GHANAIAN SOCIETY OF

CARDIOLOGY

5TH ANNUAL FEBRUARY

23 - 24
RD TH
GENERAL &
SCIENTIFIC 2023
MEETING LANCASTER HOTEL,
KUMASI

THEME

GENDER AND
CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH
 GHANAIAN
SOCIETY OF
CARDIOLOGY

5TH ANNUAL GENERAL AND SCIENTIFIC

MEETING
FEB 23 - 24, 2023 - LANCASTER HOTEL, KUMASI DAY 1
THEME

CVD PREDICTION, PREVENTION & PROGNOSIS

Chairman - Prof Otchere Addai-Mensah

0830 - 0930 Opening Ceremony
Arrival of Guests
Chairman’s Opening remarks
Remarks from Past Present of GSC
Address by the Key Note Speaker - Dr. Emmanuel Tinkorang
Remarks from Sister Societies (PASCAR, Nigerian Card. Soc, World
Heart Federation)

Chairman - Prof Isaac Owusu (Scientific Session)

0930 - 1000 Gender and Pathophysiology of CVD - Dr Collins Kokuro

1000 - 1030 Coronary Artery Disease and Gender - Dr Samuel Selasie Mortoti
15 mins presentation by Astra Zeneca (Gold Sponsor)

1045 - 1100 Coffee Break

1100 - 1130 Heart Failure and Gender - Dr Dzifa Ahadzi
1130 - 1200 Q & A 30min

1200 - 1230 Genetics of Congenital Heart Disease - Prof. Nana Akyaa Yao

1230 - 1300 Screening For Congenital Heart Disease- Dr Frank Owusu-Sekyere

10 mins presentation by General Electric (GE) – Silver Sponsor

1310 - 1330 Q & A 20mins

Lunch
1330 - 1430
1430 - 1700 Workshop 1 on ECGs and Echo (General Electric (GE)
 GHANAIAN
SOCIETY OF
CARDIOLOGY

5TH ANNUAL GENERAL AND SCIENTIFIC

MEETING
FEB 23 - 24, 2023 - LANCASTER HOTEL, KUMASI DAY 2
THEME

CVD PREDICTION, PREVENTION & PROGNOSIS

Chairman - Prof. Nana Akyaa Yao

0900 - 0930 Arrival of Participants

0930 - 1000 CV Risk Assessment in Females - Prof. J.B.W. Russell.

10 mins presentation by Boehringer Ingelheim - BI (Bronze
Sponsor)

1020 - 1050 Pregnancy and the Heart - Dr Mrs Desrie Delsol Gyan
10 mins presentation by Bayer – (Bronze Sponsor)

1100 - 1130 Q&A

1200 - 1300 Lunch

1300 - 1500 Annual general and scientific meeting by paid up members of the
society
1500 - 1700 Workshop 2 on ECG and Echo (General Electric GE)

Workshop 1:
Basic Echocardiography for the general practitioner, medical
officer, cardiology fellows
Concepts in diastology

Workshop 2:
Advanced Echocardiography techniques for the cardiology
fellows, cardiologists
Global longitudinal strain techniques

Join us for next year’s Annual General & Scientific Meeting

in Accra
 GHANAIAN
SOCIETY OF
CARDIOLOGY

5TH ANNUAL GENERAL AND SCIENTIFIC

MEETING
FEB 23 - 24, 2023 - LANCASTER HOTEL, KUMASI
THEME

CVD PREDICTION, PREVENTION & PROGNOSIS

CURRENT EXECUTIVES
PRESIDENT DR. ALFRED DOKU
VICE PRESIDENT DR. COLLINS KOKURO
GENERAL SECRETARY DR. FRANCIS AGYEKUM
TREASURER DR. ABA A. FOLSON
ORGANIZING SECRETARY DR. LAMBERT T. APPIAH
FELLOWS IN TRAINING REP DR. DZIFA AHADZI
EX-OFFICIO MEMBER PROF. ISAAC K. OWUSU
EX-OFFICIO MEMBER AND DR. CYRIL OFORI
INTERNATIONAL REP

PAST EXECUTIVES
PRESIDENT DR. ISAAC KOFI OWUSU
VICE PRESIDENT DR. ALFRED DOKU
GENERAL SECRETARY DR. FRANCIS AGYEKUM
ORGANIZING SECRETARY DR. ABA A. FOLSON
TREASURER NANA -AKYAA YAO
EX-OFFICIO MEMBER PROF. NICHOLAS OSSEI-GERNING

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