3rd European Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Course in Congenital Heart Disease 

16-17th October 2025 

The Royal Marsden Conference Centre, Chelsea, Stewarts Grove,
off Fulham Road, London SW3 6JJ 

Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Focus on Paediatric and Congenital Heart Disease

This course will cover the range of common congenital cardiac lesions and acquired heart disease in children and adults.

 

About the course

Overview

Following the success of the  European Congenital CMR course in Kiel, Germany in 2023, and London in 2024, we are delighted to announce a third course in 2025.

This hybrid course has previously been endorsed by the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) and the Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC) and will be delivered by an experienced and dynamic  international faculty of expert imaging cardiologists and radiologists in paediatric and adult congenital heart disease.

Who should attend

It is dedicated to both trainees and experienced clinicians who would like to improve their knowledge of CMR imaging in paediatric and adult congenital heart disease including acquired heart disease and complex conditions. 

Course delivery

The programme includes a mixture of theoretical and practical parts including scanning and hands-on CMR analysis sessions for those who will attend the course in person. 

For those participants who will join the virtual sessions, we will ensure that the course lectures will include practical aspects. 

There is also an online interactive quiz for all

Some lectures will be dedicated to cutting edge CMR methods which are invented in the hosting hospitals such as fetal CMR, diffuse tensor imaging, hybrid CMR and 4D flow.

Course Programme

Day 1

  • Physics and basic principles
  • Imaging patients with CHD from neonates to adults: practical considerations                                                                            
  • Shunt lesions                                                                      
  • From 2D flow to 4D flow – Physics and clinical use              
  • MR angiography and 3D whole heart imaging             
  • Myocardial Stress Perfusion in CHD and KD             
  • CMR feature tracking                                                           
  • Transposition of the great arteries post repair - after arterial switch 
  • and atrial switch                                                                  
  • Tetralogy of Fallot                                                            
  • Congenital valve diseases                                                   
  • Aortic arch diseases                                              
  • Hands-on training: Image analysis - Faculty

Day 2

  • Pre-Fontan evaluation                                       
  • Fontan evaluation – cardiac MRI                               
  • Ebstein’s anomaly                                                         
  • CcTGA                                                                             
  • Cardiac tumours and masses                                         
  • Unexpected findings                                                               
  • Myocarditis and Cardiomyopathy in children                  
  • Cath MRI and PVR studies                                   
  • When to use CT                                                        
  • Fetal cardiac MRI / DTI                            
  • Hands-on training: Image analysis - Faculty

 

 

Contact

Please send your application with your full name and contact details to: 

Chris Saddington, Course Administrator at
 congenitalcmrcourse@gmail.com

Registration Fees

In-person attendance:

Non-trainee: £450

Trainee/student/AEPC junior member: £350

Hybrid course:

Non-trainee: £240

Trainee/student/AEPC member: £200

Course Directors

Sylvia Krupickova

Royal Brompton Hospital

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust             

Sydney Street, SW3 6NP, London, UK

 

Kuberan Pushparajah

Evelina London Children’s Hospital 

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust              

Westminster Bridge Rd, SE1 7EH, London, UK

 

Inga Voges

University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein

Department of Congenital Heart Disease and Paediatric Cardiology

Arnold-Heller-Str. 3, Haus C, 24105 Kiel, Germany

 

Faculty

Our faculty consists of a highly qualified and motivated international team who are all experts in their field. They have many years of experience in paediatric/congenital and adult CMR both in a clinical and research capacity.

Harith Alam

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

Sonya Babu- Narayan

Royal Brompton Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

Hannah Bellsham-Revell

Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

Heynric Grotenhuis

AEPC

Alessandra Frigiola

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

Dominik
Gabbert

University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Germany

Sarah Ghonim

Royal Brompton Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

Marina Hughes

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals, UK

Zohya Khalique

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

Sylvia Krupickova

Royal Brompton Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

David Lloyd

Evelina Children’s Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
King's College London, UK

Colin McMahon

Children’s Health Ireland, Crumlin, Dublin, Ireland

Raad Mohiaddin

Royal Brompton Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

Kristian Mortensen

Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK

Eva Nyktari

Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center in Athens

Kuberan Pushparajah
 

Evelina Children’s Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
King's College London, UK

Melonie Johns

Royal Brompton Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

Francesca Raimondi

Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Bergamo, Italy

Inga Voges

University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Germany

James Wong

Evelina Children’s Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
King's College London, UK

Directions

The Royal Marsden Conference Centre, Chelsea, Stewarts Grove, off Fulham Road, London SW3 6JJ

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