DIRECTOR'S LETTER

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Dear Colleague,

 

Welcome to the Pediatric Interventional Cardiac Symposium - PICS 2010 & Adult Interventional Cardiac Symposium - AICS 2010 to be held in the beautiful Sheraton hotel, downtown the beautiful city of Chicago. PICS/AICS is back to Chicago after five years being on the road!

This meeting will be featuring live case demonstrations from multiple international venues with experienced operators that will demonstrate the latest in medical device technology using approved and investigational devices/valves/stents etc. it is promised to be the most comprehensive symposium worldwide in the burgeoning field of interventional therapies for congenital and structural heart disease in children and adults. This symposium will give the attendees a unique opportunity to interact with a distinguished faculty during didactic lectures, interactive discussions, workshops, live case demonstrations and smaller breakout sessions.

 

Special sessions this year will provide an in-depth focus on septal defect closure (PFO, ASD, VSD and PDA) using all available devices (approved and investigational), embolization therapies, coarctation stenting, aortic & mitral valve disease and their management in both children and adults, RVOT and pulmonic valve disease (featuring the new percutaneous valve implants with live cases of both the Melody and Edwards valves), hybrid intervention for hypoplastic left heart syndrome and muscular VSDs, stent/balloon angioplasty of branch pulmonary arteries and "how to session" and much more. Special session on left atrial appendage, percutaneous aortic and mitral valve therapies will be given by the experts in these fields.

Once again we will be having Hot Debates featuring a cardiologist and a cardiac surgeon debating forms of management and outcome, and the popular session "My Nightmare Case in the Cath Lab". There will be daily breakout sessions for all professionals who work in Pediatric and Adult Cardiology, the catheterization lab and operating room.

 

This year, we will have oral abstract sessions on Sunday afternoon where the best 30 abstracts will be chosen for presentations. The remaining abstracts will be presented as poster during the meeting. For more details and abstract submission, please visit PICS website at: www.picsymposium.com

 

The deadline for abstract submission is March 15th, 2010

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Chicago has much to offer for families during the summer, so we hope you will join us with your family.

 

Sincerely,

Course Directors
Ziyad M. Hijazi, MD
William E. Hellenbrand, MD
Carlos Pedra, MD
John P. Cheatham, MD