Closing Speech

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

On behalf of ISHNE and ISCP, as well as my internet symposium Co-Directors, Drs. Antoni Bayes de Luna, Juan-Carlos Kaski, and Richard Verrier, I would like to thank you for your participation in this unique international symposium. We have had many excellent presentations covering a broad range of topics in the diagnosis and management of patients with coronary artery disease, and a large number of insightful and thought-provoking questions and discussions from our many participants from around the world.

We are all extremely pleased with your participation and we hope that the symposium has been helpful to you in your care of coronary patients.

We look forward to interacting closely with you again in the future. We encourage you to take part in as many activities of ISHNE and ISCP as possible, since these organizations are created to help in the understanding of the management of patients with cardiac disease, and to disseminate new and valuable educational information.

We will be organizing many other internet symposia in the future and we look forward to seeing you then!

Best regards and thank you again for your participation,

Peter H. Stone, M.D.

Dear friends,

The symposium on Current Approaches for the Assessment and Management of Myocardial Infarction and Ischemia 2008 has come to an end, in spite of the ceaseless exchange of questions and answers that still goes on although it has already ended. This was the first experience that we have realized jointly between 2 scientific societies, ISHNE and ISCP, and the result is nothing less than surprising: we could gather the largest audience in our history of virtual symposia.

This response encourages us to organize new scientific events and generates new challenges for us.

We would like to thank everyone who has collaborated with this event; the directors of the Symposium, Drs. P. Stone, A. Bayes de Luna, JC Kaski, and R. Verrier; the authors that have presented lectures with an exceptional scientific level, and all of you, the 15,893 registrants, who have generated a discussion framework hardly ever seen before.

We would also like to thank the companies that accompanied us in this symposium, without which help this event would have been impossible (GE Healthcare platinum sponsor, CV Therapeutics, Servier, and the Uriach Group, silver sponsors), the Directors of the Organizing Committee, Drs. E. Schapachnik and S. Dubner, the technical and operative group, the translators, who will receive out gratefulness personally in due time, due to their great efforts and care so that this symposium could be ready on time, in spite of numerous setbacks. We would like to make a special mention to the Chinese team in general, and Drs. Li Zhang and Yunlong Xia for their particular care and their close relationship to the organizers of the www.365heart page, with whom we have made an agreement of collaboration for a greater dissemination of our Internet activities in China.

To all of you, thank you very much, and we will be waiting for you in our next scientific event: an update on arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia, chaired by Drs. F. Marcus, W. Zareba, and G. Fontaine.

Best regards,

Dr. Antoni Bayes de Luna                       Dr. Sergio Dubner
President of ICSP                                    President of ISHNE