Dear Members of the Working Group on Coronary Pathophysiology and Microcirculation,
In this first Newsletter of the year 2020, we would first like to wish you a great 2020! Futhermore, we want to give you a brief update on the recent and upcoming activities of our working group.
Starting the year, an expert position paper of our group on “coronary microvascular dysfunction in cardiovascular disease” has been accepted for publication in Cardiovascular Research. We also want to inform you that our previous paper “Depression and Coronary Heart Disease” has recently been accepted as position paper of our WG, and as such will be published soon in European Heart Journal in 2020.
During the Frontiers in CardioVascular Biomedicine Meeting, to be held in Budapest between the 23rd and 26th April 2020, our Working Group will actively contribute with a specific symposium on “Microcirculation and Cardiovascular Risk”. The Symposium will focus on basic and translational state-of-art aspects in the interplay between microvascular and cardiovascular disease. Do not forget to register before 10th of February – to take advantage of the early registration fee - and meet your Nucleus members in Budapest!
To generate session proposals of high scientific content for basic and translational science to be submitted to the annual ESC Congress, the Council on Basic Cardiovascular Science (CBCS) opens a "Pre-Scope" process every year. As a working group, we would like to include a variety of working group members as speakers in the session proposals to the CBCS in this Pre-Scope process. For this reason, we ask all of you to send us before the 31st March a brief biosketch, on a single page, with 5 key publications in the past 5 years, and any further ideas you would like to share with us. Please send this to our secretary, Teresa Padro.
As you know, 2020 is year of elections and four of our regular nucleus members finish their serving period and need to be replaced. Therefore, we highly encourage those working group members, who are eligible according the ESC Working Groups Governance Procedures and are interested in actively contributing to the WG activities, to consider submitting their candidacy for the period 2020-2022.
Best wishes,
Prof. Dirk J. Duncker, Chairperson
Dr. Teresa Padro, Secretary
Our mission: To reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease.