1st World Summit for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery

We invite you to attend the 1st World Summit for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery.

For the first time ever, the World Summit for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery will be held in Bologna, Italy on June 5 – 8, 2024 and it will be hosted by the World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery (WSPCHS), the European Congenital Heart Surgeons Association (ECHSA) and the Congenital Heart Surgeons’ Society (CHSS).

The World Summit will include the participation of the Italian Society of Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology (SICP), the Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC), the African Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery (ASPCHS), the Asian Association for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery (AAPCHS), the Sociedad Latina de Cardiología y Cirugía Cardiovascular Pediátrica, the Latin American Association of Cardiac and Endovascular Surgery (LACES), Congenital Heart Surgeons’ Society Japan (CHSS Japan).

We expect to bring together more than 500 delegates, representing the leading experts in the field from all over the world.

We are committed to make this World Summit the most comprehensive, current, and technologically-advanced meeting for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery.

We look forward to seeing you in Bologna, where you can learn new techniques and care strategies, catch-up with old friends, and see the latest in technology and research, all in one place!

Lorenzo Galletti
Bambin Gesù Paediatric Hospital

Gaetano Domenico Gargiulo
University Hospital of Bologna

Alessandro Giamberti
San Donato Hospital in Milan

Vladimiro Vida
President ECHSA,
University Hospital of Padua

David Overman
President CHSS

James K. Kirklin
President WSPCHS

Christo I. Tchervenkov
Executive Director and Founding President WSPCHS