanding wine, food and arts culture.
We hope to see you in Adelaide for WCE 2022 either in person or virtually.
Rebecca Perry – Chair of the local organising committee
Dr Rebecca Perry
President of the WCE 2022
Dr Navin Nanda
International President of the WCE 2022
The Congress will encompass various aspects of interest to practicing allied health practitioners, physicians and surgeons.
The emphasis will be on the latest advances in echocardiography, cardiovascular ultrasound and allied techniques.
9:00AM - 10:30AM
10:30AM - 11:00AM
11:00AM - 12:30PM
POCUS – A Focus on POCUS, Part 1
Basic to Advanced Echo – Imaging in HFpEF
Structural Heart – State of the Art Aortic Valve
Virtual Stream – Vavular Heart Disease
12:30PM - 1:30PM
1:30PM - 3:00PM
POCUS – A Focus on POCUS, Part 2
Basic to Advanced Echo – Robotics and AI
Structural Heart – Mitral Valve – Part 1
Virtual Stream – Tips and Tricks in 3D Echocardiography
3:00PM - 3:30PM
3:30PM - 5:00PM
POCUS & Basic to Advanced Echo – COVID – Joint Session
Structural Heart – Mitral Valve – Part 2
Virtual Stream – Cardiomyopathies and Mimickers
5:30PM - 7:20PM
Case Studies
8:30AM - 10:00AM
POCUS – Assessment of Left Ventricularfunction
Basic to Advanced Echo – Cardiac Transplant and Ventricular Assist Devices
Structural Heart – Septal Defects and Intervention
Virtual Stream – Heart Failure
10:00AM - 10:30AM
10:30AM - 12:00PM
POCUS – Imaging in the Critically Ill Patient
Basic to Advanced Echo – Strain Imaging
Structural Heart – Right Heart and its Valves
Virtual Stream – Congenital Heart Disease
12:00PM - 1:00PM
1:00PM - 2:30PM
POCUS – Valvular Heart Disease
Basic to Advanced Echo – Advanced Practice for Sonographers
Structural Heart – LA Appendage and HCM
Virtual Stream – Valvular Heart Disease – Part 2
2:30PM - 3:00PM
3:00PM - 4:30PM
POCUS & Basic to Advanced Echo – Heart Failure – Joint Session
Structural Heart – Multimodality Imaging in Structural Heart
Virtual Stream – Pulmonary Hypertension
5:30PM - 7:20PM
Stress Echo and Structural Valve Interventions
8:30AM - 10:00AM
POCUS – Echo in the Field – Case Studies – Part 1
Basic to Advanced Echo – Valvular Heart Disease
Structural Heart – The Multidisciplinary Team
Virtual Stream – COVID and Multidisciplinary Imaging
10:00AM - 10:30AM
10:30AM - 12:00PM
POCUS – Echo in the Field – Case Studies – Part 2
Basic to Advanced Echo – Cardio-oncology
Structural Heart – Adventures and Misadventures
Virtual Stream – Novel Pathologies and Technologies
12:00PM - 1:00PM
1:00PM - 2:30PM
POCUS – Valvular Heart Disease
Basic to Advanced Echo – Advanced Practice for Sonographers
Structural Heart – LA Appendage and HCM
Virtual Stream – Valvular Heart Disease – Part 2
2:30PM - 3:00PM
3:00PM - 4:30PM
POCUS & Basic to Advanced Echo – Heart Failure – Joint Session
Structural Heart – Multimodality Imaging in Structural Heart
Virtual Stream – Pulmonary Hypertension
5:30PM - 7:20PM
Stress Echo and Structural Valve Interventions
The Congress aims to be truly multi and interdisciplinary and will cater to anyone with an interest in the role of cardiac ultrasound in the interventional space for guiding valvular and other structural heart disease procedures.
Each stream will showcase the latest advances in ultrasound, with particular emphasis on the hands-on experience. These streams will be brought together on a global stage with expert speakers that lead in the field.
ESC Immediate Past-President (2018 – 2020), Jeroen Bax is Director of non-invasive imaging and Director of the echo-lab at the Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands. His main interests include clinical cardiology, heart valve disease, heart failure, cardiac resynchronization therapy and the application of all different imaging modalities to these clinical fields. Professor Bax has authored numerous papers and holds several positions in national and international scientific organizations, as well as serving on the editorial boards of many different journals.
Bonita Anderson DMU (Cardiac), M App Sc (Med Ultrasound), ACS, AMS, FASE
Bonita has more than 35 years’ clinical experience in echocardiography and a 15-year tenure as an academic at the Queensland University of Technology where she coordinated the Graduate Diploma in Cardiac Ultrasound. She is currently a Clinical Fellow at the School of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and an Advanced Cardiac Scientist at The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.
She is also the author of two Echocardiography textbooks which are used in teaching programs within Australia, the USA and Europe. She has edited and contributed to several other echocardiography textbooks and is a frequent speaker at national and international echocardiographic conferences.
Bonita has held numerous committee positions including the International Representative to the Board of Directors for the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE), Chair of the ASE Membership Committee, Council of the Australasian Sonographers Accreditation Registry (ASAR), Cardiac Sonographers Working Group for the Australasian Sonographers Association (ASA), Board of Examiners for the Diploma in Medical Ultrasound (ASUM) and the Imaging Council for the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ).
Kylie Baker MBBS, FACEM, CCPU, @kyliebaker888 is an Emergency Physician at Ipswich General Hospital, who has learnt, researched and taught bedside ultrasound since 2001, with the close support and mentorship of the Ipswich General Hospital sonography department. She was trained at the Australian Institute of Ultrasound, has tutored at AIU and is now taking a break to study for a DDU in emergency medicine.
Her research into lung ultrasound in heart failure commenced in 2010 with a generous grant from the Emergency Medicine Foundation. This pilot study progressed to a multicentre trial, again sponsored by EMF, culminating in cost analysis with the help of the Centre for International Economics..
Her current interests lie in teaching point of care ultrasound as a decision-enhancing tool for acutely unwell patients. She is a strong believer in problem directed, whole body assessment, and is currently exploring the inclusion of bowel ultrasound and venous congestion indices into assessment with the help of the international #FOAMed community.
Jens-Uwe Voigt has been trained in Germany, UK and US and works as staff cardiologist and
appointed professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium, leading the echocardiography lab of the
cardiovascular department of the University Hospitals and an imaging research group with several
international fellows and PhD students. His field of interest is myocardial function imaging to which
he contributed significantly in the past years. The current focus of his work is on clinical applications
of high frame rate imaging, ventricular dyssynchrony and technical aspects of applied
echocardiographic deformation imaging. JUV has published over 200 papers in pear reviewed
international journals and is author and co-author of several echocardiographic text books and
international recommendation papers. H-Index 49, 15000 citations. (see publication list at
https://lirias.kuleuven.be/cv?u=u0052068). He received several national and European grants and is
PI, co-author and core lab leader in H2020, FP7 and other European Multicenter Trials. JUV is in the
Editorial Board of several international Journals such as Circulation, European Heart Journal and
others. He has been actively involved in the Board of the European Association of Non-invasive
Imaging as chair and committee member and is active in the ASE-EACVI-Task Force for
Standardization of Strain Imaging. He organizes or is involved in the organization of several national
and international annual meetings in the field of echocardiography in Belgium and Germany . JUV is
Fellow of the ESC, Member and/or Nucleus Member of the EACVI, ASE and the national Belgian and
German imaging and cardiology societies and Honorary Member of the British Society of
Echocardiography.
MD, DSc(Med)(Hon), DSc(Hon), FACC, FAHA, FASE, FISCU(D)
Director ICU and echo lab at Nepean Hospital, Sydney. Trained in UK initially (at Oxford & Guy’s/Thommy’s, London). ICU training in Australia. Completed 2 echo fellowships (incl. Mayo clinic, USA). PhD done assessing use of advanced echo techniques in the critically ill. Particularly interested in RV failure and FOAMed in critical care echo.
M.B.B.S. (Hons), M.Med.Sc., F.R.A.C.P., F.A.C.C., F.C.S.A.N.Z., F.A.S.E., J.P.
Cardiologist
BMedSci (1st hons) MBBS FRACP FCSANZ
Dr David Russell is a cardiologist specialising in multi-modality cardiac imaging. He completed his medical degree at the University of Tasmania, and his specialist training at the Royal Hobart Hospital and the Austin Hospital (Melbourne). Further to his training, he has undertaken a cardiac MRI fellowship at St Bartholomew’s Hospital (London), and an advanced echocardiology fellowship at St Vincent’s Hospital (Melbourne).
Dr David Russell has held a staff specialist cardiology appointment at the Royal Hobart Hospital since June 2018 where he has an active role in teaching cardiac sonographers and cardiology registrars. He is the local principal investigator for international cardiac amyloid trials
Dr David Russell has expertise in all aspects of adult cardiology, including: the diagnosis and management valvular disease, ischaemic heart disease, and heart failure. His special interests include 3D echocardiography, aortic and mitral valve disorders, and infiltrative cardiomyopathies.
As a result of the easing of COVID-19 restrictions within South Australia from Tuesday, 23 November, 2021, the World Congress of Echocardiography and Allied Techniques venue, the Adelaide Convention Centre, has made the decision to be a fully vaccinated venue.
Effective Tuesday, 23 November 2021, all persons aged 16+ entering the Adelaide Convention Centre, including staff, will need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 with a vaccine approved by the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration. Proof of vaccination will be required in order to gain entry. Please visit the website for a full list of approved vaccines here.
To gain entry, patrons will need to show their COVID-19 Digital Certificate on their smart device OR provide personal photo identification and printed immunisation certificate. Any person with an official medical exemption will need to provide proof of a negative COVID test result for the 72 hour period prior to seeking entry and full exemption details. Venue bans apply for non-compliance. Please visit the venue website for further information: Adelaide Convention Centre COVID information.
The Congress will be held at the Adelaide Convention Centre (ACC). The ACC is conveniently located in the heart of the city centre and nestled within the beauty of the Riverbank Precinct, just 15 minutes’ drive from Adelaide Airport. The Adelaide Riverbank Precinct is a hive of activity and where the city’s cultural, sporting, education, medical, conference and entertainment zones merge, making it Australia’s best connected business events precinct. It is also a short walk to international and boutique hotels and accommodation. Public transport, the Adelaide Railway Station and taxi ramps are also at the Centre’s doorstep. For more information, please visit the Adelaide Convention Centre website here.
This congress offers an exceptional chance to showcase your products to an anticipated 200 to 400 delegates in person and 500+ online from your national and international target market while demonstrating your level of support and commitment to the industry.
We hope that you will join us in Adelaide in 2022!
For further information, please contact Rebecca Gabriel (Sponsorship and Exhibition Sales Executive) via rebecca.gabriel@aomevents.com.
6 - 8 May 2022
North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000
12 Stirling Street,
Thebarton SA 5031