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72nd Annual Scientific Meeting Japanese Circulation Society

 Special Lectures
 Plenary Sessions
 Symposia
 Joint Symposia
 
 
Date :
March 28 (Fri.), 29 (Sat.), 30 (Sun.), 2008
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Venues :
Fukuoka International Congress Center
Fukuoka Sun Palace Hotel & Hall
Fukuoka Kokusai Center
Marine Messe Fukuoka
 
Congress Chairperson :
Masunori Matsuzaki, MD PhD
Professor, Department of Medicine and Clinical Science
Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine
 
 
 
Special Lectures
Special Lecture 1 Update on Brugada Syndrome

 

Josep Brugada
Thorax Institute, Barcelona

 
Special Lecture 2 Adenylyl Cyclase Type 5 Disruption Prolongs Longevity and Protects the Heart Against Stress

 

Stephen F. Vatner
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey

 
Special Lecture 3 Assessment of Coronary Disease by Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography

 

Anthony N. DeMaria
University of California San Diego, San Diego California

 
Special Lecture 4 Reasons Why Left Ventricular Reconstruction (LVR) can Reverse Post-Myocardial Infarct Severe Remodeling

 

Vincent M. Dor
Monaco Cardio-Thoracic Center, Monaco

 
Special Lecture 5 Cytokine Signaling and Innate Immunity in Heart Failure

 

Kirk U. Knowlton
University of California San Diego, San Diego California

 
Special Lecture 6 Heart Failure and Sudden Cardiac Death: Causes and Cures

 

Andrew R. Marks
Columbia University, New York, New York

 
Special Lecture 7 A 50 year Research Odyssey: From Laboratory to Clinic

 

John Ross Jr.
University of California San Diego, San Diego California

 
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Plenary Sessions
Plenary Session 1 Drug-Eluting Stents: Long-Term Effects and Emerging Problems
 

Marco A. Costa
Case Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

Sunao Nakamura
New Tokyo Hospital, Matsudo, Tokyo, Japan

 
Plenary Session 3 Roles of Inflammation and Immunity in Atherosclerosis
 

Nikolaus Marx
University of Ulm, Germany

Hisanori Kosuge
Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

 
Plenary Session 7 Genomic Approaches to Cardiovascular Diseases: Present and Future
 

Yoshiji Yamada
Mie University, Tsu, Japan

 
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Symposia
Symposium 3 Metabolic Syndrome and Atherosclerosis
 

Eiichiro Nishi
Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Tomoo Furumoto
Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

 
Symposium 5 New Findings of Mechanism and Therapeutic Strategies of Idiopathic Ventricular Fibrillation
 

Takeru Makiyama
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Akihiko Shimizu
Yamaguchi, Japan

Masahiko Takagi
Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

 
Symposium 10 Update in Cardiomyopathy. Novel Approaches, Novel Targets.
 

William J. McKenna
Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University College London, London, England

Ryuichiro Anan
Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan

 
Symposium 15 New Trends in Echocardiography
 

James D. Thomas
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio

Katsuhisa Ishii
Kansai Denryoku Hospital, Osaka, Japan

Takashi Tanimoto
Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan

 
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Joint Symposia
AHA / JCS Joint Symposium Vulnerable Plaques: Pathogenesis and Noninvasive Approaches to Detection
 

Masanori Aikawa
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Edward A. Fisher
New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York

Masataka Sata
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo

 
ACC / JCS Joint Symposium Topics in the Treatment of Severe Heart Failure
 

Martin G. St. John Sutton
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Jon A. Kobashigawa
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California

Liliana Grinfeld
Hospital Italiano, Buenos Aires, Argentina

 
ESC / JCS Joint Symposium Evidence-Based Medical Treatment of Hypertension
 

Adrian J. Brady
Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, UK

Hiromi Rakugi
Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan

Seiji Umemoto
Yamaguchi University Hospital, Yamaguchi, Japan

 
APSC / JCS Joint Symposium Cardiac Imaging in Asia
 

Tsui-Lieh Hsu
Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Kevin C. Allman
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia

Kui Hian Sim
Sarawak General Hospital, Malaysia

 
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