25 November
Conference Venue: Medical University of Warsaw, Didactic Centre, 2a ks. Trojdena St. Warsaw, Aula A and B
08:30 - 08:40
Conference opening: 
Zbigniew Gaciong, Rector WUM, Piotr Pruszczyk, Warsaw, Poland
08:40 - 08:50
Project OpenCardio: rationale and aim.
Olga Dzikowska-Diduch, Warsaw, Poland
08:50 - 09:00
Project OpenCardio – an innovative platform. 
Piotr Albrecht, Warsaw, Poland 
09:00 - 10:35
Session I. Management of acute pulmonary embolism experience and perspectives. 
Chairperson: Piotr Pruszczyk, Katarzyna Mizia-Stec, Tatiana Mularek–Kubzdela , Menno Huisman
09:00 - 09:20
Inaugural lecture: Advances in the management of acute pulmonary embolism - 20 years perspective of ESC guidelines. 
Adam Torbicki, Otwock, Poland 
09:20 - 09:40
Challenges in risk stratification of acute pulmonary embolism 4 years after the last ESC guidelines.
Stavros Konstantinides, Mainz, Germany
09:40 - 10:00
Treatment of acute PE - who benefits from Interventional therapy. 
Marek Roik, Warsaw, Poland
10:00 - 10:20
Leczenie interwencyjne OZP, oczekiwania i perspektywy. 
Jakub Stępniewski, Krakow, Poland
10:20 - 10:35
Panel discussion
10:35 - 10.55
Coffee break
10:55 - 12:10
Session II. Anticoagulation in acute pulmonary embolism - facing the future.
Chairperson: Katarzyna Ptaszyńska, Ilona Skoczylas, Piotr Bienias, Piotr Błaszczak,
Stavros Konstantinides
10:55 - 11:15
Home treatment of acute pulmonary embolism - standard or still “virtual reality”? 
Szymon Darocha, Otwock, Poland 
11:15 - 11:35
How long, how intensive? - balancing benefits and risks of long term anticoagulation after acute pulmonary embolism. 
Michał Ciurzyński, Warsaw, Poland
11:35 - 11:55
Brace yourself, new anticoagulants are coming...
Menno Huisman, Leiden, The Netherlands
11:55 - 12:10
Panel discussion
12:10 - 12:50
Lunch
12:50 - 14:05
Session III. Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) – optimizing the management.
Chairperson: Adam Torbicki, Frederikus Klok, Krzysztof Wróbel, Łukasz Chrzanowski 
12:50 - 13:10
Acute or chronic pulmonary artery thrombus? Tips from radiology lab.  
Marek Gołębiowski, Warsaw, Poland 
13:10 - 13:30
Balloon pulmonary angioplasty a real game changer in CTEPH management. what should we know?
Irene Lang, Vienna , Austria
13:30 - 13:50
Surgical treatment of CTEPH.
Dariusz Zieliński, Warsaw,Poland 
13:50 - 14:05
Panel discussion
14:05 - 15:20
Session IV. Optimal follow up after acute pulmonary embolism. 
Chairperson: Jarosław D. Kasprzak, Irene Lang, Małgorzata Peregud-Pogorzelska, Ewa Mroczek, Olga Dzikowska-Diduch
14:05 - 14:25
“Post pulmonary embolism syndrome” not only CTEPH still underestimated problem. 
Frederikus Klok, Leiden, The Netherlands
14:25 - 14:45
Data from the Polish multicenter registry of patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (BNP-PL) - Characteristics, management and outcomes.
Grzegorz Kopeć, Krakow, Poland
14:45 - 15:05
Long term management after PE in special populations ( with cancer, with chronic renal diseases….).
Ewa Lewicka, Gdańsk, Poland
15:05 - 15:20
Panel discussion
15:20 - 15:25
Summary of lectures and panel discussions
Piotr Pruszczyk, Warsaw, Poland
15:25 - 15:40
Coffee break
15:40 - 16:40
Workshops in educational and open tracks of OpenCardio.
Wojciech Wróblewski, Warsaw, Poland