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Wednesday, 1st September 2010
2.00pm - 6.00pm Registration
Monash University Prato Centre
Palazzo Vaj, Via Pugliesi, 26
Prato, Italy
Ph: +39 0574 436922
www.ita.monash.edu
Prato is a small Tuscan city, with a beautiful historic city centre enclosed by almost perfect preserved medieval walls, located just 30 minutes from Florence.
6:00pm - 9:00pm Welcome cocktail reception on the Palazzo Vaj Outdoor Terrace, Monash University Prato Centre
Thursday, 2nd September 2010
8:15am Meeting opening
Professor Murray Esler, Alfred Hospital Melbourne
Head: Hypertension, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute
8.30am -10.30am STRESS, ANXIETY and HEART DISEASE
Chair: Professor Graham Burrows, The Melbourne Clinic
8.30am - 9.10am Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ilan Wittstein, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore, USA)
"Stress Cardiomyopathy in 2010 : Further Insights into the mechanism of stress induced myocardial stunning"
9.10am - 9.35am Professor Chris Semsarian, University of Sydney
"Getting to the heart of sudden death"
9.35am - 9.50am Dr Daniel Vianna, University of New South Wales, Sydney
"Active projections to Nucleus Raphe Pallidus during conditional fear in the rat"
9.50am - 10.05am Dr Jenifer Pollock, Medical College of George, USA
"Early life stress blunts endothelial angiotensen (AngII) signaling and enhances AngII-induced vasoconstriction in adult male rats"
10.05am - 10.30am Dr Gavin Lambert
"A sympathetic view of stress related illnesses"
10.30am- 11:00am Morning Tea
11.00am - 12:30pm PSYCHOGENIC CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE: EXPERIMENTAL MODELS
Chair: Associate Professor Markus Schlaich
11.00am - 11.25am Prof Sietse de Boer, University of Groningen
"Coping styles in animals : individual variability, disease associations and underlying neurobiological mechanisms"
11.25am - 11.50am Prof Eugene Nalivaiko, University of Newcastle, Australia
"Chronic stress and cardiovascular disorders : what can we learn from the animal models?"
11.50am - 12.05pm Prof Andrea Sgoifo, University of Parma, Italy
"Social Defeat and Isolation: cardiac, adrenocortical and behavioural effects in rats"
12.05pm - 12.30pm Prof Richard Kvetnansky, Slovak Academy of Sciences
"Sympathoadrenal system activity and gene expression in rats with paraventricular nucleus deafferentation after stress exposure"
12:30pm -1:30pm Lunch (provided)
1.30pm -4.00pm MEET THE EXPERTS- PANEL DISCUSSION
Chair: Professor Don Byrne, Australian National University
1.30pm - 2.00pmProf David Castle, Department of Psychiatry St. Vincent's Health, Melbourne
Psychiatry for Medical Internists
"Can we prevent people with schizophrenia dying so young?"
2.00pm - 2.30pm Prof David Kaye, BakerIDI Heart & Diabetes Institute
Cardiology for Psychiatrists, Psychologists and Social Scientists
"Heart failure, ventricular assist devices and depression"
2.30pm - 2.45pm Prof David S Krantz, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, USA
"Perceived stress predicts B-type natriuretic peptide and one year hospitalizations in heart failure patients"
2.45pm - 3.00pm Ms Andrie Seldenrijk, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam
"Poor mental health, cortisol reactivity and risk of subclinical coronary calcification"
3.00pm - 3.15pm Miss Tahereh Zamani, Science and Research Branch of Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
"Ambiguity tolerance and sensory processing style in women with heart disease”"
3.15pm - 4.00pm Panel Discussion
Prof Graham Burrows (The Melbourne Clinic), Prof Garry Jennings, Prof Ernest Hunter (Queensland Government Department of Health), Dr Rosemary Schwarz, Dr Marlies Alvarenga, Prof Bruce Singh (University of Melbourne)
(Title Pending)
4:00pm - 6:00pmPoster sessions with juices, wine and cheese
7:00pm Evening free
Friday, 3rd September, 2010
8:30am - 10.30am DEPRESSIVE ILLNESS: Indigenous Populations, Social Disadvantage, Heart Risk Mechanisms
Chair: Prof Bruce Singh, University of Melbourne
8.30am - 9.10am Keynote Speaker: Prof Ichiro Kawachi, Harvard School of Public Health
"Going to the heart of the matter : What have we learned about the psychosocial determinants of heart disease?"
9.10am - 9.35am Prof Ernest Hunter, Queensland Government Department of Health
"Heart and Mind : Evolving understandings of chronic cardiovascular disease in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations"
9.35am - 10.00amDr Alex Brown
(Title Pending)
10.30am - 11.00am Morning Tea
11.00am - 12.30pm PSYCHOGENIC CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE: Personality, Gender, Clinical Implementation
Chair: Dr Rosemary Schwarz
11.00am - 11.25am Prof Don Byrne
"Type A behaviour and cardiovascular disease: A promise unfulfilled"
11.25am - 11.50am Prof Kristina Orth-Gomer, Karolina Institute
"Stress, gender and heart disease. Opportunities for intervention"
11.50am - 12.05pm Ms Kaliopi Megari, University of Thessaloniki, Greece
"Impact of two different extracorporeal circulation systems to the postoperative cognitive dysfunction after cardiac surgery"
12.05pm - 12.30pm Prof Prasuna Reddy, Deakin University, Melbourne
"Psychosocial factors and prevention of cardiovascular disease: Implementation of research findings"
12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch (provided)
1.30pm Afternoon Free
6:00pm - 11.00pm Conference Banquet
Villa Medicea La Ferdinanda, Viale Papa Giovanni XX111, 1 Artimino, Carmignano, 59015
Situated around 20 minutes away from Prato
Phone: +39 055 875141
Fax: +39 0558751470
Buses will leave at 18:00 from Piazza Santa Maria delle Carceri (200 m from Monash Prato Centre)
A spectacular event not to be missed. Surrounded by the magical landscape one finds only in Tuscany, the Villa is set next to the ancient Etruscan village of Artimino.
We will be met with drinks on the terrace and be entertained by a medieval flag throwing demonstration and minstrels while enjoying drinks and sunset on the terrace overlooking the village.
Entrée will be served in the original cellar and kitchen
Dinner served in the Ballroom, with entertainment by soprano and pianist.
Buses will return to Prato at approximately 11.00pm
Saturday, 4th September, 2010
A DAY IN AN EARLY 15TH CENTURY TUSCAN VILLA
Today we move the conference to the spectacular Villa Castelletti, an elegant an imposing Villa which has always been the country dwelling of noble and wealthy families. Now beautifully restored, it has become a premier venue for events and conferences. The ancient Italian garden, centuries-old trees, the lake in the park, plus the incomparable view of the countryside looking towards the city of Florence are yours to enjoy today.
Note: Accompanying Persons attending cooking class will leave at the same time with classs commencing at 10.00 am
Buses will leave at 9.00 am from Piazza Santa Maria delle Carceri (200 m from Monash Prato Centre)
Villa Castelletti
Via di Castelletti, 5 - 50058 Signa - Firenze
Tel +39 055 873 5565
Fax +39 055 873 5073
Web: http://www.villacastelletti.it
Email: villa@villacastelletti.it
9.00am Depart from Prato
9.45am - 11.15am PSYCHOGENIC CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; Neural, Molecular and Epigenetic Mechanisms
Chair: Prof Eugene Nalivaiko, University of Newcastle, Australia
10.00am - 10.25am Prof Yrsa Sverrisdottir, University of Gothenburg
"Sympathetic nerve activity in stress induced cardiomyopathy"
10.25am - 10.50am Prof Assam El-Osta, BakerIDI Heart & Diabetes Institute
"Epigenetic control of the norepinephrine transporter gene in depolarized neurons"
10.50am - 11.15am Assoc Prof Xiao-Jun Du, BakerIDI Heart & Diabetes Institute
"Autonomic neurocardiac dysregulation in R6/1 transgenic models of Huntingdon's disease"
11.15am - 11.45am Morning Tea
11.45am - 13.00pm STRESS & HYPERTENSION
Chair: Dr Marlies Alvarenga
11.45am - 12.20am Keynote Speaker: Prof Andrew Steptoe, University College London
"Stress and hypertension: integrating findings from population and experimental studies"
11.20pm - 12.45pm Prof Murray Esler, Alfred Hospital Melbourne
"The stress neural biology of essential hypertension"
12.45pm Meeting Closed
Professor Garry Jennings, Director - BakerIDI Heart & Diabetes Institute
1.00pm - 2.00pmLunch
Enjoy the grounds of the villa
2.45pm - 3.00pm Buses depart for Prato
Keynote Speakers
Invited Speakers
- Professor Garry Jennings, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute
- Professor David Castle, Department of Psychiatry St. Vincent's Health, Melbourne
- Professor Markus Slaich, BakerIDI Heart and Diabetes Institute Australia
- Professor Richard Kvetnansky, Slovak Academy of Sciences
- Professor Yrsa Sverrisdottir, University of Gothenburg
- Professor Bruce Singh, University of Melbourne
- Professor Prasuna Reddy, Deakin University, Melbourne
- Professor Don Byrne, Australian National University
- Professor Chris Semsarian, University of Sydney
- Professor Ernest Hunter, Queensland Government Department of Health
- Professer Xiao-Jun Du, BakerIDI Heart & Diabetes Institute
- Professor Eugene Nalivaiko, University of Newcastle
- Professor Assam El-Osta, BakerIDI Heart & Diabetes Institute
- Professor Sietse de Boer, University of Groningen
- Professor David Barton, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute
- Dr Gavin Lambert, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute
- Dr Alex Brown, BakerIDI Heart and Diabetes Institute
- Dr Marlies Alvarenga, BakerIDI Heart and Diabetes Institute
- Professor Kristina Orth-Gomer, Karolina Institute
Professor Ichiro Kawachi
Ichiro Kawachi, is Professor of Social Epidemiology, and Chair of the Department of Society, Human Development and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. Kawachi received both his medical degree and Ph.D. (in epidemiology) from the University of Otago, New Zealand. He has taught at the Harvard School of Public Health since 1992. Kawachi has published widely on the relationship between stress and cardiovascular disease, as well as the broader social and economic determinants of population health. He was the co-editor (with Lisa Berkman) of the first textbook on Social Epidemiology, published by Oxford University Press in 2000. His books include The Health of Nations (The New Press, 2002) and Social Capital and Health (Springer, 2008). Kawachi currently serves as the Senior Editor (Social Epidemiology) of the international journal Social Science & Medicine, as well as an Editor of the American Journal of Epidemiology. He has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization and the World Bank.
Professor Andrew Steptoe
Andrew Steptoe is British Heart Foundation professor of psychology at University College London. He graduated in Natural Sciences from Cambridge, and completed his doctorate at Oxford University in 1975. He was appointed lecturer in psychology at St. George's Hospital Medical School in 1977, becoming professor and chair of the Department in 1988. He moved to his present research chair in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London in 2000. He is a past-president of the International Society of Behavioral Medicine and of the Society for Psychosomatic Research. He was founding editor of the British Journal of Health Psychology, an associate editor of Psychophysiology, the Annals of Behavioral Medicine, the British Journal of Clinical Psychology, and the Journal of Psychosomatic Research, and is on the editorial boards of seven other journals. He is author or editor of 16 books, most recently Depression and Physical Illness (CUP, 2006). His main research interests are in psychosocial aspects of cardiovascular disease, health behaviour, and psychobiology.
Dr Ilan Wittstein
Dr. Wittstein is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the division of cardiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He received his B.A in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. in 1985 and his medical degree in 1990 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and then served as Assistant Chief of Service on the Osler Medical Service. After completing fellowship training in cardiology at Johns Hopkins where he concentrated in heart failure and cardiac transplantation, Dr. Wittstein joined the division of cardiology as full-time faculty in 1998. His clinical focus has been in the areas of critical care and heart failure/transplant. His research has included work in basic cell signaling as well as the effect of nitric oxide on cardiac function. More recently, Dr. Wittstein's research has focused on the effects of emotional and physical stress on cardiac contractile function as well as the effects of neurologic injury on myocardial contractility. In February 2005, his manuscript in the New England Journal of Medicine brought international attention to the poorly recognized syndrome of Stress Cardiomyopathy (Broken Heart Syndrome), a syndrome of acute myocardial stunning that is believed to be catecholamine mediated. He is currently involved in both clinical and basic projects that are attempting to define the precise pathogenesis of this syndrome. He is nationally recognized for his work on Stress Cardiomyopathy and is an expert in the field of stress related cardiac disease.