The ESC participated at the 10th Swedish Cardiovascular Spring Meeting from 23-25 April in Malmö, for the first time on a joint stand together with the Swedish Society of Cardiology (SSC) at the heart of the exhibition area.
The yearly spring meeting in Sweden is an increasingly successful joint effort of several specialty areas and thus addresses a large spectrum of the cardiovascular area. With numbers of more than 1,250 participants, various professions and disciplines were represented - detailed below.
The joint ESC and SSC stand provided a natural meeting point for the Swedish members and other delegates, and the interest in ESC activities and membership was especially high with members from the cardio primary care society, mainly nurses.
Professor Lars Wallentin, FESC, from Uppsala, a previous president of the Swedish Society of Cardiology (98-99) and one of the initiators of the Spring meeting and the Swedish Heart Organisation 10 years ago, gave the Werkö lecture during the opening.
Several lectures, mainly by Swedish but also some international speakers, presented new research results, methods and guidelines. A moderated poster session, abstract sessions, a hotline session and satellite symposia as well as various meetings organised by specialty and working groups took place in the 5 lecture rooms.
The meeting included the annual meeting of the Swedish Society of Cardiology which saw an almost entire re-election of its Board. The reelected/ president, Professor Per Tornvall, FESC, looks ahead to a new term in office involving close collaboration with the ESC: “My big aims for the presidency are to create an office, to work further with the European Heart Health Charter and engage in European training programmes for cardiologists, including showing our engagement in inspection of clinics, training cardiologists.. Something that have been going on for more than 10 years now”
The Swedish Cardiovascular Spring Meeting, organised by the Swedish Heart Organisation, is the largest CVD meeting in Sweden that aims to increase the collaboration of the various cardio specialties and excel in the areas of research, education and the quality in care of CVD patients.
The Swedish Heart Organisation encompasses five Swedish specialty societies which are the Society of Cardiology, the Society of Clinical Physiology, the Society of Thoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, the Society of Thoracic Radiology and the Society of Cardiac Surgery.
Further co-organisers are the Swedish societies of Paediatric Cardiology – Diabetes – Hypertension, Stroke and Vascular Medicine – Medical Angiology –Primary Cardiovascular Care.
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