Heart Failure 2026: The Next Chapter

Parallel Session No. 1

The Development of the Heart Failure Program in Kazakhstan: Establishment of a Multidisciplinary Heart Failure Service, LVAD Program, and Heart Transplantation

Makhabbat Bekbossynova
MD, Professor, Deputy Chair of the Board, Corporate Fund “University Medical Center”, Astana, Kazakhstan

Compression of Morbidity with LVAD Therapy: A 2026 Update

Milica Vukicevic
Senior Cardiologist, Cardiac Surgery Clinic, University Clinical Center of Serbia
Harvey Scholar and Schiciano Fellow, Mass General Brigham and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

The 35% Illusion: An Outdated Gatekeeper for ICD Therapy in the Modern Era

Hadi Skouri
MD.,FESC,FACC,FHFA,FHFSA
Professor of clinical cardiology at Balamand University ,Beirut Lebanon
Director of Heart Failure and cardio oncology services at Sheikh Shakhbout Meducal City, Abu Dhabi -UAE
President of uAE ICOS chapter
Executive board member HFA 2026-28

Coffee Break

Heart Failure 2026: One Patient - Different Phenotypes - One Unified Strategy

Gulnar Zhussupova
MD, PhD, Professor, Research Institute of Heart Rhythm, Astana Medical University, Astana, Kazakhstan
(Supported by AstraZeneca)

Metabolomic Profiling in Contemporary Cardiology

Natalia Khabarova
PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Hospital Therapy No. 1, N.V. Sklifosovsky Institute of Clinical Medicine, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

Implementation of Heart Failure Guidelines in Real-World Practice

Zviad Kipiani
Head of the Cardiovascular Department at Jerarsi Clinic and President of the Georgian Heart Failure Association, Tbilisi, Georgia

Cardiac Magnetic Resonance in Chronic Non-Ischemic Heart Failure

Yasmin Rustamova
Associate Professor of Cardiology, Azerbaijan Medical University, Baku, Azerbaijan

The Heart Through the Lens of Genetics: Personalized Medicine in Cardiomyopathies and Heart Failure

Elena Zaklyazminskaya
MD, Head of the Department of Clinical and Predictive Genetics, Petrovsky National Research Center of Surgery; Professor, Department of Medical Genetics, Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Moscow, Russia

Discussion

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