ESC-HFA 2024: Late-Breaking Science Video Collection

Published: 14 May 2024

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Overview

Discover the latest heart failure data from impactful trials and studies presented at the Heart Failure Association’s annual congress, Heart Failure 2024

Dive deep into novel data with in-depth and critical discussions led by Late-breaker host Dr Harriette Van Spall and her expert guests. 

For quick and practical summaries of the late-breaking trials, watch our 5-minute Expert Interviews conducted with the investigators.

About the episode

HFA 2024 — Dr Tauben Averbuch and Dr Harriette Van Spall (McMaster University, Hamilton, CA) discuss the findings from the PACT-HF trial. In this analysis of PACT-HF, investigators looked at long term sex-specific clinical outcomes and healthcare resource utilisation following hospitalisation for heart failure at 5 years.

Findings shows that clinical outcomes and overall costs were similar between male and female patients, although the distribution of costs differed.

Recorded on-site at HFA 2024, Lisbon.

Faculty Biographies

Harriette Van Spall

Harriette Van Spall

Associate Professor of Medicine, Director of E-Health and Virtual Care

Dr Harriette Van Spall is an Associate Professor of Medicine and cardiologist and serves as Director of E-Health at McMaster University, Canada. She completed her medical and postgraduate clinical training at the University of Toronto and earned a Master of Public Health degree at Harvard University, US. Dr Van Spall is a Canadian Institutes of Health Research-funded clinical trialist and researcher with a focus on heart failure, health services, and health disparities.

She has garnered more than $4 million in research funding, has won several research awards, and has published her work in high-impact medical journals. She is an invited speaker, media correspondent, and editorial board member active in peer review at several high-impact medications journals and grant funding agencies, including Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.

Dr Van Spall is an Editorial Board…

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Tauben Averbuch

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