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Trapped re-entry: a dormant source of arrhythmia
The conference:
The annual meeting of the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) brings together scientists, healthcare professionals and other players involved in arrhythmia management from all around the world.
More than 80 scientific sessions were available onsite in Copenhagen along with practical tutorials and unique networking opportunities.
It's been an incredible three days of cutting-edge science and networking exchange. It was also an exciting return to meeting face to face in Copenhagen enjoying the thrill of discovering, learning, and sharing together in-person.
The EHRA congress in Copenhagen presented me with an opportunity to speak at the Young Investigator Award session Basic Science. I presented the most recent work and updates about the Trapped Reentry project. You are able to see my 6-minute presentation as well as the other presentations underneath.
My presentation (first one of the full session):
Background
The EHRA congress has quite a reputation in the Laboratory of Experimental Cardiology. After the first YIA entrance by Daniel Pijnappels, the lab succeeded in getting into a YIA session for 10 years in a row. I was therefore very happy to see myself continue this great tradition with an 11th entry. The organization asked me to prepare a 6-minute short oral presentation (which you already saw above). On top of that we were also asked to present and upload a 10-minute version of our presentation with some extra info one month before the actual conference (this video you are able to find underneath) that would be posted online (since this was a hybrid in-person/online meeting).
After my presentation I got many compliments about the concise but clear nature of what I presented. I was also very happy to see that this also translated itself online, where my presentation was both the most liked one and the most watched one.
Impact
This presentation taught me how to concisely bring across a complex message to a diverse audience. It made me realize that a key aspect of bringing across a message in an accessible way is knowing what information you can filter out and what information you have to keep. By preparing my talk, I changed my presentation over a dozen times because of this. Sometimes it was missing key information that was needed further down in the talk, and sometimes it was making things too complicated. Eventually I think I found the perfect middle ground and delivered an excellent talk.
My longer presentation (contains extra info):
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