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PACaTS
Summit
Charting the Course of AI in CV Healthcare
PACaTS Summit 2025 Accra. Hon. President: Prof. Sir Magdi Yacoub, MD, FRS, OM, Professor. Cardiothoracic Surgery, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, Founder/President Chain of Hope, Founder, Magdi Yacoub Institute, Harefield Heart Science Centre, Harefield, Middlesex, Founder/Director Magdi Yacoub Heart Foundation, Aswan Heart Centre, Egypt.
PACaTS Summit 2025 Accra. President: Prof. Joanna Chikwe, MD, Chair, Professor, Cardiac Surgery, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
PASCaTS President: Prof. Charles Yankah, MD, PhD, FETCS, Professor, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Humboldt University, Berlin, Director, Humanitarian Cardiac Surgery-GHC, Special Professor, Dept. of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Free State, Bloemfontein, SA Berlin
Vice-President, PASCaTS, Willie Koen, MD, Head of Cape Town Heart Transplant and Mechanical Heart Program, Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital, Cape Town
Vice-President, PASCaTS, Carlos A. Mestres, MD, PhD, FETCS; Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgeon, Extraordinary Professor, Dept. of Cardiothoracic Surgery and The Robert WM Frater CV Research Centre, University of Free State, Bloemfontein, SA
General Secretary PASCaTS, Francis Smit, MD, PhD, HOD, Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Free State, Bloemfontein, SA
Executive Board Member, Domain, Adult Cardiac Surgery, Jonathan Nwiloh, MD, Chair, Snr, Consultant, Joe Nwiloh Heart Centre, Anambra, Adazi, Nigeria
Executive Board Member, Domain, Pediatric & Adult Cardiac Surgery, Dr. Darshan Reddy, Consultant Adult and Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Lenmed Ethekwini Hospital & Heart Centre, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
Welcome to Pan-African Cardiothoracic Surgery (PACaTS) summit 2025 in Accra, Ghana to experience this unforgettable educational event with a shared mission to fight against cardiovascular and thoracic disease and to raise standards in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and recovery of cardiothoracic patients and their outcome in the global south.The attendees will earn credit hours of the European Accredidation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME) and West African College of Surgeons Continuing Medical Education (CME) for the sessions they actively attended.
Topics include:
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Complex congenital heart surgery: Challenges and management.
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Applying advanced imaging in guiding surgical decision-making.
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Challenges, innovative solutions and emergencies in cardiac
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Management of rheumatic and degenerative structural heart valve disease.
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Surgery of endocarditis.
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Aortic root, arch surgery and beyond.
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Interventional procedures for atrial and ventricular myopathies,
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Chest trauma,
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Mediastinal and lung tumors.
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Breakout sessions – hands-on simulation on valve and CABG surgery, cardiac
anesthesiology, critical care management, intensive care nursing and
cardiovascular perfusion workshops
Who should attend?
Cardiothoracic and vascular surgeons, cardiologists, cardiovascular physicians, anesthesiologists, intensivists, nurses, perfusionists, physiologists, researchers and engineers.
Register now, submit your abstract, book for our discounted hotel rooms and reduced air fares with LH Group from your destination to Ghana. www.pascats.com
Organizer: Pan-African Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery (PASCaTS)
Infos: www.pascats.com info@pascats.com
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