20th annual conference of CSI to focus on preventive cardiology

EHM News Bureau - New Delhi

Preventive cardiology will be the hallmark of the 20th annual conference of Cardiological Society of India (CSI) organised by the Delhi chapter of CSI on October 8-9, 2005 at India habitat Centre, New Delhi. The theme of the conference is “Prevention to Intervention and Controversies to Consensus: Where we are today and where are we going?”

Over 600 delegates attending the conference will include physicians, cardiologists, interventional cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, vascular surgeons, paediatric cardiologists, paediatric cardiac surgeons, cardiac anaesthesiologists, among others. According to Dr H K Chopra, secretary, CSI, the conference will have interesting scientific sessions, focusing on advances and innovations, including recent advances in clinical cardiology, preventive cardiology, hypertension, congestive heart failure, dyslipidemia, coronary artery disease, cardio-diabetes, metabolic syndrome, echocardiography, electrophysiology and cardiac arrhythmia, interventional cardiology, cardiovascular surgery and cardiac anaesthesia, atherosclerosis, arrythmias, cath ablation and electrophysiology, cardiac resynchronisation therapy, valvular heart diseases, among others.

The conference would also have a medi-expo exhibiting a wide range of products: pharmaceutical products, medical equipment, insurance schemes, surgical and medical equipment, interventional cardiological equipment, echocardiography and health and fitness equipment.

“In India, the incidences of coronary artery disease (CAD) are on the rise, so much so that India has earned the dubious distinction of being called as the capital of CAD. The focus will be on practical oriented ways to help patients and also on cardiology practices, which family physicians should know,”adds Dr Chopra.

Says Dr (Col) S K Parashar, president, CSI Delhi branch, associated with the Society since its inception, “The conference will educate young doctors and family physicians who are not exposed to international trends and treatment modalities taking place.”

“As cardiology and its various sub-specialties have developed significantly in the last few years, it is difficult for practicing physicians and cardiologists to keep abreast of various advances in these fields.

The focus will be on practical oriented ways to help patients and also on cardiology practices, which family physicians should know Dr H K Chopra, secretary, CSI	The conference will have high academic value which will appeal to cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, family physicians and internists Dr (Col) S K Parashar, president, CSI Delhi branch

Therefore, the conference has been designed in such a way that it will have high academic and stimulating value which will be appealing to cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, family physician,” informs Dr Parashar. Special emphasis will be laid on case study sessions which will be of immense interest to the delegates.

The scientific programmes and proceedings of the conference will evolve guidelines for several important issues and newer innovative technologies will help in crystallising the recent trends and newer directions for advanced patient care.

In order to stimulate and encourage young doctors, two awards would be conferred. The awards are Sujoy B Roy award for original research in any aspect of cardiology and Col KL Chopra award for original research in coronary artery disease (CAD). There will also be discussion on medical tourism to project India as the perfect healthcare destination.

Next year CSI Delhi will be organsing an international conference in December, which will be attend by about 6,000 delegates. The focus of this conference would be electrophysiology, pacemaker implantation and Automatic Internal Cardioverter Defibrillator (AICD) implantation.