1. Virtual Symposia

As part of ISHNE educational activities, and on behalf of the Educational Committee, Dr. Sergio Dubner is organizing different web-based symposiums, like last year´s ARVD and AF´s symposium.

This year, we are proud to present to you two new activities:

A. ISHNE Heart Failure World-Wide Internet Symposium

Heart Failure World-Wide Internet Symposium took place in April 2006 under leadership of Dr. Arthur J. Moss as Honorary President, Dr. Sergio Dubner as Chair of Scientific Committee, and Dr. Edgardo Schapachnik as President of Steering Committee with very active role of Dr. Andrés Ricardo Pérez Riera and Dr. Li Zhang.
On behalf of ISHNE, I would like to thank organizers and faculty of the meeting for their outstanding work on preparing and conducting this very successful virtual symposium. This symposium exceeded even further our expectances showing that ISHNE educational active has a major impact. We had 11,000 participants of this virtual symposium from all over the world. In particular, we are grateful to Dr. Li Zhang who helped organizing translating the content of the symposium into Chinese and Dr. Leonid Makarov who led the initiative of translation in Russian. These two languages brought us in contact with about 1000 additional participants in each of these countries. Currently our symposium is being conducted in five languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, and Russian.
We are grateful to St. Jude Medical for unrestricted educational grant supporting this meeting and for efforts of St. Jude Medical in popularizing this meeting. Special thanks go to Mr. Bruce Meredith for his continues help and support in successfully accomplishing all steps of the meeting.
It is important to emphasize that for colleagues who missed the symposium in April, there is still an opportunity to listen to talks and view slides as well as download lectures since these materials will be kept on symposium website (http://www.hf-symposium.org/home.php) for one full year. There is an opportunity to earn Continues Medical Education (CME) credits via the system on the website.

B. ISHNE World-Wide Internet Symposium on Sudden Cardiac Death

On October 1, 2006, we will start ISHNE virtual symposium on Sudden Cardiac Death, with Dr. Douglas Zipes as Honorary President. We invite you to join us for this world-wide event with outstanding faculty. Details will be posted on the www.ishne.org.

2. ISHNE Educational Fellowship at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit

In March 2006, Dr. Claudio Schuger, Chief of Electrophysiology at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit hosted for 2 weeks to cardiology fellows as part of ISHNE educational fellowship supported by Guidant Corporation. Dr. Ilknur Can from Ankara, Turkey, and Dr. Marcin Rosiak, from Lodz, Poland, were this year recipients of these year fellowship. We encourage young colleagues interested in experiencing state-of-the-art invasive electrophysiology to provide us with applications consisting of CV and accompanying recommendation letter(s) by October 1, 2007.

12th ISHNE Congress – Athens - June 7-9, 2007

Please mark your calendars for the next congress of ISHNE which will be organized in beautiful city of Athens, the cradle of civilization, which was so nicely remodeled over last few years in preparations for 2004 Olympic Games. Preparations for the meeting are under way and we would like to inform you that deadline for abstracts is on January 31, 2007.

ISHNE Educational Sessions

During upcoming few months, the following ISHNE educational sessions are planned:

Respectfully,

Wojciech Zareba, MD, PhD
President of ISHNE