[SCD-FORUM] Opening speech

[SCD Symposium]

http://www.scd-symposium.org/openingspeech.php

To all our colleagues from more than 100 countries who are  
participating in this World Wide  Internet Symposium on Sudden  
Cardiac Death, we WELCOME YOU! I am pleased and honored to chair this  
fascinating and challenging topic using the most modern electronic  
approach to reach a world wide audience.  Once again we begin this  
academic activity within the framework of the Activity of Continuing  
and Distance Medical Education of ISHNE.

We hope that the high level of the presentations given by outstanding  
world authorities in the field of sudden cardiac death (SCD), as well  
as by the  importance and timeliness of the topics addressed, will  
meet your expectations.

Written lectures, interviews, webcasts, presentation of clinical  
cases, and the possibility of interacting through discussion Forums,  
will constitute the essence of this Symposium as we present an update  
on the most important topics in the area of SCD.  As you are aware,  
SCD remains a major challenge in today’s modern society. Thus, topics  
related to Epidemiology, Etiology, Clinics, Mechanisms, Risk Factors,  
Pathology, Genetics, Prevention and Management including  
pharmacological, devices, ablation, and surgery constitute the topics  
to be covered in this complex area.

Because establishing permanent scientific links within the  
international community as well as being able to communicate in a  
more comprehensive fashion, we will offer the opportunity of choosing  
most activities in five languages –English, Spanish, Portuguese,  
Russian, and Chinese.

Recognizing the high quality of this Symposium, we offer the option  
for participants to obtain Continuing Medical Education credits (CME  
credits). Obtaining such credits is the best way for viewers to  
achieve a personal evaluation, as well as to evaluate the Symposium  
in general.

Forty-one members of our faculty, along with 20 experts from all over  
the world, will provide their contributions to the different thematic  
areas. We express our thanks to all of them.
We also want to thank Medtronic as the official sponsor of the  
meeting and especially the Medtronic managers, Ross Meisner and Hugo  
Fagioli, because they readily understood the importance of  this  
project and supported it from the beginning.

Once again, by organizing this meeting through the Internet, we are  
expressing our confidence in the immense power of this medium as a  
tool to transmit knowledge.

With these brief introductory comments I now declare that the  
activities of this World Symposium are open.
Now, I invite you go forth to learn!

Douglas P. Zipes, Silvia Priori, Sergio Dubner, Edgardo Schapachnik,  
Wojciech Zareba, Andrés R. Pérez Riera, Branco Mautner, Li Zhang
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