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Dear colleagues,

It gives great pleasure to invite you to the European Pulmonary Embolism Response Expertise Conference in Rome, Italy: EXPERT-PE 2026.

The organizing committee of EXPERT-PE 2026 has set the dates at 27-28 November 2026.
The one and half day program starts at Friday morning 10.00 hours and ends on Saturday 13.30 hours.

EXPERT-PE 2026 is dedicated to increase knowledge on the best practice, multi-disciplinary, initial and chronic management of acute severe pulmonary embolism.

The field of acute pulmonary embolism has seen an impressive evolution in recent years. Interventional treatment as well as novel antithrombotic strategies have considerably changed the treatment of acute pulmonary embolism, and extensive research is ongoing into the optimal use of existing treatment modalities in individual patients.

The program for the upcoming EXPERT 2026 conference covers many aspects of the disease, with an overall focus on a multidisciplinary approach, ranging from diagnosis to interventional treatment, medical and multimodal therapy.

Our goal is to offer a platform for sharing and discussing the latest scientific and clinical developments in severe pulmonary embolism, and we will enable an informative and dynamic conference.

The conference is designed for practicing clinicians, who regularly care for patients with acutepulmonary embolism, and we thus welcome (interventional) cardiologists, pulmonologists, intensivists, vascular medicine specialists, hematologists, angiologists, and (interventional) radiologists.

We look forward to welcoming you all in beautiful Rome!




 Professor Roberto Pola
Co-Chair EXPERT-PE Conference 2026
Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Rome Italy



 Professor Cecilia Becattini
Co-Chair EXPERT-PE Conference 2026
Acute Care - Stroke Unit Department University of Perugia
Ospedale Santa Maria della Misericordia Perugia Italy



 Professor Erik Klok
Co-Chair EXPERT-PE Conference 2026
Leiden University Medical Center Leiden The Netherlands



 Professor Stavros Konstantinides
Co-Chair EXPERT-PE Conference 2026
Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis (CTH)
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Germany



 Professor Menno Huisman
Co-Chair EXPERT-PE Conference 2026
Leiden University Medical Center Leiden The Netherlands




We aim to meet you all in person. However, in view of the then current situation, we will adapt the meeting in accordance with adjustments in design relevant in November 2026.



Program

Program November 27st – 28th, 2026
                          Friday November 27th, 2026
09.00 - 10.00 Registration
10.00 - 10.10 Welcome and opening by
Roberto Pola (Rome, Italy) & Cecilia Becattini (Perugia, Italy)		 Plenary room
(Large lecture - ground floor)
  Session 1: Recent trials: state of the art PE management in 2026
Chairs: Roberto Pola (Rome, Italy) & Cecilia Becattini (Perugia, Italy) 		Plenary room
(Large lecture - ground floor)
10.10 - 10.25 Low-risk PE
Cécile Tromeur (Brest, France)
10.25 - 10.40 Intermediate-risk PE
Jose Montero Cabezas (Leiden, The Netherlands)
10.40 - 10.55 High-risk PE
Jacob Gammelgaard Schulz (Aarhus, Denmark)
10.55 - 11.10 Panel discussion
 
11.10 - 12.20 Session 2: EXPERT-PE team in action...
Chairs: Stefano Barco (Zürich, Switzerland) & Mona Lichtblau (Zürich, Switzerland)		 Plenary room
(Large lecture - ground floor)
  Recorded video case demonstration from University Hospital Zurich
Cases prepared and presented by chairs
  Discussion by multidisciplinary experts:
Andrea Scapigliati (Rome, Italy), Maria Cristina Vedovati (Perugia, Italy),
Narayan Karunanithy (Londen, United Kingdom),
Laurent Bertoletti (Saint-Etienne, France),
Sylwia Sławek-Szmyt (Poznan, Poland)
  Session 3: Complex antithrombotic management
Chairs: Maria Cristina Vedovati (Perugia, Italy) & Jacob Gammelgaard Schulz (Aarhus, Denmark) 		Plenary room
(Large lecture - ground floor)
12.20 - 12.40 Treatment of PE in patients with thrombocytopenia
Mandy Lauw (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
12.40 - 13.00 Treatment of PE in patients with severe renal insufficiency
Walter Ageno (Varese, Italy)
13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH

 Catering/Booth hall
(Exhibition room - first floor)
  Session 4 : Mechanisms of thrombosis
Chairs: Lilian Meijboom (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) & Karl Fengler (Leipzig, Germany)		 Plenary room
(Large lecture - ground floor)
14.00 - 14.20 Virchow's triad revisited in 2026: blood, blood stream and vessel wall
Pierre Morange (Marseille, France)
14.20 - 14.40 Age of the clot: how to assess and why is it relevant
Deepa Gopalan (London, United Kingdom)
14.40 - 15.00 HITT-VITT-anti PF4 associated thrombosis and thrombocytopenia
Sabine Eichinger (Vienna, Austria)
15.00 - 16.00 BREAK Catering/Booth hall
(Exhibition room - first floor)
  Session 5: Tough calls from the floor
Chairs: Cecile Tromeur (Brest, France) & Jeroen Eikenboom (Leiden, The Netherlands) 		Plenary room
(Large lecture - ground floor)
16.00 - 16.20 Acute severe PE after neurosurgery
Fionnuala Ni Ainle (Dublin, Ireland)
16.20 - 16.40 Acute severe PE during pregnancy
Saskia Middeldorp (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
16.40 - 17.00 Acute severe PE in a morbidly obese patient
Luis Jara-Palomares (Seville, Spain)
17.00 - 17.50 BREAK Catering/Booth hall
(Exhibition room - first floor)
17.50 - 18.30 Historical lecture
Chairs: Menno Huisman (Leiden, The Netherlands) & Saskia Middeldorp (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) 		Plenary room
(Large lecture - ground floor)
  Thrombolytic therapy for acute PE - history, present and future
Peter Verhamme (Leuven, Belgium)
18.30 - 18.45 Wrap up of first day by chairs
   
                          Saturday November 28th, 2026
07.30 - 07.55 Registration
07.55 - 08.00 Welcome by chairs
  Session 6: Optimal care after acute PE
Chair: Olivier Sanchez (Paris, France) & Mandy Lauw (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) 		Plenary room
(Large lecture - ground floor)
08.00 - 08.20 Post PE syndrome in 2026
Erik Klok (Leiden, The Netherlands)
08.20 - 08.40 Shared decision making in duration of anticoagulant treatment
Francis Couturaud (Best, France)
08.40 - 09.00 Pulmonary hypertension after acute PE
Marion Delcroix (Leuven, Belgium)
  Lecture PERT and EXPERT-PE
Chair: Stavros Konstantinides (Mainz, Germany) and Gargi Gautam (Stokholm, Sweden) 		Plenary room
(Large lecture - ground floor)
09.00 - 09.30 PERT USA and EXPERT-PE Europe: Together We Make Progress in PE care
TBD
09.30 - 10.45 BREAK Catering/Booth hall
(Exhibition room - first floor)
  Session 7: Parallel Workshops (3 groups)  
10.45 - 11.45 Periprocedure anticoagulation management of severe PE anno 2026
Eli Westerlund (Stockholm, Sweden) & Gargi Gautam (Stockholm, Sweden) 		Plenary room
(Large lecture - ground floor)
10.45 - 11.45 Lab measurements in the management of severe PE
Jeroen Eikenboom (Leiden, The Netherlands) & Piotr Pruszczyk (Warsaw, Poland) 		Workshop room
(Seminar room - first floor)
10.45 - 11.45 How to use CPET in post PE care
Olivier Sanchez (Paris, France) & Joannis Farmakis (Muenich, Germany) 		Workshop room
(Seminar room - first floor)
11.50 - 13.00 Session 8: Research abstracts presentations
Chairs: Menno Huisman (Leiden, the Netherlands) & Rosa Talerico (Rome, Italy) 		Plenary room
(Large lecture - ground floor)
13.00 - 13.15 Wrap up and closure of the conference by the chairs
13.15 - 14.15 Farewell Lunch Catering/Booth hall
(Exhibition room - first floor)
   
     

Accreditation


  • Accreditation of this course will be made by the UEMS EACCME® for CME/CPD accreditation.
  • Accreditation of this course will be made by MedTech Europe Code of Ethical Business Practice.








   

 

   

 

Abstracts

Submission of abstracts


Please send your abstracts to: maaike@bureau-prevents.nl

Your abstract must be sent before 1st of November 2026.

Abstracts received after this date will not be processed.
The abstract must consist of a maximum of 300 words and a maximum of 1 table or figure.

















   

 

Faculty


Will follow soon...
















   

 

Sponsors/Satellite


Friday November 27th, 2026
15.05 - 15.35 Industry symposium
  Satellite by Boston Scientific
   
17.05 - 17.35 Industry symposium
  Satellite by sponsor
   
Saturday November 28th, 2026
09.35 - 10.00 Industry symposium
  Satellite symposium by Penumbra
                          




   

 

Venue & Travel


Auditorium Antonianum
Viale Manzoni, 1 - 00185 Rome
https://www.auditoriumantonianum.it




   Hotel accomodations

Below, please find a list of recommended hotels in Rome located conveniently to the conference venue or with easy access by public transportation. To make a reservation please contact them directly.

Mia Rome, Italy
Click here
Conference attendees at this hotel receive a special rate. When booking, please mention this code: ExpertPE26@RoomMate or email Simona  Pastoressa / Events Manager rome.events@room-matehotels.com to book your room with a discount.

Mercure Rome Centrum Colosseum
Click here

J.K. Place Roma
Click here


Registration

First come, first served

Registration is accepted according to the ‘first come, first served’ principle.
The registration fee is 345 euros incl. VAT. Participation is only possible for the two days.
Hotel stay must be arranged by participants.

You will be redirected via this link to the site of www.bureau-prevents.nl, they take care of the registration.

NB For participants who have also submitted an abstract (to maaike@bureau-prevents.nl) to be discussed during the conference, or you are a trial coordinator/study nurse a reduced rate of 185 euros applies. Click here.


This symposium is organized by bureau-prevents.




   

 

Contact


Symposium Office:
bureau-prevents
P.O. Box 73
3480 DB Harmelen, the Netherlands
E-mail: info@bureau-prevents.nl