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Event BSC congress 2026 starts on 29 Jan 2026, 09:00:00 (Europe/Brussels)
S13 - Scientific symposium sponsored by BMS - Cardiovascular care and prevention through an economic lens: optimizing oHCM via early search, detection, treatment, and structured care
Symposium
Location: Room Folon - 29/01/2026, 15:10 - 29/01/2026, 16:25 (Europe/Brussels) (1 hour 15 minutes)
Moderator:
Antoine Bondue - Erasme HUB

15:10 - 15:15, Welcome and Introduction

Prof. Dr. Antoine Bondue is Head of the Cardiology Department at HUB Erasme Hospital in Brussels, President of the Belgian Cardiac League, and President of the Belgian Council of Cardiovascular Genomics. 

He is a member of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and a member of the European Council of Cardiovascular Genomics. 

Professor Bondue specializes in cardiomyopathies, cardiac amyloidosis, inherited cardiac conditions, and neurodegenerative diseases.


15:15 - 15:35, Keynote: Health Economics of Cardiovascular Diseases

Prof. Dr. Dominique Vandijck is a full professor of health economics at Ghent University and a guest professor at several other universities and colleges. Driven by his academic work, teaching and research, his focus lies on the future of healthcare, with particular emphasis on prevention, quality of care and efficiency. He also is a frequently asked keynote speaker and a regular contributor to the media on health policy/economic–related topics.


15:35 - 15:45, Clinical Talk: Detect to protect

I am a full-time cardiologist at Cliniques universitaires St Luc, Brussels and Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain. 

My clinical interests are Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation. With a research focus on heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.


15:45 – 16:00, Practical Talk: Clinical Practice
Genetic Testing in HCM: From Diagnosis to Family Care

Prof. Dr. Tomas Robyns is a genetic cardiologist with expertise in hereditary arrhythmias and cardiomyopathies. 

He is the head of the Centre for hereditary heart disease at the University hospitals Leuven; and president elect of the Belgian Council on Cardiogenomics. 

His research focuses on the genotype phenotype relation of inherited cardiomyopathies and arrhythmia syndromes.


16:00 – 16:15 , Practical Talk: Clinical Practice
Six Pillars for a structured HCM Clinic

Prof. dr. Pieter Martens is cardiologist at ZOL Genk and is specialized in heart failure. In ZOL Genk he focusses on the invasive hemodynamic evaluation of heart failure, advanced heart failure and he leads the HCM clinic. He has a PhD in heart failure research and trained as advanced heart failure fellow at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland Ohio. He is author of >175 international peer reviewed papers including several in the New England Journal of Medicine. He has a ZAP-mandate at the Uhasselt as co-director of the Limburg Clinical Research Center. He is involved in the clinical trial unit of ZOL Genk and has a Master of Clinical trials from Oxford University. 

16:15 - 16:25, Interactive Q&A and closing remarks