Dear Colleagues,

We are going to hold our 25th National Cardiology Congress, with international lectures and abstracts, on October 22-25, 2009 at the Congress Center of Haliç, the only metropolis of the world established on two continents and the European Capital of Culture 2010. We are trying our best to make it an unforgettable event as the 25th of our Congress.

There were 3520 attendees in our 24th Congress last year and we expect this figure to reach upto 4000 this year. Our Congress has been accredited by EBAC since 2006.
This year we are going to hold the Congress on Friday-Saturday-Sunday in order not to interfere with your busy schedule.

In the “Symposia”, “Pro-Con Debates” and “How-to Sessions” we will update and discuss our recent knowledge on diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Besides these, we will improve our practice by the “Visual Interactive Courses” which attracted a great interest last year and thus we increased the number of them. For the sake of efficiency the attedance to the courses are limited with 40 participants, on the basis of “first come-first served” principle. Only the registered Congress attendees are invited to register online for these courses and the participants will be given separate certificates for the courses.
“Cardiology in Practice” sessions, focused on updated basics of cardiology clinical practice, that we initiated in the previous congress drew the intensive attention of our colleagues from oter specialization fields. Thus, we spared a separate line for these sessions and developed them to cover the whole clinical practice of cardiology.

A significant innovation in our Congress is the “OOO- Case Focused Sessions” where we aim to present the update cardiovascular knowledge and clinical practice in interactive discussion format.
There will be several celebrated international lecturers in the scientific program besides the Joint Sessions with the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), American College of Cardiology (ACC), Hellenic Cardiological Society and Polish Cardiac Society.

Our Congress will also give its traditional Best Oral and Poster Presentation Awards to the authors of the scientific abstracts submitted to the evaluation of the Congress reviewers.

Last year 11 percent of the total abstracts received were sent by the colleagues from different countries. The accepted abstracts will again be published in the Special Supplement of our official journal "TKD Arsivi / Archives of the TSC" that is fully indexed in PubMed-Index Medicus-MEDLINE, EMBASE and IndexCopernicus.

We would like to invite you to participate in our 25th Congress that we meticulously organize both in scientific and social programs and wish to meet you in İstanbul, the sole metropolis of two continents fort he last 27 centuries and the European Capital of Culture 2010.

Best regards.
 

European Board for Accreditation in Cardiology The 25th National Congress of Cardiology is accredited by the European Board for Accreditation in Cardiology (EBAC) for 11 hours of External CME credits. Each participant should claim only those hours of credit that have actually been spent in the educational activity. EBAC Works in cooperation with the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME), which is an institution of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS).