The Latin America Task Force is running a new webinar series 'Pulmonary Hypertension in Latin America', which kicked off on Tuesday 28 October 2025.
The series includes four webinars — three of which are in Spanish, a first for PVRI — designed for a LATAM audience. The opening session explored the evaluation of PH, differential diagnosis, and how phenotype presentations differ between Latin America and the USA/Europe.
The LATAM group held their 5th Paediatric & 2nd Adult LATAM PH Symposium, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in November 2024. The meeting addressed the latest advances in diagnosis and management of adult and paediatric PH and explored avenues to increase partnerships between adult and paediatric physicians to improve clinical outcomes and quality of life for PH patients across their entire lifespans.
PVRI is delighted to have provided a travel award for this meeting for an early career PH colleague from a low-income country, plus support for faculty travel.
If you are interested in joining this Task Force, please get in touch.
Leaders
Vinicio de Jesus Perez, Stanford University
Gabriel Diaz, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Gustavo Heresi, Cleveland Clinic
Mauricio Orozco-Levi, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Tomas Pulido, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología
Rogerio Souza, University of Sao Paulo Medical School
Our Regional Task Forces don't yet have global coverage. If you're interested in starting one, please contact us.
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