LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN

Dear Colleague,

25 years ago (a quarter of a century) we started this adventure called “Progress in Clinical Pacing” organizing an International Symposium with the aim to create a biannual meeting point for all the doctors involved in the field of cardiac pacing and electrophysiology worldwide.

Since then much work was done to increase the International visibility and attendance in the Congress which is now a well established fixed appointment in Rome to discuss all the major clinical and technological advances in the field of cardiac arrhythmias.

Progress in Clinical Pacing started in 1984 with 300 physicians and it is now attended by more than 2000 experts coming from more than 40 countries.

Approximately 300 allied professionals attend furthermore the 3 day course especially organized to update them on all the most recent discoveries in this field.

Nearly all the scientific topics of major interest concerning diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias are constantly treated, in courses, symposia, debates or luncheon panels, by an outstanding International faculty including more than 300 speakers.

Furthermore hundreds of original scientific contributions are accepted to be presented in many free paper or poster sessions.

During the last five years many new technical tools for invasive electrophysiology or for brady and tachy pacing together with lots of new scientific data coming from randomized clinical trials, have been presented to the community of experts in cardiac arrhythmias and will certainly be objects of presentations and discussions during the various scientific sessions of the next Edition of Progress in Clinical Pacing 2010.

The Symposium is also expanding towards those countries which are increasing day by day their activities in this field and are warmly invited to share with us their first experiences and to investigate how to improve their clinical practice.

Coming from this 25 years experience and with its actual visibility “Progress in Clinical Pacing” has all the characteristics to remain a leading International scientific event in the area of cardiac arrhythmias management.

I sincerely hope that all the experts in this field will join us in Rome, once more, during the XIV Edition of the International Symposium on Progress in Clinical Pacing.

See you in Rome.