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.
The course builds up from basics with a clinical focus, and would also be helpful for those who are just keen to understand what CMR can offer.
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
08.30 Coffee and Registration
Introduction
09.00 Why do CMR? Imaging patients with CHD from neonates to adults: practical considerations Colin McMahon
09:30 Physics - Basic principles Dominik Gabbert
10.00 Shunt lesions James Wong
10.30 Quiz
10.40 Coffee break
Imaging tools
11.00 Basic imaging tools for 2D anatomy and function Ivan Altamar
11.25 From 2D flow to 4D flow – Physics and clinical use Inga Voges
11.50 MR angiography and 3D whole heart imaging
12.15 Myocardial Stress Perfusion in CHD and KD Sylvia Krupickova
12.40. Quiz Faculty
13.00 Lunch
14:00 Congenital valve diseases Eva Nyktari
14.25 Aortic arch diseases Francesca Raimondi
14.50 Pre-Fontan evaluation Hannah Bellsham-Revell
15.20 Fontan evaluation – cardiac MRI Alessandra Frigiola
15.50. Quiz Faculty
16.00 Coffee break
16.30-18.30 Hands-on training: Image analysis - Faculty
Day 2
08.30 Coffee and Registration
09.00 Transposition of the great arteries post repair - after arterial switch and atrial switch Sylvia Krupickova
09.30 Tetralogy of Fallot Sonya Babu-Narayan
10.00 Ebstein’s anomaly Marina Hughes
10.30 Quiz
10.40 Coffee break
11.00 CcTGA Melonie Johns
11.30 Cardiac tumours and masses Raad Mohiaddin
12.00 Unexpected findings Harith Alam
12.30 Myocarditis and Cardiomyopathy in children Heynric Grotenhuis
13.00 Quiz
13.10 Lunch
14.00 Cardiac DTI Zohya Khalique
14.20 Diagnostic MRI cath Kuberan Pushparajah
14.40 3D printing + VR
15.00 When to use CT Kristian Mortensen
15.30 Quiz and wrap up Kuberan Pushparajah
16.00 Coffee break
16:30-18:30 Hands-on training: Image analysis - Faculty
18.30 Farewell
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
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
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
