EAS Paediatric FH symposium

Welcome to the 8th EAS Paediatric Familial Hypercholesterolemia Symposium

Saturday, 3 May 2025, Glasgow, UK

This event will take place in Crowne Plaza Glasgow (Congress Rd, Glasgow G3 8QT, UK) 

Registration will open in December 2024.

Programme

Organised by:
Uma Ramaswami, Alison Cozens, Jeanine Roeters van Lennep, Urh Grošelj, Mafalda Bourbon, Kirsten Holven, Michal Vrablik, and Steve Humphries

10.00-10.05 Welcome – Uma Ramaswami & Alison Cozens & Jules Payne (HEART UK)
10.05-11.20 Clinical utility of knowing the underlying genetic cause of the FH phenotype in children
Chairs: Steve Humphries (UK) and Mafalda Bourbon (Portugal)
10.05-10.20 Development and implementation of a LDL-C Polygenic Risk Score (PRS) – Mafalda Bourbon (Portugal)
10.20-10.35 What do Health Care Professionals and Patients think of the usefulness of the LDL-C SNP Score: the UK experience – Lisa Gritzmacher (UK)
10.35-10.50 LPA and other new genes for the FH Phenotype – Marta Futema (UK)
10.50-11.05 Does knowing the genetic cause of FH help decide the best lipid-lowering treatment? – Gilles Lambert (France)
11.05-11.25 Panel Discussion
11.25-11.50 Coffee break
11.50-13.00 Treating children with HoFH : novel agents and PCSK9i/ANGPTL3i
Chairs: Michal Vrablik (Czech Republic), Alison Cozens (UK) & Urh Grošelj (Slovenia)
11.50-12.05 Inhibiting PCSK9 and ANGPTL3 – Derick Raal  (South Africa)
12.05-12.20 Patient experience of monoclonal antibody treatment – TBC
12.20-12.35 ANGPTL3 gene editing to treat HoFH – Amit Khera (Verve, USA)
12.35-12.50 Use of Bempadoic Acid to treat chldren with HeFH – Ioanna Gouni-Berthold (Germany)
12.50-13.00 Panel Discussion
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.50 Do we need a new clinical FH diagnostic score for children? 
Chairs: Jeanine Roeters van Lennep (The Netherlands) and Uma Ramaswami (UK)
14.00-14.10 Process and consensus committee for EAS Guidelines – Jeanine Roeters van Lennep (Netherlands)
14.10-14.30 Update of the EAS Paediatric FH Guidelines: new recommendations for 2025 –  Albert Wiegman (Netherlands)
14.30-14.50 Italian algorithm for identifying children with FH – Ornella Guardamagna (Italy)
14.50-15.10 Validation of a child-modified DLCN score in FHSC children – Kanika Dharmayat (UK)
15.10-15.30 How will the new Guidelines influence clinical practice and help in deciding when to initiate Lipid-lowering therapy – Uma Ramaswami (UK)
15.30 -15.50 Round table discussion with all Topic 3 speakers plus Patient Representative plus Alison Cozens plus Jules Payne (HEARTUK) and Magdalena Daccord (FH Europe Foundation)
15.50-16.00 Voting for next year’s topics and Wrap up – Steve Humphries (UK)
16.00-17.00 Networking drinks