Dear Members,
We hope this year’s spring newsletter finds you all well and healthy!
Being a member of the Working Group on Coronary Pathophysiology and Microcirculation gives a sense of belonging, networking opportunities and flash inspirations. It is rewarding and fun! Being a Chairperson-Elect is an honor and responsibility, and that honor is given to Edina Cenko from Italy, Chairperson-Elect for the period 2022-2024. We congratulate her with a wish for a successful and fruitful work.
Let us remind you again to renew your free membership, if for any reason you haven’t done it yet. It’s as easy as ever – just sign into your MyESC account, go to My Membership and select ‘Manage’. You don’t have to miss out.
At the beginning of the spring 2022, we would like to draw your attention on the upcoming meetings, abstract submission deadlines and awards:
- Frontiers in CardioVascular Biomedicine 2022 will be held from Friday, 29 April - Sunday, 01 May in Budapest, Hungary. This year again it will be a hybride meeting « on-line/on-site ». We expect you on the session on Coronary microvascular dysfunction in cardiovascular disease, a Joint session with the ESC Working Group on Coronary Pathophysiology and Microcirculation, to be held on Apryl 30th, from 8:30 till 9:30 in Lecture Room 3. The session will be charred by Teresa Padro and Etto Eringa.
- ESC Congress 2022 Barcelona, Onsite & Online, will run from Friday 26 – Monday 29 August. You still have time to submit your Late-breaking science (from 4 April - 6 June).
- This year two young members of our working group received the Mobility Travel Grant. We congratulate Umberto Barbero (IT) and Alexandr Ceasovschih (RO) for winning the award, and to all applying candidates.
Finally in this issue of the Newsletter, Prof. Ana Djordjevic Dikic, Head of the Department for noninvasive functional diagnostics, Cardiology Clinic, Clinical Center of Serbia, Medical school, University of Belgrade comments on the paper “Absolute Coronary Blood Flow Measured by Continuous Thermodilution in Patients With Ischemia and Nonobstructive Disease”. This article provides novel insights on the novel methods for invasive coronary flow measurement. Read the full comment.
We look forward to reaching you through our future activities!
On behalf of the Working Group nucleus,
Dimitris Tousoulis, Chairperson 2020-2022 and Marija Vavlukis Communication Coordinator 2020-2022
Our mission: To reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease.