Visit this space regularly for selected blogs from IAGS members providing updates from the sessions presented during the 10th Biennial IAGS Meeting (held in South Africa in January 2009) and related discussions.

PROGRAM
Drug-eluting Stent Design: Perils, Potential, Progress
Speakers: James Zidar, Campbell Rogers
Moderator: Nickolas Kipshidze
Panelists: Michael Mooney, Thomas Mabin, Jamey Jacobs, Hall Whitworth

Drug-eluting Stent Management Dilemmas I
Speakers: Alfredo Rodriguez, Bonnie Weiner
Moderator: Richard Gray
Panelists: George Vetrovec, J. Jeffrey Marshall, Tarek Helmy

Drug-eluting Stent Management Dilemmas II
Speakers: Cindy Grines, H. Vernon Anderson
Moderator: Howard Cohen
Panelists: Tony Dortimer, Richard Gray, Adam Greenbaum, George Hanzel

Structural Heart Disease I
Speaker: William O’Neill
Moderator: George Hanzel
Panelists: Hall Whitworth, Larry Dean, Bonnie Weiner

Structural Heart Disease II
Speakers: Howard Cohen, Kirk Garratt
Moderator: George Vetrovec
Panelists: Alex Zapolanski, Dieter Liermann

Interventional Radiology
Speakers: Barry Katzen, Gyula Gal
Moderator: Jiri Vitek
Panelists: Souheil Saddekni, J. Jeffrey Marshall, Gary Roubin

Atherothrombotic Risk and Management
Speakers: Michael Cowley, Steven Steinhubl
Moderator: Thomas Mabin
Panelists: Ted Bass, Robert Bersin, Peter Gonschior

Imaging
Speakers: Jorge Belardi, Souheil Saddekni
Moderator: Larry Dean
Panelists: Amir Lerman, Wilhelm Rutishauser, Nithi Mahanonda

ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction I
Speakers: Howard Cohen, Michael Mooney
Moderator: William O’Neill
Panelists: George Vetrovec, Adam Greenbaum, Tim Fischell

ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction II
Speakers: Tim Henry
Moderator: Tim Fischell
Panelists: Tony Dortimer, Fayaz Shawl, William O’Neill, Cindy Grines

Carotid Stenting: Unmet needs and appropriate use
Speakers: Gary Roubin, Klaus Mathias
Moderator: Robert Bersin
Panelists: Barry Katzen, Chris Cates, Richard Shaw

Acute stroke intervention: Is it ready for prime time?
Speakers: Klaus Mathias, Chris Cates
Moderator: Mike Cowley
Panelists: Jiri Vitek, Barry Katzen, Gyula Gal, Thomas Mabin

Critical Limb Ischemia and Below the Knee PTA
Speakers: Doug Cavaye, Ashok Dhar
Moderator: Fayaz Shawl
Panelists: Tim Fischell, Tyrone Collins, John Reilly

Challenges in SFA intervention
Speakers: Sigrid Nikol
Moderator: Barry Katzen
Panelists: Ashok Dhar, Siegfried Thurnher, John Reilly

Advances in the Treatment of Abdominal, Thoracic and Aortic Aneurysms
Speakers: Philip Walker, Barry Katzen
Moderator: Doug Cavaye
Panelists: Alex Zapolanski, Robert Bersin, H. Vernon Anderson

Renal and Mesenteric Artery Disease
Speakers: Dieter Liermann, Doug Cavaye
Moderator: Klemens Barth
Panelists: Norberto Schectmann, Ashok Dhar, James Zidar, Tyrone Collins

Biological Approaches To Atherosclerosis Management
Speakers: Amir Lerman, Tim Henry
Moderator: Sigrid Nikol
Panelists: Nick Kipshidze, Peter Gonschior, Nithi Mahanonda

Multi-vessel Disease
Speakers: Ted Bass, Alex Zapolanski
Moderator: Gary Roubin
Panelists: Jorge Belardi, Tarek Helmy, Alfredo Rodriguez

Industry Roundtable I
Moderator: Richard Gray
Panelists: Abbott Vascular (Jamey Jacobs), boston Scientific (Winston Smit), Cordis (Campbell Rogers), The Medicines Company (Steven Steinhubl), Medtronic (Max Muhs)

Industry Roundtable II
Moderator: Kirk Garratt
Panelists: Abbott Vascular (Jamey Jacobs), boston Scientific (Winston Smit), Cordis (Campbell Rogers), The Medicines Company (Steven Steinhubl), Medtronic (Max Muhs)

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International Andreas Gruentzig Society
The International Andreas Gruentzig Society is an international educational society of physicians and scientists interested in the health sciences in the cardiovascular and related fields. Society members cooperate in the advancement of knowledge and education through research, publication, study and teaching in the fields of cardiovascular disease.

In addition, the society

(a) fosters the continuing development of the specialties of health sciences in the cardiovascular and related fields as an art and science;

(b) improves the methods of teaching cardiovascular therapeutic techniques;

(c) stimulates interest in the study of diseases of the vessel wall and research in treating cardiovascular disease;

(d) promotes close fellowship and exchange of ideas among specialists in the health sciences in cardiovascular and related fields;

(e) provides meetings for the reading and discussion of papers and dissemination of knowledge and expertise by holding a scientific meeting for members every other year.

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