NeoHeart Europe 2026 - Bridging Disciplines, Advancing Neonatal Cardiac Care

NeoHeart Europe 2026 marks the first European expansion of the globally recognised NeoHeart Conference - an international forum dedicated to improving outcomes for newborns with critical congenital heart disease and cardiorespiratory failure.

With significant variation in neonatal cardiac outcomes across Europe, the need for a unified, multidisciplinary educational platform has never been greater.

This inaugural European event brings together leaders across foetal medicine, neonatology, paediatric cardiology, cardiac intensive care and cardiac surgery.

Designed as an intimate, high-impact meeting, NeoHeart Europe 2026 will deliver immersive workshops, evidence-based updates, and cross-disciplinary dialogue aimed at harmonising standards, improving outcomes and accelerating innovation.

• Enhance insight into fetal and neonatal cardiovascular physiology: Gain a robust understanding of the essential principles governing fetal and neonatal cardiovascular physiology. Explore how these principles inform evidence-based strategies to optimise newborn cardiac function.
• Advance diagnostic and therapeutic expertise in complex neonatal cardiac conditions: Strengthen clinical proficiency in multimodal imaging, interventional cardiology, surgical techniques, and critical care approaches. Enhance your ability to diagnose and manage high-risk neonatal cardiac pathologies with confidence.
• Strengthen multidisciplinary decision-making and ethical, family-centred care: Develop collaborative frameworks for integrated care planning across fetal and neonatal cardiac teams, surgeons, neonatologists, and intensivists. Apply sound ethical principles to guide shared decision-making and support families through complex clinical trajectories.

Neonatologists, Paediatric cardiologists, Paediatric intensivists, Cardiac intensivists, Neonatal cardiac surgeons, Nurses, Allied Health Professionals, and hospital administrators.

The NeoHeart Europe 2026 call for abstracts is now open!

SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT HERE
Please read the Abstract Guidelines before starting your submission

This is your opportunity to showcase new scientific research as an abstract or as an interesting case in one of the following fields: Neonatal Hemodynamics, Congenital Heart Disease (CICU, Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Surgery & Anaesthesia), Bench to Bedside (research), Fetal or Other.

The three top-scoring abstracts/cases will be invited to give an oral presentation during the conference. The next ten highest scoring abstracts/cases will be invited to give a poster presentation next to their digital poster during the conference evening networking reception on Thursday 9 July. The remaining accepted abstracts/cases will be displayed during the conference as digital posters. All accepted abstracts will be published in BMJ Paediatrics Open (N.B. only abstracts will be published; case reports will not be published).

Deadline to submit: Sunday 26 April, midnight BST.
Notification of application status: w/c 4 May.

BMJ Paediatrics Open is the official journal of the NeoHeart Europe 2026 Conference.

Thursday 9-Friday 10 July 2026
With a pre-conference workshop day on Wednesday 8 July

Earlybird rates are in place until Monday 1 June, 9am GMT: 

• 3 day ticket (pre-conference day & main meeting): Consultants (earlybird) - £600
• 3 day ticket (pre-conference day & main meeting): Resident doctors/nurses/AHPs (earlybird) - £450
• 2 day ticket (main meeting only): Consultants (earlybird) - £475
• 2 day ticket (main meeting only): Resident doctors/nurses/AHPs (earlybird) - £350

• Please note that registration will close on Wednesday 1 July 2026, 9:00 BST.