To reduce the burden of

cardiovascular disease in Europe

Scientific Activities Opportunities for Alliance

• Educational Training Programmes• Educational Webinars• Clinical Practice Guidelines• Guidelines Implementation Meetings• Guidelines Products• ESC Scientific Congresses• Global Scientific Activities

ESC Scientific ActivitiesEducational Training Programmes

• High quality medical educational programmes at the European Heart House

• Programmes based on topics from ESC Core Curriculum, CME accredited

• Aim: high standard and uniformity in training for all European Cardiologists

• Encourage Continuing Medical Education

• 8 – 10 courses per year • 50 – 200 delegates per course

ESC Scientific ActivitiesEducational Training Programmes

2011 Programme

TITLE DATE

Coronary Physiology in the Catheterisation Laboratory

7-9 April

Basic Science Summer School 12-16 June

Cardiac Nuclear & CT imaging in Clinical practice 22-24 September

Delivering patient care in heart failure: an update 29 Sept-1 Oct

Pulmonary Hypertension 14-15 October

ESC Scientific ActivitiesEducational Webinars

Training Courses conducted byKOL’s with clinical case discussions

Regular on-line courses, from September to June, covering all core curriculum, providing a powerful and interactive format for delivering training courses by ESC Faculty to a wide audience favouring clinical case discussion

Programme currently being defined

ESC Scientific ActivitiesOpportunity for Alliance

Unrestricted educational grants for course/s

Sponsorship of educational tools from course/s (DVD’s, course kits)

Euro Heart Journal Supplements

ESC Scientific ActivitiesClinical Practice Guidelines

• Evidence-based recommendations developed by Task Forces of leading European experts

• Help physicians weigh benefits & risks of particular diagnostic & therapeutic procedures

• Formats include: full texts, executive summaries, pocket guidelines, slide-sets, books and PDA versions

ESC Scientific ActivitiesClinical Practice Guidelines - Provisional Programme

2011 Pregnancy Peripheral Artery Disease Dyslipidemia Non ST elevation Myocardial Infarction

2012 Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Valvular Heart Disease Heart Failure Acute Myocardial Infarction with ST elevation Diabetes and cardiovascular diseases

ESC Scientific ActivitiesGuidelines Implementation Meetings

Objective: Launch New Guidelinesand ensure their dissemination

Meeting of one day at European Heart House 100 key participants, 2 pax per ESC National Society, coordinators & topic experts Dissemination assured via teach the teacher approach & educational toolkit Meetings planned within one year following publication of Guidelines

ESC Scientific Activities

ESC Guidelines Reprints

Pocket Guidelines

ESC Compendium

Guidelines Educational Toolkit

Guidelines Products

Example of a Guidelines Educational Toolkit

ESC Scientific ActivitiesOpportunity for Alliance

Support via unrestricted educational grant the Guidelines Implementation Meetings

Sponsorship of educational tools (Webinars, Pocket Guidelines, Compendium, Toolkits)

Euro Heart Journal Reprints & Supplements

NB: To maintain scientific independence, sponsors have no influenceon the content of the Practice Guidelines

ESC Constituent BodiesAssociations

• Registered branches of the European Society of Cardiology for 5 sub-specialities

• Promoting the development of a defined area of expertise in cardiovascular medicine and/or research

ESC Constituent Bodies

WebinarsLive BoxesJournalCertification & Accreditation

Guidelines ImplementationWorkshopsJournalCourses

AIM-HIGHWebinarsGuidelines ImplementationWorkshopsJournal

Trials & RegistriesJournalWebinarsWebcastsCourses

ESC Constituent BodiesESC Working Groups 19 ESC Working Groups for 19 sub-

specialities Provide scientific expertise in a specific

field

Research and exchange of information

Membership is open to specialists

 Acute Cardiac Care  Cardiac Cellular Electrophysiology

Cardiovascular Magnetic

Resonance 

 Cardiovascular Pharmacology and

Drug Therapy Cardiovascular

Surgery

 Cellular Biology of the Heart

 Computers in Cardiology

 Coronary Pathophysiology

and Microcirculation

 Developmental Anatomy and

Pathology Grown-up Congenital

Heart Disease

 Hypertension and the Heart

 Myocardial Function

 Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases

 Nuclear Cardiology

 Pathogenesis of Atherosclerosis

 Peripheral Circulation

 Pulmonary Circulation &

Right Ventricular Function

 Thrombosis  Valvular Heart Disease  

ESC Scientific ActivitiesLeading Scientific Congresses

ESC Scientific ActivitiesInternational ESC educational courses built around a global network of

international partnerships

Objectives: • Meet non-European demand for ESC science and knowledge• Build closer relationships with international organisations • Extend the ESC mission beyond European borders

ESC Scientific Activities

21 February 2011: ESC at the Saudi Heart Association

4-5 May 2011: ESC at the 18th Asian Pacific Society Congress of Cardiology

18 September 2011: ESC at the Brazilian Society of Cardiology Congress

3 October 2011: ESC at the Argentine Congress of Cardiology

15-16 October 2011: ESC at the Great Wall International Congress of Cardiology, China

20 November 2011: ESC at the Mexican Society of Cardiology Congress

December 2011: ESC at the 63rd Annual Conference of the Cardiological Society of India

Programme 2011

ESC Scientific ActivitiesOpportunity for Alliance

Become global sponsor for all meetings Satellite Symposium at all meetings Sponsor acknowledgement in promotional media for Global

Scientific Activities

Sponsor one individual meeting Satellite Symposium at sponsored meeting Sponsor acknowledgement in media for meeting

Further Information

Your ESC contact: Ms Aoife Delmas: Head of Industry Servicesadelmas@escardio.org