NIPC Webinar Series: New Blood Pressure Guidelines –

What’s Changed, Why, and How to Implement?

Meet the Experts Session in Recognition of World Hypertension Day 2025

In recognition of World Hypertension Day 2025, the National Institute for Prevention and Cardiovascular Health (NIPC) was proud to host a special Meet the Experts session, spotlighting the new ESC Guidelines for the management of elevated blood pressure and hypertension.

Participants had the opportunity to meet the very experts who wrote the guidelines, hear firsthand why the changes were made, and get practical advice on how to bring them into your day-to-day clinical practice. For participants working in primary care or managing more complex cases, this session equipped them with the latest insights and tools for improved patient outcomes.

The session concluded with a live panel discussion, giving attendees the chance to ask their questions directly to the guideline authors.

Topics include:

  • Latest Blood Pressure Guidelines: Key New Messages and Why
  • How to Implement the New Guidelines: Case-Based Approach (from Primary Care Settings to Managing Resistant Hypertension)
  • Ask the Experts Q&A Session

Speakers include:

  • Chair: Dr Eamonn O’Shea, HSE/ICGP Integrated Care GP Clinical Lead (Cardiovascular)
  • Professor Bill McEvoy, Co-Chair of the ESC Guidelines for the Management of Elevated Blood Pressure and Hypertension; Professor of Preventive Cardiology University of Galway; NIPC Research and Medical Director
  • Professor Rhian Touyz, Co-Chair of the ESC Guidelines for the Management of Elevated Blood Pressure and Hypertension; Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Canada

Sponsors have funded the organisation of this NIPC Series, however, none of these sponsors have had any influence over the educational/scientific content of presentations or the agenda

Previous NIPC Series Webinars

 

NIPC Series

On March 5th, in support of International Women’s Day, NIPC in collaboration with Global Heart Hub, hosted an insightful webinar exploring the unique challenges women face in cardiovascular disease (CVD). Our expert speakers covered key topics, including missed diagnoses, sex-specific differences in treatment, premature heart disease, and the impact of menopause and obesity.

Despite being the leading cause of death in women globally, CVD is often under-recognized, under-diagnosed, and undertreated in women. Symptoms can present differently than in men, leading to delays in diagnosis and care.

 Topics include:

  • Late, Missed and Mis-Diagnosis of Heart Disease in Women: Lived Experience
  • Hypertension, Lipids and Diabetes: Sex and Gender Specific Differences in Management
  • Case-Based Spotlight: Premature Heart Disease in Women and How Best to Manage Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Cardiometabolic Health in a New Era of Therapeutics
  • Menopause and Obesity: The Truths that Every Practitioner Should Know

 Speakers:

  • Dr Jennifer Jones – Director of Training and Education, NIPC
  • Annie Costelloe – Global Heart Hub Women and Heart Disease Working Group; Head of Patient & Community Engagement, Croí
  • Rhonda Monroe – Global Heart Hub International Patient Advocate Community
  • Dr Anastasia S. Mihailidou – Head of Cardiovascular & Hormonal Research, Kolling Institute; Senior Hospital Scientist, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia
  • Dr Susan Connolly – Consultant Cardiologist, University Hospital Galway and CHO2
  • Dr Caoimhe Hartley – GP and Clinical Lead of Complex Menopause Clinic, Rotunda Hospital, Dublin

For our NIPC Series webinar Heart Failure Matters, 26th September 2023, an expert panel came together to share their experiences and insights on the key challenges faced with managing and treating people living with Heart Failure. This was held in collaboration with the Irish Nurses Cardiovascular Association (INCA)

Our experts discussed the latest updates from The National Programme for Heart Failure in Ireland, new developments in pharmacological management, detection and screening, as well as patient self-management and carer considerations. This was followed by an expert panel discussion and audience Q&A session.

Agenda Includes;

  • Welcome and Introduction
    Maria Hayes, President, Irish Nurses Cardiovascular Association
  • The National Programme for Heart Failure in Ireland – Past, Present and Future
    Prof Ken McDonald, Clinical Lead, National Heart Programme; St Vincent’s University Health Care Group
  • Important Updates in Pharmacological Management
    Mairead Lehane, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Mallow General Hospital
  • Is it Heart Failure? Detection and Screening in People with Other Co-Morbidities
    Michelle Carey, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Tallaght University Hospital
  • Living with Heart Failure: Somatic Awareness, Self-Management and Carer Considerations
    Norma Caples, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, University Hospital Waterford
  • Expert Panel Discussion and Audience Q and A

Chair: Dr Brendan O’Shea, GP & Principal in Practice; Assistant Adjunct Professor at Trinity College Dublin

New Approaches to the Management of Residual Risk – An Era Beyond Statins

The NIPC Series ‘New Approaches to the Management of Residual Risk – An Era Beyond Statins’, was held on 17th May 2023. An expert panel came together to discuss a wide range of topics from advances in pharmacological management to lifestyle approaches that can all be used in the treatment of residual risk factors for cardiovascular disease.

In this NIPC Series webinar our expert panel shared their insights on the progress of currently available therapies along with the best-available evidence in pharmacological and lifestyle approaches.

The panel discussions had a strong practical focus on how to apply managing residual risk across hospital, general practice and community settings.

NIPC would like to thank all of the speakers and sponsors for making this informative and engaging series possible.

  • Prof Derek Connolly, Consultant Cardiologist, Birmingham City & Sandwell Hospitals
  • Dr Jennifer Jones, Director of Training and Education, NIPC
  • Noeleen Fallon, Specialist Nurse in Cardiac Rehabilitation, Tallaght University Hospital
  • Dr Niamh Moran, GP, Irish Society of Lifestyle Medicine
  • Chair: Dr Susan Connolly, Consultant Cardiologist, Integrated Care, University Hospitals Galway and CHO

 

Menopause and Heart Health – The Essential Facts

In support of International Women’s Day 2023 NIPC hosted a NIPC Series webinar ‘Menopause and Heart Health – The Essential Facts’.

A panel of experts from Ireland and Northern Ireland came together to share their insights on key challenges specific to menopause and women’s heart health. Women face many unique health challenges throughout their lives and this webinar explored cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors and menopause. Our speakers shared their perspectives from General Practice, Cardiology, Gynaecology and the lived patient experience.

Thank you to all our speakers

  • Dr Deirdre Lundy, Clinical Lead, Complex Menopause Service, National Maternity Hospital, Dublin
  • Dr Sandra McNeill, Obstetrician & Gynaecologist Consultant, Western Health and Social Care Trust
  • Dr Susan Connolly, Consultant Cardiologist, Integrated Care, University Hospitals Galway and CHO2 West
  • Dr Nicola Cochrane, GP & Menopause Specialist, Carrig Clinic and National Maternity Hospital, Dublin
  • Annie Costelloe, Head of Patient Community Engagement, Croí, West of Ireland Cardiac & Stroke Foundation
  • Chair: Maire-Louise Connolly, Health Correspondent, BBC Northern Ireland.

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