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Home > Conference > ANGIOPLASTY SUMMIT-TCTAP |
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| Seung-Jung Park, MD, Seong-Wook Park, MD, Ki
Bae Seung, MD, Seung-Jea Tahk, MD Martin B. Leon, MD, Gregg W. Stone, MD,
Gary S. Mintz, MD |
ANGIOPLASTY SUMMIT-TCTAP is an annual and international
conference focusing on interventional vascular therapy to be held in the
end of April in Seoul, Korea. Over the past two decades, this meeting
has played an integral part in the Asia Pacific region by educating physicians
and other health care professionals who specialize or are interested in
this field, and has become an immense platform for them to catch up with
cutting- edge techniques, overviews and clinical investigations from all
over the world. In close collaboration with global working groups, this
meeting delivers an unparalleled program that appeals to over 3,000 attendees
around the world with unsurpassed evidence-based contents. Since its commencement
various changes and challenges have been attempted each year and this
tradition will be continued.
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The 1st Angioplasty Summit was held in
1995 in Asan Medical Center, Seoul with 400 attendees. |
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Dr. Gary S. Mintz at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation
(CRF) in New York joined the meeting as a course director in 1997. |
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For the first time in Korea, Angioplasty Summit broadcasted
percutaneous intervention procedures to TCT (Transcatheter Cardiovascular
Therapeutics) in Washington DC via satellite in 2000. |
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In 2001, Peripheral Intervention Session opened. |
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With the foundation of the CardioVascular Research
Foundation (CVRF) officially approved by the Ministry of Health and
Welfare in Korea in 2002, this meeting jumpstarted to systematically
run by the support of CVRF. |
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The 9th annual event opened with over 2000 attendees
and 200 international faculty members in 2004. Featured live case
satellite transmissions were received from Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular
Institute of New York (USA), the CCT group (Japan), Asan Medical Center
and the two domestic university hospitals; Ajou University Hospital
and Chonnam National Hospital. finally moved from the Asan Medical
Center to the new convention center of the Sheraton Grand Walkerhill
Hotel, Seoul. In the same year, the first call for abstract submission
was also published in a special supplement of the International Journal
of Cardiovascular Intervention (IJCI) this year. |
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In 2005, the great changes were made. The 10th Angioplasty
Summit was unfolded under the name of the Angioplasty Summit-TCT Asia
Pacific co-sponsored by CRF in New York. EuroPCR, the biggest working
group in Europe was invited as one of the associations to contribute
into the scientific program and live cases were demonstrated from
world-leading institutions, the Columbia University (USA), Columbus
Hospital (Italy), Toyohashi Heart Center (Japan), Fu Wai Hospital
(China) and Asan Medical Center as well as several domestic sites
to celebrate this inaugural meeting. Moderated Abstract Presentations
and Outstanding Research Awards were highlighted and especially the
accepted abstracts were published in the American Journal of Cardiology
(AJC) from this year. |
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