Council on Cardiovascular Imaging

 The Council on Cardiovascular Imaging aims to promote excellence in Cardiovascular Imaging through the collaboration of individual modalities, supporting clinical practice and facilitating patients’ pathways from diagnosis to treatment.

Chairman Prof F. Rademakers (FESC)

The Council was approved by the General Assembly meeting at the ESC annual congress in Vienna 2007 and is constituted by the European Association of Echocardiography, the Working Group on Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, the Working Group on Nuclear Cardiology and CT, the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions and the Working Group on Computers in Cardiology, of the ESC. The Council will invite other professional groups concerned with cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy through imaging, both within and outside the ESC, to participate in its activities and to become members of the Council. The Council does not replace or supplant the participating organisations but provides an organised forum for integrated activities and tasks.

The major means towards this goal is for the council to act as a catalyst between all physicians, scientists and technicians involved in cardiovascular imaging in Europe in order to:

• formulate joint statements and advise the ESC and European health authorities
• organise activities to promote cardiovascular imaging at the European level both within and outside the Society, working mainly through existing channels, strengthening the concept of a staged multi – modality approach
• promote quality control in the teaching and performance of CVI
• promote research leading to a more evidence based use of the different cardiovascular imaging modalities in diagnosis and treatment
• promote teaching from a multi – modality perspective
• promote multi – modality imaging as an integral part of clinical guidelines
• interact with working groups on imaging of National Societies

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