HFA Exam Preparatory Course
Learning objectives
After attending the course, participants will be able to:
- Make the diagnosis of heart failure
- Treat heart failure with medical and device therapy
- Manage complex heart failure cases
- Set up a multi-disciplinary heart failure team
- Successfully pass the HFA Certification Exam
Needs Assessments
Preparation of the HFA certification examination.
The elaboration of this course and its content is based on surveying participants of previous HFA exams: 50% did not know how to prepare for the exam and 64% judged the exam too difficult. In addition, as new HF clinical trials have been recently published, the HFA needs to provide education tools for HF specialists.
Registration Fees (VAT excluded):
- HFA Silver, Gold Members and HFA Fellows: €100
- HFA Associates and non-HFA members: €200
- Industry representatives: €400
Sessions
Welcome, opening remarks
Speaker(s): Marco Metra (Brescia, IT), Wilfried Mullens (Genk, BE)
Session I: Epidemiology & diagnosis of chronic heart failure
Speaker(s): Lars Kober (Copenhagen, DK), Antonio Bayes Genis (Badalona, ES), Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci (Harefield, Uxbridge, GB), Frederik Hendrik Verbrugge (Brussels, BE)
Session II: Clinical cases - Acute heart failure
Speaker(s): Daniela Tomasoni (Brescia, IT), Lena Bosch (Utrecht, NL)
Session III: Management & clinical trials
Speaker(s): Theresa McDonagh (London, GB), Wilfried Mullens (Genk, BE), Carolyn S P Lam (Singapore, SG), Gianluigi Savarese (Stockholm, SE)
Exam Mock Test 1
Speaker(s): Wilfried Mullens (Genk, BE)
Session IV: Acute and advanced heart failure
Speaker(s): Ovidiu Chioncel (Bucharest, RO), Maja Cikes (Zagreb, HR)
Session V: Clinical cases - Chronic heart failure
Speaker(s): Cornelia Margineanu (London, GB)
Session VI: Comorbidities, valvular Heart Diseases and cardiomyopathies
Speaker(s): Klaus Witte (Leeds, GB), Marianna Adamo (Brescia, IT), Jan Biegus (Wroclaw, PL), Rudolf De Boer (Rotterdam, NL)
Session VII: Follow-up
Speaker(s): Marco Metra (Brescia, IT), Petra Nijst (Genk, BE), Brenda Moura (Porto, PT)
Exam Mock Test 2
Speaker(s): Marianna Adamo (Brescia, IT)
Closing remarks
Speaker(s): Marianna Adamo (Brescia, IT)
