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Upcoming Events |
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May 3-5, 2012 On May 3-5 in Lahore, Pakistan, the ACC in conjunction with the Pakistan Chapter will be sponsoring the International Interventional Workshop. Other sponsors include the Pakistan Society of Interventional Cardiology organized by Army Cardiac Centre Lahore in collaboration with Punjab Institute of Cardiology Lahore, and Pakistan Cardiac Society. See this letter of invitation and program for more information. |
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ACC New York Cardiovascular Symposium Expands Global Reach With 2012 Meeting in BrazilMay 19-20, 2012 At ACC.11 in New Orleans, the leadership of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology (SBC) and the ACC agreed to host a New York Cardiovascular Symposium in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2012. The program is expected to have several thousand attendees and a full line up of premier ACC speakers. Valentin Fuster, MD, FACC, chairman of both the New York and Brazil events, said about this unprecedented program, "It is with great pleasure that we bring this educational event to Brazil for the first time. Created similarly to the program in New York, we will be offering two days of presentations, showcasing the most recent developments in research and prevention, conduct, guidelines and the treatment of CV disease." |
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May 23-24, 2012 The 3rd Joint ACC/Saudi Heart Association program will be held on May 23-24, 2012 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The program will be co-chaired by Dr. Nasser Mahdi, Chairman, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Jeddah, and Dr. Robert Vogel, Professor of Medicine, University of Maryland. Two full days of presentations will cover a wide variety of topics including coronary artery disease, prevention and management, adult congenital heart disease, heart failure, arrhythmias, interventional and surgical topics, and highlights from ACC.12 in Chicago. The preliminary agenda may be viewed here. For more information, please contact international@acc.org .
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June 18, 2012
9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Join us on June 18th from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. at the American College of Cardiology in Washington D.C. for a complimentary program focused on Simulation in Cardiology. Specifically, the program will highlight Sim-E-Child, a US-European project concentrating on simulation in pediatric cardiology.
Representatives from the EU, US Government, and the global leaders in pediatric cardiology and simulation in medicine will discuss key recent achievements in these fields and the future of medical simulation.
The program will run from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., and lunch will be served. There is no registration fee. We cordially invite you and anyone interested from your institution to this program.
The program agenda is as follows:
1. Opening remarks and Sim-E-Child overview
2. Successful strategies for leveraging technology to incentivise health innovation
3. ARGOS (Transatlantic Observatory for Meeting Global Health Policy Challenges through ICT-Enabled Solutions)
4. Technical presentations on Sim-E-Child’s achievements
5. Clinical presentations on Sim-E-Child’s outcomes
6. Lunch presentation: importance of EU-American collaboration
7. US and EU update on developments in pediatric cardiology
8. Invited technical speaker: modelling and simulation in cardiology
9. Invited clinical speaker: modelling and simulation in cardiology
10. Panel discussion on future needs and directions in cardio-vascular modelling and ICT for health research
If you are interested in attending, please kindly RSVP to international@acc.org.
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Recent Events |
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Cardiovascular team members from around the globe converged in Chicago this March to network and discover the latest in science, innovation and education. The meeting featured many highlights from the global perspective, including the awarding of the International Service Award to Antonio P. Chagas, MD, FACC and the honoring of Antonio Colombo, MD, FACC as this year's Maseri-Florio International Lecturer. The conference also featured 18 collaborative international lunchtime symposia featuring international society and ACC leaders sharing their perspectives on a variety of topic areas. Did you attend the meeting? Download a certificate of attendence here. If you missed the meeting, or are looking to revisit content you might have missed while attending, experience over 400 hours of educational content with iScience. iScience is a comprehensive digital library of presentations from ACC.12 that allows you to view the presenters' slides while listening to fully synchronized audio--as if you were actually attending each session! |
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NCDR Welcomes New International Participant A new international participant has joined the CathPCI Registry. King Abdulaziz Medical City located in Riyadh Saudi Arabia joined the NCDR during the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress in Paris this September. |
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Ongoing Efforts |
ACC Works to Support Global Sim-e-Child Project  Sim-e-Child is a global partnership that is working to develop a grid-enabled platform for large scale simulations in pediatric cardiology, providing a collaborative environment for constructing and validating multi-scale and personalized models of a growing heart and vessels. The project is establishing an international cooperation environment by linking the EC funded Health-e-Child project with leading institutions such as the American College of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Technical University of Munich, and Siemens Corporate Research. Sim-e-Child is an extension of the Health-e-Child platform that: Interconnects the Health-e-Child database with new data from two US multicenter studies;
- Enhances and expands the Health-e-Child heart model with existing models of the aorta, aortic valve and mitral valve, and with computational fluid dynamics;
- Integrates the Health-e-Child Gateway and Case Reasoner with versatile tools for simulation workflow composition and sharing of scientific experiments (SciPort).
The objective of the Sim-e-Child is to strengthen the impact of the Health-e-Child project by creating an international simulation and validation environment for paediatric cardiology, supported by integrated data repositories. The project will advance the state-of-the-art by providing comprehensive and patient specific models for the dynamic and longitudinal interactions occurring in the left heart, with a focus on the congenital aortic arch disease and repair.
Find out more about Sim-e-Child here. |
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ACC Education Centers in ChinaAs part of a new educational initiative, 65 hospitals and medical teaching centers in China will be designated as ACC Education Centers. An editorial board consisting of members of the Chinese Society of Cardiology, the Chinese Medical Association and the Chinese College of Cardiovascular Physicians will select and translate portions of ACC self assessment programs that are most relevant to the practice of cardiology in China, and will produce a series of print teaching modules. The Chinese medical institutions participating in the ACC Education Centers program will use these ACC educational materials in continuing medical education programs in their community. These centers will bring information on the best practices in cardiovascular care to more than 10,000 physicians and will contribute to improving care for thousands upon thousands of patients in China. This program is supported by an educational grant from Bayer China. |
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The American College of Cardiology in representing its 5,300 International Members and 20 International Chapters has been continuously involved with the efforts after the UN Summit on Non-Communicable Diseases last September. The outcome of the Summit was a global Political Declaration that can be seen here.
As a result of this Political Declaration, there are several efforts that are ongoing with the World Health Organization that will ultimately shape the effectiveness of the Political Declaration and the future of the global fight against Non Communicable Diseases. The ACC is a proud partner of several organizations in this effort: - The ACC is a Partner of the NCD Alliance. This group of leading medical societies has worked to continuously advise the UN and WHO to ensure effective implementation of NCD efforts. Most recently, the ACC endorsed this important letter to the WHO.
- The ACC has also been working in association with the Inter American Society of Cardiology and Pan American Health Organization. Through these efforts the ACC is also proud to endorse the following Priorities for Global Health.
If you would like to support the ACC in its effort to stem the growing pandemic of Non Communicable Disease that is the number one cause of morbidity and mortality in both the developed and developing world, please contact international@acc.org .
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