With great pleasure, we provide a first insight into the Conference Programme :

Opening speech held by Prof. Dr. Erwin Oechslin, MD/GUCH, Professor of Medicine, Director Congenital Cardiac Centre for Adults, Toronto General Hospital, Canada

Round table with Prof. Dr. Andreas Hoffmann, Prof. Dr. Joëlle Günthard, PD Dr. Matthias Greutmann, Dr. Dominik Stambach, and Dr. Kerstin Wustmann, all MD/GUCH Cardiologists, Switzerland

Visit of Edwards Life Science, the global leader in the science of heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring with lecture on valvular heart defects held by Prof. Dr. Christine Attenhofer, MD/GUCH Cardiologist, Switzerland

Lecture on “Why I love/hate being a GUCH doctor” held by PD Dr. Matthias Greutmann and Dr. Theresa Seeliger, both MD/GUCH Cardiologists, Switzerland

Lecture on “Hurray, we are still alive” held by Dr. Noémi de Stoutz, MD, Switzerland

Lecture on "Lost GUCHs" held by Amy Verstappen, American GUCH organization, USA

Lecture on "The Challenge in our Health Care System: Turning Patients into Partners" held by Christina Fasser, Vice-President of ProRaris, Switzerland

Hearty-tables on “What I love/hate about being a GUCH”

Please note that we have the following special conference days:

• Monday, July 21st 2014: PRESS DAY with a press conference at 4.30 p.m. to which we welcome all our sponsors and supporters as well as regional and national newspapers, radio stations and TV channels.
• Thursday, July 24th 2014: PUBLIC DAY with programme highlights from 9.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. for all our sponsors, donators, supporters, families and friends.