2025 HiRO Symposium

Meeting Details

The HiRO Annual Symposium brings together the Canadian community of cardiogenetics specialists, researchers, patients, families and industry partners, with a goal to improve the care of families with inherited heart disease. Learn more and see details of past meetings here.

The 2025, the HiRO Symposium will take place June 13-14th, 2025, in Québec City, Québec. We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Dan Roden as our keynote speaker. The theme of this year's meeting is "Personalized Medicine: Normalizing life".

Venue

On Friday June 13th, the meeting will take place at the Auberge Saint-Antoine Hotel. The reception dinner will take place aboard a St. Lawrence River cruise, hosted by Croisières AML. On Saturday, June 14th, the morning session and patient forum will also be held onsite at the Auberge Saint-Antoine Hotel.

We're pleased to share sessions on Friday, June 13th and Saturday, June 14th, which will be live-streamed online. To access this content, please register as a "virtual-only" attendee from the registration page (no cost). You will then have live access to the virtual sessions directly from the "meeting agenda" page. You can register at any time prior to 12:00 pm EST on Thursday, June 5th, 2025.

Pricing

Take advantage of our Early Bird Discount! Register before April 19th @ 12:00AM EST to save on registration & dinner fee costs. After the Early Bird Deadline passes, pricing will increase by 50%.

Register early to secure your spot and take advantage of the savings!

Pre-Symposium Research Meeting *Update

Please note that the Pre-Symposium Research Meeting originally scheduled for Thursday, June 12, 2025, has been postponed. In light of travel schedules and to better accommodate incoming attendees, the research meeting will now be held virtually in Fall 2025 (date to be announced).

Accommodation

We’ve partnered with two hotels to offer discounted accommodation rates for HiRO Symposium attendees:

• Hotel 71 / Auberge Saint-Pierre (less than a 5-minute walk from the venue)

• * at capacity * Auberge Saint-Antoine Hotel (conference venue)

We kindly encourage guests to book at Hotel 71 or Auberge St. Pierre ASAP!

Hotel 71/Auberge Saint-Pierre

To reserve your room:
📞 Call: 1-888-692-1171 (Hotel 71) or 1-888-268-1017 (Auberge Saint-Pierre)
📧 Email: reservation@hotel71.ca
🔑 Booking Code: HIRO2025
Be sure to provide the booking code when making your reservation via phone or email, to ensure you receive the discounted rate.

Our group block covers Thursday June 12 - Saturday, June 14 (check-out). Room booking deadline is May 11, 2025

Please note that we only have a limited number of rooms available at the discounted rate, and these will be filled at a first-come, first-served basis. Once the block is full, alternative arrangements will need to be made, so we encourage you to book early!

Travel Scholarships * CLOSED *

Thanks to generous donations to the HiRO Karen Gibbs Bursary Fund, we are able to offer a limited number of travel scholarships for allied health, research coordinators and/or trainees who don't otherwise have institutional funding available to attend the meeting. Applications for the travel scholarships are now closed. Thank you to all those who submitted an application.

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In-Person Registration waitlist: If registration is at capacity and you wish to register for in-person attendance, please email admin.hiro@ubc.ca to be added to the waitlist.

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The deadline to register for the HiRO Symposium & book your accommodation at the participating hotels is May 11th, 2025. Please email admin.hiro@ubc.ca should you have any questions and/or concerns.

Please note, all times are in EST