SUMMER TALKS IN BOLOGNA ON PEDIATRIC AND CONGENITAL CARDIAC SURGERY 2025
Provider ECM NOEMA
This meeting aims to provide a framework for a multidisciplinary approach in the management of common neonatal cardiac emergencies and reinforce key case-based educational pearls.
It is tailored to pediatric cardiac surgeons, neonatologists, pediatric cardiologists, anesthesiologists, gynecologists, perfusionists, trainees, advanced practice practitioners, intensive care nurses.
Summer Talks 2025
• Fetal cardiology
• Premature newborns with congenital cardiac defects: special care required
• Emergencies in neonates with congenital cardiac defects
• Advanced neonatal airways management
• Heart and Beyond: the complex cardiac neonate with other major malformations
• Cardiac failure
• Pulmonary hypertension
Perfusion Valley in Summer Talks 2025
Summer Talks it’s an international meeting that takes place in Bologna with the intention to reunite the most important experts of diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects. It also tend to encourage discussions and exchanges on good practices and methodologies for the benefit of this field.
But this is not all, Summer Talks is much more. Bologna is located in a specific region of Italy, called Emilia Romagna. From this land, are produced most of the tecnologies for the extracorporeal circulation.
“Perfusion Valley 2025” in the Summer Talks, it’s a new international initiative. It will facilitate the perfusionist from all over the world to have the opportunity to discuss on a very complex theme, such as the emergency management of newborns with congenital heart disease
All the companies that works in the sector of perfusion or in particular in this “Valley”, will be asked to present their technology and their history, in order to participate in highly specialized sessions. Furthermore, they will take part of the “perfusion round tables” with perfusionists and doctors.
• Management of newborns with congenital cardiac difect: low birth weight and preterm babies, special skills
• Selective organ perfusion
• ECMO team
Nurse training in Summer Talks 2025
• Point of care ultrasound in the NICU
CONGRESS PRESIDENT
Prof.ssa Emanuela Angeli (Pedriatric and Grown-up Congenital Cardiac Surgery Unit IRCSS Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria di Bologna – Italy)
Dott. Andrea Donti (Pedriatric and Grown-up Congenital Cardiologi Unit IRCSS Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria di Bologna – Italy)
HONORARY PRESIDENT
Prof. Gaetano D. Gargiulo
FACULTY*
Marta Agulli (Bologna, Italy)
Antonio Amodeo (Roma, Italy)
Emanuela Angeli (Bologna, Italy)
Boulos Asfour (Bonn, Germany)
Anwar Baban (Roma, Italy)
Emile Bacha (New York, USA)
Damien Bonnet (Paris, France)
Margarita Brida (London, UK)
Gabriele Bronzetti (Bologna, Italy)
Gianfranco Butera (Roma, Italy)
Lucio Careddu (Bologna, Italy)
Michela Corradini (Bologna, Italy)
Luigi Tommaso Corvaglia (Bologna, Italy)
Mauro Cotza (Milano, Italy)
Giovanni Di Salvo (Padova, Italy)
Andrea Donti (Bologna, Italy)
Gabriele Egidy Assenza (Bologna, Italy)
Francesca Esposito (Bologna, Italy)
Alain Fraisse (London, UK)
Paola Franceschi (Bologna, Italy)
Lorenzo Galletti (Roma, Italy)
Michael Gatzoulis (London, UK)
Alessandro Giamberti (Milano, Italy)
Chiara Giorni (Roma, Italy)
Mark Hazekamp (Leiden, Netherlands)
Tammam Hasan (Bologna, Italy)
Mario Lima (Bologna, Italy)
Giovanni Battista Luciani (Verona, Italy)
Elisabetta Mariucci (Bologna, Italy)
Nicola Maschietto (Boston, USA)
Andrea Moscatelli (Genova, Italy)
Guido Oppido (Napoli, Italy)
Clauss Jurgen Preusse (Bonn, Germany)
Olivier Raisky (Paris, France)
Luca Ragni (Bologna, Italy)
Rahul Rathod (Boston, USA)
Ehrenfried Schindler (Bonn, Germany)
Giuliana Simonazzi (Bologna, Italy)
Francesca Sperotto (Boston, USA)
Blanka Steinbrenner (Frankfurt, Germany)
Diana Vargas (New York, USA)
Vladimiro Vida (Padova, Italy)
Francesca Vitali (Bologna, Italy)
Federica Zanzico (Bologna, Italy)
* Faculty subject to change
MEETING WEBSITE
https://summertalks2025.noemacongressi.it
VENUE
Royal Hotel Carlton
Via Montebello, 8
40121 Bologna – Italy
The Hotel is in the centre of Bologna near railway station and just a short walk from Piazza Maggiore and the Two Towers.
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the Meeting is English.
CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE
The certificate of attendance will be sent by e-mail at the end of the meeting.
REGISTRATION
Before March 31st
Physicians – Perfusionist € 146,40 (22% VAT included)
Nurse – Resident – Bioengineer € 100,00 (22% VAT included)
Before After 31st
Physicians – Perfusionist € 244,00 (22% VAT included)
Nurse – Resident – Bioengineer € 100,00 (22% VAT included)
HOW TO REGISTER
Online registration at:
Registration fee includes:
• Access to the Scientific sessions of the meeting
• Conference kit
• Certificate of attendance
• Coffee break
Conference Dinner on Friday, June 13th
€ 60,00 (VAT included)
Golf Club Siepelunga – Boccone del Prete Restauran
