The Paris Cardiovascular Interventions Course is a major educational event dedicated to interventional cardiovascular therapies and atherothrombosis. This international meeting is organized in collaboration with the Interventional Cardiology Working Group (GACI) of the French Society of Cardiology. It aims to bring to all health professionals involved ininterventional cardiology and its related specialities a critical analysis as well as all the most recent and innovative developments in this field, from visionary and revolutionary concepts to pratical clinical applications of the utmost pertinence, with particular emphasis on evidence based medicine.

Innovation at CFCI :

Many international congresses such as ESC, ACC and AHA usually begin on Saturdays. But this year, the 13th annual edition of CFCI will start on Sunday Otober 9th with a session dedicated to valvulopathies with videotransmission. The conference will end on Wednesday October 12th afternoon. The 13rd annual edition will take place in Paris from October 9 to 12, 2011 and will follow in the path of previous editions.

Attendees will be assured of concurrent sessions dealing with diverse areas such as preventive cardiology, clinical cardiology, interventional pharmacology, cardiovascular imaging, percutaneous coronary intervention, congenital and valvular heart disease, peripheral vascular intervention, cardiovascular surgery and emerging technologies.

The final program will include the following sections:

Main auditorium lectures from a national and international faculty of leading experts

• Symposia sponsored by partners from the pharmaceutical and medical device industries
• Live case demonstrations broadcasted from leading interventional cardiology centres
• Joint sessions with other interventional cardiologist associations
• Controversies on hot topics
• Practical workshops
• Original research paper selected for oral and poster presentations
• Nurse and Technologist session

Target audience: the congress is intended for physicians, biologists, nurses, technologists, cath lab staff and other healthcare professionals with an interest in coronary and vascular intervention and imaging. To encourage exchange outside of sessions, a pharmaceutical and medical device industry exhibition will be in place.

Continuing Medical Education Accreditation: the Paris Cardiovascular Interventions Course is accredited by the French Society of Cardiology to provide continuing medical education for physicians for a maximum of 24 Credits. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This year, to futher increase our recognition of research, a Prize of 1 500 € will be awarded to the best poster and the best clinical case.

All presentation slides of previous editions are available on the congress website:www.congres-cfci.com

In order to enhance relationship with other cardiovascular professionals worldwide, here will be a simultaneous english translation. We look forward to welcoming you to Paris, the convention and congress world capital!

THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE