ISMICS Fall 2013 Newsletter

Fall 2013 Edition

Program Committee

Cardiac Chairs,
2014 Annual Meeting
Co-Chair:


Vinod H. Thourani, MD

Co-Chair:

Thomas Walther, MD

Ex-Officio:
Ralph J. Damiano, Jr., MD

Visit the ISMICS Booth #145 during the EACTS Annual Meeting
6 - 8 October 2013
Austria Centre Vienna
We look forward to seeing you there!

2nd Einstein International Symposium for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
ISMICS is delighted to cosponsor the 3rd Einstein International Symposium for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery to be held at Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Moise Safra Auditorium, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
9-11 October, 2014
www.einstein.br/eventos

ISMICS 2014 Annual Meeting 28-31 May 2014 Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA, USA
ISMICS 2014 Annual Meeting
28-31 May 2014
Marriott Copley Place
Boston, MA, USA

ISMICS Office
500 Cummings Center
Suite 4550
Beverly, MA 01915
Tel: 978.927.8330
Fax: 978.524.8890
www.ismics.org

President's Message
Dr. Francis D. Ferdinand, MD
Dear Colleague,

I am pleased to serve as the President of the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery (ISMICS) for the 2013-2014 year and proud to follow so many innovative leaders in the minimally invasive surgery field. I appreciate the support of the ISMICS membership and look forward to a successful year.

We were proud to host this year’s annual meeting in Prague, Czech Republic, which was the 16th Anniversary of the Society. The 2013 Annual Meeting had the second highest professional registration in ISMICS history with a total of 572 attendees. The Society now has 803 members representing almost every region of the world and we are continuing to grow. I would like to thank Dr. Alan Menkis for his successful term as president which culminated in an excellent annual meeting.


ECHI-ISMICS Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery Summit 2013
ECHI-ISMICS Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery Summit 2013 October 3-4, 2013 Carolina Heart Institute (ECHI)Greenville, North Carolina
October 3-4, 2013
East Carolina Heart Institute (ECHI)
Greenville, North Carolina



2013 Winter Workshop


9 November 2013
The-K Seoul Hotel
70, Baumoe-ro 12-gil, Seocho-gu
Seoul, Korea
Tel : 82-2-571-8100
thek-hotel.co.kr/e_seoul/main.asp
In conjunction with the Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
http://www.ktcvs.or.kr/abstract/2013_fall_eng/green/info.html


Innovations
Current Issue
Innovations: Technology and Techniques in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery was accepted for MEDLINE indexing by the National Library of Medicine. Innovations is the first journal whose main mission is to disseminate information specifically about advances in technology and techniques that lead to less invasive treatment of cardiothoracic and vascular disease.

Visit innovjournal.com to view the current issue.


2013 Annual Meeting Exhibitors

ISMICS thanks its industry partners who supported the 2013 Annual Scientific Meeting in Prague.

Atricure, Inc.
B. Braun Aesculap
Bard Davol
Bioventrix
Cormatrix Cardiovascular, Inc.
Dentrite Clinical Systems, Ltd.
EACTS
Edwards Lifesciences
Estech
Fehling Instruments GMBH & Co. KG
Geister Medizintechnik
Genesee Biomedical, Inc.
Intiutive Surgical, Inc.

 

Jenavalve
Karl Storz GMBH & Co. KG
KLS Martin Group
LSI Solutions
Maquet Medical Systems, USA
Medistim
Medtronic, Inc.
Scanlan International, Inc.
Smartcanula LLC
Sorin Group
St. Jude Medical
Wexler Surgical



Research and Education Fund

The ISMICS Board of Directors is pleased to thank the contributors to the Research and Education Fund which is focused on fully funding our award programs. The Board encourages members of ISMICS to join their colleagues in supporting this worthwhile endeavor.

Niv Ad, MD
Ralph J. Damiano, Jr., MD
Todd L. Demmy, MD
Anno Diegeler, MD, PhD
Robert W. Emery, MD
Francis D. Ferdinand, MD
James D. Fonger, MD

 

John L. Knight, MD
Xu Meng, MD
Yugal K. Mishra, MD, PhD
John D. Puskas, MD
Rex DeLisle Stanbridge, MD, FRCS
Valavanur A. Subramanian, MD
Randall K. Wolf, MD



ISMICS is pleased to welcome its new members.

Krishna Adluri, MBBS, MS
Cem Alhan, M.D.
Rony Atoui, MD
Ashok Bandyopadhyay
Faroukh Baniasedi, M.D.
Nikolaos Barbetakis
Artur Bartoszcze, M.D., Ph.
John Bell-Thomson, M.D.
Haris Bilal, M.D.
Marc Buijsrogge, MD, PhD
Daniel Burns, M.D.
Leonardo Canale, MD
Fabrizio Ceresa, MD
Ayse Cetinkaya
Suchart Chaiyaroj, M.D.
Ricardo Choma, M.D.
Aman Coonar, MD, FRCS
Pero Curcic, MD
Nimesh Desai, M.D.
Neyyir Eren
Andrea Ferreira, M.D.
Arul Furtado, MCh, DNB
Hardy Gonzales Sanchez M.D.
Denis Gularia
Michael Halkos, MD, MSc
David Heimansohn, MD
Tetsuya Hirano, M.D.
Kazuhiro Hisamoto, M.D.
Lalit Joshi, MS,M.Ch
Suresh Keshavamurthy, M.D.
Dohun, Kim
Pavel Kononets, MD, PhD
Akshay Kumar, McH
Richard Lazzaro, MD
Jay Lee, M.D.
Bruno Marques
J. Paul Mounsey
Daniel Munguia-Canales, M.D.

 

Marco Antonio Oliveira
Mohamed Seidig Omer, MBBS
Mark Onaitis, M.D.
Thaseegaran Pillay, MBChB
Vadim Pischik, MD, PhD
Andre Plass
Konstadinos Plestis, M.D.
Pablo Pomerantzeff
Nagendra Prakash, M.D.
Eduard Quintana, MD
Ehud Raanani
Prem Rabindranauth, M.D.
Kawryshanker Rajaratnam, MS, MRCS
Durgaprasad Reddy, M.D.
Jose Rodriguez, M.D.
Matthew Romano, MD
Sameh Said, M.D.
Sacha Salzberg
Niravkumar Sangani, M.D.
Mahmood Reza Sarzaeem
Carlo Savini, M.D.
Ralph Schmid, M.D.
Joseph Schmoker, M.D.
Sahin Senay, M.D.
Hani Shennib
Mahesh Singh, M.D.
Hardip Singh
Radoslaw Smoczynski, M.D.
Vivek Srivastava, MBBS, MCh,
Christos Stavropoulos, M.D.
Leonid Sternik
Jang wen Su, MD
Sookwhan Sung, M.D.
David Swanson, Ph.D.
Guillermo Vaccarino, M.D.
Lai Wei, M.D.
Anna Witkowska, M.D.
Berhane Worku