EuGMS: SIG on cardiovasculair medecine

Dear Colleagues,

The EuGMS SIG on Cardiovascular Medicine is glad to invite you to its next OPEN online meeting. The meeting will take place on 27th May 2026, from 17:00 to 18:00 CEST (4-5pm BST).

The agenda of the meeting is as follows:

Welcome & Introduction
Prof. Francesco Mattace- Raso

Heart failure in older adults: a cardiogeriatric approach across Europe
Dr. Chukwuma Okoye

Dr Chukwuma Okoye is a geriatrician and Assistant Professor at University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy). He holds a PhD and the title of Doctor Europaeus in Cardiopulmonary Pathophysiology. His clinical and academic work focuses on frailty in acute care, cardiogeriatrics, multimorbidity, and clinical decision-making in complex older adults. A major area of his research is the development of multidimensional interdisciplinary models of care, particularly for older patients with heart failure, integrating functional status, cognition, comorbidity burden, prognosis, and patient-centred therapeutic goals to improve outcomes across acute and transitional care settings.
Dr Okoye has a coordinating role in major research programmes on ageing, integrated care, and digital innovation. He is coordinating investigator of OPTIMAge-IT, a multicentre study evaluating technology-supported multicomponent interventions to prevent functional and cognitive decline in hospitalized older adults. He is also coordinating investigator of ECO-AGE, a multicentre observational study investigating the integration of bedside ultrasound and comprehensive geriatric assessment in hospitalized older patients with acute respiratory failure.
He is an active member of the GENIUS (GEriatric Network for International clinical UltraSound) network within the EuGMS, promoting education, research, and implementation of point-of-care ultrasound in geriatric medicine across Europe.

Chronic heart failure in adults: diagnosis and management—summary of updated NICE guidance

Dr Madeleine Bates and Prof Chakravarthi Rajkumar

Dr Madeleine Bates is a clinical teaching fellow at the Royal Sussex County Hospital. She studied at The University of Manchester and achieved an additional qualification of European Studies in Spanish. She completed her internal medicine training at University Hospitals Sussex in 2023. Currently she is involved with teaching the 3rd year medical students the stroke and geriatrics module at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. She is also conducting a study with acute stroke patients investigating the link between arterial stiffness in type 2 diabetes mellitus and stroke outcomes. Madeleine has a particular interest in medical education and simulation-based training. Outside of work she enjoys hiking and dance.

Professor Chakravarthi Rajkumar was appointed in January 2005 as the Chair of Geriatric and Stroke Medicine, Brighton & Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex. To date he has been actively involved in research in the field of Geriatrics and Stroke medicine. He is a member of National Institute for Care and clinical Excellence (NICE) guideline committee on Chronic Heart Failure and has also a member on many other NICE guideline development committees. He is also a member of the Intercollegiate Stroke Working Party representing the British Geriatrics Society. In addition, he is the co-chair of Special Interest Group on Cardiovascular Medicine, European Geriatric Medicine Society, and Associate Editor - Cardiovascular geriatric medicine of the European Geriatric Medicine journal.
He has a wide range of research interests which includes clinical trials in the very elderly, hypertension, vascular compliance, frailty, adverse drug reactions and hospital acquired infections in the elderly. He has published over 400 abstracts, peer reviewed papers and book chapters on clinical problems in journals including NEJM, The Lancet, BMJ and JAMA. He was also an Associate Editor for the Journal Age & Ageing (Oxford University Press) and member of Editorial Boards of other international journals
He has been awarded a number of research grants from various charitable organisations including the British Heart Foundation, Dunhill Medical Trust, NIHR (Research for Patient Benefits) and PPP Healthcare, etc.
Professor Rajkumar was elected Distinguished Fellow of the Global Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (GAPIO) in April 2024 and Fellow of the British and Irish Association of Stroke Physicians (BIASP) in 2014.

Discussion & Conclusions
Francesco Mattace Raso and Dr. Christophe de Terwangne

We look forward to meeting many of you online!

Be on time, mute your microphone when you're not talking and enjoy this moment with your colleagues!
Please note that the meeting will be recorded and that the audio and video recordings might be used by the EuGMS for dissemination on the EuGMS website and social media.

Kind regards,
Co-chairs: Francesco Mattace Raso & Chakravarthi Rajkumar

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