THURSDAY – Day 1

• 09:30 – 10:00 REGISTRATION & Welcome Coffee
• 10:00 – 10:05 WELCOME
• 10:05 – 10:15 LEARNING OBJECTIVES & COURSE OVERVIEW
• 10:20 – 12:30 LECTURES I: Basics & Safety
  • 10:20 – 10:40 Why CMR in Heart Failure? Indications, strengths and limitations
  • 10:45 – 11:05 CMR Physics Made Simple: Sequences relevant for HF
  • 11:10 – 11:30 Assessing Ventricular Volumes and Function by CMR
  • 11:35 – 11:55 Late Gadolinium Enhancement (LGE): Principles and clinical impact in HF.
  • 12:00 – 12:15 Questions & Answers Roundtable – Panel Discussion
• 12:15 – 13:15 LUNCH BREAK
• 13:20 – 15:30 RAPID FIRE SESSIONS I: Practical Basics (Rotating Stations)
  • Station 1: LV and RV contouring – from cine images to numbers
  • Station 2: Reading LGE – ischemic vs non-ischemic patterns
  • Station 3: Artifacts in CMR – how to recognize and fix them
  • Station 4: CMR safety, contrast agents and patient preparation
• 15:30 – 15:45 COFFEE BREAK
• 15:45 – 17:30 LECTURES II – Tissue Characterization
  • 15:45 – 16:05 T1 Mapping and ECV in Heart Failure
  • 16:10 – 16:30 T2/T2* Mapping: oedema, iron, and inflammation in HF
  • 16:35 – 16:55 CMR in HFpEF: what does tissue characterization add?
  • 17:00 – 17:15 Questions & Answers Roundtable – Panel Discussion
• 17:15 – 17:30 DAY 1 Closing Remarks

FRIDAY – Day 2

• 08:30 – 10:15 LECTURES III – Ischemic vs Non-Ischemic HF
  • 08:30 – 08:50 CMR in Ischaemic Cardiomyopathy and Viability Assessment
  • 08:55 – 09:15 CMR in Dilated Cardiomyopathy and Genetic HF Syndromes
  • 09:20 – 09:40 CMR in Inflammatory Cardiomyopathies and Myocarditis
  • 09:45 – 10:00 Questions & Answers Roundtable – Panel Discussion
• 10:00 – 10:25 COFFEE BREAK
• 10:25 – 12:15 LECTURES IV – Infiltrative & Specific HF Entities
  • 10:25 – 10:45 CMR in Cardiac Amyloidosis
  • 10:50 – 11:10 CMR in Hypertrophic and Restrictive Cardiomyopathies
  • 11:15 – 11:35 CMR in Right Ventricular Failure and Pulmonary Hypertension
  • 11:40 – 11:55 Questions & Answers Roundtable – Panel Discussion
• 12:00 – 13:00 LUNCH BREAK
• 13:05 – 15:30 RAPID FIRE SESSIONS II: Case-based Learning
  • Station 1: Ischaemic vs non-ischaemic LGE patterns – practical cases
  • Station 2: Myocarditis and inflammatory cardiomyopathy – map & LGE cases
  • Station 3: Amyloidosis and infiltrative disease – how CMR changes management
  • Station 4: Right heart and tricuspid regurgitation – what CMR can (and cannot) do
• 15:30 – 15:45 COFFEE BREAK
• 15:45 – 17:30 ‘MEET THE EXPERTS’ I – Four Case Presentations (TBA)
• 17:15 – 17:30 Day 2 Closing Remarks
• 19:30 GET-TOGETHER in Zurich Downtown

SATURDAY – Day 3

• 08:30 – 10:00 LECTURES V – Advanced Techniques & Quantification
  • 08:30 – 08:50 Stress Perfusion CMR in Heart Failure and Ischaemia
  • 08:55 – 09:15 Quantitative CMR imaging: from images to numbers
  • 09:20 – 09:40 Strain, Feature-Tracking and 4D Flow CMR in HF
  • 09:45 – 10:00 Questions & Answers / Panel Discussion – All speakers

10:00 – 10:20 COFFEE BREAK

• 10:20 – 12:30 HANDS-ON / ‘DO IT YOURSELF’ – WORKSTATION TRAINING
  • Station 1: Ventricular volumes and function – step-by-step analysis
  • Station 2: LGE analysis – scar quantification and reporting
  • Station 3: Mapping and ECV – from raw data to clinical interpretation
  • Station 4: Stress perfusion cases – visual vs quantitative assessment

12:30 – 12:45 Module I: Key Take-Home Messages