12th Juniortraining - October 17-18, 2025
Dear colleagues,
The 12th Junior Training Course for Interventions in Congenital Heart Defects will take place again this year. The congress program offers basic material science and radiation protection in the context of cardiac catheterization, with a focus on interventions in defects. It includes lectures, interactive case studies, and hands-on training on models and in simulation suites. Participants will have the opportunity to gain practical experience under the guidance of leading experts from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The course is aimed at young physicians in further training in pediatric cardiology to facilitate their entry into invasive diagnostics and therapy.
We look forward to your participation!
The registration form for the course can be found HERE.
More information can be found HERE.
HTX seminar as part of the AG meeting
We are pleased to announce a special seminar - the Children's Heart Center Vienna is organizing a seminar on 24.4.2025 at 13:30 as part of the spring conference of the Working Group for Pediatric Cardiology in Vienna on one of our major focal points - heart transplantation in children. The seminar is aimed at all pediatricians who care for children with heart transplants both in hospital and in private practice, from tertiary centers to pediatric practices! The venue is the MedUni Vienna campus - lecture hall 1B (Borschkegasse 4 - 1090 Vienna). We are looking forward to an exciting event - please register via email to sophie.gumpelmair@meduniwien.ac.at!
Further information can be found HERE.
Generous donation
Almost six years ago, Mrs. Strobl came to the Children's Heart Center Vienna with her newborn baby girl in an acutely endangered condition. A severe congenital heart defect was found to be the cause and the child was first quickly stabilized by a cardiac catheter intervention and then successfully operated on by our paediatric cardiac surgeons! Since then, the little patient has been doing excellently and gives us great pleasure at every outpatient check-up!
Mrs. Strobl has now collected money on the occasion of her 40th birthday and presented our director Prof. Ina Michel-Behnke with a generous donation for our heart children! On behalf of all our patients, we would like to express our heartfelt thanks!
Excellence in interventional cardiology - The Gerd Hausdorf Lectureship Award for Prof. Dr. Ina Michel-Behnke
We are pleased to announce the awarding of the Prize for Excellence in Interventional Cardiology. This prestigious award recognizes outstanding achievements and innovations in the treatment of heart disease in children. It is awarded by the Interventional Cardiology Working Group of the Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC).
You can find out more HERE.
Dr Julian Heno receives this year's poster award of the AEPC Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation Working Group
The Pediatric Heart Transplantation research group at our Children's Heart Center was awarded a poster prize by the Working Group on Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation at this year's meeting of the European Association of Pediatric Cardiology (AEPC) in Porto. The research work deals with the potential use of the torque teno virus, which is detectable in almost all people and has no disease value. In future, the viral load could serve as a helpful marker for controlling immunosuppressive medication.
The link to the AEPC report can be found HERE.
2nd Fetal cardiology - Symposium
Taking it to the next level - 07.09.2024
Dear colleagues,
Once again, our one-day symposium will offer a structured and practice-oriented update on many relevant topics in fetal cardiology.
The speakers will be nationally and internationally renowned experts in the field of fetal cardiology and pediatric cardiology.
We look forward to your participation!
Organization
Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, MedUni Vienna/Vienna General Hospital
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Obstetrics and Feto-Maternal Medicine, MedUni Vienna/Vienna General Hospital
Further information and the program can be found HERE.
You can find the registration form HERE.
An event organized by the Children's Heart Center together with the Division of Obstetrics and Feto-Maternal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, MedUni Vienna/Vienna General Hospital
Dr. Katharina Thom
Dr. Katharina Thom receives the Venia docendi.
She is a specialist in pediatrics with an additional diploma in pediatric cardiology.
Her other clinical and scientific specializations are coagulation disorders in children.
In the special outpatient clinic for haemostaseology and coagulation disorders, she looks after children with blood coagulation disorders, haemophilia and thrombosis on a supra-regional basis and is a competent contact person for the entire hospital as a consultant.
In particular, she specializes in rare haemostaseological diseases or other serious underlying diseases with coagulation disorders, as well as children with heart disease.
The academic career of Privatdozentin Dr. Katharina Thom was crowned in May 2024 with the award of the Venia docendi. Her publications summarize the numerous clinical studies she has conducted. She has also acquired specialist knowledge
acquired during a stay abroad in Toronto. Dr. Katharina Thom will continue to work intensively on this topic, both scientifically and clinically, in order to further improve the therapeutic options and quality of life for children with hemostasis disorders due to heart disease or other serious underlying diseases.
The entire team at the Children's Heart Center would like to congratulate Dr. Katharina Thom on her habilitation.