SIS offers a comprehensive course to physicians and healthcare professionals who specialize in cardiology, neurology, and vascular medicine. Our goal is to provide the latest, most pertinent data, technologies and techniques to help you improve patient outcomes by:

• Live case demonstrations with a focus on coronary, as well as vascular and emerging technologies
• State-of-the-art presentations
• Case-oriented discussions on complex clinical decision-making

Provocative Afternoon Roundtables
Thursday, August 2nd and Friday, August 3rd
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Intellectually challenging, aggressively moderated, participatory roundtable sessions where a small group of experts will explore and debate controversial issues in:

• Complex coronary interventions
• Peripheral vascular medicine
• Neurovascular disease
• Emerging technologies

Emerging Theories, Therapies and Technologies
Wednesday, August 1st and Thursday, August 2nd
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This year, the successful Emerging Technologies program will be integrated into the SIS course to maximize the opportunity for all attendees to benefit from one of the best scientific programs available.

Wednesday’s program will feature a keynote address by Leroy Hood, MD, PhD, the world renowned, award-winning scientist who helped pioneer the DNA gene sequencer. Dr. Hood will speak on “Systems Biology: Emergence of Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Medicine.”

Scientists, engineers, and physicians will discuss emerging innovative technologies in:

• Convergent therapeutics for vascular disease
• Angiogenesis and cell-based therapies

Integrated into Thursday’s Main Session program are afternoon roundtables where provocative moderators will challenge expert panels for stimulating group discussions in:

• Percutaneous valve intervention
• Noninvasive cardiovascular imaging

Noninvasive Imaging Symposium
Wednesday, August 1st
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Considering the continuous demand for education on CT angiography and MRI and the success of the SIS 2006 Noninvasive Imaging Symposium, we have expanded this symposium to a full-day course, directed by Dr. Vinay Malhotra. The Noninvasive Imaging Symposium will feature:

• The applications of CT Angiography, Nuclear Cardiology, and Cardiac MR
• National and international experts, including Stephan Achenbach, MD, Professor of Medicine at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, and current founding President of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
• Step-by-step case demonstrations which can be used towards ACC level 2 certification in Cardiac Computed Tomography Study Performance and Interpretation

Cardiovascular Nurse and Technologist Symposium
Wednesday, August 1st
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Focusing on the latest in evidence-based care of patients with cardiac and endovascular disease, this symposium is designed for nurses and cath lab technologists who care for these patients in the cath lab, ICU, CCU, telemetry and other associated areas.

Neurotherapeutics Symposium
Friday, August 3rd
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This symposium is for neurologists, neurosurgeons, cardiologists, internists, hospitalists, nurses and other healthcare providers. It focuses on diagnostic and minimally invasive modalities for stroke prevention, treatment and the interface between neurology and cardiology.

Faculty One-on-One Session
Friday, August 3rd
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Hands-on, in-depth technology discussions with faculty members addressing opportunities and limitations of diagnostic and therapeutic modalities:

• Invasive and noninvasive imaging
• Cardiac and vascular intervention simulation
• CTO tools
• Transcranial Doppler
• Percutaneous devices for valvular diseases

Fellows Course
Friday August 3rd and Saturday, August 4th
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This 1.5 day, invitation-only symposium for fellows in cardiac and vascular medicine provides a foundation in percutaneous intervention using a case-based and hands-on format. The successful Simulation and Hands-on Innovative Technologies Workshop will again be a key component of this year’s Fellows Course. Fellows will have the opportunity to familiarize themselves with state-of-the-art therapeutic technologies and interventions while putting into practice the approaches and techniques discussed throughout the course.

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