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NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 2008
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Dear Members,

I would like to update you with the latest Working Group news.
Before informing you about current WG activities I would like draw your attention to the following events:

18th International Symposium on Adult Congenital Heart Disease,
June 4-7, 2008 in Toronto

Erwin Oechslin, Chair of the Course Directors cordially invites everybody to submit Abstracts for the 18th International Symposium on Adult Congenital Heart Disease,
taking place June 4-7, 2008 in Toronto.
Abstracts will be considered for all aspects of care for adults with
congenital heart disease (ACHD), including cardiac issues in the inpatient
and outpatient areas, ACHD nursing, surgical, anesthesia and perfusion
research, interventional procedures, and diagnostic testing. The Faculty
Members will select the accepted abstracts and notify the submitting
author of acceptance by March 25, 2008.
Deadline: March 3, 2008 (6:00am EST)
The top three abstracts will be presented as oral presentations on June 5
(Winner #3 and #2) and on June 6, 2008 (Winner #1). Winner #1 will get the
Investigator Award and free access to the 19th International Symposium at
Skamania Lodge, Stevenson, WA (USA) in 2010.
REGISTRATION opens on February 15, 2008
Information available at http://www.uhn.ca/ACHDConference2008.asp

Dr. Joe Perloff honored by the American College of Cardiology

Dr. Joe Perloff is being honored by the American College of Cardiology as the first recipient of the ACC Lifetime Achievement Award. The awards ceremony will be held on Monday, March 31, 2008 at 6:30 p.m. in the Skyline Ballrooms A and B, West Building of the McCormack Place Convention Center in Chicago.
Please attend if you can to honor the enormous contributions of our remarkable colleague.

For those who attend the ACC meeting in Chicago: There will again be a meeting of the International Society of Adult Congenital Cardiac Disease. For more information visit their homepage (www.isaccd.org) or contact info@isaccd.org.

Let me again draw your attention to this very important surveys.
We hope you will be able to participate.

• Euro Heart Survey – Pregnancy in patients with structural heart disease
  
  
• European Registry for ICD and CRT Devices in Pediatrics and Adults with Congenital Heart Disease = EURIPIDES REGISTRY
  
  
  

CSI 2008 - Congenital and Structural Interventions

“A unique learning experience in congenital and structural heart interventions”
CSI 2008 will take place next 25-28 June 2008 in the Congress Centre of Frankfurt (DE).
The scientific program of CSI 2008 is endorsed by the ESC Working Group on Grown-up congenital disease.
We recommend you to attend this event.

ESC 2008 and EUROECHO 2008

GUCH will again be well represented at this year´s ESC and EuroEcho meetings. We put a lot of effort in proposing interesting sessions dealing with adult congenital heart disease and a good number has been accepted. We hope to see you at these meetings.

WG Elections

We need to elect 2 new members of the nucleus this year.
The process will start shortly and you will be contacted for that soon.

MRI recommendations

Recommendations for the use of MRI in adult congenital heart disease are presently prepared by a writing committee established by our WG together with the MRI WG.
I hope that the paper will be ready later this year.

Revision of ESC practice guidelines on grown-up congenital heart disease

The ESC Guidelines Committee has decided to start the revision of the practice guidelines on GUCH. The task force is presently formed and should start to work on this paper soon. Publication of the guidelines and derivative products is planned for 2010.

Accreditation subspecialty GUCH

Accreditation exists already in Germany and is close to being established in the Netherlands. We need to discuss accreditation on a European level now. Could you please let us know whether accreditation for subspecialty GUCH exists in your country or is in preparation.
We currently try to collect everything that already exists as a basis for further discussion.

Best regards
Helmut Baumgartner, Chairman, ESC WG GUCH
 

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