CENTRE FOR HUMAN GENETICSBiotech park
Electronic City Phase I
Bangalore
Short Course on Clinical Cardio-Vascular Genetics
30 - 31 January 2010
Faculty
Ruth Newbury-Ecob (Bristol, UK), Dhavendra Kumar (Cardiff, Wales), Perry Elliott (London, UK), Krishna Kumar (AIMS, Kochi), G R Chandak and K Thangaraj (CCMB, Hyderabad), Jayarama Kadandale and Meenakshi Bhat (CHG, Bangalore) and others
Provisional Programme Day 1 Saturday, January 30, 2010
Epidemiology of congenital heart disease: magnitude & clinical spectrum; Development of the human heart & blood vessels; Cardiac management in CHD syndromes; Genetic counselling in CHD syndromes; Pregnancy and CHD: maternal infections & teratogens; Fetal cardiology and prenatal diagnosis; Challenges in management of the adult with CHD; Inherited cardiomyopathies; Molecular diagnosis of inherited cardiomyopathies; Metabolic workup of inherited cardiomyopathies.
Day 2 Sunday, January 31, 2010
Cardiac phenotypes in RAS/MAPK/PTPN-related multiple malformation syndromes; Marfan syndrome and TGFBR-related malformation syndromes; Challenges of sudden cardiac death; Molecular heterogeneity in inherited arrhythmias; Management of familial arrhythmias; Genetic diagnostic services in cardio-vascular genetics in India; Cardiac manifestations in TBX gene- related disorders; Cardiac involvement in lysosomal disorders: Indian experience; Familial hyper-cholesterolaemia: genetics and management; Micro-nutrients and cardiovascular disease in India
Note: This course is mainly meant for students pursuing Medical graduation/ post graduation, medical consultants & M.Sc (human biology related fields). Applications will be received until January 20, 2010
Registration information and other details can be obtained from: Meenakshi Bhat, MD, MRCP Jayarama Kadandale, PhD Centre for Human Genetics Centre for Human Genetics Email: bhat.meena@gmail.com Email: jayaram@ibab.ac.in
This course is supported by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India and the Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi.
Referred to helpBIOTECH
0 Comments