Birth of the ESC
In 1949, a founding meeting was organised in Brussels with representatives from 14 National Societies: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and Yugoslavia.
These representatives drew up provisional statutes and appointed a Board. The first General Assembly, where the statutes were adopted, was held during the World Congress of Cardiology in Paris in 1950.
Thereafter the first European Congress of Cardiology convened in London in 1952.
This short look into the past is actually about the near future: this new feature aims at highlighting each of the 50 National Societies’ current activities and upcoming events to bring you up to date with their range of actions and involvements and to explain their interactions with the ESC.
First then Founding Fathers, all other National Societies coming next
In this first article we start out with the 14 Founding Fathers, introducing the Cardiology Society of Serbia, formally known as the Yugoslav Society of Cardiology
Introducing the Cardiology Society of Serbia
The Cardiology Society of Serbia (CSS) is a successor of the Cardiology Society of Serbia and Montenegro (known as the Yugoslav Society of Cardiology, when founded in 1955).
An official member of the ESC since 1959, CSS has 795 members and 51 Fellows of the ESC.
The members of the CSS are active in contributing to clinical trials, scientific articles, books, guidelines.
Several training courses and workshops have been organised, often in collaboration with the ESC.
The 16th national congress of the CSS will take place in Belgrade on 14-17 October 2007, with about 15 international colleagues in the faculty.
The greatest value of the CSS is the society's national members, but also the relation to its international friends, such as the connection established at the time of the birth of the ESC in the early fifties, which coincides with the time when Yugoslavia became represented.
For more details on the CSS, visit the society's English language web pages here: http://www.uksrb.org/english/index.html