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AEPC 2026 - Best abstract presentation awards

Congratulations to the AEPC 2026 Padua Best abstract presentation award winners!

Three Best abstract presentation awards are given for each presentation category during the Annual Meeting: Best Oral, Best Flash talk, Best Moderated e-Poster & Best e-Poster.

In each category, the top three is awarded; 1st place - EUR 500, 2nd place EUR 300, 3rd place EUR 200.

To determine the winners all abstract presentations were reviewed & scored during the meeting, and winners have been selected based upon their scores received during presentation.

Below you can find the winners of the AEPC 2026 Padua Best Abstract awards:

In addition to these AEPC Awards, various working groups have also given out working group-specific prizes. These will be announced separately. 

BEST ORAL

• 1st - Ida Hüners (Hamburg, Germany) - (O-048) IATROGENEC WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME (IWS) HAS A SPECIFIC RISK PROFILE IN CHILDREN AFTER CARDIAC SURGERY
• 2nd - Jennifer Fumanelli (Prague, Czech Republic) - (O-058) ELECTROMECHANICAL INTERACTION AND EFFECT OF RIGHT VENTRICULAR CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH EBSTEIN’S ANOMALY UNDERGOING CONE REPAIR
• 3rd - Navaneetha Sasikumar (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) - (O-142) REAL WORLD UTILITY OF A MOBILE APPLICATION BASED ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC TRIAGE TOOL FOR EARLY DETECTION AND REFERRAL OF NEONATES WITH CRITICAL CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE

BEST FLASH TALK

• 1st - Karel Koubský (Prague, Czech Republic) - (FT-060) THE MOLECULAR MICROSCOPE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM (MMDX-HEART) IN PAEDIATRIC HEART TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS: COMPARISON WITH HISTOLOGY AND IMPACT ON CLINICAL MANAGEMENT
• 2nd - Hamadah Mohamad Hussam (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) - (FT-137) ULTRASOUND FOR DIAPHRAGMATIC DYSFUNCTION IN POSTOPERATIVE CARDIAC CHILDREN: A PROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY
• 3rd - Simon D'hulst (Ghent, Belgium) - (FT-188) MYOCARDIAL RECOVERY AFTER MITRAL VALVE SURGERY IN CHILDREN WITH MARFAN SYNDROME: A MULTICENTRE EUROPEAN STUDY

BEST MODERATED E-POSTER

• 1st - Giaan Ninh (Herlev, Denmark) - (MP-175) MATERNAL MEDICATION USE PATTERNS BEFORE AND DURING PREGNANCY AND CARDIAC OUTCOMES IN NEWBORNS
• 2nd - Katya De Groote (Ghent, Belgium) - (MP-077) WHEN HEARTS GET COMPLICATED: HOW CHD SEVERITY SHAPES EMOTION REGULATION BENEFITS IN YOUTH
• 3rd - Laura Büscher (Leipzig, Germany) - (MP-002) LONG-TERM OUTCOMES AND EXERCISE CAPACITY IN ECC-TCPC PATIENTS: IMPACT OF CONDUIT SIZE AND TEMPORAL CHANGES

BEST E-POSTER

• 1st - Buse Günyel (Istanbul, Türkiye) - (P-341) GENOTYPE TODAY, PHENOTYPE TOMORROW: TRACKING THE PEDIATRIC EVOLUTION OF ARRHYTHMOGENIC CARDIOMYOPATHY
• 2nd - Charlotte Schöneburg (Munich, Germany) - (P-333) ASSESSING SLEEP IN CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE THROUGH WEARABLE DEVICES AND A HEALTH APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE
• 3rd - Claire McGinn (Belfast, United Kingdom) - (P-303) UTILISING PLASMA BIOMARKERS AND MODIFIED ROSS SCORE FOR THE EARLY DETECTION OF CARDIAC DYSFUNCTION IN CHILDREN WITH SINGLE VENTRICLE PHYSIOLOGY

We congratulate all winners with their prizes and hope to see much more of them in future AEPC Annual Meetings!