To reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease in Europe

1. To reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease in Europe

2. Scientific Activities Opportunities for Alliance • Educational Training Programmes • Educational Webinars • Clinical Practice Guidelines • Guidelines Implementation Meetings • Guidelines Products • ESC Scientific Congresses • Global Scientific Activities

3. ESC Scientific Activities Educational 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

4. ESC Scientific Activities Educational Training Programmes 2011 Programme

5. ESC Scientific Activities Educational Webinars Training Courses conducted by KOL’s with clinical case discussions Regular on-line courses, fromSeptember 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

6. ESC Scientific Activities Opportunity for Alliance • Unrestricted educational grants for course/s • Sponsorship of educational tools from course/s (DVD’s, course kits) • Euro Heart Journal Supplements

7. ESC Scientific Activities Clinical 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

8. ESC Scientific Activities Clinical 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

9. ESC Scientific Activities Guidelines Implementation Meetings Objective: Launch New Guidelines and 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 & educationaltoolkit • Meetings plannedwithin one yearfollowing publication of Guidelines

10. ESC Scientific Activities Guidelines Products • ESC Guidelines Reprints • Pocket Guidelines • ESC Compendium • Guidelines Educational Toolkit

11. Example of a Guidelines Educational Toolkit

12. ESC Scientific Activities Opportunity 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 influence • on the content of the Practice Guidelines

13. ESC Constituent Bodies Associations • 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

14. ESC Constituent Bodies AIM-HIGH Webinars Guidelines Implementation Workshops Journal Webinars Live Boxes Journal Certification & Accreditation Guidelines Implementation Workshops Journal Courses Trials & Registries Journal Webinars Webcasts Courses

15. ESC Constituent Bodies ESC 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

16. ESC Scientific Activities Leading Scientific Congresses

17. 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

18. ESC Scientific Activities Programme 2011 21 February 2011: ESC at the SaudiHeart 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 October2011: 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

19. ESC Scientific Activities Opportunity 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

20. Further Information Your ESC contact: Ms Aoife Delmas: Head of Industry Services adelmas@escardio.org