Advocacy at the Eighth World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery

Zheleva B 1 , Verstappen A 2 , Overman DM 3 , Ahmad F 4 , Ali SKM 5 , Al Halees ZY 6 Show all authors , Atallah JG 7 , Badhwar IE 8 , Baker-Smith C 9 , Balestrini M 10 , Basken A 11 , Bassuk JS 12 , Benson L 13 , Capelli H 10 , Carollo S 8 , Chowdhury D 14 , Çiçek MS 15 , Cohen MI 16 , Cooper DS 17 , Deanfield JE 18 , Dearani J 19 , Del Valle B 20 , Dodds KM 21 , Du J 22 , Edwin F 23 , Ekure E 24 , Fatema NN 25 , Gomanju A 26 , Hasan B 27 , Henry L 8 , Hugo-Hamman C 28 , Iyer KS 29 , Jatene MB 30 , Jenkins KJ 31 , Karamlou T 32 , Karl TR 33 , Kirklin JK 34 , Kreutzer C 35 , Kumar RK 36 , Lopez KN 37 , Macedo AP 38 , Marino BS 32 , Marwali EM 39 , Meijboom FJ 40 , Mattos SS 41 , Najm H 32 , Newlin D 42 , Novick WM 43 , Qureshi SSA 44 , Rahmat B 39 , Raylman R 45 , Saltik IL 46 , Sable C 47 , Sandoval N 48 , Saxena A 49 , Scanlan E 50 , Sholler GF 51 , Smith J 52 , St Louis JD 53 , Tchervenkov CI 54 , Tiong KG 55 , Vida V 56 , Vosloo S 57 , Weinstein DJD 58 , Wilkinson JL 59 , Zuhlke L 60 , Jacobs JP 8

Affiliations 

  • 1 Children's HeartLink, Minneapolis, MN, USA
  • 2 Global Alliance for Rheumatic and Congenital Hearts, Kathmandu, Nepal
  • 3 The Children's Heart Clinic, Children's Minnesota, Mayo Clinic-Children's Minnesota Cardiovascular Collaborative, Minneapolis, MN, USA
  • 4 Pakistan Children's Heart Foundation, Lahore, Pakistan
  • 5 Sudan Heart Center & University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan
  • 6 King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • 7 Brave Heart, Beirut, Lebanon
  • 8 Cardiac Kids Foundation of FL, Oldsmar, FL, USA
  • 9 Nemours Children's Health, Wilmington, DE, USA
  • 10 National Pediatric Hospital JP Garrahan, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 11 Conquering CHD, Madison, WI, USA
  • 12 Strong Heroes, NY, USA
  • 13 The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • 14 Nemours Cardiac Center, Wilmington, DE, USA and Cardiology Care for Children, Lancaster, USA
  • 15 Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, and Liv Hospital VadIstanbul-Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 16 Inova Children's Hospital, Fairfax, Falls Church, VA, USA
  • 17 Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
  • 18 Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) for Children and University College London, London, UK
  • 19 Mayo Clinic, Mayo Clinic-Children's Minnesota Cardiovascular Collaborative, Minneapolis, MN, USA
  • 20 Kardias AC, Mexico City, Mexico
  • 21 Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • 22 Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China
  • 23 Ho School of Medicine, University of Health & Allied Sciences; Ho Teaching Hospital, Volta Region, Ghana
  • 24 College of Medicine, University of Lagos & Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria
  • 25 Bangladesh Specialized Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • 26 Global Alliance for Rheumatic and Congenital Hearts, Kathmandu Institute of Child Health, Kathmandu, Nepal
  • 27 Sindh Institute of Urology & Transplantation, Karachi, Pakistan
  • 28 University of Cape Town and Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
  • 29 Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, New Delhi, India
  • 30 University of São Paulo and InCor Hospital, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 31 Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
  • 32 Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
  • 33 Paediatric Cardiac Research, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia
  • 34 Kirklin Solutions, Inc (KIRSO), Birmingham, AL, USA
  • 35 Division of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, Hospital Universitario Austral, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 36 Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, KL, India
  • 37 Texas Children's Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
  • 38 Instituto Nacional de Pediatría; Centro Pediátrico del Corazón CM-ABC; Kardias AC, Mexico City, Mexico
  • 39 National Cardiovascular Center Harapan Kita, Jakarta, Indonesia
  • 40 University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
  • 41 Real Hospital Português de Beneficência em Pernambuco, Círculo do Coração, Recife, Brazil
  • 42 NewlinLaw, Orlando, FL, USA
  • 43 William Novick Cardiac Alliance, University of Tennessee Health Science Center Global Surgical Institute, Memphis, TN, USA
  • 44 Evelina London Children's Hospital and Guy's & St Thomas Hospital Trust, London, UK
  • 45 Gift of Life International, Fresh Meadows, NY, USA
  • 46 American Hospital, Nişantaşı, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 47 Children's National Hospital, Children's National Health System, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
  • 48 Fundacion Cardioinfantil-Instituto de Cardiologia, Bogota, Colombia
  • 49 Pt. B.D. Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, India
  • 50 Chain of Hope, London, UK
  • 51 Heart Centre for Children, Sydney Children's Hospitals Network & University of Sydney, Westmead, Australia
  • 52 Mended Hearts, Metamora, IL, USA
  • 53 Inova Fairfax Hospital and Inova L.J. Murphy Children's Hospital, Fairfax, and Children's Hospital of Georgia and Augusta University, Augusta, GA, USA
  • 54 The Montreal Children's Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada
  • 55 Sultan Idris Shah Serdang Hospital, Sepang, Malaysia
  • 56 Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Surgery Unit, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
  • 57 Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
  • 58 Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
  • 59 Royal Children's Hospital and University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
  • 60 University of Cape Town; South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa
Cardiol Young, 2023 Aug;33(8):1277-1287.
PMID: 37615116 DOI: 10.1017/S1047951123002688

Abstract

The Eighth World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery (WCPCCS) will be held in Washington DC, USA, from Saturday, 26 August, 2023 to Friday, 1 September, 2023, inclusive. The Eighth World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery will be the largest and most comprehensive scientific meeting dedicated to paediatric and congenital cardiac care ever held. At the time of the writing of this manuscript, The Eighth World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery has 5,037 registered attendees (and rising) from 117 countries, a truly diverse and international faculty of over 925 individuals from 89 countries, over 2,000 individual abstracts and poster presenters from 101 countries, and a Best Abstract Competition featuring 153 oral abstracts from 34 countries. For information about the Eighth World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, please visit the following website: [www.WCPCCS2023.org]. The purpose of this manuscript is to review the activities related to global health and advocacy that will occur at the Eighth World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery.Acknowledging the need for urgent change, we wanted to take the opportunity to bring a common voice to the global community and issue the Washington DC WCPCCS Call to Action on Addressing the Global Burden of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Diseases. A copy of this Washington DC WCPCCS Call to Action is provided in the Appendix of this manuscript. This Washington DC WCPCCS Call to Action is an initiative aimed at increasing awareness of the global burden, promoting the development of sustainable care systems, and improving access to high quality and equitable healthcare for children with heart disease as well as adults with congenital heart disease worldwide.

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