Activities 2017-2018

PHILIPPINE SOCIETY OF PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY (PSPC)

ACTIVITIES 2017-2018

• PSPC Board and Postgrad Course 2017 Organizing

Committee Meeting (April 18, 2018, Philippine Heart Center-

PHC)

• PSPC 7th Post Graduate Course and 25th Anniversary

Celebration; Theme: “Surviving CHD- The Grown-up

Congenital Heart”

Over-all Chair: Dr. Ma. Bernadette Azcueta

(May 22 -23, 2017, Novotel Manila)

-Tribute to Past PSPC Presidents

-2nd Interesting Case in Pediatric Cardiology Contest

-Fellowship Night

• Philippine Heart Association (PHA) Annual Convention-PSPC

Annual General Assembly- (May 24, 2017, EDSA Shangrila)

• PSPC Board Meeting (June 26, 2017, PHC)

• Round Table Discussion on “Fenestrated ASD Device

Closure for Hypertensive Shunt Lesions”

Speakers: Dr. Juan G. Reganion & Mr. Lance Lan

(June 27, 2017, 2nd Flr Executive Conference Rm, PHC)

• PSPC Board Meeting (July 4, 2017, PHC)

• World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery

(WCPCCS) – PSPC delegates headed by President Dr.

Corazon Estevanez (July 16 – 21, 2017, Barcelona, Spain)

• PSPC Sponsors PETA’s – “TAGU-TAGUAN, NASAAN ANG

BUWAN” – a children’s play on love, friendship and courage

(August 27, 2017, PETA Theater, QC)

• PSPC Board Meeting (Oct. 17, 2017, PHC)

• Round-table Discussion: “Highlights of WCPCCS om

Barcelona” – Part I(Nov. 7, 2017, 2nd floor Executive

Conference Room, PHC)

Speakers:

-Dr. Maria Concepcion Sison: “Implications & Management of Fetal

Arrhythmia”

-Dr. Magdalena Lagamayo: “Anti-Arrhythmic Drugs”

-Dr. Aurora Gamponia: “Timing of Pulmonary Valve Replacement &

Challenges in the Fontan”

-Dr. Paul Tan:”Interventions on Patients with Pulmonary Arterial

Hypertension”

-Dr. Ma. Corazon Estevanez: “Mechanical Ventilation Manipulation in

Right & Left Sided Lesions”

-Dr. Andrea Valle: “TOF: Where are we now?”

• PSPC Goes to Payatas- Community Day with Fairplay for All Foundation (Dec. 3, 2017, Payatas B, Quezon City)

• PSPC Christmas Party (Dec. 3, 2017, Casa Pura, QC)

• PSPC Board and Biennial Convention 2018 Meeting

(Jan. 9, 2018. PHC)

• Round-Table Discussion: “Highlights of WCPCCS in

Barcelona”, Part II (Feb. 13, 2018, Lagos Grill, QC}

Speaker: Dr. Virginia Mappala- “Updates on Pericarditis”

Demo of Ultrasound Machines by KPI (Mr. Henry Kim)

• CAMP BRAVEHEART 2018 -PHA Community Advocacy in

collaboration with PSPC- a day of fun with kids with heart

diseases (Feb. 18, 2018, La Mesa Ecopark)

PHA Council on CHD Chair: Dr. Maricel Regino

• PSPC Board and Biennial Convention 2018 Meeting

(Mar. 14, 2018, PHC)

• 3rd Annual ASEAN-ASE ECHO Convention (March 22 – 24,

2018, Conrad Hotel, Manila)

PSPC Members- Speakers:

-Dr. Juliet Balderas: ”Repaired CHD: What Did They Do and How is it Doing?”

-Dr. Aurora Gamponia: “Complex Cyanotic Congenital Disease: When is it Too Late to Intervene?”

• RTD- April 24, 2018, Relish Restaurant, Scout Limbaga, Quezon City

Speakers:

Dr. Juliet J. Balderas: “Ventricular Septal Defect and PAH”

Dr. Bernadette A. Azcueta: “ Post-TOF Repair Complications-

Immediate and Long-term

Dr. Ma. Corazon Azcueta- “Role of Digoxin in CHF”

• 7th PSPC Biennial Convention- Theme: The Heart of the Matter”-

Common and Uncommon Symptoms of Heart Disease in Children

(Crowne Plaza, May 21 -22, 2018)

-3rd Interesting Case In Pediatric Cardiology Contest

-Luncheon Symposia/ Twilight Symposia

-Fellowship Night

• PSPC Annual General Assembly and Business Meeting-May 23, 2018 (PHA Convention- EDSA Shangrila Hotel)