- I'm Mark Creager, President of
The American Heart Association.
Joining me today is Frank Sellke
and Eric Peterson, the
chair and co-chair of
our Scientific Sessions Program committee.
And today, we'd like to
give you a preview of
Scientific Sessions 2015
which will be taking place in Orlando.
Frank, this is going to
be an exciting meeting.
Tell us some of the highlights.
- Mark, I think this is going to be
one of the best meetings ever.
We've redesigned the program
to have three different tracks:
Basic Science, Clinical
Science and Population Science
and within these categories
have numerous groups.
It's very well-organized
and I think it's going to be
a very novel approach to the meeting.
We have an outstanding series
of plenary and scientific
lectures highlighted by (mumbles)
the lecture given by Dr. Keith Fox
and of course, the Presidential Address
given by Dr. Mark Creager, dealing with
peripheral vascular disease.
We have 24 joint sessions with
international organizations
which again, will be one of
the highlights of the meeting.
The meeting has something for everybody:
cardiovascular surgery,
interventional cardiology,
nursing, epidemiology.
So again, I think there's
something for everyone.
- That sounds terrific.
Eric, there's going to be a lot
of interesting trials presented.
- I'm amazingly excited.
We have more presentations
for late-breaking
clinical trials than ever before.
We think they're going to be an exciting
range of topics covered during those.
In addition, we have
updates from prior trials,
we have even late findings,
and most exciting findings
from clinical registries.
In addition to that, we
have Frontiers of Science,
a new, exciting program
that will give highlighted,
captured, very short
lectures on given topics
covering both peripheral
vascular disease as well as E.P.
and then finally, even for
the idea of how to translate
the science into practice,
we have the cutting-edge
of where e-technology as
well as mobile technology
is going to affect your clinical care.
It's gonna be exciting.
- And as Frank mentioned,
my Presidential Address
is going to focus on vascular diseases.
Vascular diseases are
so prevalent in society
and they really contribute
an important burden
in terms of morbidity and mortality.
So, I'm going to discuss
not only the epidemiology
of vascular diseases, but really
what steps we need to take
to reduce that burden.
What steps in terms of science.
What steps in terms of patient
and physician awareness.
And what quality initiatives
are important, so that we can
tackle this very important component
of cardiovascular diseases.
Indeed, there's going to be
something for everyone there.
- We have simulation programs
for artificial hearts,
we have, as Eric mentioned,
the Frontiers in Science series
delving into atrial
fibrillation treatment.
We have some of the best
clinical trials ever presented
dealing with systolic and
diastolic heart failure,
interventional cardiology,
various therapies for surgery,
efforts to reduce renal failure
during cardiopulmonary bypass.
So again, it's going to
be an outstanding program
and something for everyone.
In addition, we're going to have the usual
outstanding basic science.
I don't think anybody
would deny the fact that
The American Heart Association
has the best basic science
of any cardiovascular
meeting in the world, and
this is gonna continue.
- Well Eric we have
things divided into tracks
that will really appeal to
the particular interests
of the attendees.
- Yeah, we've tried to focus this so that
no matter what you are:
a basic science researcher,
a clinician interested in E.P.,
an outcomes researcher,
you'll be able to find a place
to get most of your meetings
all in one area, but in addition,
if you want to cross over to see something
outside of your normal daily life,
those opportunities will also exist.
But at least it will be organized
in a fashion that allows
a lot of science to be
delivered in a sort of
ordered and simple fashion.
- In addition, we've tried
to increase the potential
for networking, many more poster sessions,
moderated poster sessions.
This has been very well-received so we've
decided to continue that.
Outstanding basic and clinical lectures by
internationally reknowned experts
so I look forward to a
really outstanding meeting.
Certainly, your Presidential
Address will again be one of
the high points of the meeting.
- Thank you, Frank.
Well this will be an exciting
and outstanding meeting.
We invite all of you to
attend this year in Orlando,
November 7th to November 11th.
American Heart Association
Scientific Sessions.
