CCS Newsletter - Volume 9 No.15 - June 2008

The 23rd Annual Caribbean Cardiology Conference will be held in The Bahamas at the Atlantis, Paradise Island, July 23 - 26, 2008 under the theme “The Use of Technology in the Management of Cardiac   Disease in the Caribbean.” The Bahamas has previously hosted the conference in 1997 and 2000.
 
The Conference, which is the premier annual event in Cardiology on the region’s medical education calendar, will present an excellent opportunity for Caribbean Cardiologists, Internists, Surgeons, Nurses and Allied Health Professionals, to be educated, informed and updated “on advances in technology for the diagnosis, management and treatment of cardiovascular diseases.” It will also examine the extent to which these technologies can be employed in the Caribbean, taking into consideration the resource limitations of small-island developing states.

Dr. Renzo Cecere, one of Canada’s leading Cardiothoracic Surgeons will deliver the      Annual Cardiac Surgery lecture at the conference. Dr. Cecere has been a pioneer in the field of Cardiac Surgery, accomplishing much in his 18 year medical career. He is Surgical Director of the Heart Failure and Thoracic Transplant Programme as well as Director of the Mechanical Assist Program, both at McGill University Health Centre. He was the first surgeon in Canada to implant a mechanical heart for destination therapy as well as the first to implant a Berlin Mechanical Heart.